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TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1991 relative to driving a motor vehicle, etc., while intoxicated,":used in section 12-3, shall be defined and interpreted to include all such laws in effect on July 1, 1990 Julv 1. 1991. BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that this Ordinance shall be in effect on and after July 1, 1991. ~ Council considered adoption, on emergency basis, of Ordinance No. 91-7 amending Section.12-82 of the City Code. Mayor McClain noted that the Ordinance would remove the three-hour parking time limit in all municipal lots with the exception of the lot behind Jefferson Plaza, which would retain its current one-hour limit. Councilman Adams expressed cOncern that if parking time limits were completely removed, some individuals might use the lots for inappropriate purposes (such as selling cars) and suggested that an eight-hour limit be imposed. Mr. Brown said that existing ordinances would prohibit individuals from using the lots in an inappropriate manner. Councilman Oakes noted that Council had received a letter from Mr. David Oliver of the Computer Workshop, located in Jefferson Plaza, who felt that the one-hour limit in the lot behind Jefferson Plaza hurt his business. Upon motion, duly seconded and by unanimous vote, Council adopted the following Ordinance: BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular session assembled May 28, 1991, that it does hereby amend Section 12-82--Four-hour Limit on Parking in Free Space in Municipal Parking Lot, Article IV--Stopping, Standing and Parking, Chapter 12--Motor Vehicles and Traffic, of the City Code, as follows: Sec. 12-82. Four hour One-hour limit on parking in free space in municipal parking lot behind Jefferson Plaza. Except on Sundays, no person shall park and remain parked in free parking spaces or areas in any one municipal parking lot for more than four (4) continuous hours, whether occupying the ~amc parking space or notl cxccpt, however, thatin the west half of the municipal parking lot bounded by Bridge, Church, Broad and Chestnut Streets and south of the Jefferson Plaza building, nc person shall--park and remain parked in designated ~paccs for more than one hour, whether occupying the same space or not.