A.Â
The driver of any vehicle upon a street or highway
within a business district shall yield the right-of-way to a pedestrian
crossing such street or highway within the crosswalks, except at intersections
where the movement of traffic is being regulated by a police officer
or traffic signal.
B.Â
Whenever any vehicle has stopped at a marked crosswalk
or at any intersection to permit a pedestrian to cross the street
or highway, no operator of any other vehicle approaching from the
rear shall overtake and pass such stopped vehicle.
Pedestrians shall not cross streets or highway
between intersections unless controlled crosswalks are provided. Pedestrians
shall, whenever practicable, move upon the right half of crosswalks
provided and shall at no time cross intersections diagonally. In residential
districts, pedestrians shall not cross streets or highways between
intersections when any vehicle is traveling toward them from any direction
within a distance of 400 feet, and such pedestrian shall yield the
right-of-way to such vehicles.
Pedestrian traffic is hereby prohibited on,
over or across any limited access highway within the City.
A.Â
Pedestrians shall be subject at all times to traffic-control
signals and shall not leave the curbstone to cross the street or highway
at controlled intersections unless:
B.Â
At such controlled intersections, pedestrians shall
not cross the street or highway against a don't walk, red or stop
signal or against the directions of a police officer and shall not
cross such street or highway at any place except in a marked crosswalk.
A.Â
No person except one wholly or partially blind shall
carry or use in the City any cane or walking stick which is white
with red color.
B.Â
Any operator of a vehicle or motor vehicle who approaches
or comes in close proximity with a person who is wholly or partially
blind, carrying a cane or walking stick which is white with red color
or guided by a seeing eye dog or guide dog, shall immediately come
to a full stop and take such precautions before proceeding as may
be necessary to avoid accidents to the person so carrying a cane or
walking stick white with red color or guided by a seeing eye dog or
guide dog.
A.Â
Whoever violates any of the provisions of this article, except § 439-76 shall, upon conviction, be fined $1. If summons issued for such violation is ignored such fine shall be $2. If it is necessary to issue a warrant for the arrest of the violator, the fine shall be increased to $5. In default of the payment of such fine, the violator may be imprisoned for one, two or five days, in accordance with the foregoing.