Ordinance 758 - Emergency - Passing on Four Lane Road227
ORDINANCE NO. 75s
AN ORDINANCE REGULATING PASSING VEHICLES ON FOUR LANE STREETS,
DECLA_.iING AN EMERGENCY AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF
ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KALISPELL,
MONTANA, AS FOLLOWSs
SECTION 1. Subject to the "right-of-way" provisions of Sections
17-103 of the Kalispell City Code, a vehicx:: c--, •.- taking ano�_her
vehicle going in the same direction o;: c. four lane street shall
pass in a careful and prudent :canner in the lane of traffic not
occupied by the vehicle being overtaken, but such overtaking
vehicle shall not pass to the left of the center line of said
street.
SECTION 2. The overtaking vehicle shall maintain its speed until
clear of the vehicle overtaken and shall not pull into the lane.,
of tr4ffic occupied by the overtaken vehicle until it is so far `
ahead thereof as not to interfere with the progress of the over-
taken vehicle.
SECTION 3. The overtaken vehicle shall keep to the traffic lane
it occupied prior to being overtaken and it shall not increase
its speed while being passed.
SECTION 4. It is unlawful for a vehicle to pass another on a
four lane street in any other manner.
SECTION 5. An emergency is declared to exist and this Ordinance
shall be effective upon its passage and approval.
SECTION 6. All ordinances or parts thereof in conflict herewith
are hereby repealed.
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KALISPELL, MONTANA
AND APPROVED BY THE MAYOR, this (Yh_day of Mw , 1968.
I, George Beardslee, City Clerk of the
City
of Kalispell, Montana, do hereby
certify that on the 7th day of May,
1968, 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
re t
copy of the or nce as passed
by the City Council.
of the City/of Kalispell, Montana