Las Vegas City Ordinances, July 18, 1911 to March 31, 1933, lvc000013-296

to be driven upon any street or alley in the City of Las Vegas by any person under the age of sixteen years, and it shall also be unlawful for any person under the age of'sixteen years to drive any such automobile or motor vehicle on any street or alley of the city. Section XXXII. ZONE OF QUIET: The Board of City Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas may, by Resolution, declare and designate any street or alley within two hundred (200) feet of a hospital, church, court house, or sick chamber, a "zone of quiet," and upon and in this zone, when so declared and designated, there shall be no ringing of bells, sounding of gongs or whistles, or unnecessary noises, or itinerant music. Section XXXIII. INTOXICATED PERSONS: It shall be unlawful for any person while in an intoxicated condition, or under the influence of intoxicating liquor to ride or drive any animal or vehicle or to have charge or control of any animal or vehicle in any public street. Section XXXIV. SPORTS IN STREETS: No person shall engage in any sport, amusement, or occupation likely to frighten horses or embarrass the passage of vehicles upon any street. Section XXXV. STOPPING IN CASE OF ACCIDENT: In case of accident or injury to person or property upon any street or alley due to the operation thereon of any vehicle the person operating, driving or otherwise in control of the same shall stop, and upon request of the person injured or whose property has suffered injury or any other person present, shall give such person his name and address, and if such person operating, driving, or otherwise in control of such vehicle is not the owner thereof, also the name and address of the owner of such vehicle. Section XXXVI. SPEED IN CITY LIMITS. It shall be unlawful for any person to ride, drive or propel any vehicle at a rate of speed greater than twenty miles per hour, in, upon or along the public highways, streets, roads, alleys, lanes, avenues, boulevards, strips, paths or squares within the limits of the City of Las Vegas, except on streets adjoining school grounds, occupied by a school building or buildings, where such speed shall be not to exceed twelve miles per hour; provided, however, that it shall be unlawful for any person to ride, drive or propel any vehicle at a rate of speed greater than fifteen miles per hour on turning a corner from one street to another in any district, or on going over, upon or across street crossings or street intersections on any of the streets in the City of Las Vegas, anything to the contrary hereinabove contained in this Section notwithstanding. Section XXXVII. PASSING ANIMALS, ETC. Every person having control or charge of any motor vehicle upon any public street and approaching any vehicle drawn by a horse or horses, or any horse upon which any person is riding, shall operate, manage, and control such motor vehicle in such manner as to exercise every reasonable precaution to prevent the frightening of any such horse or horses, and to insure the safety and protection of any person riding or driving the same. And if such horse or horses appear frightened, the person in control of such motor vehicle shall reduce its speed, and if requested by a signal or otherwise by the driver or rider of such horse or horses, shall not proceed further toward such animal or animals unless such movement be necessary to avoid accident or injury, or until such animal or animals appear to be under the control of the driver or rider. Section XXXVIII. BELLS, HORNS AND GONGS: It shall be unlawful for any person to ride, drive, or propel any bicycle, tricycle, veolcipede, motorcycle, automobile, or other riding machine or horseless vehicle within the limits of the City of Las Vegas without having attached to such bicycle or other riding ma­chine or horseless vehicle a bell, gong or horn, in good working order, and sufficient to give warning of such vehicle to pedestrians and to riders or drivers of other vehicles. Such bell, gong or horn shall be of such size only as may be necessary to give such warnings Every person operating a motor vehicle shall sound said bell, horn, gong, whistle or other device, whenever necessary, as a warning of danger, but not at other times or for any other purposes. Section XXXIX. LOUD NOISES AND SIRENS: It shall be unlawful for any person operating vehicles described in Section XXXVIII of this ordinance to use thereon, while travelling through the streets, any instrument for the purpose of giving warning, which shall produce a sound of unusually loud or distressing character or such that will end to frighten pedestrians or animals, it being the intention of his section to prohibit the use of so-called "sirens" or similar instruments for the purpose of producing unusually loud, annoying or distressing sounds. Upon the failure of any person to remove any siren or similar horn from his vehicle, upon being ordered to do so, the police may cause the same to be removed and may prohibit said vehicle being driven on any of the streets of the City of Las Vegas until the said siren or horn has been removed. Section XL. LIGHTS ON MOVING MOTOR VEHICLES: All motor vehicles in use on public streets in the City of Las Vegas, excepting motorcycles, motor bicycles and such motor vehicles, as may be properly equipped with one light, in forward center of such motor vehicle, shall during the period of one hour after sunset to one hour before sunrise and whenever the atmospheric conditions so require, display two or more white or tinted lights other than red, on the forward part of said vehicle, so placed as to be seen from the front, and of sufficient illuminating power a s to be visible at a distance of Five Hundred (500) feet in the direction in which displayed, and to reveal any person, vehicle or substantial object clearly seventy-five (75) feet ahead of the lamps, and so be quipped that said headlights do not cause a blinding light or a beam of light over forty- two (42) inches from the level surface on which the vehicle stands under all conditions of load, provided, however, that if any auxiliary lights are carried in addition to regular headlights, and the rear lamp, such additional light or lights shall be subject to all restrictions of this section regarding the direction of the beam, and it shall be unlawful for any person to direct the rays of any spotlight or other light towards the eyes of the driver or occupants of any approaching vehicle, or to the left of the center of the traveled way when meeting another vehicle, and it shall also be unlawful for any person to operate a