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It shall be unlawful for any person to place or maintain or to display any device, other than an official warning or direction sign or signal erected under competent authority, upon or in view of a street which purports to be, or is an imitation of, or resembles an official warning or direction sign or signal, or which attempts to direct the movement of traffic or the actions of operators, and any such prohibited device shall be a public nuisance, and the Chief of Police may remove it or cause it to be removed, without notice.
(Ord. 15, passed 8-8-1927)
The provisions of this title regulating the movements, parking and standing of vehicles shall not apply to emergency vehicles of the police or sheriff’s office or of the Fire Department or of a public utility, while the driver of any such vehicle is engaged in the necessary performance of public emergency duties.
(Ord. 15, passed 8-8-1927)
Any person violating any of the provisions of this title, unless otherwise provided, or any rule or regulation made by the Chief of Police pursuant thereto shall be punished for the first offense by a fine not to exceed $50, or imprisonment in the county jail for not more than 30 days; for a second violation within a period of one year, by a fine not to exceed $100 or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than 60 days or by both such fine and imprisonment; for a third and each additional offense within one year, by a fine not exceeding $300 or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period not to exceed three months or by both such fine and imprisonment.
(Ord. 15, passed 8-8-1927)
All fines or forfeitures collected upon conviction or upon the forfeiture of bail of any person charged with a violation of any of the provisions of this title shall be paid into the city treasury and deposited in a special fund, which is hereby created, to be known as the Street Improvement Fund. There may be appropriated out of said Fund such monies as from time to time may be authorized by the Council for the purchase and maintenance of official traffic signs, signals, lights and paint marks necessary to designate the provisions used exclusively in the construction, maintenance and improvement of public streets within the city.
(Ord. 15, passed 8-8-1927)