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,
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Clerk
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FILED IN CLERK'S 6FFICI
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AN ORDINANCE GIVING SCHOOL CROSSING in/ � C-
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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
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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
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pedestrian.willfully disobeying the signal or order of a
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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