Ordinance 733 - School Buses199
ORDINANCE NO. 733
AN ORDINANCE REQUIRING SIGNS AND FLASHI_G SIGNAL LIGHTS ON SCHOOL BUSES, AND
PROVIDING FOR THE USE OF SAID FL.SHING SIGSAL LIGHTS AND FOR THE REGULATION
OF APPROACHING TRAFFIC.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF 'THE CITY OF laLISFELL,IONTANA:
Section 1. Every bus used for the transportation of school children
shall be equipped with signal lamps mounted as high and as widely spaced lat-
erally as practicable, displaying to the front tvo (2) red and two (2) amber
alternating flashing lights and to the rear two (2) red and two (2) amber
alternating flashing lights. These lights shall have sufficient intensity to
be visible at five hundred (500) feet in normal sunlight. The warning lights
shall be of a type, and located on each bus as prescribed by the State Board
of Education and approved by the Supervisor of the highway Patrol. Each school
bus shall bear upon the front and rear thereof plainly visible signs contain-
ing the words "SCHOOL BUS" in letters not less than eight (8) inches in height.
Section 2. The amber flashing lights specified in Section 1, shall
be actuated by the driver approximately one hundred and fifty (150) feet be-
fore the bus is stopped to receive or discharge school children. Red lights
shall be actuated by the driver of said school bus whenever but only whenever
such vehicle is stopped on the highway for the purpose of receiving or dis-
charging school children.
Section 3. The driver of a vehicle upon a city street upon meeting
or overtaking from either direction any school bus which has stopped or is
preparing to stop on the citystreet for the purpose of receiving or discharg-
ing any school children shall stop the vehicle before reaching such school
bus when there is in operation on said bus a visual signal as specified herein
in Sections 1 and 2, and said driver shall not proceed until such school bus
resumes motion, or is signaled by the school bus driver to proceed as the
visual signals are no longer actuated.
Section 4. An emergency is hereby declared to and does exist.
Section 5. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from
and after its passage and approval.
PASSED by the City Council of the City of Kalispell, Montana, this
12th day of September, 1966.
APPROVED by the Mayor of the City of Kalispell, Fontana, this 12th
day of September, 1966.
ATTEST:
George Beardslee
City Clerk
T. R. Flvnn
Mayor
I, George Beardslee, City Clerk of the City of Kalispell, 1lontana, do hereby
certify that on the 13th day of September 9i6, 1 posted a copy of the fore-
going ordinance in my office and the s :Ie retained posted fo a eriod of five
days and the foregoing is a true and cor copy of the ordinan a as passed
by the City Council.
Cit}%jlleri.,o the Cit,j of Kalispell, aontana