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HomeMy WebLinkAboutGiving School Crossing Guards the Authority to Direct Vehicular & Pedestrain TrafficORDINANCE No. 4960 -67 Passed by the Common Council of the City of South Bend, Clerk Of Common Council Presented by me to the Mayor of the City of South Bend, - 11 . - Clerk IDEAL 0 PRESS r FILED IN CLERK'S 6FFICI 4960 -,67 AN ORDINANCE GIVING SCHOOL CROSSING in/ � C- T 1 919b% GUARDS THE AUTHORITY TO DIRECT VEHICULAR AND PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC; KATHRYN L. BLOUGH PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR DISOBEDIENCE CITY CLERK, SOUTH BEND, IND. OF THEIR SIGNALS; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. WHEREAS j--School Grossing. Guards are required to assist the community's school children in crossing streets while enroute to and from their schools, and WHEREAS, it is frequently necessary for said school crossing guards to enter street intersections for the purpose of temporarily stopping or directing vehicular traffic so as to safeguard children crossing the street, and WHEREAS, the Common Council wishes to recognize the lawfulness of .the acts of the school crossing guards in directing traffic in the aforesaid manner and to extend to them every protection of the law while so engaged in their work. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ENACTED BY THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE MUNICIPAL CITY OF SOUTH BEND THAT: 1. School Crossing Guards are any adult persons so designated by the South Bend Police Department and who serve in uniforms prescribed by the South Bend Police Department while engaged in the work of assisting the school children in the crossing of streets while enroute to and from their respective schools and homes. 2. School Crossing Guards shall be considered and are hereby declared to be an arm of the South Bend Police Department with the police power to enter streets and /or street intersections and to stop or to otherwise direct both vehicular and pedestrian traffic upon said street. j3. That any operator of a vehicle and /or that any E iII .. r FILED IN CLERK'S 6FFICI 4960 -,67 AN ORDINANCE GIVING SCHOOL CROSSING in/ � C- T 1 919b% GUARDS THE AUTHORITY TO DIRECT VEHICULAR AND PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC; KATHRYN L. BLOUGH PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR DISOBEDIENCE CITY CLERK, SOUTH BEND, IND. OF THEIR SIGNALS; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. WHEREAS j--School Grossing. Guards are required to assist the community's school children in crossing streets while enroute to and from their schools, and WHEREAS, it is frequently necessary for said school crossing guards to enter street intersections for the purpose of temporarily stopping or directing vehicular traffic so as to safeguard children crossing the street, and WHEREAS, the Common Council wishes to recognize the lawfulness of .the acts of the school crossing guards in directing traffic in the aforesaid manner and to extend to them every protection of the law while so engaged in their work. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ENACTED BY THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE MUNICIPAL CITY OF SOUTH BEND THAT: 1. School Crossing Guards are any adult persons so designated by the South Bend Police Department and who serve in uniforms prescribed by the South Bend Police Department while engaged in the work of assisting the school children in the crossing of streets while enroute to and from their respective schools and homes. 2. School Crossing Guards shall be considered and are hereby declared to be an arm of the South Bend Police Department with the police power to enter streets and /or street intersections and to stop or to otherwise direct both vehicular and pedestrian traffic upon said street. j3. That any operator of a vehicle and /or that any t E pedestrian.willfully disobeying the signal or order of a 'E School Crossing Guard with respect to the "pa §sage of said vehicle or pedestrian in and upon the streets within the " Municipal City of South Bend shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 4. That an emergency exists concerning the provisions -" 61 - this"ordinance so that- the same- shat: -1 be in -- full force !.� and effect from and after its passage by the Council and approval by the Mayor. Ist & 2nd READING %11 -13 -67 CONMITTEE OF THE WHOLE 11 -27 -67 PUBLIC HEARING 11 -27 -67 3rd READING 11 -27 -67 NOT & PROVED REFERRED PASSED 11-27-67