HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC RESO 4901RESOLUTION NO, 4901
RESOLUTION URGING THE CALIFORNIA STATE
LEGISLATURE TO AMEND SECTION 533 OF THE
VEHICLE CODE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
TO REQUIRE DRIVERS OF MOTOR viHICLES IN
A RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT TO STOP BEFORE
PASSING ANY SCHOOL BUS WHICH HAS STOPPED
FOR THE PURPOSE OF RECEIVING OR DISCHARG-
ING SCHOOL CHILDREN,
WHEREAS, Section 533 of the Vehicle Code of the State of
California now provides that "The driver of any vehicle upon a
highway outside of a business or residence district upon meeting or
overtaking from either direction any school bus equipped with signs
as herein required which has stopped on the highway for the purpose
of receiving or discharging any school children shall bring such ve-
hiole to a stop immediately -before passing said sohool bus but may
then proceed past such school bus at a speed not greater than is
reasonable or proper but in no event greater than lO miles per hour
and with due caution for the safety of pedestrians"; and
WHEREAS, the said vehicle code does not require the driver of a
vehiole in a residential district to stop before passing a school bus
which has stopped on a highway for the purpose of receiving or disoharg..
ing any sohool children; and
IBEBEAS, there have recently been numerous accidents in residence
districts is which school children have been killed or injured while
attempting to enter or leave school buses; and
1HEREAS, school buses pick up and discharge the greatest number of
their school children passengers in residential areas;
NOM, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Counoil of the City of
National City, California, urges the amendment by the Legislature of the
State of California of Section 533 of the Vehicle Code of the State
of California to require the driver of any vehicle upon a highway
in a residence district upon meeting or overtaking from either dir-
ection any school bus which has stopped on the highway for the pur-
pose of receiving or discharging any school children to bring such
vehicle to a stop immediately before passing such school bus.
ADOPTED, SIGNED AND APPROVED this day of February, 1949 ,
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California.
ATTEST:
`ity' Clerk of the City of National
City, California.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO )SS.
CITY OF NATIONAL CITY )
1, , City Clerk
of the City of National City, California, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the
foregoing Resolution was duly adopted by- the City Council of the said
City and was approved by the Mayor of said City at a regular adjourned
meeting of said Council held on the
day of February, 1949, and that
it was so adopted by the following votes:
AYES:
NOES s
ABSENT z
COUNCILMEN
COUNCILMEN
COUNCILMEN
City Cleric of the dity of National City
STATE OF CALIFORNIA. )
COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO )SS.
CITY OF NATIONAL CITY )
City Clerk of the City of National City, California, DO HEREBY
CERTIFY that the above and aforegoing is a full, true and correct
copy of Resolution No. 4901, and that the same has not been
mended or repealed.
DATED: February , 1949.
fF
•
fty Clerk -of £be City of /rational
City, California.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of National City, California, this 15t
day of Fehr_ui r_y , 19__49_, by the following vote, to -wit:
AYES: Councilmen Adams, Curry, Matthews, Thrtcher1 Fritz
NAYS: Councilmen None
ABSENT• None
ATTEST •
BY
-F-rank ° . Rog_er-5
City Clerk.
Chief Deputy
I hereby approve the foregoing { Resolution
llittliptaticar
Mayor of the City of National City, Cali brnia.
this 1st day of February , 19 49
Mayor of the City of National City, alifornia.
I hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a full and true copy of{ Resolution }No
Ordinance
of the Resolutions 1 of the City of National City, California, as adopted by the City Council of said
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City, and approved by the Mayor of said City, on the day of , 19
City Clerk of the City of National City, California.
Deputy
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