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AN ORDINANCE REGULATING PLACING OF OBJECTS ON CITY RIGHT-OF-WAY; BLOCKING VISIBILITY OF DRIVERS; PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS THEREOF AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL of the City of Jonesboro. Arkansas:
Section1. The City of Jonesboro, Arkansas, has determined that a problem exists within the City of Jonesboro with persons placing signs, vehicles, trash, limbs and branches and allowing things to remain near intersections which obstruct the visibility of drivers approaching these intersections.
Section 2: The rules of construction contained in Section 1.2 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Jonesboro, Arkansas, where not in direct conflict with this ordinance shall control.
Section 3: It shall be unlawful for any person to place or allow to remain within the street right-of-way located within the municipal boundaries of Jonesboro, Arkansas, as they now exist or may later be extended, any signs, motor vehicles, disabled vehicles, vehicles whether motorized or not, shrubs, bushes, trees, fences, trash, or other obstructions to vision.
Section 4: Obstruction to vision shall be defined as any object which impedes a normal person’s sight.
Section 5: Any person found guilty of violating this ordinance shall be punished to a minimum fine of $50.00 per day and a maximum fine of $100.00 per day and each day that the offense charged continues shall constitute a separate offense.
Section 6: It is hereby declared to be the intention of the City Council that the sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses and phrases of this code are separable and if any phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section of this code shall be declared unconstitutional by the valid judgment or decree of court, then the remaining sections, phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs or sections shall remain in effect.
Section 7: All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Section 20-4 and Section 20-10 of ...
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