HomeMy WebLinkAboutORDINANCE NO. 8798I
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ORDINANCE NO. 8798.
An Ordinance providing for the parking or tethering of horses
in the streets, alleys or public places of the City, pro riding
a penalty, and declaring an emergency.
THE CITY OF EUGENE DOES ORDAIN_~AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1.. The Chief of Police is hereby directed and authorized to
provide a suitable hitching rack at which horses can lbe tethered upon East
Park street in the City of Eugene, and horses may be parked or tethered at
said hitching rack without limitation of time between the hours of five oclock
A.M. and Eleven oclock P:M. of any day.
Section 2. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation
to park or tether any horse upon the streets of the city other than at the .
hitching rack at East Park street.
Section 3. Nothin herein contained shall be deemed to be a prohib-
ition against horses being upon the streets of the city so long as they are in
direct control of their owner or some person lawfully in charge of them.
Section 4. Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the pro-
visions of this ordinance shall, upon conviction before the Recorder or mun-
icipal judge, be subject to a f ine of not more than One Hundred Dollars, and
to the costs of the prosecution, and may be imprisoned in the City Jail one
day for each two dollars of the fine unpaid.
Section 5. ~+`dhereas, since the advent of the motor vehicle, no hitch-
ing racks are provided generally for the tethering of horses, and very few
horses are upon the streets of the City, and when tethered or parked upon the
streets and left standing, they constitue a menace to traffic, both foot and
vehicular, and commit nuisances upon sidewalks and doorways, and endanger ped-
estrians, and an emergency is declared to exist, and it is dellared to be imm-
ediately necessary i'or:?the,~preservation of the peace, health and safety of the
City that this ordinance take effect upon its passage by the Council and app-
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roval by the Nlayor, and it is so ordered.
PASSED BY THE COMI~~ON COUNCIL
on this 10th day of July 1944
/s/ John Field s_
Recorder pro tem
AppROVED BY THE MAYOR THIS
11th day of July 1944.
/s/ Elisha Large
Mayor