HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinances Book 10, Page 296, No Ordinance NumberAN ORDINANCE PROVIDING RULES REGULATING THE HOURS DURING
WHICH GATES SHALL BE PdAINTAINED AND FLAGMEN SHALL BE STATIONED AT
INTERSECTIONS CROSSED BY THE RAILROAD TRACKS WITHIN THE CITY OF
PADUCAH, AND PRESCRIBING THE PENALTIES FOR VIOLATION THEREOF
WHEREAS, under an ordinance adopted by the Board of
Commissioners on October 25, 1907, as will be shown in Revised
� ✓ �� Ordinance Book, page 371, the General Counsel of the City oC
s Paducah is authorized to designate by ordinance the public
highways and streets crossings on which railroad companies are
required to erect and maintain a gate or gates or electric Sones
and signals, and one or both, and the time same shall be
erected; and,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY `IIIE BOARD OF C01,1I'+SSSIONERS
OF THE CITY OF PADUCAH, KENTUCKY:
SECTION I.
That the railroad company which owns the right of way at
Eleventh & Broadway Streets shall operate and maintain at all times
between the hours of 7:00 o'clock A.Ml. and 1:00 o'clock A.i. of
each day suitable gates at said crossing for the purpose of
warning the traveling public on Broadway Street of the danger of
crossing the tracks when engins or trains are being operated
thereon, but it shall not be necessary for said Company to
employ a flagman to operate said gates between the hours of 1:00
o'clock A.M. and 7:00 o'clock A.M. if said company shall
station at said intersection a member of the train crew
who shall give sufficient warning of the approach of an engine
or train when such warning is necessary.
SECTION 2.
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That the railroad company owning the rights of gray at the
hereinafter mentioned crossings shall be required to employ,
between the hours of 4100 o'clock P.M. and 12:00 o'clock midnight,
a flagman at its railroad crossings at 8th & Park --Avenue and 9th
and Clay Streets, and the glagman assigned to duty at each of said
crossings shall give sufficient warning of the approach of an
engine or train when such warning is necessary.
SECTION 3.
For any violation of the terms of this ordinanve by the
Railroad Company, or by its employees, said Company shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor for which it shall be fined an amount
of nor less than $5.00 nor more than $100.00 for each offense
An the Police Court of the City of Paducah, and such fine so
assessed shall be collected as any other .fines assessed against
a corporation.
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SECTION 4.
All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict herewith
,are to the extent of such conflict hereby r epealed.
SECTION 5.
This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and
after its adoption,
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Mayor �
Passed by the Board of Comnissioners, July 23, 1940
Recorded by Rudy Stewart, City Clerk, July 24, 1940,