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of the said sidepath commissioners or a majority thereof. Upon the 

 proper certificate of the allowance of any claims by the said commission 

 the county auditor shall draw his warrant upon the treasurer for said 

 sum. But no money shall be disbursed by the said commissioners, or anv 

 of them, but the same shall be disbursed by the county treasurer, upon 

 the warrant of the auditor specifying the name of the party entitled and 

 upon what account; but no warrants shall be so drawn in excess of the 

 amount actually on deposit, nor shall any contract or purchase be made 

 exceeding the amount of such funds at the time of making such contract 

 or purchase. All bills shall be made out in duplicate. 



SEC. 4935-7- [Disposition of fees.] The said boards of sidepath 

 commissioners shall devote the moneys so collected to the repairing of 

 existing paths in their respective counties; to the construction of new 

 sidepaths, and to the maintaining of order on the paths. 



SEC. 4935-8. [Penalty for wrongful use of path.] No person 



lead, stand, hitch, or drive any horse, cattle, sheep, swine or other 



animals upon any sidepath now constructed or hereafter to be constructed 



in this state, except for the purposes of access to, and egress from, lands 



abutting on the highway. 



SEC. 4935-9- [Obstructing, destroying, etc., of path.] No per- 

 son shall obstruct, injure or destroy any sidepath or any portion thereof, 

 now constructed or hereafter to be constructed in said state. 



SEC. 4935-10- [Speed upon path.] No person shall ride a bicy- 

 cle at a greater speed than ten miles per hour when passing another 

 cyclist or a pedestrian on any sidepath in said state. 



SEC. 4935-11. [Sidepaths heretofore constructed to be placed 

 under control of sidepath commissioners.] The sidepaths heretofore 

 constructed and hereafter to be constructed in said state are hereby placed 

 under the control and direction of the boards of sidepath commissioners 

 of the various counties in which they are located. 



SEC. 4935-12. [May remove tree limbs, etc.] Any board of side- 

 path commissioners may remove limbs of trees overhanging any sidepath 

 or any other obstruction in the county wherein said board has jurisdic- 

 tion, when in the judgment of said board, the same may interfere with 

 the free passage of bicycles along said path. 



SEC. 4935-13. [Penalties.] Any person who rides a bicycle on 

 any sidepath in this state in violation of any of the sections of this act, 

 or does any of the acts by the provisions of this law forbidden, is guilty 

 of a misdemeanor, and shall be punishable by a fine of not less than five 

 nor more than twenty-five dollars, and in case of failure to pay any fine 

 that may be imposed such person shall be committed to jail not exceed- 

 ing one day for each dollar of such fine. 



SEC. 4935-14. [Security for appearance in court.] Any person 

 arrested for the violation of any of the provisions of this act. or of any 

 ordinance or by-law adopted as provided in this act, may tender at the 

 time of his or her arrest, or at any time before the hearing thereon either 

 five dollars in current money, or his or her bicycle or similar vehicle, as 

 security for his or her appearance in court to make answer to the charge 

 of violating the provisions of this act or any ordinance or by-law adopted 

 as provided in this act ; and the officer making the arrest, shall accept 

 the securitv, which the rider may offer, as aforesaid, for his appearance, 



