0170 (Motor Vehicles)ORDINANCE NO. 170
AN ORDINANCE TO REGULATE THE OPERATION OF MOTOR DRIVEN
AND OTHER VEHICLES WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS. OF THE CITY
OF OKEECHOBEE, FLORIDA, AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE 'ENFORCE-
MENT AND PUNISHMENT FOR THE VIOLATION OF THIS ORDINANCE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
OKEECHOBEE, FLORIDA:
SECTION 1.
Ito persons shall operate a. motor • vehicad within. the
City off' O17:.)cchobee2 Florida, recklessly'` or at a rate of speed;
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greater than is reasonable andproper, having regard to the width, train*'
use of tho streets and highways, or so as to endanger the property or ttf
limb of any person., Provided that a rate of speed in excesa of t*entl4
per hour in the residential portion of the City o f Okeechobee, Florit1,
rate oc speed in excess of fifteen miles per hour in the business pore k.
said City; shall be deemed prima facia evidence of recklees driving.
SECTION 2.
All motor vehicles shall be provided with).
front and rear. the front or driving lightd shall be of tilting variety''
other' device which will kill the glare of driving lights.
SECTION 3.
Every motor vehicle operated or d.riveil upon,•tt
or highways of said Cityoof Okeechobee, Florida, shall be provided with
brakes, in good working order, and sufficien t to control such vehicle et
when the same is in use, and an adequate horn or other device for sign£Wf
'sufficient unto all conditions to give, time and warning of the appr9
motor :vehicle, and shall, during the period from one -half hour after =eU r n
One-half hour before sun rise, display at least two lighted lamps on the.,
and one on the roar of such vehicle.
SECTION 4.
It shall be unlawful to operate upon thetagyjr4 .
street or highway in the City of Okeechobee, Florida, any log cart, tract
machine, other than the ordinary form wagon or buggy, or any other vehic?
--or machine that is likely to damage a hardsurfaced street or `highway exc
ordinary wear and tear on the same.
SECTION .
Any person convicted of the violation of swot
'provisions of this Ordinance shall be ptnished by fine of not more than
or by imprisonment for nOt not more than sixty (60) days, Tor by both atc7,
and imprisonment in the discretion of the Mayor.
SECTION 6.
All Ordinances or parts of Ordinances in .con
be, and the same are, hereby repealed.
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This Ordinance shall take effect upon .. its pasty'
by the City Council and approval by the Mayor.
Read a firs t time and by unanimous consent'
a 2htdd reading,
Read a second time and by a unanimous "co.lseb
o a third and final reading.
Read a third and PASSED in regular open sere
the City Council -this 14th day of November, A. D. 1935.
ATTEST: Alto Watford
City Clerk
0. L. Hunt
President, City Couaioi,;'
The foregoing Ordinance is hereby approveddb
day of November,' A. D. 1935.
MAYOR
Councilman. Hunt presented Ordinance' 171 and moved its adoption.
seconded and passed and adopted.