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1 GENERAL ORDINANCSS 225 Any person who wilfully violates his written promise to ap- pear,: given in accordance with this subsection, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and regardless of, and in addition to the disposition of the charge upon which he was originally arrested. (b) The provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall not apply to any person arrested and charged with an offense caus- ing or contributing to an accident resulting in the injury or death to any person nor to any person charged with reckless driving or driving in excess of thirty miles per hour within a business or residence district or in excess of forty-five miles per hour out- side of a business or residence district nor to any person charged with driving while drunk or under the influence of intoxicating liquor or narcotic drugs nor to any person whom the arresting officer shall have good cause to believe has committed a felony, and the arresting officer shall take such person forthwith before the nearest or most accessible magistrate. (c) Any officer violating any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of misconduct in office and subject to removal therefrom upon complaint filed by any person with the Council. Sec. 489(66). Report of convictions to be sent to de- partment. (a) The civil and police justice shall keep a full record of every case in which a person is charged with violation of any provision of this section and in the event that such person is con- victed or that his bail is forfeited, an abstract of such record shall be sent forthwith by the civil and police justice to the department. (b) Abstracts required by this subsection shall be made upon forms prepared by the department and shall include all necessary information as to the parties to the case, the nature of the offense, the date of hearing, the plea, the judgment, the amount of the fine or forfeiture, as the case may be, and every such abstract shall be certified by said justice or clerk of such court, as a true abstract of the records of the court. (c) Each clerk of any court of record of this City shall also, within ten days after any final judgment of conviction of any vio- lation of any of the provisions of this section, send to the depart- ment a certified copy of such judgment of conviction. Certified copies of the judgment shall also be forwarded to the department 226 CI3ARLOTTESVILLE CITY CODE upon conviction of any person of manslaughter or other felony in the commission of which a vehicle was used. (d) Wilful failure, refusal or neglect to comply with any of the provisions of this subsection shall subject the person who is guilty thereof, to a fine of not less than ten dollars and not more than fifty dollars, and may be grounds for removal from office. Charges for dereliction of the duties imposed by this subsection shall be tried by the court of record having jurisdiction over the officer whose neglect is complained of, and the proceedings shall be upon an informal complaint of any person. TITLE 6. PEDESTRIANS. Sec. 489(67). Pedestrians. (a) The roadbeds of highways are primarily intended for ve- hicles, but pedestrians have the right to cross them in safety, and drivers of street cars and vehicles shall exercise proper care not to interfere with such rights nor to injure them or their property. (b) When crossing highways or streets, pedestrians shall not carelessly or maliciously interfere with the orderly passage of ve- hicles, and shall cross wherever possible only at intersections or crosswalks. Pedestrians in crossing any street at intersection with another street, shall at all times have the right of way over vehicles making right turns into street being crossed by such pe- destrians. (c) At such intersections where no traffic officer is on duty pedestrians shall have the right of way over vehicles. (d) This shall not entitle the pedestrian to enter or cross the intersection regardless of approaching traffic, but shall be interpreted to require vehicles to change their course, slow down, or come to a complete stop if necessary to permit pedestrians to safely and expeditiously negotiate the crossing. (e) Pedestrians shall cross only at right angles, and shall not cross highways diagonally; nor, except to board a street car, or to enter a safety zone at right angles, shall they step into that portion of the highway open to moving traffic, at any point be- tween intersections where their presence would be obscured from 57 GENERAL ORDINANCES 227 the vision of approaching drivers by a vehicle or other obstruc- tion at the curb or side. (f) At intersections where traffic officers are on duty, pedes- trians shall cross the intersection only with released traffic, and shall be subject to the same signals as govern the movement of other traffic. (g) When actually boarding or alighting from a street car pedestrians shall have the right of way over vehicles, but shall not in order to board or alight from street cars, stop into the street sooner, nor remain there longer than is absolutely necessary to do so. (h) Pedestrians shall not use the highways, other than the sidewalks thereof, for travel, except when obliged to do so by the absence of sidewalks reasonably suitable and passable for their use, in which case they shall keep as near as reasonably possible to the extreme left side or edge of same. (i) No person shall play on a highway or use in play thereon roller skates, coasters, or any similar vehicle or toy or other ar- ticle on wheels or runners, excepting bicycles, tricycles and mo- torcycles, except in such areas as may be especially designated for that purpose by the Mayor or Chief of Police. (j) Any person convicted of violating any of the provisions of this subsection shall be fined not less than two dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars for each separate offense except sub- paragraph (b) and for any conviction thereunder the minimum fine shall be ten dollars. TITLE 7. ONE WAY STREETS. Sec. 489 (68) . One way streets. The following streets are hereby declared one way streets and it shall be unlawful for any vehicle to be propelled or moved in a direction other than herein set forth. The following streets shall be used only for sound bound traf- fic: Fifth Street East, Third Street East, and First Street from 228 CHARLOTTESVILLE CITY CODE High Street north of Main Street to Water Street south of Main Street. The following streets shall be used only for north bound traffic: Fourth Street East, Second Street East, and Second Street 'Vest, from High Street, north of Main Street to Water Street, south of Main Street. On University Place the following streets are declared one way streets: Linden Avenue from the north end of University Way for West bound traffic; Maple Street for East bound traffic, and Uni- versity Way between Maple Street and Linden Avenue for north bound traffic. TITLE 8. MISCELLANEOUS. Sec. 489(69). Mayor and chief of police to have gen- eral supervision over traffic. The Mayor and Chief of Police shall have general supervision and control of the management and parking of vehicles in the interest of public safety, comfort and convenience not inconsist- ent with the provisions of this section or of Chapter 474 of the Acts of General Assembly of Virginia 1926, and any amendments thereof, known as "Uniform Act Regulating the Operation of Vehicles on Highways." Persons using the sidewalks and streets of the City shall comply at all times and places with any direction by voice, hand, whistle, sign or signal from any member of the police force as to the stating, stopping, slowing, parking, ap- proaching or departing from any place; also as to the manner of taking up or setting down passengers, and in loading and unload- ing vehicles. The Mayor and Chief of Police shall have author- ity to place upon the sidewalks and streets of the City such signs, signals and other devices for handling traffic as they may deem necessary. .any person violating any of the provisions of this subsection shall, for each offense, be liable to a fine of not less than $2.50 nor more than twenty-five dollars.