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j CITY OF EDEN PRAIRIE
HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA IJ
ORDINANCE NO. qo �
AN ORDINANCE PROHIBITING UNREASONABLE: ACCELERATION AND ERRATIC DRIVING
OF VEHICLES; PROHIBITING THE LEAVING OF KEY IN AN UNATTENDED VEHICLE
AND IMPOSING PENALTY FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF.
The City Council of the City of laden Prairie does ordain:
Section I. DEFINITIONS. For the purpose of this Ordinance, the
following words and bases shall have the meanings hereinafter set
for th.
(a) UNREASONABLE ACCELERATION means acceleration of a motor vehicle
which unnecessarily breaks or interrupts traction between a tire or
tires and the driving surface thereby causing a prolonged screeching
sound, or the hurling of sand or gravel by the tire or tires of such
vehicle, or both.
(b) ERRATIC DRIVING means operating or halting any vehicle in a manner
which unreasonably reduces the operators control of said vehicle or
unreasonably reduces his ability to cope with potential or actual
emergency situations in a safe manner, or the operation of a motor
vehicle in an irregular, unconventional, or eccentric manner, or in the
screeching of tires, grinding of gears, backfiring, or the production
of loud explosions or noises or other noise pollution in any manner
whatsoever by or with a non-emergency vehicle.
Section 2. UNREASONABLE ACCELERATION AND ERRATIC DRIVING PROHIBITED.
Any unreasonable acceleration or any erratic driving by the driver
of any motor vehicle upon any public or private street, road, parking
lot, alley, driveway or other thoroughfare within the corporate limits
of the City of Eden Prairie is hereby declared to be a Public Nuisance
and is prohibited. }
No person shall drive or operate a motor vehicle upon any public
or private street, road , parking lot, alley, driveway or other thorough-
fare within the corporate limits of the City of Eden Prairie in an
erratic manner.
Section 3. Unattended Vehicles. No person shall leave a motor vehicle
unattended on any street , alley, used car lot , or unattended parking lot,
without first stopping the engine, locking the ignition, removing the I
key and taking it with him; provided that any violation of these pro-
visions shall. not mitigate the offense of stealing such motor vehicle,
nor shall such violation be used to affect a recovery in any civil
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action for theft of such motor vehicle, or the insurance thereon,_ or
have any other bearing in any civil action.
Section 4. Police Duties. Whenever any police officer of the City
of Eden Prairie shall find any such motor vehicle standing in
violation of the foregoing provisions of Section 3, such police
officer shall remove therefrom the keys left therein and deliver the
same to the Public Safety Office. The officer in charge may return
the keys co the owner or driver of the motor vehicle upon proper
proof of identity.
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Section 5. P,analty. Any person violating any provisions of this
Ordinance shall be guilty of a Petit Misdemeanor.
First read at a regular meeting of the Council of the City of Eden Prairie !
this day of 1975, and finally read and adopted and
ordered published at a regular meeting of the Council of said City on the a
day of 1975.
David W. Osterholt
Mayor for the City of Eden Prairie
ATTEST:
(SEAL)
City Manager
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Published in the Minnetonka-Eden Prairie Sun on the day of , 1975.
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