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AN ORDINANCE TO REGULATE PARKING ON THE NORTH SIDE OF HUNTINGTON AVENUE FROM MAIN STREET WEST TO UNION STREET TO CHANGE THE MANNER OF PARKING THEREIN, SET THE TIME FOR PARKING IN PART OF SAID AREA, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
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BE IT ORDAINED AND ENACTED by the Council of the City of Jonesboro:
SECTION 1. That parking along the north side of Huntington Avenue from Main Street, west to Union Street shall be parallel parking, and the Chief of Police shall have said area marked with spaces indicating and directing that vehicles be parked parallel with the curb on the north side of Huntington, and change the parking meters to accommodate parallel parking.
SECTION 2. That the parking meters on the north side of Huntington Avenue from Main Street, west to the first alley running north and south shall be re-set or the heads changed so as to provide parking for a maximum of twelve (12) minutes upon the placing of one (1) coin in said parking meters and said meters shall be set or accommodate with heads so that only one (1) cent may be deposited therein at one time and only twelve (12) minute parking be allowed for said deposit of one (1) cent, and the Chief of Police is directed to have such change made in the parking meters in said area.
SECTION 3. Violation of this ordinance shall be punishable as provided by exiting ordinances with regard to overtime parking at parking meters.
SECTION 4. It is found that the said area described on Huntington Avenue in the City of Jonesboro is a proper place for parking for short periods; that diagonal parking as it now exists in said area constitutes a traffic hazard when vehicles are being backed out of said diagonal parking spaces at the same time that vehicles are being driven West on Huntington Avenue in the said area, and this ordinance being necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency is hereby declared to exist and the same shall be in full force and effect immediately...
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