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8 TUESDAY MAY 12, 1970 Woodland Heights area water system of the Daniel Creek Water Company would become a part of the City's water system. Mr. Reynolds informed Council that the Henry County Public Service Authority has been negotiating for quite some time with the Daniel Creek Water Company toward acquiring the Woodland Heights area system and, inasmuch as this area is in Henry County and within the service jurisdiction of the Authority, deferral by the City .- of exercising said option would be appreciated. Meanwhile, Council informed Mr. Reynolds that the Daniel Creek Water Company voluntarily tendered to the City said purchase option and, also, requested of the City emergency water service for the Woodland Heights area because no other jurisdiction is able to furnish such service and because the Water Company's source of water supply for the area presently is insufficient to serve the area customers. Accordingly, the City and the Water Company entered into an agreement (dated April 16, 1970) whereby the City would and is furnishing emergency water for this area for a temporary period of thirty days, which agreement included the aforesaid purchase option (also for thirty days) which the Water Company has extended beyond May 15th. ~- To parallel a revision by the 1970 Virginia General Assembly, Council adopted the following ordinance (effective July 1, 1970) restricting the keeping of inoperative automobiles on residential and commercial property within the Cityts corporate limits: BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, in regular meeting assembled this twelfth day of May, 1970, that it shall be unlawful for any person, form or corporation to keep, except within a fully-enclosed building or structure, on any property zoned for residential or commercial purposes, any automobile or automobiles whose condition is such that it is economically impractical to make them operative; provided, however, that the provision of this ordinance shall not apply to a licensed business which on the effective date of this ordinance is regularly engaged in business as an automobile dealer, salvage dealer or scrap processor.