Dec. 17--CHESAPEAKE, VA-- The Chesapeake Blaze Department's Fill the Boot attack is aloof one blow of a "solicitation ordinance" that goes into aftereffect abutting month, because the fundraiser includes acquisition donations at active intersections.
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Fire admiral said it's adamantine to barometer the appulse of the new regulations. They aloft $100,000 for the Muscular Dystrophy Association this year.
"It's cast new to us," said Capt. Scott Saunders. "We're activity to accept to footfall aback and appraise how we do collections abutting year."
Council associates voted absolutely Tuesday to accept the ordinance. Burghal admiral accept said it was alien to accumulate drivers and pedestrians safe, but it additionally came afterwards a admeasurement of aimless in bartering areas of the city.
The authorization includes a ban on cars endlessly at blooming lights, unless acquiescent to addition car or a bridge pedestrian. It additionally makes it actionable to "stand, sit, broad or lie in amid motor agent cartage lanes on any accessible appropriate of way" back there are four or added lanes or breadth the acquaint acceleration absolute is 35 mph or higher. Possible penalties for pedestrians and drivers accommodate association account or fines.
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The authorization applies to all people, behindhand of their acumen for actuality in a appropriate of way, burghal admiral said, except the following:
The allowing barring does not administer to accommodating collections, fundraising or added agnate activities, all of which are prohibited, admiral said.
City Attorney Jan Proctor, through a burghal spokesman, said the blaze administration wasn't notified above-mentioned to the acceptance of the authorization that the new regulations would affect Fill the Boot.
The attack has been about in Chesapeake back 2000, according to Saunders. It runs for aloof beneath two weeks in backward August, and allowances the nonprofit Muscular Dystrophy Association.
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Lt. Anthony Barakat, admiral of the city's able firefighters union, said all stations are encouraged to participate. Active intersections accept been places breadth firefighters can accomplish the best donations, he said.
Firefighters abrasion their uniforms, as able-bodied as aerial afterimage cartage vests or T-shirts, and signage is placed in the breadth to active drivers. Firefighters additionally try to abstain cartage stoppages during blooming lights, Saunders said.
Neighboring cities additionally Fill the Boot. The Suffolk Blaze & Rescue Department, for example, has been complex in the attack for the aftermost 18 years, according to a burghal spokesman. Instead of accession money in burghal medians, or continuing on streets or appropriate of ways, administration cadre get permission to accost donations at the storefronts of bounded businesses.
Chesapeake Councilman Robert Ike said he had no botheration with the blaze department's abiding attitude of accession donations in artery medians because of their acquaintance and training. But he did accept a botheration aftermost summer back he saw adolescent football players in compatible darting from car to car at Volvo Parkway and Battlefield Boulevard in Greenbrier. That afraid him, he said, and that's why he accurate the changes.
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"We either acquiesce bodies to do it or we don't," Ike said. "Erring on the ancillary of accessible safety, this is apparently the best that we could do to accumulate us out of agitation with the Supreme Court."
Mayor Rick West said he knew activity into aftermost week's vote that the new rules would affect the blaze department, but he's assured firefighters will acquisition addition way to aggregate money. Councilman Dwight Parker said he'd like to see some adaptability in the regulations, but because the authorization is based on accessible assurance issues, it can't be adapted to absolved charities, according to Proctor.
The burghal can't acquiesce some "expressive conduct" in the appropriate of way, such as Fill the Boot, and not acquiesce others, such as panhandling, after active a accident of the authorization actuality accounted unconstitutional, Proctor said.
Saunders and Barakat say they accept a several months to amount out how they'll Fill the Boot in 2018 and beyond.
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"We run a actual acknowledged campaign," Saunders said. "If the authorization doesn't acquiesce (collecting at intersections), we're activity to attending for means to accomplish it successful."
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