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The Dixie Way Corridor

The enforcement economy — the corridor's other trade, at pointer

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Town Code as read in Pass R-1; State v. Town of Roseland, 383 N.E.2d 1076 (Ind. Ct. App. 1978), worked in Pass R-2

The road also made the town a court, and that record is another pass's. The marshal's office itself dates to 1938, created in the code's words "to curtail the traffic problem on U.S. Highway 31" — the corridor's traffic was worth a town officer before it was worth a motel. The enforcement course that followed — the mayor's court, the fines, and the 1978 case in which the state's challenge to the town's court failed and the town won — is worked at the strength it deserves in the civic pass (R-7), and the deep-history pass has already carried the case whole. Two cautions print here because the corridor invites them. The "speed-trap" name the town carries in popular speech is, on the record swept in this build, self-carried only — no outside carrier reached applies it — and it is not applied here. And no figure for what the corridor's enforcement earned the town in any year was reached; the fines ledger belongs to the court record, not to this section's inference.

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Source: The enforcement economy — the corridor's other trade, at pointer, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/roseland/corridor/enforcement-economy-the-corridor-s-other-trade-at-pointer/