HomeMy WebLinkAbout1986-01-01 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Ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.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 .
APPROVED:
n. Jim Shirr-ell, Mayor
ATTEST:
Larry Williams, City Clerk
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