As prepared for the National Conference on Street and Highway Safety in 1928, WASHINGTON, D. C. Transport Foreword The Model Municipal Ordinance is designed to supplement for municipal use the Uniform Vehicle Code of recommended state legislation. The Ordinance was first prepared in 1927-28 for the National Conference on Street and Highway Safety by a representative Committee. It was based on an analysis of the existing traffic ordinances of one hundred American cities and towns and of model ordinances then available in several states, while care was taken at the same time to make it in complete harmony with the Uniform Vehicle Code. Since the completion of the Ordinance in 1928, a substantial number of cities and towns have adopted it, and two states, New Jersey and Wisconsin, have incorporated most of the Ordinance in their state laws, thus providing by state enactment for uniformity in municipal traffic regulations. There has thus been developed considerable experience in the actual operation of the Ordinance. During 1929 and 1930 the Committee on Uniform Traffic Regulation has reviewed the Ordinance in the light of this experience and recommends certain changes to meet present conditions more fully, and to conform to the revisions recommended in the Uniform Vehicle Code. One of the principal changes proposed is incorporation in the Code of many provisions formerly carried only in the Ordinance. However, to assist municipalities desiring complete ordinances in states which have not yet adopted the Code, or in which it is necessary for purposes of local enforcement to repeat basic state law provisions, most of these provisions have been retained in the Model Ordinance. Thus the Ordinance as now revised contains both model provisions covering purely local traffic regulations and, in addition, certain provisions of the Uniform Vehicle Code (Act IV, the Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on Highways). These Code provisions are in two classes, those pertaining to city conditions which are embodied in the text of the Ordinance and those of universal application which are given in the appendix to the Ordinance. The amended Ordinance with explanatory notes is here presented. ROBERT P. LAMONT, Washington, D. C., Secretary of Commerce, Chairman. |