HomeMy WebLinkAboutORDINANCE NO. 8688138
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ORDINANCE N0. 6688
An Ordinance requiring the removal and discontinuance of all pumps and
devices located within the street limits of any street in the City of
Eugene within six months and providing a penalty.
~EREAS, there are within the City of Eugene a number of fuel pumps and
devices erected within the street limits of the Gity of Eugene which
constitute an obstruction and also a fire hazard, and
gYHEREAS, the City has for a long time as a matter of public policy and
police regulation forbidden the installation of any structures of the
character mentioned within the limitations of any street, and
NiTiEREAS, the City of Eugene deems it a matter of great peril both Prom
the standpoint of fire hazard, and street congestion and a matter of
injustice to property owners paying for parking space, to longer permit
the maintenance of the devices mentioned within the street limits,
Therefore,
TAE CITY OF EUGENE DOES ORDAIN AS FOLL(7V~S:
Section I. Effective January 1, 19I~2, it shall be unlawful within the
City of Eugene to maintain or to permit to be maintained any gasoline pump or similar
device for the vending of volatile oils of any character.
Section 2. -Any person, firm or corporation having any gasoline pump or
other device through which volatile oils are vended, kept or maintained, be and they
are required to remove the same from the city streets of the-City of Eugene on or
before January 1, 19l~2 at their own cost and expense.
Section 3. Any person, firm. or corporation violating any of the provisions
of this ordinance, or failing to observe any of the provisions of this ordinance, shall
be liable upon conviction in the Recorder's Court to a fine of not more than X200.00
and for the costs of the prosecution, and in default of the payment of such fine, shall
be imprisoned in the city jail one day for each X2.00 of the fine unpaid.
Passed by the Common Council
this 25th day of August, 19l~1.
~S/ JOffid FIELDS
City Recorder pro tem
Approved by the Mayor this
26th say of August, 191.1.
~S~ ELISHA LARGE
Mayor