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1959-08-13 - Ordinance 1959-019 - TRAFFIC REGULATIONSORDINANCE NO. 0-59-19 TRAFFIC REGULATIONS AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE PARKING AND OPERATION OF VEHICLES AND THE USE OF STREETS, ALLEYS AND HIGHWAYS WITHIN THE VILLAGE OF BUFFALO GROVE. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE PRESIDENT AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE VILLAGE OF BUFFALO GROVE, COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS: THAT THIS ORDINANCE SHALL HAVE THE TITLE AND BE DESIGNATED AS "TRAFFIC REGULATIONS OF THE VILLAGE OF BUFFALO GROVE" AND SHALL BE AND READ AS FOLLOWS: ARTICLE 1 DEFINITIONS SECTION 1. Whenever in this ordinance the following terms are used, they shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this sec- tion. Whenever any words and phrases used herein are not defined herein but are defined in the State laws regulating the operation of vehicles, any such definitions therein shall be deemed to apply to such words and phrases used herein. VEHICLE: Every device in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, except devices moved by human power. COMMERCIAL VEHICLE: Every vehicle designed, maintained, or used primarily for the transportation of property. MOTOR VEHICLE: Every vehicle which is self-propelled and every vehicle not operated upon rails. AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLE: Vehicles of fire departments (fire patrol), police vehicles, and such ambulances and emergency vehi- cles of municipal departments or public service corporations as are des- ignated or authorized by proper local authorities or authorized by the Chief of Police of this village. BICYCLE: Every device propelled by human power upon which any person may ride, having two tandem wheels either of which is over twenty inches in diameter. TRAFFIC: Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, and other conveyances either singly or together while using any street for purposes of travel. Page 2 RIGHT OF WAY: The privilege of the immediate use of the roadway. STOP: When required means complete cessation of movement. STOP, STOPPING, OR STANDING: When prohibited means any stop- ping or standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except when nec- cessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a police officer or traffic -control sign or signal. PARK: When prohibited means the standing of a vehicle, whether oc- cupied or not, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading. OFFICIAL TIME STANDARD: Whenever certain hours are named herein they shall mean standard time or daylight-saving time as may be in current use in this village. PERSON: Every natural person, firm, corporation, association, or copartnership. DRIVER: Every person who drives or is in actual physical control of a vehicle. PEDESTRIAN: Any person afoot. POLICE OFFICER: Every officer of the village police department or any officer authorized to direct or regulate traffic or to make arrests for violations of traffic regulations. STREET OR HIGHWAY: The entire width between the boundary lines of every way publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel. PRIVATE ROAD OR DRIVEWAY: Every way or place in private own- ership and used for vehicular travel by the owner and those having express or implied permission from the owner, but not by other persons. ROADWAY: That portion of a street or highway improved, designed, or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the berm or shoulder. In the event a highway includes two or more separate roadways as the term herein is used shall refer to any such roadway separately but not to all such roadways collectively. SIDEWALK: That portion of a street between the curb lines, or the lateral lines of a roadway, and the adjacent property lines intended for the use of pedestrians. PARKWAY: That portion of a street between the lateral lines of a roadway and the adjacent property lines or sidewalk. Page 3 INTERSECTION: The area embraced within the prolongation or con- nection of the lateral curb lines, or, if none, then the lateral boundary lines of the roadways of two highways which join one another at or ap- proximately at right angles, or the area within which vehicles traveling upon different highways joining at any other angle may come in conflict. CROSS WALK: That portion of a roadway at an intersection included within the connections of the lateral lines of the sidewalks on opposite sides of the highway measured from the curbs from the edges of the traversable roadway. TRAFFIC -CONTROL DEVICES "OFFICIAL": All signs, signals, markings, and devices not inconsistent with this ordinance placed or erected by officials having jurisdiction, for the purpose of regulating, warning, or guiding traffic. TRAFFIC -CONTROL SIGNAL: Any device, whether manually, elec- trically, or mechanically operated, by which traffic is alternately direct- ed to stop and proceed. RESIDENCE DISTRICT: The territory contiguous to and including a highway not comprising a business district when the property on such highway for a distance of 300 feet or more is in the main improved with residences or residences and buildings in use for business. CURB: The boundary of that part of the street intended for vehicles. ARTICLE 2 OBEDIENCE TO TRAFFIC REGULATIONS SECTION 2: AUTHORITY OF POLICE: (A) It shall be the duty of the officers of the police department or such officers as are assigned by the Chief of Police to enforce all street traffic laws of this village and all of the State vehicle laws applicable to street traffic in this village. (B) Officers of the police department or such officers as are assigned by the Chief of Police are hereby authorized to direct all that, the ice, hand, or signal in conformance with traffic laws, provided event or other emergency or to expedite traffic or to safeguard pedes- trians, officers of the police department may direct traffic as conditions may require not withstanding the provisions of the traffic laws. (C) Officers of a fire department, when at the scene of a fire, may di- rect or assist the police in directing traffic thereat or in the immediate vicinity. SECTION 3. REQUIRED OBEDIENCE any a TRAFFIC DINANfail to : It is a misdemeanor for any person form any act required in this ordinance. Page 4 SECTION 4. OBEDIENCE TO POLICE, FIRE DEPARTMENT, AND CIVIL DEFENSE OFFICIALS: No person shall willfully fail or refuse to comply with any lawful order or direction of a police officer, fire depart- ment, or civil defense official. SECTION 5. PERSONS PROPELLING PUSH CARTS OR RIDING ANIMALS TO OBEY TRAFFIC REGULATIONS: Every person propelling any push cart or riding an animal upon a roadway, and every person driv- ing any animal -drawn vehicle, shall be subject to the provisions of this ordinance applicable to the driver of any vehicle, except those provisions of this ordinance which by their very nature can have no application. SECTION 6. USE OF COASTERS, ROLLER SKATES, AND SIMILAR DEVICES RESTRICTED: No person upon roller skates, or riding in or by means of any coaster, toy vehicle, or similar device, shall go upon any roadway except while crossing a street on a cross walk and when so cross- ing such person shall be granted all of the rights and shall be subject to all of the duties applicable to pedestrians. SECTION 7. PUBLIC EMPLOYEES TO OBEY TRAFFIC REGULATIONS: The provisions of this ordinance shall apply to the driver of any vehicle owned by or used in the service of the Federal, State or Local government, and it shall be unlawful for any said driver to violate any of the provisions of this ordinance, except as otherwise permitted in this ordinance or by State statute. SECTION 8. AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLES: (A) The driver of an authorized emergency vehicle, while responding to an emergency call or when in the pursuit of an actual or suspected violater of the law or when responding to but not upon returning from a fire alarm, may exercise the privileges set forth in this section, but subject to the conditions herein stated. (B) The driver of an authorized emergency vehicle may: 1. Park or stand, irrespective of the provisions of this ordinance; 2. Proceed past a red or stop signal or stop sign, but only after slow- ing down as may be necessary for safe operation; 3. Exceed the prima facie speed limits so long as he does not endanger life or property; 4. Disregard regulations governing directions of movement or turning in specified directions. (C) The exemptions herein granted to an authorized emergency vehicle shall apply only when the driver of any said vehicle while in motion sounds audible signal by bell, siren, or exhaust whistle as may be reasonably nec- essary, and when the vehicle is equipped with at least one lighted lamp dis- playing a red or blue light visible under normal atmospheric conditions from a distance of 500 feet to the front of such vehicle, except that an authorized emergency vehicle operated as a police vehicle need not be equipped with or display a red light visible from in front of the vehicle. (D) The foregoing provisions shall not relieve the driver of an author- ized emergency vehicle from the duty to drive with due regard for the safety of all persons, nor shall such provisions protect the driver from the consequences of his reckless disregard for the safety of others. Page 5 SECTION 9. OPERATION OF VEHICLES ON APPROACH OF AUTHOR- IZED EMERGENCY VEHICLES: (A) Upon the immediate approach of an authorized emergency vehicle equipped with at least one lighted lamp ex- hibiting red or blue light visible under normal atmospheric conditions from a distance of 500 feet to the front of such vehicle other than a police vehicle when operated as an authorized emergency vehicle, and when the driver is given audible signal by siren, exhaust whistle -or bell. 1. The driver of every other vehicle shall yield the right of way and shall immediately drive to a position parallel to, and as close as possible to, the right hand edge or curb of the roadway clear of any intersection and shall stop and remain in such position until the authorized emergency vehicle has passed, except when other- wise directed by a police officer. (B) This section shall not operate to relieve the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle from the duty to drive with due regard for the safety of all persons using the highway. ARTICLE 3 TRAFFIC -CONTROL DEVICES SECTION 10. OBEDIENCE TO TRAFFIC -CONTROL DEVICES: It shall be unlawful for the driver of a vehicle to disobey the legend and in- structions of any official traffic signal, official traffic sign or markings placed in accordance with the provisions of this ordinance or in accord- ance with the provisions of any capitalized statute of the State of Illinois, unless at the time such driver be otherwise directed so to do by a police officer. SECTION 11. DISPLAY OF UNAUTHORIZED SIGNS: No person shall place, maintain or display upon or in view of any street, any unauthorized sign, signal or marking which purports to be, or is, an imitation of an offi- cial traffic signal, sign or marking, nor shall any person place, maintain or display upon or in view of any street or highway any sign which hides from view any official traffic signal, sign or marking, or which interferes with the movement of traffic. SECTION 12. INTERFERENCE WITH OFFICIAL TRAFFIC SIGNS, SIGNALS, ETC: No person shall, without lawful authority, attempt to or in fact alter, deface, injure, knock down, or remove any official traffic signal, sign, or marking, or any inscription, shield, or insignia thereon or any other part -thereof. SECTION 13. AVOIDING TRAFFIC SIGNALS OR SIGNS: It shall be un- lawful for any person to drive a motor vehicle upon or across any private drive or driveway for the purpose of evading any of the provisions of this ordinance in regard to stop and go signals and stop signs erected along thru streets. Page 6 Page 7 ARTICLE 4 STOPPING, STANDING & PARKING SECTION 14. UNATTENDED MOTOR VEHICLE: No person driving or in charge of a motor vehicle shall permit it to stand unattended without first stopping the engine, or, when standing upon any preceptible grade, without effectively setting the brake thereon and turning the front wheels to the curb or side of the street. SECTION 15. STOPPING, STANDING OR PARKING PROHIBITED: No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the direction of a police officer or an official traffic signal, sign or marking in any of the following places: 1. On a sidewalk or parkway, or in any manner which would permit any portion of a vehicle to extend over any portion of a sidewalk. 2. On or in any public street or alley in such manner as to impede or obstruct ingress to or egress from any public or private garage, alley, driveway or entrance. 3. Within an intersection. 4. Within 15 feet of a fire hydrant. 5. On a crosswalk. 6. Within 20 feet of a crosswalk at any intersection. 7. Within 30 feet of any official stop sign or official traffic signal located at the side of a street or highway. 8. Within 50 feet of the nearest rail of a railroad grade crossing. 9. Along or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when such stopping, standing or parking would obstruct traffic. 10. On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street. Double parking is specifically prohibited. 11. Upon any bridge or any other elevated structure upon a highway. 12. At any place where official signs, authorized by ordinance or State statute, prohibit stopping, standing or parking. SECTION 16. PARKING ON PRIVATE PROPERTY: No person shall stand or park a vehicle on any private lot or lot area without the express or implied consent of the owner thereof. Whenever signs or markings have been erected on any lot or lot area contiguous or adjacent to a street, thoroughfare or alley indicating that no vehicles are permitted to stand or park thereon, it shall be unlawful for any person to drive a vehicle across any curb or lot line or over any driveway from a street or alley into said lot or area for the purpose of standing or parking such vehicle, or, for any person to stop, stand or park any vehicle in such lot or lot area. SECTION 17. ANGLE PARKING PROHIBITED: No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle upon any street or roadway except with the right hand wheels of such vehicle being within 12 inches of the right hand curb or side of such street, except where angle parking is specifically per- mitted by ordinance and where the same is so indicated by signs, lines or other markings. SECTION 18. UNLAWFUL PARKING: No person shall stand or park a vehicle upon any roadway for the principal purpose of: 1. Displaying it for sale; 2. Repairing such vehicle except repairs necessitated by an emergency. SECTION 19. LIMITED PARKING: No person shall stand or park a vehicle on any street or roadway in excess of twenty-four (24) consec- utive hours. SECTION 20. PENALTIES APPLICABLE TO REGISTERED OWNERS: Whenever any vehicle shall have been stopped, standing or parked in vio- lation of any of the provisions of Article (4) of this ordinance, the person in whose name such vehicle is registered and licensed shall be subject to the penalty to such violation. ARTICLE OPERATION OF VEHICLES SECTION 21. SPEED OF MOTOR VEHICLES: No person shall drive or operate any vehicle on any street or highway at a speed greater than is reasonable and proper having regard to the traffic and the use of the way or so as to endanger the life or limb or injure the property of any person. The fact that the speed of any vehicle is less than the posted speed on any street or roadway shall not relieve the driver from the duty of de- creasing speed when approaching and crossing an intersection, when approaching and going around a curve, when driving upon any narrow street, when traveling in heavy traffic, or whenever by reason of weather or other conditions such decrease in speed shall be reasonably necessary to avoid danger to pedestrians or other vehicles, nor shall the driver of any vehicle at any time be relieved from the duty of obeying any official traffic signs or markings which have been placed or erected on any street or roadway by action of the Village President and Board of Trustees for the regulation of speed of motor vehicles thereon. Where no special traffic hazard exists, the following speeds shall be lawful, but any speed in excess of said limits shall be prima facie evi- dence that the speed is not reasonable or proper and is unlawful. (1) 20 miles per hour in any residential district (except where a faster speed has been authorized by authority of the State of Illinois and the County of Cook). SECTION 22. MINIMUM SPEED REGULATION: No person shall drive a motor vehicle at such a slow speed as to impede or block the normal and reasonable movement of traffic, except when such reduced speed is necessary for safe operation. Page 8 Page 9 SECTION 23. SPEED OF AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLES: The prima facie speed limits set forth in this ordinance shall not apply to au- thorized emergency vehicles as herein defined. SECTION 24. DRIVING ON RIGHT SIDE: Every driver or operator of a vehicle shall drive and operate the same upon the right half of the street or roadway, except when: (1)overtaking and passing another vehicle proceeding in the same direc- tion, under the ordinances and laws governing such movements; (2)when the right half of the street or roadway is closed to traffic while under construction or repair; (3)upon any street designated and indicated by signs for one-way traffic. SECTION 25. PASSING VEHICLES PROCEEDING IN OPPOSITE DIRECTION: Drivers of vehicles proceeding in opposite directions shall pass each other to the right and upon streets and roadways having width for not more than one lane of traffic in each direction, each driver shall give to the other at least one half of the main travelled portion of such street or roadway as nearly as possible. SECTION 26. OVERTAKING A VEHICLE: The driver of a vehicle overtaking another vehicle proceeding in the same direction shall pass to the left thereof at a safe distance, and the driver of an overtaken ve- hicle shall give way to the right in favor of the overtaking vehicle on audible signal and shall not increase the speed of his vehicle until com- pletely passed by the overtaking vehicle. SECTION 27. LIMITS ON OVERTAKING: No vehicle shall be driven to the left of the center of any street or roadway in overtaking or passing another vehicle proceeding in the same direction, unless such left side is clearly visible and is free of traffic coming from the opposite direction for a sufficient distance to permit such overtaking and passing to be com- pleted without interfering with the safe operation of the vehicle approach- ing from the opposite direction or any vehicle overtaken. (A) No person shall drive off the pavement or upon the shoulder of the roadway in over- taking or passing on the right of a vehicle proceeding in the same direc- tion as the overtaking or passing vehicle. SECTION 28. DRIVING ON PARKWAYS, CURBS, AND SIDEWALKS PROHIBITED: It shall be unlawful to drive any vehicle over or along any parkway, curb, or sidewalk in this village, except where entrances and driveways have been authorized and permitted by action of the Village President and Board of Trustees. SECTION 29. STARTING PARKED VEHICLES: No person shall start a vehicle which is stopped, standing, or parked, until such movement can be made with reasonable safety, and no person shall emerge from any curb or parked position until such movement can be made with reasonable safety, and then only after giving proper signal of his intention so to do. SECTION 30. LIMITATIONS ON BACKING: The driver of a vehicle shall not back the same into an intersection or over a crosswalk and shall not in any event or at any place back a vehicle unless such movement can be made in safety. SECTION 31. EMERGING FROM ALLEY OR PRIVATE DRIVEWAY: The driver of a vehicle emerging from an alley, driveway, or building shall stop such vehicle immediately prior to driving onto a sidewalk or into the sidewalk area extending across any alleyway, and upon entering the roadway shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles approaching on said roadway. SECTION 32. TURNING AT INTERSECTIONS: The driver of a ve- hicle intending to turn at an intersection shall; (1) make right turns as close as practical to the right hand curb or edge of roadway, after having given a signal of his intention so to do. (2) make left hand turns, unless otherwise prohibited, from as near the center line and the center of the intersection as practical, after hav- ing signaled his intention so to do. (3) any driver of a vehicle approaching an intersection or driveway with intent to make a turn therein shall do so with caution and with due regard for traffic approaching from the opposite or any other direction and shall not make such turn until he can do so with safety. SECTION 33. AGE OF OPERATOR: No person shall operate any motor vehicle in the Village of Buffalo Grove, who is under the age of fifteen years. ARTICLE 6 MISCELLANEOUS REGULATIONS SECTION 34. OBSTRUCTION OF DRIVER IS VIEW: No person shall drive a vehicle in the Village of Buffalo Grove, when it is so loaded, or when there are in the front seat such number of persons exceeding three, as to obstruct the view of the driver to the front or sides of the vehicle, or as to interfere with the driver Is control of the driving mechanism of the vehicle. SECTION 35. DRIVING OVER BARRIERS: No person shall drive any vehicle over or across any newly made pavement in any public street or across, through or around any barrier erected across any street, or into or over any street or thoroughfare where any sign or marking has been erected, indicating that such street or thoroughfare is closed for traffic. SECTION 36. SPILLING LOADS: No loaded vehicle shall be driven or moved on any street unless so constructed or loaded as to prevent any of its load dropping, falling, or otherwise escaping therefrom, except that sand or cinders may be dropped for the purpose of securing traction, and that water or other substance may be sprinkled on a street or roadway for the purpose of cleaning or maintaining the same. Page 10 SECTION 37. UNNECESSARY HORN BLOWING OR NOISE: It shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to use the horn, bell, loud speaking device, or other signalling device for any purpose except as necessary to give traffic warning. Traffic warning, when given by horn, bell, or any other device, shall be only to the extent necessary for that purpose. SECTION 38. CLINGING OR ATTACHING TO VEHICLES PROHIBITED: No person upon roller skates, or while riding on any sled, coaster, bicycle, toy vehicle, or any other device shall cling to or attach himself or the de- vice upon which he is riding to any vehicle traveling upon the streets or roadways of the village. It shall be unlawful for the driver of any vehicle knowingly to permit any person on roller skates or any person, while rid- ing upon a sled, bicycle, coaster, or any other device, to cling to or attach himself or the said device to the vehicle he is operating. ARTICLE 7 BICYCLES SECTION 39. APPLICATION OF TRAFFIC LAWS: Every person operating a bicycle on any street or thoroughfare in the Village of Buffalo Grove shall be subject to the provisions of the traffic ordinances of this village applicable to the drivers of vehicles except as to those provisions of the ordinances which by their nature can have no application to bicycles. SECTION 40. RIDING ON BICYCLES: A person operating a bicycle shall not ride other than upon or astride the permanent and regular seat attached thereto, nor carry any other person upon such bicycle other than upon a firmly attached and regular seat thereon, nor shall any person ride upon a bicycle other than as above authorized. No bicycle shall be used to carry more persons at one time than the number for which it is de- signed and equipped. SECTION 41. RIDING ON SIDEWALKS: It shall be unlawful for any person to ride a bicycle upon a sidewalk without yielding the right-of-way to any pedestrian on said sidewalk and without giving an audible signal and dismounting from said bicycle before overtaking or passing any such pedestrian. SECTION 42. BICYCLE EQUIPMENT REQUIRED TO OPERATE: It shall be unlawful for any person to ride or use a bicycle at night time ex- cept that the same be equipped with a lamp or light on the front, which shall emit a white light visible from a distance of at least five hundred feet, and except that said bicycle be equipped with a red reflector on the rear visible at all distances within two hundred feet when such bicycle is directly in front of a motor vehicle displaying lawfully lighted head- lights. It shall be unlawful for any bicycle to be equipped with nor shall any person riding a bicycle use any siren or whistle. Page 11 It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a bicycle unless the same be equipped with a brake which shall enable the operator to make the braked wheel on said bicycle skid when applied on a dry, level, and clean pavement. SECTION 43. PENALTY FOR IMPROPER OPERATION OF BICYCLE: It is a misdemeanor for any person to do any act forbidden or to fail to perform any act required by ARTICLE (7) of this ordinance, and no par- ent or guardian of any ward shall knowingly permit or authorize any child or ward to violate any of the provisions of this ordinance. This article shall be applicable to all bicycles operated upon any street or sidewalk within the Village of Buffalo Grove. Every person convicted of a violation of any provision of this article shall be punished by a fine of not less than One Dollar ($1.00) nor more than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) or by the impounding of such bicycle for a period of not to exceed sixty days, or any combination thereof. ARTICLE 8 EQUIPMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES: SECTION 44. APPLICATION: The provisions of ARTICLE (8) of this ordinance shall apply to all motor vehicles except bicycles, road machin- ery, road rollers, farm tractors or implements of husbandry except as herein made applicable. SECTION 45. It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a motor vehicle in this village during the period from sunset to sunrise unless each motorcycle shall carry one lighted lamp and each motor vehicle 'two lighted lamps showing white lights or lights of yellow or amber tint visible at least five hundred feet in the direction toward which the vehi- cle, trailer or semi -trailer shall also exhibit at least one lighted lamp which shall be so Situated as to throw a red light visible for at least five hundred feet in the reverse direction. All road machinery, road rollers, farm tractors, and implements of husbandry, when operated upon or across a street or roadway during the period from sunset to sunrise, ,shall be equipped with at least one lighted lamp or lantern exhibiting a white light visible from a distance of five hundred feet to the front of such vehicle and with a lamp or lantern exhibiting a red light visible from a distance of five hundred feet to the rear thereof. SECTION 46. PROJECTING LOAD: It shall be unlawful for any person to operate any vehicle upon which the load extends four feet or more to the rear or beyond the bed or body of such vehicle unless there be displayed at the extreme end of the load at all times between sunrise and sunset a red flag or cloth not less than sixteen inches square, and unless there be dis- played at the extreme end of the load at all times between sunset and sun- rise a red light or lantern, in addition to all other lights required upon said vehicle. Page 12 SECTION 47. BRAKE EQUIPMENT: It shall be unlawful for any per- son to operate a motor vehicle, other than a motorcycle, upon any street, highway or within the village on any thorofare, unless the same be equip- ped with brakes adequate to control the movement of and to stop and hold such vehicle including two separate means of applying the brakes, each of which means shall be effective to apply the brakes to at least two wheels. Every motorcycle shall have at least one brake. SECTION 48. PERFORMANCE ABILITY OF BRAKES: No brake equip- ment as required in section (47) of this article shall be deemed adequate unless the service brakes upon such motor vehicle, when operating on a level surface, shall be adequate to stop such vehicle when traveling at a rate of twenty (20) miles per hour within a distance of (30) feet when upon dry asphalt or concrete pavement with the surface free from loose mate- rial and unless the hand brake on said vehicle shall be adequate to stop such vehicle within a distance of (55) feet under the above conditions, and adequate to hold such vehicle stationary on any grade upon which such said vehicle is operated. All brakes shall be maintained in good working order and shall be so adjusted as to operate as equally as practical with respect to the wheels on opposite sides of the vehicle. SECTION 49. HORN AND WARNING DEVICES: It shall be .unlawful for any person to operate a motor vehicle in the Village of Buffalo Grove unless the same be equipped with a horn in good working order capable of emitting sound audible under normal conditions from a distance of not less than two hundred feet, but no horn or other warning device shall emit an unreasonably loud or harsh sound or whistle. No vehicle, except author- ized emergency vehicles, shall be equipped nor shall any driver thereof use upon any such vehicle any siren, whistle or bell. SECTION 50. MUFFLERS REQUIRED: It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a motor vehicle in the Village of Buffalo Grove unless the same shall be equipped with a muffler in good working order and in constant operation to prevent excess or unusual noise and annoying smoke or gas. It shall be unlawful for any person to use a muffler cutout, a muf- fler bypass, or- similar device upon any motor vehicle. SECTION 51. GAS AND SMOKE: It shall be unlawful to operate any vehicle or to permit the same to remain standing or parked, which emits dense smoke or gasses, or such an amount of sinoke or gas as is danger- ous to, the health of persons in the vicinity of such vehicle, or as endan- gers the operation of other vehicles upon the street. All exhaust pipes carrying exhaust gas from the engine shall be directed parallel to the ground or upward. Page 13 ARTICLE 9 GENERAL PROVISIONS SECTION 52. PENALTY: Except as to those articles herein where a separate, different and distinct penalty is provided and set forth, any per- son who shall do any of the things prohibited by this ordinance or who shall fail to do or provide any of the things or requirements, required of him to be done or provided, or, who shall violate any of the, provisions herein shall be punished by a fine of not less than One\Dollar nor mare than Two Hundred Dollars. SECTION 52-A. ACCIDENTS INVOLVING DEATH or INJURY to PER- SONS or PROPERTY: The driver of any vehicle involved in an accident within the Village of Buffalo Grove resulting in injury to or the death of any person or damage to any other vehicle, public, or real or personal property shall immediately stop such vehicle at the scene of such acci- dent or as close thereto as possible, and shall forthwith return to and in every event shall remain at the scene of the accident until he has given his name, address and registration number of the vehicle he is driving to a police officer, and to the person struck or the driver or occupants of any vehicle collided with. SECTION 53. VALIDITY OF ORDINANCE: If any clause, sentence, paragraph or part of this ordinance or any article or section thereof, shall for any reason be adjudged or decreed to be invalid by any Court of competent jurisdiction, the judgement or decree of that Court shall not affect, impair nor invalidate the remainder of this ordinance but shall )e confined, in its effect, to the clause, sentence, paragraph or part there - A which is adjudged or decreed to be invalid, and the rest of said ordi- iance and all the articles and sections thereof shall remain in full force Lnd effect. SECTION 54. CONFLICTING ORDINANCES AMENDED AND REPEALED: ill ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are, to the extent if such conflict, hereby repealed. SECTION 55. EFFECTIVE DATE: This ordinance shall be in full force nd effect from and after its passage, approval and publication, according law. Page 14 Approved and adopted August 13, 1959 by the Village President and Board of Trustees. a& r) 6 � Y n9�0.c_cn/ Aloysius P. Bunescu Village President ATTEST: Paula /.Cloheseyr Village Clerk ORDINANCE COMMITTEE: William Fox Martin McHugh Willard Fechtner Ernest Barnett Published in printed form September 9, 1959 Ordinance effective September 19, 1959 STATE OF ILLINOIS ) SS COUNTY OF COOK ) AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION I. the undersigned, ERNEST F. BARNETT, Lt. of the Police, having been first duly sworn, depose and say: That on September 9th, 1959s I caused to be distributed throughout the Village of Buffalo Grove, for the purpose of publication, 100 copies of Ordinance No. 0-59-19, being the Traffic Regulations Ordinance, one such copy being delivered to every other house within the Village limits, with instructions to the residents that the copies distributed were to be shared with their neighbor, so that each resident would be apprised of the contents of the Traffic Regulations Ordinance. SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN TO before me this loth day of September, A.D., 1959. Village Clerk �' y