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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING AND REORDAINING SECTION 15-131 OF CHAPTER 15 (MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC) BE IT ORDAINED by the Council for the City of Charlottesville, Virginia, that: Section 15-131 of Article V of Chapter 15 of the Code of the City of Charlottesville (1990) is amended and reordained as follows: Sec. 15-131. Application of parking regulations to volunteer firefighters and rescue squad members. (a) Every full, active member in good standing of the volunteer organizations known anddesignated as the Charlottesville Fire Company and the Charlottesville-Albemarle Rescue Squad,and every member in good standing of an Albemarle County volunteer fire company who resides within the corporate limits of the city shall be eligible for a special license tag or decal issued by the treasurer. Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, members of the city volunteer fire company or volunteer rescue squad who have been issued a special tag or decal by the city treasurer shall be permitted to park their vehicles displaying such special tags or decals indisregard of the provisions of sections 15-140 and 15-174(a), but shall comply with all otherprovisions of this article in the same manner as any other persons are required to comply therewith. (b) In determining whether to issue the license tag or decal referenced in paragraph (a), above, the treasurer shall utilize the membership list provided to the commissioner of revenue pursuant to section 30-39 of the City Code. Upon confirmation of eligibility, the treasurer shall issue toeach such member a special license tag or decal which such member shall display on suchvehicle as designated by the treasurer. Any person having been issued such special tag or decal who ceases to be a member in good standing of any such organization shall immediately surrender such special tag or decal to the treasurer and shall pay the appropriate license tax on such vehicle for the balance of the license year.