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. ORDINANCE NO. 3288. An Ordinance amending Ordinance o. 3211 entitled: "An Ordinance relating to and regulating traffic, travel, transportation, and pedestrians and their in- cidents upon the streets, alleys, and public ways of Everett, a municipal corporation; prescribing the rules of road for vehicular, pedestrian and other traffic up- on such streets, alleys and public ways; prescribing the powers and duties of the officers and other Persons in relation thereto; defining offenses, providing penal- ties, adopting certain portions of the motor vehicle laws of the State of Washington and existing amendments thereto; and repealing ordinance numbers : 2318, 2734, 150,. 2348, 2 22, and 2612, all relating to traffic" by adding thereto Sections 187 and 188, and by amending sections 27 and 116. THE CITY OF EVE t ;TT DOES ORDAIN: Section 1 : That Section 27 of Ordinance No. 3211 be, and the same is hereby amended to read as follows : Section 27 : TRAFFIC CONTROL LIGHTS AND SIGNALS. Whenever, at any point, traffic is controlled by traffic control si-nals exhibiting the words "go", "caution", or "stop", or exhi- biting different colored lights successively, the following words or colors shall be used and shall indicate as follows : (1) Green alone or " o" : Vehicles facing such signal may proceed through the section of traffic control or turn right or left, unless a sign at such point indicates such turns are prohibited. Such vehicles shall yield the right-of-way to other vehicles and to pedestrians lawfully in the intersection con- trolled area at the time such signal is exhibited and shall permit them to proceed fro:,. the controlled area. It shall be unlawful for any pedestrian to enter or cross the roadway in that Portion of the controlled area through which vehicles are directed to pro— ceed by such exhibited green light or such word "go" . (2 ) Yellow alone or the word "caution" when shown following green or "go" signal : Vehicular traffic facing the sig- nal is thereby warned that the red or "stop" signal shall be exhi- bited immediately thereafter, and such vehicular traffic shall not enter or be crossing the intersection when the red or "stop" sig- nal is exhibited. Pedestrians facing such signal are thereby ad- vised that there is insufficient time to cross the roadway and shall wait for the next "go" signal for them to proceed. Section 2 :; That Section 116 at Ordinance No. 3211 be, and the same is hereby amended to read as follows : Section 116: It shall be unlawful and punishable as herein provided for any person who is under the influence of or affected by the use of intoxicating liquor or of any narcotic drug to drive or be in actual physical control of any vehicle upon the public streets or alleys of this city. In any criminal prosecution for a violation of the provisions of this section relating to driving a vehicle while un- der the influence of intoxicating liquor, the amount of alcohol in the defendant' s blood at the time alleged as shown by chemical analysis of the defendant' s blood, urine, breath, or other bodily substance shall give rise to the following presumptions :