Ordinances-1964- 54

ORDINANCE NO. 54 AN ORDINANCE fixing and establishing controlled-access facilities and regulation of traffic on the Primary Road No. U.S.6 within the Town of Tiffin, Iowa, described as follows: Provision of Section 3 of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty On present route of Primary Road No. U.S.6 from the West Corporation Line at Station 156+88.0 to the East Corporation Line at Station 177+70.0 regulating ingress or egress from and across such controlled-access facilities to or from abutting land, designating points at which access may be permitted, regulating traffic flow and providing penalties for the violations thereof on improvement, Project No. F-268(6) Primary Road No. U.S.6 within the Primary Road No. U.S.6 within the corporate limits of the Town of Tiffin, Iowa, as described above, is being improved; the cost of such improvement being borne by, at the Bureau of Public Roads and the State Highway Commission, and the participation in the costs thereof is, dependent on the establishment of the controlled-access facilities and parking regulations by the Town of Tiffin along said highway improvement and said controlled-access facilities and parking regulations are necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety and the promotion of the general welfare, and WHEREAS, The Council agreed under Resolution signed August 22, 1956 to pass ordinances for access control and traffic control; and under Resolution signed December 7, 1960 to pass an ordinance passing speed limits; NOW THEREFORE: BE IT ORDAINED by the Town Council of the Town of Tiffin, Iowa: Section 1. This ordinance shall be deemed on exercise of the police power of the Town under Chapter 148 Acts of the Fifty-Sixth General Assembly of the State of Iowa, for the preservation of the public peace, health, safety and the promotion of the general welfare. Residential Section 2. Definition. For the purpose of the ordinance a controlled-access facility shall mean a controlled right of easement of access, sight, air or view by reason of the fact that their property abuts upon such controlled-access facility or for any other reason. Farm Entrance Section 3. Unlawful use of Controlled-Access Facilities. It shall be unlawful for any person to: (a) Drive a vehicle over, upon or across any curb, central dividing section or other separation or dividing line on such controlled-access facilities (station 156+88.0) to the east corporation line, (Station 177+70.0). (b) Make a left turn or a semi-circular or U-turn except through an opening provided for that purpose in the dividing curb section; separation or line effective on the project; (c) Drive any vehicle except in the proper lane provided for that purpose and in the proper direction into the right of the central dividing curb or separation section or line per hour from Station 175+00 to Station 177+70.0 (d) Drive any vehicle into the controlled-access facility from a local service road except through an opening provided for that purpose in the dividing curb or dividing