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AN ORDINANCE AI:IENDING AILD RE -ORDAINING SECTION 1 OF AN
ORDINAI.CE ENTITLED: "AN ORDINANCE REGULATING AND DEFINING SPEED
OF VEHICLES UPON GRAVEL STREETS IN THE CI'iY OP PADUCAH, AND
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PRESCRIBING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATION THEREOF", WHICH PJAS ADOPTED BY
THE BOARD OF COIJMISSIONERS ON THE 16TH DAY OF AUGUST, 1937, AND
AFTERWARDS A119ENDED ON THE 23RD DAY OF AUGUST, 1937, SO THAT SAID
SECTION SHALL READ AS HEREINAFTER PROVIDED
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COMMS SSIONERS OF THE CITY
OF PADUCAH, KENTUCKY:
SECTION 1.
That Section 1 of an ordinance entitled, "AN ORDINANCE
REGULATING AND DEFINING SPEED OF VEfIICLES UPON GRAVEL STREETS IN THE
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CITY OF PADUCAH, AND PRESCRIBING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATION THEREOF",
which was adopted by the Board of Commissioners on the 16th day
of August 1937, and afterwards amended on the 23rd day of August
1937, be and the same is hereby amended and re -ordained so that
said Section as so amended and re -ordained shall r ead as follows:
"The stirring up of dust on the gravel streets in the
City of Paducah by rapidly moving vehicles is hereby declared to
be a menace and danger to the public health of all people in the
City of Paducah, and especially to the people residing on and along',
all of the gravel streets of said City, and other streets where dust
may be stirred up and formed into dust clouds by the rapid movements
of vehicles. It is further declared that the rapid moving vehicles!
which move at a speed greater than fifteen (15) miles per hour
cause and produce great clouds of dust which are swept into the homes
and residences of persons residing in the vicinity of where said
dust is 'thus stirred up, and in order to prevent said dust from
being so stirred up so that the same menaces the lives and health
of people, no person operating a vehicle of any kind on any gravel ;
street or streets covered partly with gravel and partly with dirt,
shall move or transport same at a greater rate of speed than
,fifteen (15) miles per hour; provided, however, that when said
streets are wet or when the surface has been treated with oil or dust
'settling process, the provisions of this ordinance shall not apply.
Any person so operating an automobile on said gravel or partly
gravel street at a greater rate of spped than fifteen (15) miles
per hour, except as herein provided, shall be fined in any sum not
less than ,p5.00 nor more than '-25.00."
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SECTION 2.
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All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict
i,herewith are, to the extent of such conflict hereby repealed.
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SECTION 3.
This ordinance shall be in full force and effect
,',,from and after its adoption.
S.B.Pulliam, Mayor pro tem
Mary M. Dorian, Commissioner
Passed by the Board of Commissioners, August 19th, 1941
Recorded by Rudy Stewart, City Clerk, August 20th, 1941.