HomeMy WebLinkAboutORDINANCE - 761 - 8/24/1971 - TRAFFIC ON BOULEVARDSORDINANCE N0, 761
AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR RESTRICTED TRAFFIC USE OF
BOULEVARDS IN THE VILLAGE OF ELK GROVE VILLAGE
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED, by the President and Board of Trustees
of the Village of Elk Grove Village, Counties of Cook and DuPage, Illinois,
as follows:
Section 1: That there be added to Chapter 14 of the Municipal Code
of said Village the following:
1114.1001 Restrictions on Boulevard Traffic.
It shall be unlawful to operate any vehicle upon any boulevard
(a) When such vehicle is used for carrying freight or goods and
merchandise for commercial purposes;
(b) When such vehicle is designed primarily for carrying freight
or other goods and merchandise; and
(c) When such vehicle is used for carrying freight or other goods
or merchandise on the outside of said vehicle, except at stop
intersections for the purpose of crossing a boulevard; provided,
however, that vehicles carrying. freight or other goods or merch-
andise from or to any building or premises abutting any boulevard,
where it is impossible from the location of the building or the
kind or character of the freight or goods to be received or
delivered to receive or deliver the freight or other goods and
merchandise from a side street, or a street other than said
boulevard, shall be permitted to enter such boulevard at the
cross street nearest said building or premises and receive or
deliver such freight or other goods but shall not thereafter
proceed further on such boulevard than the nearest cross street.
Operators of emergency vehicles and vehicles specifically excepted
by permits to be issued by the Police Department are exempt from
the provisions of this section.
Section 14.1002.
For purposes of the above Section 14.1001, a vehicle is defined as every
device in or upon or by which any person or property is or may be trans-
ported or drawn upon a highway, except devices moved or used by human
power.
Section 14.1003.
For purposes of 14.1001 of the Municipal Code, the following streets are
designated as boulevards in the Village of Elk Grove Village:
(a) Kennedy Boulevard
(b) Elk Grove Boulevard to Arlington Heights Road
Section 14.1004.
Any person, firm or corporation who violates, disobeys, omits, neglects
or refuses to comply with or resists the enforcement of any of the
provisions of this ordinance shall be subject to a fine of not more
than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) nor less than Five ($5.00) dollars
for each offense; and each day a violation continues to exist shall
constitute a separate offense."
Section 2: This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from
and after its passage, approval and publication, according to law.
PASSED this 24th day of August , 1971.
APPROVED this 24th day of August , 1971.
Vote: Ayes 5
Nays 1
Absent 0
ATTEST:
T
Richard A. McGrenera
Village Cler
Charles J. Zettek
Village President
Published this 1st day of September ,1971, in the
Elk Grove Herald
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