By Myrna Trauntvein
Times-News Correspondent
Mona City Council members decided to accept the advice
of county commissioner, Robert Steele, and adopt a city
ordinance for governing ATV travel inside the city.
Harry Newell, council member, met with the commission
two weeks ago and asked if the county would care if the city
placed signs along county roads so that it was understood
that the city would allow ATV traffic on all streets in the
community.
Steele is a former mayor of Nephi and has a good
knowledge of how cities can operate.
"I told them I was NOT going to buy 50 signs to post
throughout Mona regulating ATV traffic," said Newell.
One thing is different about Mona and that is, unlike
Nephi, said Newell, farmers and their children need to move
along the streets of Mona to go to the fields outside town
to move sprinklers on the irrigated farm ground.
Nephi has a designated trail leading through the city
to a designated ATV trail.
"Commissioner Steele, who I would think would know,
said that all we needed to do was write an ordinance that
would govern our plan for ATV traffic in Mona and then
publish it in the newspaper and post it two or three places
in town," said Newell.
Darlene Fowkes, council member, asked who would
enforce the ordinance as to speed regulations.
"We have a curfew ordinance and it doesn't seem to get
enforced," she said.
Nevertheless, such an ordinance protects the city from
liability.
It was decided by vote to have Newell write an
ordinance to cover the ATV traffic in Mona. It will contain
the rules and regulations of such traffic such as a 15 mph
speed rate and will require all those driving ATVs to be
properly trained and to obey state ATV laws such as the
wearing of protective head gear.
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