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ORDINANCE NO. �� 1 AN ORDINANCE DIRECTING THE REMOVAL OF ALL PARKING METERS FROM PARKING METER ZONES AND OTHER LOCATIONS UPON WHICH PARKING METERS ARE NOW IN PLACE UPON CITY PROPERTY; ABOLISHING THE OFFICE OF METER MAID; DECLARING AN EMERGENCY AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. NOW BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of Batesville, Arkansas, as follows : Section l : That all parking meters owned by the City of Batesville, Arkansas, and located within parking meter zones or otherwise located upon property belonging to the City shall hereinafter be removed and there shall be no regulation enforc- ing or otherwise regulating time-parking upon City of Batesville, Arkansas, property; that said removal of parking meters or other time-controlled devices shall include but not be limited to those parking meters and time-controlled devices located upon Main Street, College Street, State Street, Broad Street, Third Street, Fourth Street, and Fifth Street. Section 2 : That the Mayor or his designated agent shall see that said parking meters and/or time-controlled devices are removed within a reasonable time and stored or appropriately disposed of . Section 3 : From and after the date of passage of this Ordinance persons parking in a parking meter zone shall not be required to deposit money into said parking meters nor shall there be a penalty, hereinafter, for failure to deposit money into said parking meters or time-controlled devices. Section 4 : "Time-controlled device" as used in this Ordinance shall mean any device used to measure the time for the regulating of parking, such as a parking meter. Section 5 : That the duties of meter maid of the Batesville Police Department have consisted of patrolling parking meters, the collection of monies therefrom and issuing citations for overtime parking, and from the date of this Ordinance, there shall be no further duties of the meter maid, and, therefore, the position of meter maid of the Batesville Police Department is hereby abolished; that there shall be no further duties assigned to the position of meter maid and that position shall be deleted as a position held by anyone in the City employment and there shall be no further budget appropriations for that position. Section 6 : That any and all other Ordinances or parts of Ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. Section 7 : That the parts or words of this Ordinance are sever- able and if any part of parts, word or words, of this Ordinance is declared to be unconstitutional or otherwise unlawful, then the remaining valid portion of this Ordinance shall remain in full force and effect as though the invalid, unlawful or uncon- stitutional portions thereof were never made a part hereof . Section 8 : That this Ordinance is necessary for the preservation of the economy of downtown Batesville, and is further necessary for the convenience of citizens using downtown Batesville ; that the duties of meter maid are hereinafter non-existent and there is no further public need for a meter maid; that this Ordinance is necessary for the public ' s health, safety and welfare and an emergency is hereby declared to exist and this Ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after the date of its passage. ADOPTED this day of January, 1986 .