An Ordinance to Prevent Fast Driving

SECTION 1. No person shall drive any horse or horses, mule or mules, or other animal or animals in any street, lane or higbway, within the limits of said village, at a rate of speed exceeding eight (8) miles per hour.

SEC. 2. No person shall ride or drive any horse or horses, mule or mules, or other animals, within said village, in such a manner as to endanger or unreasonably incommode any person, and when any street, lane or other public place is crowded with teams, wagons or other vehicles, or through which any civil, military or funeral procession is passing, any person having charge of any horse, team, wagon or other vehicle, shall obey any order for the removal of such horse, team, wagon or vehicle, given by the President of the Village Council or any member thereof, or any constable or officer of the peace in said village.

SEC. 4. Whoever shall violate, offend against or fail to comply with the provisions of this ordinance, upon conviction thereof before the village court, or any justice of said village, be punished by a fine not exceeding fifty  (50) dollars and the costs of prosecution and be imprisoned until such fine and costs are paid, not exceeding sixty (60) days.

SEC. 5. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication.

Passed May 26, 1893.

A. B. ROBBINS
President of Village Council.

Attest:
N. F. Russ,
Village Recorder.
Approved May 26,1893.


as Published on June 19th, 1893 in Thomas Girling’s Picturesque Robbinsdale