Ordinance Providing for the Inspection of Motor Vehicles

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IC . 1 ORDINANCE ITO. 3 \ 4_ AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE INSPECTION OF MOTOR VEHICLES WIMAS, the great number of persons injured and killed in motor vehicle accidents is, in no small measure, due to the operation of vehicles which are not equipped with proper brakes and connections, lights, signalling devices, windshield wipers, reflectors, stop lights, draw bars and couplings, tires, rear vision mirrors or reflectors, steering mechanism, wheel align- ment and other safety factors which do not meet the standards of safety fixed by lawful authority; and WHEREAS, the power to make inspections and tests of motor vehicles, granted to regularly constituted police forces of this state, has not, in this city, been efficiently exercised because of lack of facilities and equipment; BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BENDS Section 1. The term *motor vehicle", as used in this ordinance, shall be construed to include automobiies,biisses, trucks, tractors, trailers, semi - trailers and all other vehicles propelled other than by muscular power, excepting traction engines, tractors used exclusively in drawing or propelling farm machinery, road rollers, road or street sprinklers, motor vehicles running only upon rails or tracks, fire engines and wagons, municipal owned ambulances and police patrol wagons. The word *Board• shall mean the Board of Public Works and Safety in charge of the regularly constituted policq force of the City of South Bend. The words *brakes ** *lights*, *signalling devices*, *windshield wipers *, *reflectors*, *stop lights% *draw bars and couplings *, *tires", Itrear vision mirrors* or *reflectors *, *steering mechanism* and *wheel alignment" and other words and phrases used in the statute and in this ordinance are declared to be defined in the same manner as like words and phrases are defined in or under the motor vehicle laws of the State of Indiana. Section 2. The Board of public Works and Safety of the City of South Bend is hereby authorized and directed to establish at a convenient place or places within the city of South Bend one or more stations where tests of automobiles may be wades to provide such mechanical devices and equipment at such station or stations as shall be sufficient to make, with precision, lawful tests of motor vehicles; to conduct the tests of Motor vehicles as by the motor vehicle laws of the State of Indiana authorized= to provide for such personnel to make said tests and to operate said stations as said Board may determine