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AN ORDINANCE FOR THE PURPOSE OF AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF JONESBORO AND THE CITY COUNCIL THEREOF BY ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION, TO PURCHASE, INSTALL, MAINTAIN, OPERATE AND CONTROL PARKING METERS IN THE PUBLIC STREETS, AVENUES, ROADS, ALLEYS, PUBLIC WAYS, PUBLIC PARKS, PUBLIC PARKING LOTS AND PUBLIC PLACES, WITHIN THE CITY OF JONESBORO, ARKANSAS, AT SUCH DESIGNATED PLACES AS THE CITY COUNCIL MAY DEEM NECESSARY AND PROPER AND ESTABLISH BY RESOLUTION OR ORDINANCE, TO SET AND COLLECT REASONABLE RATES, FEE OR CHARGES FOR THE USE OF PARKING PLACES SO DESIGNATED AND EQUIPPED WITH PARKING METERS; TO REGULATE THE PERIOD OF TIME IN WHICH SUCH PARKING PLACES WITH PARKING METERS MAY BE USED BY THE PUBLIC AT SUCH RATES; TO PROVIDE PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION OF SUCH PARKING METER REGULATIONS; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
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BE IT ORDAINED and enacted by the people of the City of Jonesboro, Arkansas:
SECTION 1. That the City of Jonesboro, and the City Council thereof, by ordinance or resolution, shall have power to purchase, install, maintain, operate and control parking meters in the public streets, avenues, roads, alleys, public ways, public parks, public parking lots and public places within the City of Jonesboro, Arkansas, at such designated places as the City Council may deem necessary and proper and may establish by resolution or ordinance, said meters to provide regular parking during a period of twelve minutes upon and after the deposit of a one cent coin; thirty-six minutes upon and after the deposit of three one cent coins; forty-eight minutes upon and after the deposit of four one cent coins; sixty minutes upon and after the deposit of five cent coins or five cent coin; and the Council is further authorized to regulate the time parking shall be permitted in areas designated by them to only twelve minutes for one cent or for one hundred twenty minutes for a total of not to exceed ten cents, and to make and collect the said fees or charges for the use of parking places; the City Council shall appropriate and use a portion of the revenue collected from parking meters to provide free all day parking facilities as near as practicable to the business district , the exact amount to be so used shall be determined by the Council from time to time; to provide by ordinance penalties for the violations of parking meter regulations; pursuant to the laws of the State of Arkansas, particularly ACT 309 of the Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas for the year 1939 and the Constitution of the State of Arkansas for the year 1874, as amended:
SECTION 2. This ordinance being necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety, because of the traffic hazard created by the congested parking situation in the downtown area, an emergency is hereby found and declared to exist, and this ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its adoption.
This ordinance was adopted by the people at the City General Election by a vote of 1318 votes for and 490 against, on April 6, 1948.
PASSED and ADOPTED this 6th day of February, 1948.