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Home My WebLink AboutOrdinance - 175 - Regulating Operation of Motorcycles, Mini-bikes and all Terrain Vehicles - 06/13/1972 VILLAGE OF EDEN PRAIRIE HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA ORDINANCE NO. 175 AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE OPERATION OF MOTORCYCLES, MINI-BIKES AND ALL TERRAIN VEHICLES. The Village Council of the Village of Eden Prairie ordains as follows: Section I. Definitions : For the purpose of this ordinance the terms defined herein shall have the following meanings ascribed to them. Subd. I. "Vehicle" means every device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn, either upon a highway or other surface, except devices moved by human power. Subd. 2. "Motor Vehicle" means every vehicle which is self propelled. 1 Subd. 3. "Public Property" is propery that may be used by all of the public subject to regulation by a governmental body or School Board. Such property includes Village parks and parking lots and school yards and park- ing lots. Sub d. 4. "Private Property" means all property except public property, and streets and highways. Subd. "Street or Highway" means the entire width between boundary lines of any way or place when any part thereof is open to the use of the public, as a matter of right, for the purposes of vehicular traffic. Section 2. It shall be unlawful for any person to operate any vehicle or motor vehicle upon public property other than on a surface designated or designated for vehicular use. Section 3. It shall be unlawful for any person to operate or permit to be operated any vehicle or motor vehicle upon private property which is not held open to the public for vehicular use, without the permission of the owner or occupant. Section 4. No person shall operate a vehicle or motor vehicle on public or private property within the Village of Eden Prairie at a speed greater than is safe and reasonable under the conditions then existing. The maximum speed shai 1 be 25 m.p.h. Section 5. No person under 15 years of age shall operate any vehicle or motor vehicle on any property located within the Village of Eden Prairie other than upon private property with the permission of the owner thereof. Ordinance No. 175 P ag a Two Section 6. No person may operate any vehicle or motor vehicle in a careless or heed- less manner; in disregard of the rights or safety of others, or in a manner so as to endanger or be likely to endanger any person, animals or property. Section 7. The hours of use of vehicles and motor vehicles are 7:00 a.m. to 11 :00 p.m. except upon streets and highways, and private property which is at the time of use, hel d open to the publ i c for vehicular use for the purpose of gaining access to a place of residence for the purpose of access to goods and/or services. Section 8. By resolution: The Village Council may designate areas owned or controlled by the Village for the use of vehicles or motor vehicles and establish such rules and regulations as it deems necessary. The areas designated may be changed from time to time by the Village Council. Licenses may be required and fees may be charged to cover costs incurred. Section 9. An up-to-date map of designated areas for vehicle and motor vehicle use shall be kept on file in the Village Office, a copy of such map together with the rules and regulations of registration and licensing shall be provided to each person requesting such information from the Village. Section 10. Minimum Equipment Requirements. Subd. 1 . Standard mufflers which are properly attached and in constant operation and which reduce the noise of operation of the motor to the minimum necessary for operation. No person shall use a muffler cutout, bypass, straight pipes or similar device on a vehicle, motor vehicle, motor cycle, and the exhaust system shall not emit or produce a sharp popping or crackling sound. Subd. 2. At least one clear lamp attached to the front with sufficient intensity to reveal persons and vehicles at a distance of at least 100 feet ahead during the hours of darkness under normal atmospheric conditions. Such head lamp shall be so aimed that flaring rays are not projected into the eyes of an oncoming vehicle operator. It shall also be equipped with at least one red tail lamp having a minimum candle power of sufficient intensity to exhibit a red light plainly visible from a distance of 500 feet to the rear during the hours of darkness under normal atmospheric conditions. This equipment shall be required and shall be in operating condition when the vehicle is operated between the hours of one-half hour after sunset to one-half hour before sunrise or at times of reduced visibility. Section 1 I . Val i di ty. The Village Council of the Village of Eden Prairie hereby declares that shou 1 d any section, paragraph, sentence or word of this Ordinance be declared for any reason to be invalid, it is the intent of the Village Council of the Village of Eden Prairie that it would have passed all other portions of this Ordinance independent of the elimination herefrom of any such portion ' as may be declared invalid. S �4 y Ordinance No. 175 Page Three FIRST READ at a regular meeting of the Council of the Village of Eden Prairie this 13th day of June, 1972 and finally read and adopted and . ordered published at a regular meeting of the Council of said Village on the i 1 th day of Jul y, 1972. / /A Paul R. Redpath, Mayor ATTEST: �� r il7imi SEAL l Edna M. olmgre?,� Clerk ! 3VX3. f SUN EWSPAPERIS AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION Minnetonka - Edens ]Prairie Sun ;,► ` , 6601 W. 78th St. Bloomington, Minnesota atatttr l4M Nl� =et�Ngi,i dst(r 9 r ssagE,lt 1 u(t ae �luliR as a tpsanr at r f5ir 1l�ep(Mrl)la�w tiff r4lesMr,, State of Minnesota o�iil)rtl�1�11 ws* ss. ,K County of Hennepin d � K ,, J. R. RITCHAY, being duly sworn, on oath says he is and during all times here stated has been the vice president and printer of the newspaper known as The Minnetonka-Eden Prairie Sun :.nd has full knowledge of the facts herein stated as follows: (1) Said newspaper is printed in ,. the English language in newspaper format and in column and sheet form equivalent in printed i space to at least 900 square inches. (2) Said newspaper is a weekly and is distributed at least1 - } once each week. (3) Said newspaper has 50% of its news columns devoted to news of local interest to the community which it purports to serve and does not wholly duplicate any other publication and is not made up entirely of patents, plate matter and advertisements. (4) Saidit newspaper is circulated in and near the municipality which it purports to serve, has at least 500 copies regularly delivered to p gu paying subscribers, has an average of at least 75°k of Its total � '�y►11 � 7 �wc. circulation currently paid or no more than three months in arrears and has entry as second- class matter in its local post-office. (5) Said newspaper purports to serve the City of Minne- tonka and Village of Eden Prairie in Hennepin County and it has its known office of issue in the City of Bloomington in Heftepin County, established and open during its regular %itais fix.' business hours for the gathering of news, sale of advertisements and sale of subscriptions and " r� maintained by the managing officer or persons in its employ and subject to his direction and control during all such regular business hours and devoted exclusively during such regular business hours to the business of the newspaper and business related thereto. (B) Said newspaper r! files a copy of each issue immediately with the State Historical Society. (7) Said newspaper has compiled with all foregoing conditlors for at least two years preceding the day or dates of publication mentioned below. (8) Said newspaper has filed with the Secretary of State of Minnesota prior to January 1, M6 and each January 1 thereafter an affidavit in the form prescribed by the Secretary of State and signed by the publisher of said newspaper and sworn to before a notary public stating that the newspaper is a legal newspaper. ) f I i He further states on oath that the printed Ordinarwe No. 175 ,� { hereto attached as a part hereof was cut from the columns of said newspaper, and was printed and published therein in the English language, once each week, for O-a muccessive weeks: that it was first so published on_ TkkM" the loth day of Aua 19?2 1t �411114!,!R► Y �,; and was thereafter printed and published on every to and including ( W A }} } the day of 19_ and that the following is a printed copy ` of the lower case alphabet from A to Z. both inclusive, and is hereby acknowledged as being a a the size and kind of type used in the composition and publication of said notice, to-wit: i abcdefg'hi jklmnopgrstuvwxyz a abcdefithijklmneRrstuvwsys I " t� Subscribed and sworn to before me this Loth day of Aug 1972 .A r r (Notarial Sea]) Mu tel L. 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