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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>We thought you might like to read the Denver White Cane Ordinance from 1934.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>AN ORDINANCE<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'> An Ordinance prohibiting the use of white canes except by pedestrians wholly or partially blind and providing protection against highway accidents to such persons, and providing penalties for the violation thereof.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'> The people of the City and County of Denver do ordain as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'> SECTION 1. That, for the purpose of guarding against accidents in traffic on the public streets, it shall be unlawful for any person, except persons wholly or partially blind, to carry or use on the public streets of the City and County of Denver, any canes or walking sticks which are white in color. Such canes or walking sticks may be used on the streets and other public places of the City and County of Denver by persons wholly or partially blind, as a means of protecting them and for the purpose of identifying them by drivers of vehicles, operators of motor driven vehicles and other pedestrians with whom they come in contact on such streets and public places.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'> SECTION 2. Any driver of a vehicle, operator of a motor driven vehicle, or pedestrian who is not wholly or partially blind who approaches or comes in contact with a person wholly or partially blind, carrying a cane or walking stick white in color, shall immediately come to a full stop and take such precautions before proceeding as may be necessary to avoid accident or injury to the person so carrying a white cane or walking stick.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'> SECTION 3. Any person, other than a person wholly or partially blind, who shall carry such a cane or walking stick, such as described in SECTION 1 hereof, contrary to the provisions of this ordinance, or who shall fail to heed the approach of a person so carrying such a white cane or walking stick, or who shall fail to come to a stop upon approaching or coming in contact with a person so carrying such a cane or walking stick, or who shall fail to take precautions against accident or injury to such a person after coming to a stop as provided for herein, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not less than Five Dollars ($5.00) or more than One Hundred ($100.00) Dollars for each offense.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'> SECTION 4. The City Clerk of the City and County of Denver shall certify to the passage of this ordinance and cause the same to be published in the official publication of the City and County of Denver, Colorado<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Peggy Chong<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>