North Dakota's 70-year-old parking meter prohibition may fall

[TexasTowelie]

GRAND FORKS, N.D. — In the living room of JoNell Bakke’s house sits a parking meter that represents a North Dakota man’s fight to get the devices off the streets.

“It still has coins in it,” Bakke said in her Grand Forks home as she inserted a penny into the machine, giving her 12 minutes on the meter. “It still works.”

The city of Minot gave the meter to her grandfather, Howard Henry, who, after being ticketed for not feeding the machine in time, successfully got the meters banned in 1948 from North Dakota, the only state in the union to prohibit them.

But time may be running out on the meter for the nearly 70-year-old ban. In a 53-38 vote on Thursday, the House approved Senate Bill 2247, which would repeal the part of the Century Code that prohibits political subdivisions from installing parking meters and charging motorists to park along streets.

Read more: http://www.twincities.com/2017/03/12/north-dakotas-70-year-old-parking-meter-prohibition-may-fall/

[shraby]

1. We got rid of parking meters a few years ago, and guess what? The sky didn't fall,

and no meteors hit the town and people don't have problems parking.