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Ordinance No, 540
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AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR TRAFFIC PATROL OFFICERS, DEFINING
THEIR RIGHTS AND DUTIES, PLACING CERTAIN STREET INTERSECTIONS
UNDER THEIR DIRECTION AND CONTROL, AND PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR
VIOLATION OF ITS PROVISIONS
j BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ANEs, IOWA:
1 Section 1. That whenever in the opinion of the Mayor and City
Council of the City of Ames, Iowa, any street intersection constitutes
a dangerous traffic hazard, the Mayor may cause to be stationed at
said intersection for a given period of time a traffic patrol officer.
{ Section 2. That said traffic patrol officer, for the given peri
tof time, shall direct pedestrian and vehicular traffic at the in..
I terseetion designated and shall be empowered to give conmands
necessary to regulate the flow of all traffic in a manner conducivs
to the safety of all concerned.
Section 3. That said traffic patrol officer shall co-operate
ad th the members of the regular police force of the City of Ames, I wa,
and shall be -under the supervision of the MoVor of said City.
Section 4. That the Mayor of the City of Ames may use such
persons as traffic patrol officers as conditions and circumstances
warrant.
Section 5. Any pedestrian or operator of a vehicle failing to
obey the c onmand of a traffic patrol officer shall be guilty of a
! misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be fined not more than
One Hundred Dollars or be imprisoned not more than thirty days.
Section 6. This ordinance shall be in fall force from and after
its passage as provided by law.
Passed this 15th day of September 1941,
. Pra @th er, 401 ty 0 1 e r k Frank Do Faines Mayor
moved by Lawlor, seconded by Palmer that Ordinance No. 540 be passe
l on its first reading.
Voting Aye: Spangler, Lawlor, McCormick, Acheson, MacDonald and
Palmer.
fiVoting Nay: None.
Moved by Acheson, seconded by McCormick that the rules be suspended
i and the secon&.,and third readings omitted and Ordinance No. 540 be
placed on its final passage.
�iVoting Aye: Spangler, Lawlor, McCormick, Acheson, MacDonald and
Palmer.
Voting Nay: None.
Moved by Palmer, seconded by MacDonald that Ordinance No. 540 do no
l� pass.
Voting Aye: Spangler, Lawlor, McCormick, Acheson, MacDonald and
i Palmer.
Voting Nay: None.
Mayor declared Ordinance No. 540 duly passed.
t I, J. N. Prather, City Clerk of the City of Ames, Iowa, do hereby
certify that the above is a true and exact copy of Ordinance No,540
` published in the Ames Daily Tribune, September 161, 1941.
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. - a er, y Clerk.,
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