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)4 TUESDAY ATJGUST 25, 1964 Upon recommendation of Mr. John J. Hartley, Commonwealth's Attorney for the City of Martinsville, and of Policy Chief Emory J. Bolejack, Council adopted the following two amendments and/or revisions of cited sections of the City Code, causing the City Code to conform respectively with statutes enacted by the 1964 General Assembly: BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular meeting assembled this 25th day of August, 1964, that Section 10-8 of Chapter 10 of the Code of the City of Martinsville be amended and revised by replacing Section 10-8 thereof with the following: Sec. 10-8 - Drunkenness. If any person arrived at the age of discretion gets or is drunk in public, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less and one dollar nor more than twenty-five dollars. If any person shall be convicted for being drunk in public three times within one year, upon the third or any subsequent conviction for such offense within the period of one year, such person may be punished by imprisonment in jail for not more than six months or by a fine of not more than fifty dollars or by both such fine and imprisonment. An emergency existing, this ordinance shall be in force from date of adoption. Virginia Code reference 18.1-237 (SEE INSERT) Council acknowledged receipt of--and ordered filed for future consideration-- a petition requesting the construction of curb-and-gutter (on a shared-cost basis) along Fourth Street, from Roundabout Road to IIAIl Street, and a petition requesting the construction of curb-and-gutter (on a shared-cost basis) along Lakeview Trail. Council also acknowledged receipt of the following bids for the construction of a 811-to-41l sewer line to serve properties on Park Court and of b8th 811