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~`,_ ~ `` \l PHONE (7131 471.~02U • P. O. ECx 7115 • La PoRT[. TEx~.~ 7775 • February 2, 1983 M E M O R A N D U M To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: John Longley, Councilperson, District 2 Jack Owen, City Manager J. B. Williamson, Municipal Judge H. F. Freeman, Chief of Police John D. Armstrong, Assistant City Attorney Re: Chapter 25, Article IV, Section 25-60, et, seq. of the Code of Ordinances of the City of La Porte, the Truck Route Ordinance • Dear Ladies and Gentlemen: In the fall of 1981, the La Porte Police Department, the. Municipal Judge, and the Municipal Prosecutor of the City of La Porte, brought to the attention of the office of the City Attorney a difficulty in our present Truck Route Ordinance. The difficulty centered upon the fact that 18-wheeler trucks and truck tractors were parking in residential subdivisions within the city limits of the City of La Porte. Upon an attempt by the Police Department to prosecute under the terms of our current Truck Route Ordinance, it was dis- covered that the drivers of said trucks were claiming that the residential property upon which they were parking was a truck terminal, and that, under an exception that existed to the Truck Route Ordinance, the parking of said trucks on said residential property was permissible under the terms of our current ordinance. The Municipal Prosecutor suggested to the office of the City Attorney that an amendment to the Truck Route Ordinance, said amendment defining the term "truck terminal", so as to negate the claim by the truckers that their residential property was indeed a truck terminal under the terms of the current ordinance. To shore up enforceability of the current Truck Route Ordinance, then, the office of the City Attorney prepared a definition of truck terminal, said definition appearing before the City Council in its agenda packet this evening. ~~~' .~ ,~,._