Kool Vest

These Zanies liked more Louisville Metro Council are again. Concerned that there may be a lack of restrictions on freedoms of citizens Derby City Council is considering ways to reach an anti-idling rule. "No, this has nothing to do with the plethora of nothing bureaucrats at the VanHoose Education Center PCE; Metro advisers fear that too many of us leave our engines running while we are not moving. (Sounds like Bardstown Road on Saturday evening.)

The professional scolds over at Louisville Metro Air Pollution District of control (LMAPCD) have drafted an ordinance which would impose restrictions on idling cars and other machines in Jefferson County. Mayor Abramson supports the idea, and is seeking a board member of Metro or two to adopt the measure.

Several members of the Board of Health and Human Needs Committee of the Board told Courier-Journal, Dan Klepal they think the idea of reducing the unnecessary idling of vehicles is big, but they are not as the order could be executed. Commission Chairperson Mary Woolridge, D-3rd District, said the order should be sent to the health department of the city for public hearings before any action taken.Lauren Anderson, executive director of LMAPCD, told the Metro Council that proposed order is necessary because Metro Louisville is out of compliance with the federal government's clean air, and that if the ordinance is not adopted, LMAPCD will try to get the roadworthiness of vehicles increasingly unpopular emission (VET) restored.

The draft ordinance would outlaw allowing a vehicle to sit idle, while not moving, but would allow a number of exceptions. Drivers actually stopped in traffic or waiting for a signal change, are not covered. Similarly, drivers would be allowed to wait in a drive-thru of their Big Macs to be delivered. We probably need to exempt TARC buses, police cars, fire department, ambulances, taxis, garbage trucks, and weed size too. But the search for the Good Humor man to fade from the scene.

People would be allowed to keep their engines running while "responding to emergency situations" (not defined, but undoubtedly, including delivery and inspection of the carcass of the creature you just crushed, see that for dinner tonight), or when "loading or unloading passengers. This exemption specifically does not include the last in line to pick up children at school. If your tykes Dally, you'll just freeze / roast, depending on the weather Louisville (sometimes it freeze and roast in the same day).

Convicted of violating the proposed ordinance would require a $ 100 fine for a first offense, $ 250 for a second offense within two years, then $ 500 for each subsequent offense. Depressed people who choose to commit suicide in their garages would certainly think twice before committing such a bill would allow financial burden.The people to leave their cars idling to defrost windshields or other " security "reasons. Here's the kicker: it would be left to the discretion of the police officer as to whether it was reasonable for them to idle their cars for heating. That? The law would be stupid to leave the Conference of the Parties to decide whether or not you have been in violation of the law.

Any law student in first year, you say that any law that vests discretion in the caprice of such law enforcement officers are clearly unconstitutional on its face. Why not pass a law making it a crime to drive too fast? No Speed Limit, just leave the Conference of the Parties to decide whether or not you were driving at excessive speed.

Of course, the "scientists" more LMAPCD can not expect to be aware of all the vagaries of constitutional law. After all, they are experts in pollution of air, right? Mr.