Office of the City Clerk - Record #: O2011-6386

• Record #: O2011-6386
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• Intro date: 7/28/2011
• Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety
• Final action: 9/8/2011
• Title: Amendment of Municipal Code Sections 9-8-010 and 9-24-050 regarding pedestrian right-of-way
• Sponsors: Emanuel, Rahm
• Topic: MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 9 - Vehicles, Traffic & Rail Transportation - Ch. 8 Traffic Control Devices & Signals, MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 9 - Vehicles, Traffic & Rail Transportation - Ch. 24 Right-of-Way

Date	Journal Page Number	Action By	Action	Result
9/8/2011	7216	City Council	Passed	Pass
9/7/2011		Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety	Recommended to Pass	Pass
7/28/2011	3752	City Council	Referred

OFFICE OF THE MAYOR
CITY OF CHICAGO
RAHM EMANUEL
MAYOR
July 28, 2011
TO THE HONORABLE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO
Ladies and Gentlemen:
At the request of the Commissioner of Transportation, I transmit herewith an ordinance amending Chapter 9-24 of the Municipal Code regarding pedestrian safety.
Your favorable consideration of this ordinance will be appreciated.
Very truly yours,

Mayor
ORDINANCE
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO:
SECTION I. Sections 9-24-050 and 9-8-010 of the Municipal Code of Chicago are hereby amended by deleting the language struck through and by inserting the language underscored, as follows:
9-24-050 Pedestrians in roadway to have right-of- way when.
When the movement of traffic is not controlled by traffic-control devices, a police officer or traffic control aide, the operator of a vehicle shall stop and yield the right-of- way, slowing down or stopping if need be so to yield, to a pedestrian crossing the roadway within a crosswalk when the pedestrian is upon the half of the roadway upon which the vehicle is traveling or when the pedestrian is approaching so closely from the opposite half of the roadway as to be in danger.
9-8-010 Authorized - Compliance required.
(a) (1) Subject to subsection (a)(2), the commissioner of transportation and the executive director of emergency management and communications are hereby authorized to cause the placement, erection and maintenance of traffic-control devices as provided in the traffic code, as required to make effective the traffic ordinance of the city, and as necessary to guide and warn traffic. The commissioner of transportation and the executive director of emergency management and communications are also authorized to place and maintain temporary traffic-control devices as needed in connection with construction or special events or experimental devices for the purposes of an engineering study; provided, however, such devices shall not be maintained for longe...