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Home My WebLink Aboutordinance.council.020-64O~INA~CE NO. ~O Series of 1964 AN ORDINANCE REPEALING THE PREVIOUS TRAFFIC ORDINANCE AND ADOPTING, WITH MINOR VARIATIONS, THE "MODEL TRAFFIC CODE FOR COLORADO MUNICIPALITIES, 1962", PROVIDING FOR PENALTIES FOR A VIOLATION OF THIS ORDINANCE, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY TO EXIST: BE I~ ORDAINED BY the City Council of the City of Aspen, Colorado: Section 1: Section 10-1-1, Chapter 1, Title X, of the official Code of Aspen is hereby amended in its entirety to read as follows: 10-1-1: ADOPTION OF MODEL TRAFFIC CODE: Vehicular and pedestrian traffic within the City of Aspen, the establishment of rules and regulations for the issuing of permits, and the fixing of penalties shall be regulated in accordance with the Model Traffic Code for Colorado Municipalities 1962 Edition, three copies of which shall be on file in the office of the City Clerk and may be inspected during regular business hours, the same being hereby referred to, adopted, and made a part hereof as if fully set forth herein in full, pursuant to the authority conferred by the Laws of the State of Colorado; provided, however, the following portions of such Model Traffic Code are not adopted and are expressly deleted: (1) Section 68 (2) Section 69 (3) Section ~2 (4) Section 75 (5) Section 78 (6) Section 79 (7) Section 80 (8) Section 81 (9) Section 82 (10) Section 83 (11) Section ll4c (12) Section 169 Section 2: Section 10-1-2, Chapter 1, Title X, of the official Code of Aspen is hereby amended in its entirety to read as follows: 10-1-2: COPIES ON FILE: Three certified copies of the model ordinance are on file at theoffice of theCity Clerk and may be inspected during regular business hours. In addition, copies are available for distribution and sale to the Public. Section 3: Section 10-1-3, Chapter 1, Title X, of the official Code of Aspen is hereby amended in its entirety to read as follows: 10-1-3: AMENDED SECTIONS: The following sections of the"Model Traffic Code for Colorado Municipalitieg, 1962 Edition' are hereby amended to read as follows: Section 9 - State speed laws applicable: The state traffic laws regulating the speed of vehicles shall be applicable upon all streets within this municipality, except as changed by ordinance in which event appropriate speed limit signs shall be used designating such changes, and it shall be prima facia unlawful for any person to drive a vehicle at a speed in excess of any such speed limits. Section 35 - Obedience to angle-parking signs or markings: Upon those streets which have been signed or marked for angle parking, no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle other than at the angle to the curb or edge of the roadway indicated by such signs or markings, and when so parking shall only park on the right hand side of the street. Section 57 - Parking prohibited at all times on certain streets: When signs are erected giving notice thereof, no person shall park a vehicle at any time upon any of the streets so designated. Section 58 Stopping, standing, or parking prohibited durinq certain hours on certain streets: When signs are erected in each block giving notice thereof, no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle between the hours designated thereon. - 2 - Section 59 - Parking time 1/mited on certain streets: When signs are erected giving notice thereof no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle for longer than the time designated by said signs at any time between those hours so stated by said signs on any day except Sundays and full legal holidays, ~&thin the district or upon any of the streets upon which such signs are erected. (a) When parking metere are erected giving notice thereof, no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle in any parking zone for a period than designated by said par .*s upon the deposit of a States currency of the on any day exce and full le, holidays, upon of the streets equipped parking (b) Every ~icle shal~ parked wholly within the .*ed parl space for which the meter privilege has been granted, and front end of such vehicle /mmediate] the parking meter for such (c) It is a this Ordinance for any to de ~or attempt to deposit in parking met~ any thing other than a ia/ coin of the Un~ed States, or any coil ~t' is bent, cut, to~n, battered or ot~ wi misshapen. I~ is a~v~olation of Ordi/an< e for any unauthorized pe~on to ~e~ak, destroy or damage any ~arking ~ter, and no person shall wilfully manipulate~ any parking meter in such a manner that t~e indicator will fail to show the correct am~nt Section 66 - Pedestrians to walk on left side of roadway where sidewalks are not provided; not to solicit rides: (a) Pedestrians walking along a street or roadway where sidewalks are not p~ovided shall walk on the extreme left side of the street or roadway facing approaching traffic. - 3 - (b) No person shall solicit a ride or attempt to solicit a ride from the driver of any private vehicle. (c) Part (a) of this Section applying to pedestrians shall also be applicable to riders of animals. Section 104 - Clinqinq to Vehicles: Any person riding upon any bicycle, motorcycle, motor-driven cycle, coaster, sled, skis, roller skates or any toy vehicle shall not attach the same or himself to any vehicle upon any street, except with permission of the chief of police. Section 110 - Restrictions on Farm Tractors, Trailers, Trucks, and Commercial Vehicles Upon Use of Streets; When signs are erected giving notice thereof, no person shall operate or stop, stand or park any farm tractor,trailer, sem~-trailer, truck or comercial vehicle with a gross weight in excess of the amounts specified on such signs on any of the streets or parts of streets upon which such signs are so erected. Section 114 - Traffic Laws Apply to Persons Riding on Bicycles, Skis, Sleds, or on Animals or drivinq Animal-drawn Vehicles. (a) Every person riding a bicycle or driving any animal drawing a vehicle upon a street shall be sub3ect to the provisions of this Ordinance applicable to the driver of a vehicle, except those provisions of this Ordinance which by their nature can have no application. (b) Persons riding or leading animals on or along any street shall ride or ~ead such animals on the left side of said street facin~ approaching traffic. This shall not apply to persons driving herds of animals along streets. (c) Persons on skis traveling on or along any street shall use the left side of said street facing approaching traffic and shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicular traffic. Skiers when traveling on or along any street shall proceed single file only. - 4 - Section 115 - Use of Coaster, Roller Skates, and S/milar 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 crosswalk, and when so crossing such such person shall be granted all of the rights and shall be subject to all of the duties applicable to pedestrians. This section shall not apply upon any street while set aside as a play street as authorized by ordinance of this municipality. Section 4: No person shall sleep in a vehicle parked upon any street or alley in the City of Aspen, Colorado Section 5: Penalties for Violations of This ordinance (1) It is unlawful for any person to violate any of the provisions of this Ordinance and such violations shall be punishable as is hereinafter provided. (2) Every person convicted of a violation of any of theprovisions of this Ordinance shall be subject to a fine not exceeding three hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding 90 days. Section 6: The City Council of the City of Aspen, Colc~ado, hereby finds, determines and declares this ordinance to be necessary for the immediate preservation of thepublic peace, health, and safety and thereby ordains that it shall be in immediate force and effect from and after its adoption and publication in accordance with the law. this Introduced, read and ordered published at a regular meeting /6 day of November, 1964. MAYOR. ATTEST: CITY CLER~ Finally adopted md approved this ~/ day of MAYOR. STATE OF COLORADO) COUNTY OF PITKIN ) I, .~ City Clerk of the City of Aspen, Colorado, d~ hereb~ c~tify that the above and fore- going ordinance was introduced, read in full and passed first reading at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Aspen, Colorado, on the /~ day of ~~./, 19 and published in the Aspen times, a weekly newspaper of general circulation, published in the City of Aspen, Colorado, in its issue of ..-~~ 7~o , 196~, and was finally adopted and approved at a regular meeting of the City ¥ Council on .~ .~?/ , 196 and ordered publ'ished as O~i~anoe ~o. ~ , Seriee of /%~ , or said City provided by IN ~.~iTNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of