Ordinance Providing for the Inspection of Motor Vehicles

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Y4 to be necessary and efficient to perform the duties authorized by this ordinance or by law; and to prepare and furnish certificates or tags to be attached to motor vehicles inspected which shall successfully pass the tests of safety required by law. Section 3. Said Board shall, upon the completion of its arrangements for the testing of motor vehicles, give notice to the vehicle owners affected hereby of such readiness for testing, which notice shall designate the location of the established testing station or stations, the date on which inspections shall begin, the hours and days during which such stations will be open to conduct tests. Said notice shall be published at least one time in each of two newspapers of general circulation printed and published in the City of South Bend, not less than five days before the date upon which said stations shall be open to conduct tests, Said notice may contain any other information the Board may deem advisable to publish. Section 4. It shall be unlawful for any person to use any such testing station or the equipment thereof for the purpose of making repairs to motor vehicles. Section 5. It shall be unlawful for any officer or employee of the City of South Bend engaged, directly or indirectly, in the making of the inspections and testes, to recommend or suggest, while in the performance of his testing and inspection duties, the name of any person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of repairing motor vehicles. Section 6. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to advertise for or solicit motor vehicle repair work on the premises of any inspection station or on the highway immediately adjacent thereto. Section ?. Every licensed motor vehicle operated upon the public highways within the corporate limits of the City of South Bend, owned by a resident of South Bend or by any person, firm or corporation maintaining in South Bend a place of business, other than the United States of Americas shall be presented, at least two times each year, at an established station for inspection by said Board; provided, howrever, if the notice published, as required in Section 3 hereof, shall establish a time well within the calendar year when the first tests shall commence, the first period of inspection may be for a greater or lesser period of time than six (6) months, and may end with the last day of the calendar year in which said notice has been published, to the end that the semi- annual inspection periods may commence with the first day of the next year. To avoid inconvenience and confusion, the Board may distribute the total inspections of motor vehicless, for any inspection period, over the whole or any part of said period, ands