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AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING FOUR-WAY STOPS AT Tim INTERSECTION OF
MEN MC- EIGHTH STREET WITH JEFFERSON STREET AND AT THE INTERSECTION OF TIIE BELT
LINE HIGI-I111AY WITH PARK AVENUE III `Ifs CITY OF PADUCAH, KMINCKY; PRESCRIBING
THE DUTIES OF THE OPERATORS OF VEHICLES WHEN APPROACHING AND ENTERING SAID
INTERSECTIONS; AND FIXING THE PENALTY FOR ME VIOLATION UMREOF
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COMI,IISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF PADUCAH,
KENTUCKY:
SECTION 1. As used in this ordinance the term "intersection" shall
mean the whole of that space at the intersection of one street with another which
is bounded by the property lines as extended across said streets.
SECTION 2. That the intersection of Twenty-eighth Street with
Jefferson Street and the intersection of the Belt Line Highway .with Park
Avenue in the City of Paducah, Kentucky, be, and the same are hereby declared
to be intersections at which the operator of a vehicle of any kind shall, when
approaching said intersections from any diredtion, bring such vehicle to a com-
plete stop before proceeding to enter or to cross said intersection.
SECTION 3. It shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle when
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after bringing his vehicle to a complete stop at either of said intersections, to
enter or to cross the intersection until that vehicle or those vehicles which fir
reached the intersection in coint of time have entered or crossed said intersec-
tion, and it shall be unlawful for the operator of such vehicle to drive into the
intersection if the operation of any vehicle or vehicles having priority in point
of time will be reasonably affected by his entering or driving into said inter-
section.
SECTION 4. If two vehicles approach either of the aforesaid inter-
sections, one to the right of the other and they reach the intersection at the
same time but before any other vehicle reaches it, it shall be unlawful for the
operator of the vehicle on the left, after bringing his vehicle to a complete
stop as the operator on the right is also ree_uired to do, to enter or to cross
the intersection if the operation of the vehicle on the right will be reasonably
affected by his driving into said intersection.
SECTION 5. Any person, firm, company or corporation violating the
provisions of this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convictio
thereof, shall be fined not less than Five (55.00) Dollars and not more than
wenty 0;20.00 Dollars for each violation thereof.
SECTION 6. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict here-
with are, to the extent of such conflict, hereby repealed.
SECTION 7. This ordinance shall be---in-full orae and effect from
and after it ss a�o�—on.
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Passed by the Board of Commissioners June , 1950
Recorded by Sarah Thurman, City Clerk, June 27, 1950.
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