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Notice PARKING METER ORDINANCE An Ordinance Relating to Traffic and Regulating the Use ol the Streets and Highways of the T6\vn ' ol Sylva; Creating and Defining Parking Meter Zones; Provid ing for the Designation of Indi vidual Parking Spaces; Defining1 and Providing for the Installation,! Operation and Maintenance ofi Parking Meters; Prescribing P4fk ing Time Limits; Requiring Deposit of Coins for the Use of Parking Meters and Parking Meter Zones and Providing for the Collection and Disposition of Such Coins; Repealing Conflicting Ordinances; Providing for the Enforcement Thereof; Defining Offenses and Prescribing Penalties; and Provid ing that Invalidity of Part Shall Not Affect the. Validity of the Re mainder. WHEREAS, The narrowness of and the volume of traffic on the street in certain sections of the Town of Sylva has the effect of congesting the streets and imped ing the movement of traffic; and WHEREAS, it is the habit of numerous operators of motor ve hicles to take advantage of this situation by parking for unreason ably long periods of time in close proximity to other motor vehicles so parked on the most congested parts of the Town's .business streets; and WHEREAS, Such practice tends to further impede traffic 'and in addition thereto constitutes a dang er to the life, limb and property of other motorists, pedestrians and others; and WHEREAS, It is the opinion of the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the Town of Sylva that the best method by which the above mentioned conditions may be reme died is by the designation of indi vidual parking spaces in the said area by restricting parking in said area to reasonable intervals of time and by compelling the operators of vehicles who enjoy the use of the parking space so designated to pay a portion of the cost of estab lishing, maintaining and regulat ing the use of said parking space; and WHEREAS, Previous attempts to regulate traffic and parking in the aforesaid area have not been as successful as desirable for the reason that adequate policing of this problem by the Police Depart ment alone requires a larger numb er of officers for such work than can be spared from other vital functions of the Police Depart ment, and it is therefore, desirable to employ some mechanical assist ance in the enforcement of said parking limitations; and WHEREAS, Parking meters have been installed in a number of cities as an aid to the police in reducing traffic difficulties-and the public authorities of such cities report favorable results from the installa tion and operation of parking meters; NOW, THEREFORE. BE IT OR DAINED BY THE Mayor and r Board of Aldermen of the Town of Sylva, State of North Carolina: Section 1., DEFINITION?For the purpose ot this ordinance: (a) The word "vehicle" shall' mean any device in, upon or by] whieh any person or property is' or may be transported upon a high-! way, except a device which is operated upon raJs or tracks. (b) The word "street" shall mean any public street, avenue,) road, alley, highway, lane, path, or other public place located in the Town of Sylva, and established for the use of vehicles. (c) The word "person" shall mean and iiiclude any individual, firm, co-partnership, association or corporation. (d) The word "operator" shall mean and include every individual who shall operate a vehicle as the owner thereof, or as the agent, employee or permittee of the own er, or is in actual physical control of a vehicle. (e) The word 4'park" or "park ing" shall mean the standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, upon a street otherwise than tem porarily for the purpose of, and while actually engaged in, receiv ing or discharging passengers or loading or unloading merchandise or in obedience to traffic regula tions, signs or signals or an invol untary stopping of the vehicle by reason of causes beyond the con trol of the operator of the vehicle. (f) The words "parking meter" shall mean and include any me chanical device or meter not in consistent with this ordinance plac ed or created for the regulation of parking by authority of this or dinance. Each parking meter in cluded shall indicate by proper legend the legal parking time es tablished by the town and when operated shall at all times indi cate the balance of legal parking time, and at the expiration of such period shall indicate illegal or overtime parking. (g) The words "Parking Meter Zone" shall mean and include any restricted street upon which park ing meters are installed and in operation. (h) The words "Parking Meter Space" shall mean any space with in a parking meter zone, adjacent to a parking meter and which is duly designated for the parking of a single vehicle by lines painted or otherwise durably marked on the curb or on the surface of the street adjacent to or adjoining the parking meters. Section 2. PARKING METER ZONE: The following named and described areas, streets or portions of streets and such other areas, streets, or portions of streets as may hereafter be included in this section by amendment hereto, ly ing within the corporate limits of the Town of Sylva shall constitute , a Parking Meter Zone, namely: MAIN STREET: Both sides, from West end in front of court house steps to Scotts Creek bridge at east end. Section 3. DESIGNATION OF PARKING SPACES: The Chief of u William B. Dillard Building Contractor Sylva, N. C. NEW HOMES FOR VETERANS If you are thinking of a GI Loan to build I will be glad to arrange details. CONCRETE WORK . ? v ~ tr We Can Heip Yon Get Ready I New apparel may still be hard to get this year?but you need not worry about be ing spic and span and smart for your va cation. We'll put new life in your last year's wardrobe with our modern dry cleaning processes.' Phone now. We pick up, revitalize and deliver your clothes. MOORE'S DRY CLEANING PHONE 120 SYLVA, N. C. Police is -hereby directed and authorized to mark off individual designated and described in Sec parking spaces in the parking zones uon 2 of this ordinance and in such other zones as may hereafter be established, said parking spaces to be designated by lines painted or durably marked on the curbing or "surfate of the street. At each, space so marked off it shall be un-1 lawful to park any vehicle in such a way that said vehicle shall not be entirely within the limits of the space so designated. Section 4. INSTALLATION OF PARKING METERS: Except in a ing meter zones the Chief of Police shall cause parking meters to be installed upon the curb or side walk immediately adjacent to the parking spaces provided in Seo tion 3 of this ordinance, said in stallation to be placed not more than two (2) feet from the curb nor more than four (4) feet from the front line of the parking space as indicated, and the Chief of Police shall be responsible for the regu lation, control, operation, mainten ance and use of such parking met- i ers. Each device shall be so set as to display a signal showing legal parking upon the deposit of the appropriate coin or coins, lawful money of the United States of America, for the period of time prescribed by this ordinance. Each device shall be so arranged that upon the expiration of the lawful time limit it will indicate by a proper visible signal that the law ful parking period has expired and in such cases the right of such vehicle to occupy such space shall cease and the operator, owner, pos sessor or manager thereof shall be subject to the penalties hereinafter provided. Section 5. OPERATION OF PARKING Meters: Except in a period of emergency determined by an officer of the Fire or Police D^>artment, or in compliance with the directions of a police officer or traffic control sign or signal, when any vehicle shall be parked in any parking space alongside or next to which a parking meter is located, the operator of such vehicle shall, upon entering the said parking meter space, immediately deposit or cause to be deposited in said) meter such proper coin of the United States as is required fori such parking meter and as is desig- i nated by proper directions on the I meter, and when required by the directions on the meter, the oper ator of such vehicle, after the de posit of the proper Cflin or coins, shall also set in operation the tim-1 ing mechanism on such meter in accordance with directions proper*; ly appearing thereon, and failure to deposit such proper coin, and to set the timing mechanism in oper ation when so required, shall con stitute a violation of this ordin ance. Upon the deposit of such coin (and the setting of the timing mechanism in operation when so I required) the parking space may be lawfully occupied by such ve hicle during the period of time which has been prescribed for the part of the street in which said parking space is located, provided that any person placing a vehicle in a parking meter space adjacent to a meter which indicates that un used time has been left in the meter by the previous occupant of the space shall not be required to deposit a coin so long as his occu pancy of said space does not ex ceed the indicated unused parking time. If said vehicle shall remain parked in any si*h parking space beyond the parking time limit set for such parking space, and if the meter shall indicate such illegal parking, then, and in that event, such vehicle shall be considered as parking overtime and beyond the period of legal parking time, and such parking shall be deemed a violation of this ordinance. Section 6. PARKING TIME LIMITS: (a) Parking or standing a vehicle in a designated space in a parking meter zone shall be law ful for twelve (12) minutes upon deposit of a one-cent coin,twenty four (24) minutes upon the deposit of two (2) one-cflaL coins, thirty six (36) minutes tHJbn the deposit of three (3) one-cent coins, forty eight (48) minutes upon the deposit of four (4) one-cent coins, or sixty (60) minutes upon the deposit of five -(5) one-cent coins or one (1) five-cent coin of the United Slates of America. (b) Said parking meters shall be operated in said parking meter zones every day between the hours of nine o'clock A. "M. and six o'clock P. M. except Sunday and holidays; provided however, that within the meaning of this ordin ance the term "holiday" shall in clude the following days only: the 1 first day of January, the 30th day of May, the fourth of July, the first Monday in September, the twenty fifth day of December, and the day designated and set aside by the President of the United States as a day of Thanksgiving. Section 7. VIOLATIONS: It shall be unlawful and a violation of the provisions of this ordinance for any person: (a) To cause, allow, permit or suffer any vehicle registered in the name of, or operated by such per son to be pajjud. overtime, or be yond the p^M of legal parking meter zone jHlerein described, or to deposit in^P' parking meter any cojn for the purpose of parking be yond the maximum legal parking time for the particular parking meter zone. (b) To permit any vehicle to re main or be placed in any parking space adjacent to any parking meter while said meter is dis playing a signal indicating that the vehicle occupying such parking spare has already been parked be yond the period prescribed for such parking space. (c) To park any vehicle across any line or marking of a parking meter space or in such position that the vehicle shall not be en tirely within the area designated by I such lines or markings. (b) To deface, injure, tamper with, open or wilfully break, 4?-' stroy, or impair the usefulness of i the provisions of tKTs'ordinance. (e) To deposit or cause to be1 slugs, device or metal substitute, or' deposited in any parking meter any other substitute for lawful coins. Section 8. ENFORCEMENT: It shall be the duty of the Police De partment to enforce the provisions of this ordinance. Section 9. COLLECTIONS: It shall be the duty of the Chief of Police to designate some member or members of the Police Depart ment to make regular collections of the money deposited in said met ers, and it shall be fhe duty of such persons so designated to re move from the parking meters the sealed containers therein contain ing the coins jso deposited in said meters and to deliver such sealed containers, with the seal unbroken, to the Treasurer of the Town of Sylva, to break the seal and count the funds contained therein, and deposit such funds. Section 10. USE OF FUNDS: The coins deposited in parking meters are required and shall be used to defray the expense of pro per regulation of traffic upon the public streets of the Town oi Sylva; to provide for the cost of, supervision, regulation and con-1 trol of the parking of vehicles in] parking meter zones; and to cover the cost of purchase, super vision, protection, inspection, in stallation, operation, maintenance, control and use of parking meters. Section 11. PENALTY: Any person who shall violate or fail to comply with any of the provisions of this ordinance, or who shall counsel, aid or abet any such viola tion or failure to comply, shall be deemed guilty of an offense and shall be punished by a fine of not to exceed $50.00 or by imprison ment for not to exceed 30 days, either or both penalties to be im posed at the discretion of the- court. Section 12: RESERVATION OF POWERS; Nothing in this ordin ance shall be construed as prohibit ing the Town ot Sylva from pro viding for bus stops, for taxi cab stands or unloading of trucks, vans or other commercial vehicles. Section 13. REPEAL OF CON FLICTING ORDINANCES: All ordinances and parts of ordinances inconsistent with the terms of this ordinance are hereby repealed; provided, however, that such repeal shall be only to the extent of such inconsistency and in all other re spects this ordinance shall be cumulative of other ordinances regulating and governing the sub ject matter covered by this ordin ance. Section 14. SEVERABILITY: If any section or provisions or parts thereof in this ordinance shall be adjudged invalid or unconstitu tional, such invalidity or unconsti tutionality shall not "affect the validity of the ordinance as a whole or^of any other section or Missing Boy Found THRU DAYS after bi disappeared from a Marine recreation camp at Big Bear Lake, Calif., Wayne "Butchie" Bowers, 3, was found safe in Sand Canyon, about (our miles from the camp. He is shown in the arms of his mother, while his father Marine S/Sgt Claude M. Bowers looks on. The lad was placed in the care of a Navy sur geon. (International Soundphoto) North Carolina's commercial Irish potato crop was estimated at 4,576,000 bushels on July 1. provision or part hereof. Section 15. EXERCISE OF PO LICE POWER: This entire ordin ance shall be deemed and construed to be an exercise of the police power of the Town of Sylva, in the State of North Carolina for the preservation and protection of pub lic safety, and all of its provisions shall be liberally construed with a view to the effectuation of such purpose, v ? Section 16. EFFECTIVE DATE: This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from apd after its passage and publication as required by law. Adopted this 24th day of July, 1947, and duly passed by unani mous vote and ordered published. W. L. JONES, Town Clerk. Old Fashioned Tent Meeting To Be Held J. Doyle Miller, Missionary Bap tist pastor-evangelist and mod erator of the Haywood Association, will hold an old fashioned tent meeting in Sylva beginning Sun day, August 3, at p. m. The serv ices will be held each week day evening at 7:45 and each Sunday at 3 p. m. Mr. Miller stated that he seeks the co-operation of pastors and congregations of all the churches in this vicinity and that the public is invited to attend the services. It is estimated that North Caro lina's 1947 cantaloup crop will yield approximately 332,000 crates. This compares to a yield . of 270,000 crates in 1946. WOODMEN OF THE WORLD Life Insurance Society Fraternity Protection Service ? RITTON M. MOOR! ?ylva RepreMntatlv* Sylva, N. C. The Finest In . . . % FOOD and SERVICE Drive out and enjoy one of our delicious T-Bone Steaks, cooked just the way you want it, or one of our golden brown chickens in the basket for your picnic or outing lunch. . WE ALSO FKATURK Home-made Pies?Salads?Barbecue Business Men's Lunches * -- CUR B__SERVICE -- Broohside Drive In On Aahavllla Highway 1 Milt Eaat of Sylva PAUL WOMACK, Manager r? ?Optional ot ?xtra cost The open road is calling ... vacation time is here! 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