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L50 TUES DAY SEPTEMBER 8, 1953 Whereas, an emergency exists in the City of Martinsville, Virginia in that instances have been reported in other cities of death due to suffocation of children in abandoned, unattended ice boxes, refrigerators and other containers having air-tight doors which when closed cannot be opened from the inside; and Whereas, these abandoned, unattended or discarded ice boxes, refrigerators and other containers are a constant menace to the health, welfare and safety of children in said City of Martinsville; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Martins vi lIe , Virginia, in regular meeting assembled this eighth day of September, 1953, as follows: It shall be unlawful for aQY person, firm or corporation to leave outside of aQY building or dwelling in the City of Martinsville, in a place accessible to children, aQY abandoned, unattended or discarded ice box, refrigerator or any other container of aQY kind which has an air-tight door, or lock which may not be released for opening from the inside of said ice box, refrigerator or container. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to leave outside of aI\Y building or dwelling in the City of Mar tirnvi lle , in a place accessible to children, arry abandoned, unattended or discarded ice box, refrigerator or aI\Y other container of any kind which has an air-tight snap-lock or other device thereon without first removing the said snap-lock or doors from said ice box, refrigerator or container. AI\Y person, firm or corporation violating any of the provJ..SJ.ons of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor or upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than ten ($10.00) dollars nor more than fifty ($50.00) dollars. Each day such violation is committed or permitted to continue shall constitute a separate offense and shall be punishable as such hereunder. An emergency existing, this ordinance shall become effective from the date of its passage. Pursuant to duly-advertised notice, Council next conducted a Public Hearing on the City Planning Commission's recommendation of August 11, 1953 that property on both sides of River Hill Road from the Dye Plant Road intersection South to the City's corporate limits be rezoned to "B-1 Business'" for a depth of two hundred feet. Council heard from Mr. W. R. Broaddus, III, and Mr. John Epperly, counsel for the original petitioners (Mr. and Mrs. Orrin F. Nunn and Mr. H. Claybrook Lester), who asked that Martinsville Coca-Cola Bottling Company be included as a petitioner, and who suggested that if the Council did not rezone all of the area recommended by the Planning Commission that, at least, it rezone the property mentioned in the