Sec. 489(67). Pedestrians.
(a) The roadbeds of highways are primarily intended for vehicles,
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 vehicles,
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 pedestrians.
(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 between
intersections where their presence would be obscured from
the vision of approaching drivers by a vehicle or other obstruction
at the curb or side.
(f) At intersections where traffic officers are on duty, pedestrians
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 article
on wheels or runners, excepting bicycles, tricycles and motorcycles,
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 subparagraph
(b) and for any conviction thereunder the minimum
fine shall be ten dollars.
