HomeMy Public PortalAbout2177-1965 - Amending Ordinace No. 2152-1965 Regulating the Use of Public Streets and Highways in the CityORDINANCE NO. -,2J / .J-1965
AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND ORDINANCE NO. 2152-1965 WHICH ORDINANCE IS
ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND ORDINANCE NO. 1351-1948, WHICH ORDINANCE
IS ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO TRAFFIC AND REGULATING THE USE OF
PUBLIC STREETS AND.HIGHWAYS IN.THE CITY OF RICHMOND; PRESCRIBING
REGULATIONS RELATIVE TO PARKING OF VEHICLES'UPON SUCH PUBLIC STREETS
AND HIGHWAYS; PROVIDING FOR THE INSTALLATION, OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE,
SUPERVISION, REGULATION AND CONTROL OF THE USE OF PARKING METERS; DE-
FINING AND PROVIDING.FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF PARKING METER ZONES UPON
THE PUBLIC STREETS AND HIGHWAYS; PROVIDING FOR THE PAYMENT THEREOF AND
FOR THE SUPPLY OF PARTS THEREFOR EXCLUSIVELY FROM THE RECEIPTS OBTAINED
FROM THE OPERATION OF PARKING -METERS; PROVIDING FOR THE ENFORCEMENT
HEREOF AND PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION HEREOF.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND, INDIANA:
SECTION 1. That Section 1 of Ordinance No. 2152-1965 be and the same
is hereby amended to read as follows:
Section 1. That Ordinance No. 1351-1948 be, and the same is hereby
amended by creating and adding thereto a new section designated
Section 19, said Section 19 to read as follows: v4
Section 19. (a) The Board of Public Works and Safety is hereby empowered
and authorized to cause parking meters or any parts 'of parking meters
located on or along any public streets and highways in the City of
Richmond, Indiana to be covered or removed for the period of 151 days,
commencing on October 1, 1965 and ending February 28, 1966. Operators
of vehicles parked adjacent to such parking meters so covered or
removed, shall not be required to deposit any coin or pay any fee
whatsoever for parking in such parking spaces.
(b) The Board of Public Works and Safety is hereby authorized
and empowered to establish during said period from Oe.tober 1, .1965 to
February 28, 1966, parking time limits upon any and all public streets
or highways or portions thereof from which parking meters have been
covered or removed in accordance with the provisions of subsection (a)
hereof. Whenever any parking time limit is imposed by the Board of
Public Works and Safety in accordance herewith, it shall be the duty
of the Board of Public Works and Safety to cause to be erected
appropriate signs giving notice of such parking time limits, and no
such regulation shall be effective unless and until said signs are
erected and in place. When such signs are erected giving notice of
the parking time limit, no persons shall park a vehicle for longer
than the period of time designated on any sign, and the parking of
any vehicle in any such parking space for longer than the period of
time designated on said sign shall be in violation of this ordinance.
Police officers of the City of Richmond, Indiana, shall attach to any
vehicle parked in violation of this ordinance, a notice to the owner
or operator thereof that such vehicle has been parked in violation
of this ordinance and instructing such owner or operator to report
at the Office of the City Clerk in regard to such violation. Such
owner or operator may within forty-eight (48) hours of the time when
such notice was attached to such vehicle, pay to the City Clerk as a
penalty for and in full satisfaction of such violation, the sum of
One Dollar ($1.00). Provided further that if a fine for said violation
shall be paid on the same date and day of the violation thereof,
the fine shall be only fifty cents (5W. The failure of such owner
or operator to make such payment within.forty-eight (48) hours shall
render such owner or operator subject, upon conviction thereof, to
be fined any amount not exceeding Fifty Dollars 050.00), for each
violation, or imprisonment for a term not exceeding fifteen (15)
days or both.
(c) On the first day of March, 1966, or as soon thereafter
as may be possible, the Board of Public Works and Safety shall cause
to be replaced or uncovered on or along the public streets and high-
ways of the City of Richmond, Indiana, all the parking meters covered
or removed by direction of said Board of Public Works and Safety in
accordance with the provisions of subsection (a) hereof. Thereafter,
operators of vehicles parked adjacent to such parking meters shall
pay the required fee for such parking by depositing a coin in said
parking meter in the same manner and for the same time limit as
prescribed by Ordinance No. 1351-1948 and all ordinances amendatory
thereof or supplemental thereto. On the first day of March, 1966,'
or as soon thereafter as may be possible, the Board of Public Works
and Safety shall also cause to be removed from the public streets
and highways of the City of Richmond, Indiana, any and all signs
designating parking time limits upon said streets and highways,
which signs were erected in accordance with the provisions of
subsection (b) hereof.
(d) Nothing contained in the provisions of subsections (a)
(b) and (c) hereof shall repeal or be taken or construed to repeal any
or the provisions of Ordinance No. 1351-1.948 or any provisions of any
ordinances amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto, and the powers
granted by the provisions of subsections (a),(b) and (c) hereof to the
Board of Public Works and Safety shall be in addition to all other
powers and duties granted to or imposed on the said Board of Public
Works and Safety under the provisions of said Ordinance No. 1351-1948
and all ordinances amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto.
SEC^lION 2. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and
after its passage, approval by the Mayor and publication as by law
required.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Common Council of the City of Richmond,
Indiana, this day of December, 1965.
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9-ity Clerk .
PRESENTED to the Mayor of the City of Richmond, In�^/
tis(--z day
of December 1965.
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APPROVED by me, Edward L. Cordell, Mayor of the CityLdf Richmond, Indiana,
this ( day of December, 1965.
Mayor
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