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2 TUESDAY JANUARY 10, 1978 Upon motion, duly seconded and unanimously carried, Council adopted the following ordinance (amending Section 10-75 of the Martinsville City Code) prohibiting the parking of vehicles in designated fire lanes within parking lots open to the public and designed to accommodate fifty or more vehicles: WHEREAS, Section 46.1-181.1 of the CODE OF VIRGINIA (1950, and as amended) authorizes the governing body of any city in Virginia to adopt ordinances regulating the parking of motor vehicles in parking lots open to the public and designed to accommodate fifty or more vehicles; and WHEREAS, the proprietor of one such parking lot located at a shopping center within the City of Martinsville, Virginia, has requested the enactment by Martinsville City Council of an ordinance which would prohibit parking of vehicles within said parking lot in areas reserved for the use of fire trucks, ambulances, and other emergency vehicles; now therefore, BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular meeting assembled January 10, 1978, that Division 1 of ARTICLE IV of Chapter 10 of the Code of the City of Martinsville, Virginia (1971, and as amended) be and is hereby amended by the adding thereto of the following, identified as Section 10-75(c): No person shall park his or her vehicle within a parking lot open to the public, where designed to accommodate fifty or more vehicles, at any place therein such parking lot where such place is defined by painted yellow lines and where signs prohibiting such parking have been erected or painted in conspicuous yellow letters in the area so defined. BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED by said Council that an emergency exists and that this ordinance shall become effective on and after the date of this enactment. Council acknowledged with appreciation a donation of $5,612.00 from the Martinsville Community Recreation Association and, pursuant to the donor's wishes, unanimously appropriated said sum toward current renovations of the former Ohev Zion Synagogue for the Senior Citizens Center project.