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CITY OF VAN BUREN, ARKANSAS
ORDINANCE NO48- 1979
AN ORDINANCE TO REGULATE TRAFFIC AND MAINTAIN ORDER IN AND AROUND PRIVATE
BUSINESS PARKING LOTS, AND TO ALLOW THE OWNER TO CLOSE PRIVATE PARKING LOTS
DURING NON- BUSINESS HOURS.
BE IT ORDAINED AND ENACTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF VAN BUREN,ARK-
ANSAS THAT:
SECTION 1: A private business parking lot, within the meaning of
this Ordinance, shall be deemed to be any public business establishment
where meals, sandwiches, ice cream, or other foods and drinks, are served
directly to or permitted to be consumed by patrons of said establishment
in automobiles, motorcycles or other vehicles parked on the premises of
such establishment, or any other privately owned parking lot primarily used
to permit parking for the patrons of the business or businesses adjacent
thereto or church parking lots.
SECTION 2: It shall be unlawful for any person while on or adjacent
to the premises of a private business parking lot to accelerate the motor
of any vehicle in any manner excessive of normal mechanical requirements
(a practice commonly referred to as "racing a motor to cause a vehicle
to suddenly accelerate or decelerate except as is necessary for the safe
operation of the vehicle, or to make or cause to be made any loud sound or
noise including the sounding of any type of vehicle horn or siren, un-
necessary for the safe operation of the vehicle.
SECTION 3: It shall be unlawful to consuune any intoxicating beverage,
including beer, on the premises of any private business parking lots.
SECTION 4: It shall be unlawful for any person to congregate with
other persons on the permises of a private business parking lot in such
numbers or while engaged in such disruptive conduct as to obstruct the free
ingress and egress of customer pedestrian or vehicular traffic.
SECTION 5: It shall be unlawful for any person to leave any unoccupied
motor vehicle on any private business parking lot and to leave the premises
thereof except with the knowledge and consent of the operator of the private
business parking lots or adjacent businesses.
SECTION 6: It shall be the duty of the owner of said private business
parking lot to post on the premises in a conspicuous location one or more
signs bearing the following legend:
UNNECESSARILY CONGREGATING AND LINGERING
OUTSIDE OF A MOTOR VEHICLE, IS UNLAWFUL.
NO UNOCCUPIED VEEHCLF MAY BE LEFT ON THESE
PREMISES WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF THE OWNER
OR TENANTS OF PRIVATE BUSINESS PARKING LOTS.
SECTION 7: Where the owner or tenant wishes the private business
parking lot to be closed during non business hours, he shall post on the
premises, in a conspicuous location, one or more signs bearing the follow
ing information:
THIS PRIVATELY OWNED PARKING LOT IS CLOSED
DURING THE HOURS OF and
If a owner or tenant wishes to allow vehicles on said parking lots during
these hours, he should give them a parking permit which shall be posted on
the car in a conspicuous place where the Police may see that this vehicle
has a valid permit to park during said posted hours.
SECTION 8: Any person found guilty of violating any of the provisions
of this Ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be
fined not more than $100.00 or imprisoned for not more than 30 days, or be
given both such fine and imprisonment at the discretion of the Court.
SECTION 9: Severability Should any portion of this Ordinance be un-
constitutional or invalid and so declared by a court of competent jurisdiction,
the remainder of this Ordinance shall not be affected by such partial invalidity.
SECTION 10: EMERGENCY CLAUSE It is hereby found and declared by the
City Council of the City of Van Buren, Arkansas, that the safety and welfare
of the inhabitants of the City of Van Buren are endangered by lack of adequate
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regulations of motor vehicle traffic in and around drive -in restaurants'-in
the City and t at the immediate passage of this act is necessary in order to
adequately regulate said traffic. Therefore, an emergency is declared to exist
and this act being necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health,
and safety, shall take effect and be in full force from and after is passage.
0 PASSED AND APPROVED THIS 16th DAY OF July 19 79
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ATTESTED:
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CITY CLERK- TREASURER