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.
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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