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.10 FRIDAY FEBRUJ.RY 15. 1957 Any owner of a motor vehicle, trailer, or semi-trailer, for which a license tax is required under this ordinance who has not paid the license tax on or before April 15, 1957, or who has operated a motor vehicle, trailer, or semi-trailer on the streets and highways of the City of Martinsvi1le for a period of thirty (30) days without having paid the license tax herein levied, or who fails to display the license plate as required herein shall be subject to a fine of not less than one dollar ($1.00) nor more than twenty-five dollars ($25.00), which shall not relieve scch owner of the duty to pay the license tax. Any onlinance of the City of Martinsville heretofore passed which is in conflict with this ordinance is hereby repealed. Upon recommendation of City Manager Hirst, Council adopted the following ordinances (1) prohibiting continuous use of loading zones and (2) authorizing issuance of maximum of three overt~bll'" parking tickets per day per motor vehicle, thus amending the City's Traffic Code effective March 1, 1957; and, also, Council placed on first re!iding the following ordinance regulating solicitors and solicitations within the City: BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in meeting assembled this fifteenth day of February, 1957, that the Traffic and Safet,y Code be, and is hereby, amended to include the fol1owll1g reg~lations; (1) Stopping in loading zones. No person shall stop or park a vehicle in any loading zone except for the immediate and continuous unloading and delivery or pick-up and loading of materia1R frmn or to a t~Jck or of passengers to or from a passenger vehicle d\Jring hours parking meters are in force. (2) Overtime parking, separate offenses. Whenever parA1ng is limited to a specified length of time, it shall be a separate offense for each period in excess of that aut~orized that a vehicle is permitted to stand in the same parking space during the saIne day; provided, however that no more than three violations for overtime parking shall be charged against the driver of a vehicle for permitting it to stand in the same parking space during the day. BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that the foregoing shall become effective March 1, 1957. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Sec. 1. Definition of "solicitorll For the purpose of this chapter, any person who goes from house to house or from place to place in the city, selling or offering to sell or t~~lng orders or offering to take