Ordinance 695 - Emergency - Providing for Right Turn on Red158 ,
ORDINANCE NO. 695
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 537, BY PROVIDING FOR RIGHT TURN ON A
RED LIGHT AFTER STOP; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES AND PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN
CONFLICT HEREWITH; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KALISPELL, MONTANA:
SECTION 1. That Section 3 of Ordinance No. 537 be amended to read as
follows:
Section 3. TRAFFIC SIGNAL CONTROL LEGEND:
Whenever traffic at.an intersection is alternately directed to
stop and to proceed by the use of signals exhibiting the words
"Stop", and "Go", or "Caution", or exhibiting colored lights,
said terms and lights shall indicate as follows, and no colored
lights.other than those specified herein shall be used:
(a) When the word "Stop", or the color red is exhibited, no
waiting vehicle facing the signal shall proceed straight ahead
or make a left turn until the green or "Go" signal is displayed
alone; vehicular traffic facing such "Stop" or color red shall
stop and then may cautiously enter the intersection only to make
a right turn, but shall yield the right of way to pedestrians
lawfully within the crosswalk and to other traffic lawfully
using the intersection.
(b) When the word "Go" or the color green is exhibited alone,
traffic facing the signal may proceed, either forward or by
making a right turn or by making a left turn if a left turn is
not prohibited at any such intersection; but any and all such
traffic shall yield the right of way to pedestrians and vehicles
lawfully within a crosswalk or the intersection at the time such
signal was exhibited.
(c) When the word "Caution", or the color yellow or amber is
exhibited following or with green no waiting vehicle facing the
signal shall proceed, and every moving vehicle facing the signal
shall stop if.possible unless at the time the word "Caution" or
the color yellow or amber is first displayed the moving vehicle
is less than the normal braking distance from the crosswalk, in
which event it may proceed; provided, that the same rule shall
apply as provided in subsection (a) of this section to any operator
intending to turn his motor vehicle to the right at such intersection.
SECTION 2. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict herewith
are hereby repealed. . .
SECTION 3. An emergency is hereby declared to exist and this ordinance
shall be in full force and effect upon passage and approval.
PASSED BY THE CITYCOUNCILOF THE CITY OF KALISPELL, MONTANA, AND APPROVED
BY THE MAYOR THIS 8th DAY OF APRIL, 1963:
I. R. Flynn
Mayor
ATTEST: H. J. Hunt
City Clerk
I, H. J. Hunt, City Clerk of the City of Kalispell, Montana, do hereby
certify that on the 9th day of April, 1963, I posted a copy of the
foregoing ordinance in my office and the same remained posted for a
period of five days and the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the
ordinance as passed by the City Council.
City Clerk of the Cit of Kalispell, Montana