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Las Vegas City Ordinances, July 18, 1911 to March 31, 1933, lvc000013-97

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    Dollars, or by imprisonment in the City Jail for a period of not less than Two Days nor more than Twenty-five Days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Section 3. It shall be unlawful for any person to ride, drive or propel, or cause or permit to be driven, ridden or propelled, any motor vehicle, other than a motorcycle, upon any public street of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, during the period of one hour after sunset to one hour before sunrise, of the next succeeding day, unless the said vehicle is equipped with at least two lamps showing white lights visible under normal atmospheric conditions at least five hundred feet in the direction toward which said motor vehicle is proceeding, and shall also carry at the rear of said motor vehicle to the left of center thereof, a lighted lamp exhibiting one red light plainly visible for a distance of five hundred feet toward the rear, and so placed that the number on the rear of such motor vehicle shall be illuminated by a white light in such a manner that such number can be plainly distinguished under normal atmospheric conditions at a distance of not less than fifty feet in the reverse direction to which such vehicle is proceeding. Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than Ten Dollars, nor more than One Hundred Dollars, or by imprisonment in the City Jail for a period of not less than Five Days nor more than Fifty Days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Section 4. It shall be unlawful for any person to ride, drive or propel or cause or permit to be driven or propelled, upon any public street of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, or to leave standing upon such street, any motorcycle unless such motorcycle shall carry during the period from one hour after sunset of any day to one hour before sunrise of the next, succeeding day, at least one lighted lamp showing a white light visible under normal atmospheric conditions at least two hundred feet in the direction in which the motorcycle is proceeding, and shall also carry at the rear of such motorcycle one red light or red reflex mirror plainly visible from the rear. Any person firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than Ten Dollars nor more than Thirty Dollars, or by imprisonment in the City Jail for a period of not less than Five Days nor more than Fifteen Days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Section 5. It shall be unlawful for any person to ride, drive or propel, or cause to be ridden, driven or propelled, any bicycle, tricycle, velocipede, automobile or other riding machine or horseless vehicle, in, upon or along any public street within the limits of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, without having attached to such bicycle, tricycle, velocipede, automobile or other riding machine or horseless vehicle a bell, gong, horn or other signal devise, in good working order, and sufficient to give warning of the approach of such vehicle to pedestrians and to riders and drivers of animals or other vehicles and to persons entering or leaving other vehicles. It shall be unlawful for any person to use or to sound, or to cause or permit to be used or to be sounded, in or upon any street, alley or other public place any such bell, gong, horn or other signal devise in any manner other than to produce an abrupt sound sufficiently loud to serve as an adequate warning of the approach of the vehicle to which the same is attached, or to sound, or cause or permit to be sounded any such bell, gong, horn or other signal device except when necessary to give such warning. It shall be unlawful for the driver of any vehicle to which is attached any bell, gong, horn or other signal device, to unnecessarily blow such horn, ring such bell or operate such other sound producing device in the immediate vicinity of any hospital or school located in the City of Las Vegas, Nevada. Every person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than Five Dollars nor more than Fifty Dollars, or by imprisonment in the City Jail for a period of not less than Two Days nor more than Twenty-Five Days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Section 6. It shall be unlawful for any person to ride or drive, or cause to be ridden or driven any horse or other animal; or to ride, drive or propel, or cause to be ridden, driven or propelled, any vehicle at a rate of speed greater than fifteen miles per hour in, upon or along the public streets, alleys, lanes, avenues, boulevards, strips, paths or squares in the business district of the