HomeMy WebLinkAbout1984-OR-38 ORDINANCE NO. 84-OR- ~i~.~
An Ordinance concerning the regulation of
Vending Vehicles within the City.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Common Council of the City of
Jeffersonvi]]e, Indiana.
This Ordinance shall
vending vehicles wJthJn the
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Restrictions
SECTION 1
apply to the control of
]imits of the City of
all food
Jeffersonvi]]e,
SECTION 2
It shall be un]awful to engage in the selling or
offering for sale any food or other products from
and at a motor vehicle between 9:00 P.M. and 8:00 A.M.
It shall be un]awful for the driver or operator of
any motor vehicle to stop said vehicle for the purpose
of selling or offering for sale any food or other
products or to se]] or offer for sale any such merchandise,
while stopped, to the general public at said vehicle
upon any public roadway in Jeffersonvi]]e, IndJana,
designated as a thoroughfare by the Common Council
of the City of Jeffersonvil]e. The fo]lowing roads,
streets, highways, avenues and boulevards are hereby
designated as thoroughfares: Tenth Street/State
Road 62, Eighth Street, Court Avenue, Market Street/Utica
Pike, Spring Street, Eastern Boulevard, Park Place/Chestnut
Street, Main Street, Meigs Avenue, Penn Street/Dutch
Lane and Springdale Drive/Chippewa Drive·
It shall be un]awful for the driver or operator of
any motor vehicle to stop said Vehicle for the purpose
of selling or offering for sale any foOd or other
products or to sell or offer for sale such merchandise
at said vehicle while stopped, or to use any loudspeaker,
bell or other device giving an audible signal to
advertise such merchandise, within one thousand (1,000)
feet of any rea] estate which is then used as part
of the school grounds of any duly accredited public
or private grade, middle school Or high school, between
the hours of 7:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. on days when
said
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It shall be un]awful for the driver or operator of
any motor vehicle to use more than one loudspeaker,
be]] or other device, and said loudspeaker, be]]
or other device shall not have the capacity or capability
to emit a signal louder than eighty (80) decibels
at fuji volume, measured at six (6) inches distance
from said device, for the purpose of advert~s~ng
to the general public the
of the vehicle.
It shall be un]awful for
food, product or presence
the driver or operator of
any motor vehicle from and at which food or other
products are being sold to use any loudspeaker, be]]
or other device giving an audible signal to advertise
such products or the presence of the vehicle while
the vehicle is in motion.
It shall be un]awful for the driver or operator of
any motor vehicle to stop said vehicle for the purpose
of se]ling or offering for sale at said vehicle any
food products without having the fo]lowing equipment
mounted on the vehicle and in operation during the
period of se]ling such products:
1. A metal, horizontally extendible sign at least
twenty (20) inches in length and at ]east ten
(10) inches in width imprinted with the words
"STOP" in six (6) inch, black, block letters
on a yellow background and "PROCEED WIT}{ CAUTION"
in two (2) inch, black, block letters on a yellow
background, such arm to be lighted at the s~reeh
end of said arm with two (2) alternately flashing
red lights two {2) inches in diameter, clearly
visible from both front and rear at a distance
of at ]east three hundred (300)
of said sign to be at a height
above the level of the
feet, the bottom
of five (5) feet
street or way.
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2. Two (2) alternately flashing red lights not
less than four (4) inches in diameter, placed
one above the other on the street side of the
front end of the vehicle, when legally parked,
not more than one (1) foot apart, the lower
of which shall be approximat~e]y four (4) fee~
from the surface of the street or way, and clearly
visible from not ]ess than three hundred (300)
feet from the front of said vehicle.
3. Two (2) alternately flashing red lights not
]ess than four {4) inches in diameter, placed
one above the other on the street side of the
rear end of the vehicle, when legally parked,
not more than one (1) foot apart, the lower
of which shall be approximately four (4) feet
from the surface of the street or way, and clearly
visible from not ]ess than three hundred (300)
feet from the rear of sa~d vehicle.
It shall be un]awful for any motorist, when approaching
a parked, food vending vehicle from any direction
at a time when said vehicle is displaying the metal,
extendible arm and the
for in Section F above,
stop at ]east ten (10)
flashing lights as provided
to fail to come to a complete
feet from the closest end
of
to pass said vehicle.
It shall be un]awful to se]] or offer
sa~d vehicle or to fail to then proceed w~th caution
food or other products from a vehicle
for sale any
un]ess said
vehicle is legally parked and to offer for sale from
other than the curb side of a legally parked vending
vehicle.
It shall be unlawful for the driver or operator of
any motor vehicle from and at which food or other
products are being sold to se]] from said vehicle
or offer for sale from said vehicle any items when
the vehicle is not lawfully stopped.
It shall be un]awful for the dr~ver or operator of
any motor vehicle from and at which food or other
products are being sold or being offered for sale
to vend to a person standing in a roadway.
It shall be unlawful for the driver or operator of
any motor vehicle from or at which food or other
products are being sold or offered for sale to back
to make or attempt to make a sale.
said vehicle
Prosecution
L.
It shall be unlawful for any person to violate the
provisions of this Ordinance. Upon conviction of
a violation of this Ordinance, the violator shall
be punished by a
dollars ($100.00) nor
($500.00). All fines
to the Clerk-Treasurer's office
Building on the Fourth Floor of
or as directed by the Court.
fine of not ]ess than one hundred
more than five hundred dollars
and penalties shall be payable
located in the City-County
jeffersonvil]e, Indiana,
M. If any provision of this Ordinance is held to be
unconstitutional or otherwise invalidated by a Court
of competent jurisdiction, the remaining portion
of this Ordinance shall not be invalidated.
This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect immediately
upon its passage, approval by the Mayor and due publication
thereof.
Duly adopted by
the Common Council this
, 1984.
day of
ATTEST:
MAYOR DALE L. OREM
C. RICHARD SPENCER, JR.
CLERK-TREASURER
Presented by me as
City of Jeffersonvi]]e
1984.
Clerk-Treasurer
this day of
to the Mayor of said
C. RICHARD SPENCER, JR.
CLERK-TREASURER
Approved and signed by me this
, 1984.
day of
MAYOR DALE L. OREM