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Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held on the 23rd day of July 1984
at 8:00 p.m. at the City Hall, 6301 Shingle Creek Parkway, to consider An Ordinance
Amending Chapter 25 of the City Code of the City of Brooklyn Center by Regulating
Traffic.
ORDINANCE NO. 84 -09
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 25 OF THE CITY CODE
OF THE CITY OF BROOKLYN CENTER BY REGULATING TRAFFIC
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BROOKLYN CENTER DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1 Chapter 25 of the City Ordinances is hereby amended as follows:
Section 25 -601. PREAMBLE. Whereas, freeway interchanges are
unable to safely and expeditiously carry the,flow of traffic and many motorists are
attempting to find alternate routes through residential streets resulting in
motorists making U -turns in public streets, on the boulevards, and in private
driveways, as well as creating traffic congestion in areas where streets and traffic
patterns are not designed for the many vehicles using the roadways, the stopping and
turning movements, and the unorthodox driving maneuvers which occur.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Brooklyn Center finds that
an emergency ordinance is necessary to preserve the public peace and safety as
Tollows:
Section 25 -602. PROTECTION OF PERSONS AND PROPERTY. The City Manager is
hereby authorized to regulate or prohibit vehicular or pedestrian traffic upon any
street, alley, boulevard, parking lot open to the public, or other public way or
public property for such period of time as shall be necessary for the purposes state
herein. The prohibition or regulation of vehicular or pedestrian traffic shall be
by written order of the City Manager, and shall be valid only after the placement of
appropriate signs, signals, barricades, or, in the alternative, until appropriate
traffic control personnel have been dispatched to the scene, or, in the alternative,
until other appropriate warning devices or methods have been implemented. Such
regulations or prohibitions shall be for following purposes:
(a) to protect public or private property from damage by
vehicular or pedestrian traffic;
(b) to move, expedite or control the flow of traffic;
(c) to secure persons and property from trespass, danger,
invasion of privacy, or unauthorized intrusion;
(d) to protect persons, motorists, animals or property
Tom dangerous conditions;
ORDINANCE NO. 84 -09
(e) to protect against, to protect persons from, or
To terminate any breach of the peace, assault,
Unlawful assembly, riot, fighting and brawling,
illegal use of alcohol, drugs, or controlled
substances, nuisance, whether civil or criminal,
trespass, whether civil or criminal, disorderly
conduct, terroristic threats, excessive or un-
reasonable noise, littering, continuing violations
of the traffic laws, and similar activities or
events.
Section 25 -603. VIOLATIONS UNLAWFUL. It shall be unlawful and
punishable as provided herein for any person to violate or disobey any order of the
City Manager as authorized herein, or any regulation, sign, signal, barricade,
traffic control official, or other warning device, designed, placed or erected to
implement the order of the City Manager.
Section 25 -604. PENALTIES. Any person violating the provisions of this
ordinance, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not to exceed Seven
Hundred Dollars ($700.00) or by imprisonment not to exceed ninety" X90) days, or
both, together with the costs of prosecution.
This ordinance shall become effective after adoption and upon thirty (30)
days following its legal publication.
Adopted this 23rd day of July 19 84
Mayor
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ATTEST:
Date of Publication July 5, 1984
Effective Date August 5, 1984
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