Tuesday, November 23, 2021

Vanderburgh County LP helps Evansville City Council to Remove Antiquated Ordinances

Bart Gadau, Chair of the Libertarian Party of Vanderburgh County, Indiana (Evansville) reports as follows on Monday evening November 22, 2021:

"Just got home from the Evansville city council meeting for November. The council unanimously voted in favor of removing several bicycle ordinances including purchasing a yearly license. These ordinances were removed because of a new committee that the Libertarian Party of Vanderburgh County started called the Committee to Reduce City/County Ordinances. We have been combing through ordinances, starting with old antiquated ones to present to the councils to have them removed. We are explaining to them that we have way too many laws, many of which they themselves as the law makers don’t know exist, and are not enforced, and requesting they be removed, or in some cases at least updated. This is our initial trial set of ordinances and we received a lot of praise from several members as well as one member asking us to bring more to his attention.

I would suggest that every county form a committee like this. It does not take a ton of time to look through and find some unimportant ordinances and builds a good relationship with the council as well as some positive attention from the community.

Thanks to all the local members that worked on this."

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