Ordinance 1098Ordinance No. 1098
New Series
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE
ALAMEDA MUNICIPAL; CODE BY
AMENDING SECTIONS 17 -271 AND
17 -281 AND BY REPEALING SECTION
17.291 "I HEREOF, RELATING TO
CROSSWALKS OR PEDESTRIAN
LANES'
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUN-
CIL OF :THE CITY OF ALAMEDA:
SECTION 1. That Section ' 17 -271 of
the Alameda Municipal Code. be, and
the same is hereby amended to read as
follows:
See. 17 -271. Pedestrians' Limited
Right to Use Roadway, When
Within a :lousiness or commercial :
district, no pedestrian shall cross'
a. roadway, ,except. at a crosswalk
or regularly: established pedestrian
lane. In other. districts throughout
the ; City, if there be no marked
crosswalk, no pedestrian ,shall cross
a roadway other than by a. route
at right angles to the curb or by
the shortest route to the :opposite
curb.
No person skull stand in any
roadway, except in a safety. zone.
or m a crosswalk; if such action .
shall interfere with the movement
of traffic. This provision shall not
app1Y .to any Public officer or em-
ployee or employee of a public
utility: when upon a roadway : in .
dine :of '. duty.:
SECTION 2:: That Section 1.7 -281 of
the Alameda Municipal Code bei :. and
the same is hereby amended to read
as follows:
Sec..:17 -281. Establishment and
Marling of. Crosswalks : or Pedes
trian Lanes, (a) The Chief. of Police
is hereby authorized and directed
to cause markers or white lines to
be placed and maintained: along the
boundary lines of 'crosswalks or
pedestrian lanes at all such street
intersections and other points
where, in ' his judgment, there is
particular danger to pedestrians
crossing: the roadway,
(b) Except at intersections, no
crosswalk: shall be established in
any - block which is less than four
hundred (400) feet ' in :length, In
blocks of greater length, not more
thaia one (1) additional crosswalk
shall be established, and such cross-
walk shall be located, as nearly as
practicable, at . mid - block,
SECTION 3.: That Section 17 -291 of
the : Alameda Municipal : Code be . , and
the. same :is hereby repealed.
SECTION 4.. This ordinance shall be
in full forvu and affect from and after
the expiration of thirty: (30) days from
the date of its final passage.
LELAND W. SWEENEY
Presiding Officer of the Council
Attest:
SHIRLEY. H. TENNIER
City Clerk
1, the undersigned, hereby certify
that the foregoing: Ordinance was duly
and regularly adopted and 'passed by
the Council of the City. of Alameda
in regular: meeting assembled on the
6th day of October, 1953, by the fol-
lowing vote, to wit:
AYES: Councilman Anderson, Jones,
McCall, Moresi and President Sweeney,
(5)
NOES: None.
ABSENT None,
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have
hereunto set my. hand and affixed: the
official seal of said City this 7th day
of October, 1953:.
SHIRLEY H. TENNIER
City: Clerk - of the City of Alameda
Publish October 8, 1953.