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AN ORDINANCE DESIGNATING PART OF CULBERHOUSE STREET AS CLOSED TO TRUCK TRAFFIC: PROVIDING FOR ENFORCEMENT: EXCEPTIONS: AND PRESCRIBING PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION OF ITS PROVISONS
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BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of Jonesboro. Arkansas:
Section 1: From and after passage and adoption of this Ordinance Culberhouse Street from Highway 39 to Highway By-Pass 63 shall be closed to any trucks or vehicles designed or operated for the transportation of property and whose body weight or whose combined body weight and load weight exceeds one ton (tons).
Section 2: The Chief of Police or some other person designated by him is hereby directed to place and locate upon the above described street at the proper places, appropriate signs, and or devices prescribed street at the proper places, appropriate signs, and or devices prescribing the appropriate weight limitations and it shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to tear down, mutilate, or remove such signs.
Section 3: This ordinance shall not prohibit the operation of said trucks or vehicles described herein where necessary to the conduct of business at a destination point located upon segment of said street referred to herein; the operation of emergency vehicles or trucks owned or operated by the City, public utilities, and contractor or material men while engaged in the repair, maintenance or construction of streets, street improvements, or street utilities with in the City.
Section 4: Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in an amount not exceeding twenty-five dollars.
Section 5: If any section, sentence, or portion of this ordinance is for any reason held invalid or unconstitutional by any court of competent jurisdiction, such portion shall be deemed a separate, distinct and independent provision and such holding shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions hereof.
Section 6: All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with the provisions of this ordinance are hereby repealed.
Section 7: This ordinance is passed as an emergency measure, and the Council does, hereby declare that an emergency exists, which makes it imperative that this ordinance should become effective forthwith in order that the public health, welfare, and safety might most effectively be provided for.
PASSED and ADOPTED this 7th day of September, 1971.