Legislation Details

File #: ORD-48:003    Version: 1 Name: Authorizing installation of parking meters
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 2/6/1948 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 2/6/1948
Title: 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
Indexes: Election - general/special, Parking & Traffic, Policy - creation/amendment
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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...

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