Dear Editor,
The Mayor and Councillors of the City of Georgetown is extending a final invitation to auto dealers to attend a meeting scheduled for Thursday, August 6, 2020 at 2pm. The meeting which was originally scheduled for Wednesday, July 29, 2020 was postponed due to poor attendance. The main focus of the meeting is to discuss the use of Council’s parapets, reserves and other public thoroughfares as we seek to find a way forward.
Dealers must be cognizant that it is an offence to use the parapets and reserves without the requisite permission of the Council. The Municipal and District Council Act Chapter 28:01 section 10 (1), states that “no person shall leave, place, or store, or cause to be left placed ,or stored, any vehicle, cart, dray, barrel, box, dust-bin, tree trunk, branch, limb, or other thing upon any street, parapet, pavement or footpath, or in any other way encumber any street, parapet or pavement with any vehicle, cart, dray, barrel, box, dust -bin or other things”.
(2) The City Engineer shall have the power to remove any such vehicle, car, dray, barrel, box dust-bin, tree trunk, branch limb, or other things whatsoever left, placed or stored contrary to paragraph (1), and the cost of removing by the Town Clerk in a court of competent jurisdiction from such a person.
(3) Anything coming into the possession of the City Engineer by virtue of paragraph (2) and remaining unclaimed for a period of one month after the date of its removal may be sold or otherwise disposed of by the Council; provided that where it is reasonably necessary to effect a sale or disposal of such things by reason of it being in a dangerous state to the health of human beings, animals or plants or by reason of it being of a perishable nature, the sale or disposal of may be affected at such time as determined by Council.
(4) The Council may deduct from any proceeds obtained pursuant to the exercise of its power under paragraph (3) any expenses properly incurred in effecting the removal and sale, or disposal, as the case may be, and any sum in excess of such expenses shall be retained by the Council for a period of three (3) years and, if not lawfully claimed, be paid into the consolidated funds for public use.
The Council is urging all car dealers to make special effort attend this important meeting.
Yours faithfully,
Pt. Ubraj Narine
Mayor of Georgetown
