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ORDINANCE NO. 20206 AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING TRAFFIC CONGESTION THOROUGHFARES, AND AMENDING SECTION 5.155 OF THE EUGENE CODE, 1971. THE CITY OF EUGENE DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Section 5.155 of the Eugene Code, 1971, is amended to provide: 5.155 Traffic Congestion Thoroughfares. (1 ) Purpose. The purpose of this section is to prohibit the repeated driving of a motor vehicle along and across one portion of a congested public thoroughfare. Violation of this section shall constitute a strict liability offense without requirement of a culpable mental state. (2) Thoroughfare defined. A thoroughfare is any street, as that term is defined in this code. (3) Traffic congestion thoroughfare defined. A traffic congestion thoroughfare is any portion of a public thoroughfare within the city affected by traffic congestion or a pattern of increased traffic caused in whole or in part by the repeated driving of the same motor vehicles along or across that portion of the thoroughfare. ( 4) Posting signs. With respect to any traffic congestion thoroughfare, the city manager or designee is authorized to declare a portion of the thoroughfare to be a traffic congestion thoroughfare and to cause signs, as described in this section, to be posted giving notice of that designation. (5) Signs. The signs referred to in subsection (4) above shall notify drivers that they are entering a traffic congestion thoroughfare; that passage of the same motor vehicle through or across the traffic congestion thoroughfare between the prohibited hours, more than three times during any two hour period is a violation of this section; and that for a subsequent violation the vehicle may be towed. (6) Acts prohibited. Between the prohibited hours indicated on the posted signs, no vehicle shall pass along or across a traffic congestion thoroughfare, designated as such by signs as described in subsection (5) above, more than three times during any two hour period. (7) Notice of towing for subsequent violations. Upon issuing a citation for violation of subsection (6) of this section, the officer shall give the person to whom the citation is issued a written notice which shall state: NOTICE You have been cited for violation of Section 5.15 5( 6) of the Eugene Code, 1971 for repeated passage of a motor vehicle on or across a traffic congestion thoroughfare. If the vehicle you are driving is again Ordinance - 1