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~ 1, CITY OF RORTH Oi_MSTED ORDINANCE NO, b5-,,~b~ Page 2 313.02 THROUGH STRF..ETS, STOP AND YIF'L.D RIGHT OF WAY SIGNS. (a) All State routes and all sections of streets and highways on which are operated motor coaches for carrying passengers for hire along a fixed or regular route under authority granted by Council are hereby designated as through streets or highways, provided that stop signs shall be erected at all intersections with such through streets or highways, except as otherwise • provided in this section. aVhere two or more through streets or highways intersect and no traffic control signal is in operation, stop signs shall be erected at one or more entrances thereto, except as otherwise provided in this section. (b} Other streets or highways or portions thereof within the Municipality, with a continuous length of more than one mile between the limits of such street or highway or portion thereof, at the entrances to which vehicular traffic from the majority of intersecting streets or highways is controlled by "stop'' or "yield" signs or traffic control signals are hereby designated as through streets or highways. For purposes of this section, the limits of such street or highway or portion thereof shall be a municipal corpor- ation line, the physical terminus of the street or highway or any point on such street or highway at which vehicular traffic thereon is required by regulatory signs to stop or yield to traffic on the intersecting street. (c) Stop signs need not be erected at intersections so con- structed as to permit traffic to safely enter a through street or highway without coming to a stop. Signs shall be erected at such intersections indicating that the operator of a vehicle shall yield the right of way to or merge with all traffic proceeding on the through street or highway. (d) Council may designate additional through streets or highways and shall erect stop signs in all streets and highways intersecting such through streets or highways, or may designate any intersection as a stop intersection and shall erect like signs at one or more entrances to such intersection. (e) Every stop sign shall bear the word "stop" in letters not less than six inches in height. Every stop sign shall be located as near as practicable at the property line of the street or highway at the entrance to which the stop must be made, or at the nearest line of the crosswalk thereat, or, if none, at the nearest line of the roadway. (ORC 4511.65) Section 2: That this Ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency measure necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, safety and welfare by virtue of the fact that Section 313.02 prior to this amendment is in conflict with provisions of the State Statutes, enacted by the 1965 State Legislature, WHEREFORE, this Ordinance shall take effect and be in force immediately upon its passage, otherwise, at the earliest period allowed by law. PASSED: - ~~ GS' Francis J. O'Neill, President of Council ATTEST: ~ Margaret T. West, Clerk of Council APPROVED: Ralph E. Christman, Mayor