(A) There is hereby established a quiet zone on Jefferson, Harding and Wilson Streets, and Third and Fourth Avenues, within 1 block of the Union County Hospital, which is located in Block No. 656 of the Herzstein and Hill Addition to the Town of Clayton, New Mexico, at the intersection of Harding Street and Third Avenue. The Town Engineer is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to erect suitable signs on all of the streets and avenues at a point 1 complete block removed from the hospital site giving appropriate warning of the quiet zone and of the speed limit therein as hereinafter established at 15 mph.
(B) It shall be unlawful for any operator of any motor vehicle, except emergency, fire, police or ambulance vehicles, to sound any horn, klaxon, siren, cut out or other noise producing mechanism within the quiet zone so established by the signs.
(C) It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a motor vehicle within the quiet zone as defined herein and as established by the signs, except emergency, police, ambulance or fire vehicles at a speed greater than 15 mph.
(Ord. 411, passed 8-13-1962) Penalty, see § 71.99