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Show New Ordinance Will Safeguard Travelers Safety for automobile drivers, as well as horse-drawn vehicles, is to be paramount in the future, and danger" of night collisions should be avoided, if the recent ordinance passed by the Sanpete county commissioners is observed. ob-served. The new ordinance decrees that all horse-drawn vehicles when in use on any of the public highways or public roads within Sanpete county during the time between one hour af. ter sunset and one hour before sunrise, sun-rise, shall be equipped with at least one lighted lamp or other device that is visible to a driver from both the rear and front of the horse-drawn vehicle. ve-hicle. The ordinance makes it imperative impera-tive that drivers of vehicles with horses hor-ses attached follow this ruling and it will be unlawful for any person to violate the new ordinance. The penalty prescribed in the ordinance or-dinance is sufficiently strong to brinp observance. Any person violating i'liy of the provisions can be charged with a misdemeanor and if found guilty will be subject to a fine of not less than $300. or by imprisonment in thi county jail for a period of not more than six months, or by both s-uch fine and imprisonment. The action of the county commissioners commis-sioners in passing the ordinance is highly commendable. It is purely j .r the safeguarding of the travel It-.;; public. The scheme has been tried i,i many other states and through this law many serious accidents have been averted. The cost of affixing a sijrrril light both in the front and rear if horse-drawn vehicles, will be nominal to those who have occasion to be out at night, or at any time the danger lurks and where accidents are liable so happen when cars are passing horse-drawn vehicles. The ordinance will become effective Tuesday, August 20th, and all ore-cautioned ore-cautioned to meet the requirements and provide safety lights. |