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:28 TUESDAY JULY 26, 1977 some seven and one-half acres of land and situated near or adjacent to Roundabout Road and the Norfolk & Western Railway Company's right-of-way, to collect delinquent taxes thereon due the City of Martinsville in accordance with said State statutes (see Section 58.lll7.2 within Article 8, Chapter 21, Title 58, of the CODE OF VIRGINIA, 1950, and as amended). By unanimous action, Council appropriated the sum of $960.60 for the purpose of paying said sum to the County of Henry as the City's cost of remodeling two offices in the Henry County Courthouse building for two Probation Officers assigned to the City of Martinsville. After discussing certain problems arising from mis-use of the City's parks by a limited number of individuals, Council unanimously adopted the following ordinance amending Section ll-30 of the City Code, effective on and after August 1, 1977: BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia~ in regular session held on July 26, 1977, that Section ll-30 of the Code of the City of Martinsville, Virginia (197l, and as amended) be and is hereby amended to read as follows: It shall be unlawful for any person to loiter or play in or upon any public park or playground in the City between the hours of ll:OO P.M. and 7:00 A.M. on the following day, official City time, or during the hours of which any such park or playground is closed as indicated by posted signs at the entrance(s) of any such park, describing such hours of closure. BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED by said Council that an emergency exists and that this ordinance shall become effective on and after August l, 1977. In a related matter, Mr. Thomas J. Womack called Council's attention to the congregating of persons, and the disturbances created by such persons, at certain locations within