THE PEOPLE BANNED PARKING METERS IN NORTH DAKOTA

This article presents the events leading up to and subsequent to the banning of parking meters in North Dakota. On June 29th, 1948 the people of North Dakota voted for an act that would ban parking meters. The impetus for the act was a citizen who did not like the use of parking meters in Minot, North Dakota. Nine towns that used parking meters organized a Municipal Rights Committee to launch a public information campaign, hoping act would not pass. The purpose of the campaign was to distribute information regarding the benefits of parking meters. However, the act was passed. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court, which upheld the validity of the parking meter ban in North Dakota.

• Record URL:
  https://hdl.handle.net/2027/pst.000060089137?urlappend=%3Bseq=223
• Availability:
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• Corporate Authors:

  Eno Transportation Foundation

  1250 I Street, NW, Suite 750
  Washington, DC  United States  20005
• Authors:
  • Mann, J A
• Publication Date: 1950-4

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 189-197
• Serial:
  • Traffic Quarterly
  • Volume: 4
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Eno Transportation Foundation
  • ISSN: 0041-0713

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Benefits; Financing; Highway traffic control; Parking meters; Public participation; Revenues; State laws
• Uncontrolled Terms: Disadvantages
• Geographic Terms: North Dakota
• Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Society; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00813428
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 30 2001 12:00AM