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Ordinance 674 - Pedestrians Subject to Traffic Control Signals13 ORDINANCE NO. 674 AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING T14AT PEDESTRIANS SHALL BE SUBJECT TO TRAFFIC CONTROL SIGNALS, PROVIDING FOR PEDESTRIANS RIGHT OF WAY AT CROSSWALKS, PROHIBITING PEDESTRIANS CROSSING AT OTHER THAN CROSSWALKS, PROVIDING THAT DRIVERS SHALL EXERCISE DUE CARE FOR PEDESTRIANS, PROVIDING FOR PEDESTRIANS TO USE RIGHT HALF OF CROSSWALKS, REGULATING PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC ON ROADWAYS, DECLARING VIOLATION A MISDEMEANOR, FIXING PENALTY FOR VIOLATION THEREOF, PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE, AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS THEREOF IN CONFLICT HEREWITH: RE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KALISPELL, MONTANA: SECTION 1. Pedestrians shall be subject to traffic control -signals at intersections. SECTION 2. a. When traffic control signals are not in place or are not in operation, the driver of the vehicle shall yield the right of way slowing down or stopping if need be to so yield to a pedestrian crossing the roadway within a crosswalk when the pedestrian is upon the half of the roadway upon which the vehicle is traveling, or when the pedestrian is approaching so closely from the opposite half of the roadway as to be in danger, but no pedestrian shall suddenly leave a curb or other place of safety and walk or run into the path of a vehicle which is so close that it is im- possible for the driver to yield. This provision shall not apply under the conditions stated in SECTION 3 hereof. b. Whenever any vehicle is stopped at a marked cross- walk or at any unmarked crosswalk at an intersection to permit a pedestrian to cross a roadway, the driver of any other vehicle approaching from the ,rear shall not overtake and pass such stopped vehicles. SECTION 3. a. Every pedestrian crossing a roadway at any point other than within a marked crosswalk or within an unmarked crosswalk in an intersection shall yield the right of way to,all: vehicles upon the roadway. b. Between adjacent intersections at which,triffic control -signals are in operation, pedestrians shall not cross at any place 'except in a marked crosswalk. SECTION 4. Every driver of a vehicle shall exercise due care to avoid colliding with any pedestrian upon any roadway and shall give warning by sounding the horn when necessary and shall exercise proper precaution upon observing any child or any confused or incapacitated person upon a roadway. SECTION S. Pedestrians shall move, whenever practicable, upon the right half of crosswalks. SECTION 6. a. Where sidewalks are provided it shall be unlawful for any pedestrian to walk along and upon an adjacent.roadwa_y. b. Where sidewalks are not provided any pedestrian walking along and %ipon a roadway shall when practicable walk only on the left side of the roadway or its shoulder facing traffic which may approach from the other direction. SECTION 7. It is a misdemeanor for any person to do any act forbidden or fail to perform any act required in this ordinance. SECTION S. Any person who is convicted of a violation of this ordinance shall be punished by imprisonment in Che City Jail for a period of not more than ten days, or a fine of not more than $100.00, or by both such fine and imprisonment. SECTION 9. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect 30 days from and after its passage and approval. SECTION 10. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith shall be and the same are hereby repealed. I PASSED AND APPROVED THIS Sth DAY OF AUGUST, 1961. T. R. Flynn Mayor ATTEST H. J. Hunt City Clerk I, J. J. Hunt, City Clerk of the Cir_y of Kalispell, Montana, do hereby certify that on the 9th day of August, 1961, I posted a copy of the foregoing ordinance in my office and the same remained posted for a period of fiv_ days and the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the ordinance as passed by the City Council. City Clerk of the City of Kalispell, Montana