CITY OF SALEM
ORDINANCE NO. 990601 - 49 INTRODUCED BY: MR. MURPHY
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BEING AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND SALEM CITY CODIFIED ORDINANCE NO. 731.01 FOR SALE OF USED MOTOR VEHICLES, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SALEM, STATE OF OHIO:
SECTION 1:
That section 731.01, Salem Codified Ordinances, is hereby amended to read as follows:
"SALE OF USED MOTOR VEHICLES":
No person, firm or corporation shall display for sale a used motor vehicle, boat or recreational vehicle
in their lawn area except that such provision shall not apply in the following specific instances:
a) One used motor vehicle, boat or a recreational vehicle may be displayed for sale one time
each calendar year for a period of time not to exceed two weeks if such motor vehicle, boat or recreational
vehicle is titled in the name of the occupant of the property. The occupant of the property is limited to one
such display of either a used motor vehicle, boat, or recreational vehicle each year.
b) Such used motor vehicles are displayed by duly and proper licensed automobile dealers and
such display occurs in areas properly zoned to conduct such a business.
SECTION 2:
Existing section 355.03 of Salem Codified Ordinances is hereby repealed.
SECTION 3:
This Council finds and determines that all formal actions of this Council concerning and relating to the adoption of this ordinance or resolution were adopted in an open meeting of this Council and that all deliberations of this Council and of any of its committees that resulted in those formal actions were in meetings open to the public in compliance with the law.
SECTION 4:
That this ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency measure necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety in the City of Salem, and shall go into immediate effect for the reason that it is immediately necessary to amend the ordinance to facilitate parking in the downtown parking district.