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? . .ao+ .. ,, .?. CITY OF 1VORTH OLMSTED ORDINANCE NO. 69-6"/ 337.16 NUMBER OF LIGHTS PERMITTED ; RED AND FLASHIIVG LIGHTS. ( a) Whenever a motor vehicle equipped with headlights is also equipped with any auxiliary lights, or spotlight, or any light on the front thereof projecting a beam of an intensity greater than 300 candle power, not more than a total of five of any such lights on the front of a vehicle shall be lighted at any one time when such vehicle is upon a street or high- way . ( b) Any lighted light or illuminating device upon a motor vehicle, other than headlights, spotlights, signal lights or auxiliary driving lights, which project a beam of light of an intensity greater than 300 candle power shall be so directed that no part of the beam will strike the level of the roadway on which the vehicle stands at a distance of more than seventy- five feet from the vehicle. ( c) Flashing lights are prohibited on motor vehicles, except as a means for indicating a right or a left turn, or in the presence of a vehicular traffic hazard requiring unusual care in approach- ing, or overtaking or passing. This prohibition does not apply to the use of a flashing, oscillating or rotating amber light on emergency vehicles, road service vehicles servicing or towing a disabled vehicle, traffic line striper, snow plows, rural mail delivery vehicles, State Highway survey vehicles, funeral escort vehicles and similar equipment operated by the Ohio Department of Highways or local authorities, nor to vehicles or machinery permitted by Section 337.19 to have a flashing red light. ( d) Except a person operating a public safety vehicle, as defined in Section 301.43, or a school bus, no person shall operate or move upon any public street or highway any vehicle or equipment which has a flashing red or a flashing combination red and white light, or any vehicle or equipment which has an oscillating or rotating red light or a combination red and white oscillating or rotating light. This Section shall not prohibit the use of warninglights required by law or the simultaneous flashing of turn signal on disabled vehicles. ( ORC 4513.17 ) Section 2. That any ordinance or parts of ordinances, or resolutions or parts of resolutions inconsistent with theprovisions of this Ordinance, and especially Ordinance No. 65-310, enacted December 21,1965, are hereby re- pealed with the effective date of this ordinance. Section 3. That this Ordinance is hereby declared to be an emeregency measure necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, safety, health and welfare by virtue of the fact that Section 337.16 prior to this amendment is in conflict with the provisions of the State Statutes. WHEREFORE, this Ordinance shall take effect and be in force immediately upon its passage; otherwise, at the earliest period allowed by law. PASSED: /q?p9 ATTEST: ? OfLux_t -- Florence Holm, Clerk of Council APPROVED: 3`'y/G,? Ei • KQ.?^ Ralph . Christman, Mayor Francis J.O'N?ill, President of Council / a s 7'eol ?3 -,-I- - ? ?