Providing for Additional Personnel in the Office of the Traffic Violations Department and Appropriating from the General fund $2,500.00 to the Budgetary Item, Services - Personal

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ORDINANCE D%3 (- An ordinance providing for Additional Personnel in the Office of the Traffic Violations Department of South Bend and ap- propriating from the General Fund of the City of South Bend the V da'so• sum of Three Thousand Dollars to the Budgetary Item, SERVICES - PERSONAL, in the Office of the City Judge, Repealing any and all Conflicting Ordinances and Declaring an Extra Ordinary Emergency. It has been brought to the attention of the Common Council of the City of South Bend that there is a need for extending the opening hours of the Traffic Violations Department; and, fi ,REAS The convenience of the public requires that holders of (traffic tickets denoting violations of traffic laws be accorded th opportunity of appearing in response to receipt of such tickets an of paying fines imposed by law at hours extending beyond the clos- ing hours of said Traffic Violations Department, and WHEREAS The Dresent volume of business and Dresent volume of records- maintenance precludes the timely mailing by present person nel to owners of motor vehicles,. to which a NOTICE TO APPEAR has been affixed, of letters of warning informing such owner of the violation, as required by a currently effective ordinance, namely Section #25 of Ordinance #3200 and, WHEREAS The present volume of business after current closing ' hours creates a burden upon personnel of the Police Department in the matter of processing traffic violation tickets 'issued to automobile owners who come to the City Hall after 4:30 P.D4., and WHEREAS It is desired that such traffic violations department be open until 9:00 P.M. local time; on Saturdays to 5:00 P.M. and on holidays, excepting Sundays, NOW BE IT ORDAINED by the Common Council of the City of South Bendy Indiana, Section 1. That,.'for the purpose of the orderly operation of the Traffic�Violations Department, there is hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the City of South Bend, Indiana, the sum of Three Thousand Dollars for the uses and purposes of the following budgetary item in the budget of the City of South Bend, for the year 1956, to wits . 1st & 2nd READINS COMMITTEE OF THE PUBLIC HEARIft L 3rd REABU S 1I j' %sue NOT APnOYED ftuft alai /� Y C ;..ems �YL IL17G AT D?1PAP i MZF,,ggTT