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Minutes for the City Council meeting on June 20, 1988.
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CITY COUNCIL MINUTES - JUNE 20, 1988
The Jonesboro City Council met in regular session at 7:30 p.m. Present were Mayor, City Attorney, and all Alderman except Mr. Mays. City Clerk was absent.
The minutes of June 6, 1988, were approved as mailed on motion by Mr. Bridger, seconded by Mr. Evans. All voted aye.
Mr. Chubby Heern & Mr. Ben Owens were asked to give a progress report on the annexation committee. Mr. Heern submitted a preliminary map to be kept with the Mayor’s office for public inspection which the committee will probably recommend at the first meeting in August at which they will have completed their study. Mayor Brodell thanked the committee for the input of time they have given so far.
In a statement from the City Attorney dealing with the sale of Fireworks within the City limits (on previously unannexed lands) the summary was as follows:
“It is the opinion of the City Attorney and the Fire Chief that the existing Jonesboro municipal ordinance section 16-11 and the above referenced standard fire code provision effectively prohibit the sale of fireworks anywhere within the corporate limits of the City of Jonesboro. As a legitimate exercise of police power in order to protect the public health and safety, it cannot be waived or interdicted in any way, and applies without regard to the fact that sales activities may have previously taken place in newly annexed areas. Once an area is annexed it comes under the immediate jurisdiction of any ordinance which has police power functions to protect the public health and safety, and as such sales in the newly annexed areas are prohibited by the existing ordinance and the present state of the law on this subject.” (The full statement may be seen on record at the City Clerk’s Office)
After much discussion by the attending audience, Mr. Sanderson moved, seconded by Mr. Hinson by resolution to permitting the sales of fireworks to go as planned ...
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