Ordinance 544
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ORDINANCE NO. 544
ORDINANCE OF THE CITY or GH....qOY AMENDING ORDINANCE NO.537 OF THF CITY OF.
GILROY, WHICH ADDED A NE\'l ARTIClE TO ORDINANCE NO. 480 OF THE CITY OF
GILROY, DESIGNATED AS ARTIClE VI-l/2, PROVIDING FOR MJD DESCRIBING YIELD
RIGHT or WAY INTERSECTIONS AND THE PLACING OF YIEW RIGHT OF WAY SIGNS
Th'E MAYOR AND COMPON COUNCIL or THE CITY CF GILROY DO ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION!: Ordinance No. 537 of the City of Gilroy is hereby amenoed
to read as follows:
ARTICill VI-l/2
SPECIAL YIELD RIGHT OF WAY REQUIRED
Section 32.1. Chief Administrative Officer to erect Yie~~~Blqht
of Way Signs. Whenever any ordinance or resolution of this City
~esignates and describes any intersection at which vehicles are
required to yield the right of way at one or more entrances thereto
in accordance with Section 550.1 of the Vehicle Code, the Chief
Administrative Officer shall erect and maintain yieln right of
way signs as follows: .
A yield right of way sign shall be erected on each and every
street at those entrances to intersections where a yield right of
way is required. Every such sign shall conform with and be placed
as provided in Section 471.1 of the Vehicle Code.
Section 32.20 Yield Riqht of J!.u..._aJ~__Yj_eJ_(L!~iqht of .WJl~ign.
(a) The provisions of this section shall apply at one or more
entrances to the intersections as such entrances and intersections
are described in Section II of this ordinance.
(b) When yield right of way signs are erected as herein provided
at the entrance to any intersection, every driver of a vehicle shall
control such vehicle as required by Section 550.1 of the Vehicle Code.
SECTION II: Said Ordinance No. 480 of the City of Gilroy is hereby amended
by adding a new Section thereto designated as Section 71.1, to read as follows:
Section 71.1. Yield Righ!_C?-:t~u_l.'!.lersections. In accordance
with Section 32(b) of the said Ordinance No. 480 set forth in
Section I of this Ordinance and when yield right of way signs are
erected giving notice thereof, drivers of vehicles shall yield
the right of way at the entrance or entrances of those intersections
as follows:
10 On Railroad Street at the north and south entrances to
Martin Street, yielding the right of way to other vehicles which
have entered the intersection from Martin Street or which are
approaching so closely on Martin Street as to cOrRitute an
immediate hazard.
SECTION III: Effective date. This ordinance shall take effect and be
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in full force and effect from and after its passage and approval.
ADOPTED and PASSED this 4th day of September, 1954, by the following
vote:
AYES:
COUNCILMEN Pate, Sanchez, Wentworth, Gallo, Petersen
NOES:
COUNCILMEN None
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN Rush
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