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. w ORDINANCE NO. 3649 AN ORDINANCE amending Sections 25, 49, 94, 116, 118, 119 and 160 of Ordinance No. 3211 entitled: An Ordinance relating to and regulating traffic, travel, transportation and pedestrians and their incidents upon the streets, alleys and public ways of Everett, a municipal corporation; prescribing the rules of road for vehicular, pedestrian and other traffic upon such streets, alleys and public ways; prescribing the powers and duties of the officers and other persons in relation thereto; defining offenses; providing penalties; adopting certain portions of the motor vehicle laws of the State of Wash- ington and existing amendments thereto; and repealing Ordinance numbers 2318, 2734, 150, 2348, 2522 and 2612, all relating to traffic. and declaring an emergency. NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY OF EVERETT DOES ORDAIN: Section 1 : That Section 25 of Ordinance No. 3211 be, and the same is hereby amended to read as follows : Section 25 : DISREGARD OF BARRIERS, WARNING SIGNALS AND FLAGMEN. No person shall disregard warning signals or barriers lawfully placed in a street by the City of Everett, Snohomish County or the State of Washington, nor the warning signal of a flagman stationed near railroad crossings or other inherently danagerous places, or where workmen are employed upon the street. Section 2: That Section 1-I-9 of Ordinance No. 3211 be, and the same is hereby amended to read as follows : Section 49 : LOAD MUST BE PREVENTED FROM LEAKING OR DROPPING ON PUBLIC HIGHWAY. No vehicles shall be driven or moved or allowed to stand on any public highway unless such vehicle is so constructed or loaded as to prevent any of its load from dropping, shifting, leaking or other- wise escaping therefrom, except that sand may be dropped for the purpose of securing traction, or water or other substance may be sprinkled on a roadway in the cleaning or maintaining of such roadway by a public authority having jurisdiction. Any person operating a vehicle from which any glass or objects have fallen or escaped, which would constitute an obstruction or injure a vehicle or otherwise endanger travel upon such public highway shall immediately cause the public highway to be cleaned of all such glass or objects. It shall be unlawful for any person to throw or drop any glass object, debris or any waste from any moving vehicle or upon the right of way of any public highway. Section 3: That Section 94 of Ordinance No. 3211 be, and the same is hereby amended to read as follows : Section 94: RIGHT OF WAY WHEN TURNING AT INTER- SECTION. It shall be the duty of any operator of any vehicle upon entering an intersection and having signalled his intention as required by law to turn such vehicle to the left to look out for and give right of way to vehicles approaching in the opposite direction and thereby placed on his right, simultaneously approaching the given point within the intersection, whether such vehicle first enters and reaches the intersection or not.