HomeMy WebLinkAbout1987-OR-04 ORDINANCE NO. 87-OR-4
ORDINANCE CONCERNING STEAMBOAT DAYS
AND RIVERFRONT FESTIVAL
FESTIVAL
WHEREAS, the Common Council of the City of Jeffersonville
believes that the Steamboat Days Festival and the Riverfront
Festival create good will throughout the community and provide a
medium for which fine arts and community activities may be improved;
and
WHEREAS, the Steamboat Days Festival and the Riverfront
Festival have grown to be major enterprises within the City of
Jeffersonville; and
WHEREAS, as a result of said growth, the areas within
the Steamboat Days Festival and the Riverfront festival are of
necessity congested with pedestrian and necessary vehicular traffic;
and
WHEREAS, unnecessary additions to the vehicular traffic
in and around the Steamboat Days Festiva] and the Riverfront
Festival create an inordinate amount of health and safety problems;
and
WHEREAS, the vehicular and other nonmotorized wheel
traffic in and around the Steamboat Days Festival and the Riverfront
Festival prevents police, fire and other emergency vehicles from
responding in a prompt manner.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Common Council of
the City of Jeffersonville that:
1. No vendors shall exhibit their wares within the area
established as the Steamboat Days Festival location or
the Riverfront Festival location unless they obtain
approval through the Jeffersonville Board of Public Works
and Safety.
2. The area outlined in the map attached hereto and made a
part hereof by reference is hereby established as the
area of the Steamboat Days Festival and the Riverfront
Festival.
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No bicycle traffic, skateboard traffic or unauthorized
motor vehicles shall be allowed within the area designated
as the Steamboat Days Festival area or the RlverfronL
Festival area.
Anyone violating the provisions of this ordinance shall
be cited into City Court and upon conviction of a violation
of this Ordinance shall be fined not less than Twenty-Five
Dollars ($25.00) nor more than One Hundred Dollars
($100.00).
The invalidity of any section, clause, sentence or
provision of this Ordinance shall not affect the validity
of any other part of this Ordinance which
effect without such invalid part or parts.
This Ordinance shall be in full force and
and after its
required by law.
Passed
can be given
effect from
passage and signing by the Mayor and publication as
this
day of ~. , 1987.
~~E L. OR~M
ATTEST:
C. RICHARD SP
CLERK-TREASUReR
Presented by me
City of jeffersonvitle
1987.
1987.
as Clerk-Treasurer to the Mayor of said
this ~ day of ~-
Approved and signed by me this ~ day of ~.
MAYOR DALE L. OREM ~-~