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AN ORDINANCE PROHIBITING PARKING ON PORTIONS OF MONROE, CHURCH, JACKSON, UNION, JEFFERSON AND EAST STREETS: PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATION THEREOF: AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES (NOTE: THIS ORDINANCE WAS AMENDED BY ORD-67:2635 ON DECEMBER 4, 1967)
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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, no person, firm or corporation shall park, stop or leave standing any vehicle of any kind whatsoever on the following described streets:
(1) Monroe Avenue between Madison Street and Union Street; except the south side of Monroe between Madison Street and Union Street starting 30 feet from the existing West building line Eastward 75 feet which shall have 5 minute parking only:
(2)The North side of Monroe between Madison, Street and Flint Street, except where parking cut-backs exist:
(3)The West side of East Street between Creath Avenue and Cate Avenue:
(4) The East side of Church Street, from Jackson Avenue to Washington Avenue.
(5)The South side of Jackson Avenue, from Carson Street to Church Street:
(6)The West side of Union Street, from the corner of Burke Avenue 200 feet North:
(7)The South side of Jefferson, from Madison Street to Union Street:
(8)The three 12 minute parking spaces located on the North side of Monroe between Main Street and Church Street shall be reduced to five minute parking only.
Section 2: The Chief of Police or some person designated by him is hereby directed to place and locate appropriate signs reading “NO PARKING” and other proper language at appropriate places on the foregoing streets and it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to tear down, remove, or mutilate such signs.
Section 3: Such “NO PARKING” Shall not apply to any area within the above described boundaries that has been widened onto the parkway so as to permit parking off of the normally traveled portion of any street.
Section 4: Any person, firm or corporation violating the provisions of this Ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined in any sum not to exceed $15.00 with each day a violation continues to be a separate offense.
Section 5: It is found and declared by the City Council that steadily increasing traffic in and around the downtown business district has caused serious traffic jams at places where parking results, in narrow traffic lanes, and such situation is a hazard and injuries to persons or property and this Ordinance being necessary for the preservation of the public peace and safety an emergency is hereby declared to exist and this Ordinance shall take effect from and after its passage and approval.
PASSED and ADOPTED this 7th day of September, 1965.