No wagon, cart, dray, truck, automobile truck, or other heavy traffic vehicle, shall, between the hours of 2:00 and 7:00 a.m., approach upon or along any street upon which abuts any licensed hospital, or any hospital owned, controlled or operated by the federal, state, county or city governments, nearer in any given direction than the nearest street which crosses or intersects the street upon which such hospital premises abut; and in any case where any hospital premises are located at a street corner, or other street intersection, no such vehicle as herein described shall between the hours of 2:00 and 7:00 a.m. approach such hospital premises upon or along any street upon which such hospital premises abut nearer than the street nearest in any given direction to either or any of the streets abutted upon by such hospital premises; provided, that any vehicle carrying goods, merchandise, wares or other articles to or from any house or premises abutting upon any part of a street affected by this chapter shall be permitted to enter thereon and deliver or receive such goods, merchandise, wares or other articles; and provided further, that any vehicles carrying tools, machinery, material or other articles used for the construction, repair or cleaning of the pavement, sewers, waterpipes, lamps or any other municipal property, or the gas mains, electric wires, streetcar tracks, lampposts or other properties, appurtenances or attachments of any public utility in any part of a street affected by this chapter, shall be permitted to enter thereon for the purpose of such construction, repair or cleaning. This prohibition shall not apply to any street or part of a street lying in that part of the city bounded on the north by the Chicago River, on the east by Michigan Avenue, on the south by Twenty-second Street and on the west by the Chicago River.
(Prior code § 36-3)