O-56-222 3 1.
ORDINANCE NO.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE PRESIDENT AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES of the Village
of Deerfield that:
Section 1. Whenever traffic is regulated by a school crossing signal,
the provisions of this ordinance shall be complied with.
t Section 2. A school crossing signal is a permanently mounted
electrically operated signal device equipped with two -way, two -color
(red and yellow) signal heads, together with a diamond - shaped, single-
faced sign reading "School Crossing," by which at predetermined times and
when actuated by push - button, traffic is directed to stop so as to permit
10 school children to cross the street or highway safely.
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Section 3. Whenever the red lens of a school crossing signal is
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illuminated by rapid intermittent flashes, drivers of vehicles shall stop
before entering the nearest crosswalk at an intersection or at a limit line
when marked or, if none, then before entering the ,intersection, and
pedestrians within or entering the crosswalk at either edge of the roadway
shall have the right -of -way over vehicles so stopped. Drivers'of vehicles
having so yielded the right -of -way to pedestrians entering or within the
nearest crosswalk at an intersection may proceed but shall also yi21d the
right -of -way to pedestrians within any other crosswalk at the intersection.
If in the event a school crossing signal is erected and maintained at.a
place other than an intersection, the provisions of this section also shall
be applicable, except as to provisions which by their nature can have no
application.
Section 4. Any person, firm or corporation violating the provisions
of this ordinance shall be fined not less than FIVE DOLLARS ($5.00) nor
more than ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100.00) for each offense.
PASSED: This 10th day of September, A.D. 1956.
APPROVED: ,
Village President
ATTEST:
Village Clerk