standard, sign or device installed or placed for the regulation, direction or instruction of traffic in any public street. 21. Duties of local authorities. It shall be the duty of the members of the police department of every city, town or village to enforce the provisions of this chapter strictly and impartially. 8 22. Powers of local authorities. 1. Police commissioners, common councils, boards of aldermen, commissions or any other official body having charge of the streets in cities and boards of trustees in villages are hereby authorized to designate streets and ways in which vehicles shall pass in one direction. All vehicles shall proceed in such streets and ways only as the signboards and conspicuously displayed and visible regulation upon such street and ways shall define. The direction in which vehicles may proceed shall be so conspicuously marked with signs or signals as to indicate the rule and regulation in regard thereto and the direction in which all vehicles shall so travel. 2. Whenever the police department of a city or the president of a village shall deem it advisable during a fire or at the time of an accident or special emergency and for such period of time only as is necessitated thereby, for the public safety or convenience, temporarily to close any street or part thereof to vehicular traffic, or to vehicles of a certain description, or to divert the traffic thereof, or to divert or break a course of pedestrian traffic, said department or official shall have power and authority so to do. Local authorities may also by general rule, regulation or ordinance exclude vehicles used solely or principally for commercial purposes from any park or part of a park system where such general rule, regulation or ordinance is applicable equally and generally to all other vehicles used for the same purpose; provided that at the entrance or at each entrance if there be more than one, to such park from which vehicles are so excluded, there is posted a sign plainly legible from the opposite side of the highway on which said park opens, plainly indicating the restriction. 3. In addition to other powers delegated by this chapter, and to restrictions hereinafter provided, local authorities in cities are hereby empowered to make, enforce and maintain such additional reasonable ordinances, rules and regulations governing traffic as special local conditions may make necessary, and to prescribe penalties therefor, provided proper notices of such regulations be posted conspicuously upon the streets to which such regulations apply. Subject to this chapter the power now or hereafter vested in local authorities to license and to regulate the use of highways for processions and essemblages shall remain in full force and effect, and all ordinances, rules and regulations which may have been or which may be hereafter enacted in pursuance of such powers shall remain in full force and effect. 4. Local authorities shall have no power to pass, enforce or maintain any ordinance, rule or regulation in any way in conflict with, contrary to, or inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter, or any general law affecting vehicles which has or hereafter may be enacted, and no such ordinance, rule or regulation. of such local authorities now in force or hereafter enacted shall have any force or effect, provided that nothing in this chapter shall impair the validity or effect of any ordinance regulating the speed of motor vehicles heretofore or hereafter made, adopted or prescribed by cities of the first class. ARTICLE 3. PENALTIES; MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS. Section 30. Penalties. 31. Publication and distribution of regulations. § 30. Penalties. 1. Except as otherwise provided, any person violating any provision of this chapter may upon conviction thereof be punished by a fine not exceeding ten dollars for the first offense and not less than ten dollars or more than twentyfive dollars for the second offense, or by imprisonment for not less than two or more than fifteen days. The third or any subsequent offense within one year shall be a misdemeanor and upon conviction therefor may be punishable by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars or imprisonment not exceeding six months or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. 2. All fines, penalties and forfeitures, collected under this act in a city, town or village shall be paid to the said city, town or village and credited to the general fund. 31. Publication and distribution of regulations. This chapter shall be printed in pamphlet form by the secretary of state, and a copy thereof either mailed or given by him to each person, firm or corporation to whom a motor vehicle license or chauffeur's license is issued during the period of one year from the time this chapter takes effect, and subsequently to each such person, firm or corporation to whom a license has not previously been issued during the period mentioned. The police department of each city and village shall see that this chapter is posted in all public stables, and garages and street car barns and at hack, cab and express stands and shall keep copies of it at all other stations and issue it upon application. § 32. When to take effect. immediately. L. 1917, ch. 655. This chapter shall take effect |