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ORDINANCE NO. 784.
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AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE 'CITY OF
ARCADIA, AMENDING ORDINANCE NO..728, OF SAID
CITY, KNOWN AS THE TRAFFIC ORDINANCE, ADOPTED
OCTOBER 5, 1948.
THE CITY COffifCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. That Section 27 of Ordinance No. 728 of the
City of Arcadia, entitled "An Ordinance of the City Council of
the City of Arcadia regulating traffic upon the pUblic streets,
and repealing Ordinance No. 200 of said City, adopted June 15,
1927, and all other ordinances and parts of ordinances in con-
flict herewith", adopted October 5, 1948, be and the same is
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hereby amended to read as follows:
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"Section 27. Installation of Traffic Sig-
(a) The city engineer is hereby directed
to install and maintain official traffic signals at
those intersections and other places where traffic
conditions are such as to require that the flow of
traffic be alternately interrupted and released in
order to prevent or relieve traffic congestion or to
protect life or property from exceptional hazard.
(b) The city engineer shall ascertain and
determine the locations where such signals are re-
quu~ed by resort to field observation, traffic counts
and other traffic information as may be pertinent and
his determinations therefrom shall be made in accord-
a.ncl3 with those traffic engineering and safety standards
and instructions set forth in the California Mainten-
ance Manual issued by the Division of Highways of the
State Department of Public Works.
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(c) ~lhenever the city engineer installs and
maintains an official traffic signal at any inter-
section, he shall likewise erect and maintain at
such intersection street name signs visible to the V
principal flow of traffic unless such street name
signs have previously been placed and are maintained
at any said intersection."
SECTION 2. That Section ~l of said Ordinance No. 728
of the City of Arcadia be, and the same is hereby amended to
read as follows:
"Section 31. Authority to Place and Obedience to
Turning Markers.
(a) The city engineer is authorized to place
markers, buttons, or signs within or adjacent to inter-
sections indicating the course to be traveled by vehicles
tw'ning at such intersections, and the city engineer
is authorized to allocate and indicate more than one
lffi1e of traffic from which drivers of vehicles may
make right or left hand turns, and the course to be
traveled as so indicated may conform to, or be other
than as prescribed by law or ordinance.
(b) When authorized markers, buttons or other
indications are placed within an intersection indicat-
ing the course to be traveled by vehicles turning there-
at, no driver of a vehicle shall disobey the direction
of such indications."
SECTION 3. That Section 2 of said Ordinance No. 728 of
said City be and the same is hereby repealed.
SECTION 4. That Section 40 of said Ordinance No. 728
of said City be and the same is hereby repealed.
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SECTION 5. That said Ordinance No. 728 be and the same is
hereby ~ended by adding thereto a new section to be known as and
numbered SECTION 5al and to read as follows:
"Section 58.1 Parking on Grade. No person shall
park or leave standing any vehicle unattended on a high-
way when upon any grade exceeding 3% within any business
or residence district without blocking the wheels of said
vehicle by turning them against the curb or by other means."
SECTION 6. That Section 75 of said Ordinance No. 728 be
and the same is hereby repealed.
SECTION 7. That Ordinance No. 728 be and the same is
hereby amended as in Sections 1,2,3,4,5 and 6 hereinabove set forth.
SECTION 8. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of
this Ordinance, and prior to the expiration of fifteen (15) days
from passage thereof, shall cause the same to be published once in
the Arc~dia BUlletin, a newspaper of general circulation published
and circulated in the City of Arcadia, and thirty (30) daya from
and after the final passage thereof said Ordinance shall take effect
and be in force.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance VI as adopted
at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Arcadia
held on the 15th day of November, 1949, by the affirmative vote
of at least three Councilmen, to wit:
AYES: Councilman Boucher, Klomp, Nugent and Russell
NOES:
None
ABSENT: Councilman Libby L)
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SIGNED A~ APPROVED THIS 15th day of November, 1949.
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Mayor of the ~ity
ATTEST:
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City Clerk.
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