1382 ORD ESTABLISHING PUBLIC PARKING LOT AREA AND FARMER'S PRODUCE METERED MARKETING AREA AT AND UPON COPORDINANCE NQ. 1382 .
AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A PUBLIC PARKING LoT AREA ANU A
FARPER°S PRODUCE Iv1ET'ERED MARKETING AREA AT AND URON CITY OF PARIS
PRoFERTY COMM:NLY KPC!i';P1 AS THE TURKET SQUARE, AUTi-ORIZING THE DI-
RECTOR OF PUBLIC d"JGRKS TO LAY OUT AND ESTABLISH A PARKIIdG PATTERAI
FOR SUC}I RESPECTIVE AREAS, REGULATING PUBLIC PARKING AND REGULATING
THE USE OF Tf-E FARNIER'S PRODUC-P NIARKETIWo AREA AND ESTABLISHIIZ
PZTERED TIME AND C?-iARGE5 THEREfOR, PROHIBITING THE PARKING OF VE-
HICLES UPON AND THE USE OF SUCH RESPECTIVE AREAS DURI~;~G CERTAIN
K~URS, PROVIDING A PENALTY AND PW.VIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY Ti-IE CITY MUNCIL OF THE CITY OP PARIS;
Section 1. That City of Paris property commonly known as the
Market Square, beiny the property and premises within the corporate
limits of said City and bounded on the North by West Austin Street,
bounded on the East by lst S. W. Street, bounded on the South by 'West
Sherman Street and bounded on the bVest by 2nd S. VJ. Street be, and the
same is hereby, designated as an area for the use and convenience of
the public in the orderly ranking and parking of motor vehicles and
the sale of farm produce items under the rules, regulations, provi-
sions, restrictions and limitations nerein imposed.
Section 2. That all of said Market Square properties except
that portion fronting on lst S. lrV. Street and hereinafter designated
as a farmer°s produce marke-ting area be, and the same is hereby,
established as a public parking lot area, where the public generally
shall be authorized to park between the hours of 5s00 A. M. and 12;00
P. M. (midnight) vehicles of any type or character, provided such
parking and ranking of vehicles is effected in accordance with the
restrictions and limitations contained in this ordinance.
Section 3. The Director of the Department of Public Works of
the City of Paris is hereby authorized and directed to lay out and
adopt a pattern which will allow and provide for the orderly parking
and ranking of vehicles within such public parking area and which
will mos-t hiyhly utilize such property for such purpose, ma!<ing due
and reasonable allowance and provisions for the orderly and continuous
ingress and egress of the vehicles to be parked, and he shall cause to
be clearly marked or otherwise established the lines within which each
such vehicle shall be parked or ranked at all times.
Section 4. That the following described part and portion of
said b;laxket Square property be, and the same is hereby, designated and
established as a farmer°s praduce marketing area, to be used by vendors
of farmers° produce under the provisionsg restrictions and limitations
hereinafter established, such farmer°5 produce marketing area being
located as follows;
Beginning at a point in the LN. B. Line of lst S. W. Street
213 feet South of the S. B. Line of iNest Austin Street;
Thence South with said W. B. Line of lst S. VV. Street 180
feet; Thence West 62 feet; Thence North 180 feet; Thence
East 62 feet to the place of beginniny.
Section 5. The Director of the Department of Public Vdorks of
the City of Faris is hereby authorized and directed to mark ana lay out
sucn farmer's preduce marketiny area in fifteer. (15) lots of equal width
and length, ieaving space between the curb line of lst S. 1^1. Street and
such spaces as and for a vehicle passagevjay which will permit vehicles
to move directly in front and on the East side of such vEnding or mar-
keting lots.
Section 6. That such farmer's produce marketing area be, and
the same is l;ereby, establisheci as a metered vending area, on any cne of
vvhich lots any venclor may park any vehicle for the purpose of selling to
the public renerally preduce items, provided that he shall :irst deposit
in a meter or other receptacle vjhich shGll be provided by the City of
Paris at and immediately in front ol' such vending lot twenty-five cer,ts
(25~~) ir. coin of tne United States of America for the nrivileye cf usiny
such area for any portion of day before the noon hour and a like sum of
twenty-five cents (25,: F) for the privilege of using sucl; marketing or
vending lot for any portion of the afternoon of any day.
Section 7. That the leaviny or parking of any -truck or vehicle
cn any part or portion of the Market Square area, either on one of the
public paxking lots or the public vending lots as hereinabove es-
tablisheci, between the hours of 12;00 midnight and 5:00 A. Pri. be, and
the same is hereby prohibited.
Section 8. The ranking or parking of vehicles is hereby pro-
hibited at all times on that side of the perimeter streets around the
rviarket Square area which abuts such area.
Section 9. No pexson shall park or allorri to be parked any ve-
hicle at any point or place upon said n,larket Square area except wholly
within the lines established for such parking by the Director of Public
'horks of the City of Paris in accordance with the design and plan for
the use thereof, as authorized and directed by Section 3, above.
Sectien 10. Any vehicle which shall be found parked at and
upon any portion of said Market Square area and property at any tin,e
between the hours oi 12;00 midnight and 5:00 A. M. shall be considered
as, ancl the same is hereby declared to be a nuisance, and any policE
officer of the City of Paris is hereby authorized to direct the removal
thereof by private wrecker or any other reasonable andavailable means,
any cost or expense of which shall be paic; by the owner of such vehicle
before he shall be entitled to recover possession of the same.
Section 11. Any person or firm who shall violate any provisions
of this ordinance shall be guilty ot a misdemeanor and upon conviction
shall be assessed a penalty of nct less than Three Dollars ($3.00) nor
more than Twenty-Five Dollars ($25.00).
Section 12. That Ordinance No. 922 ancl all other ordinances or
parts of ordinances in conflict wi':h any provisior.s of this ordinance
be, and the same are hereby repealed.
Section 13. This ordinance shall become effective on the lst
day of September, 1956.
Passed and adcpted by the City Council of the City of Paris in
regular session convened on this 13th day of August, 1956.
ATTES T :
Mayor Pro-Tem
City Clerk,
T, il.l.F.ahelton, CitT;r Clerk of th-~ City of Paris certify that the above
Crdinance No, 1381 was published in the Paris News on August 17 and 20,
1956.
APPRCVED AS TG FORM:
NI.r.Shelton - City Clerk.
City Attorney.