Six cyclists cited for blowing stop signs along the Raccoon River
Trail will get their tickets dismissed, the Guthrie County Attorney
decided Wednesday.
Department of Natural ResourceConservation Officer Jeremy King fined the cyclists $195 each for crossing a gravel road without stopping
at the small stop signs posted on the trail in Panora on Saturday. But
Mary Benton, Guthrie county attorney, told The Des Moines Register
Wednesday that the conservation board governing those trails never
passed regulations which make those signs enforceable.
"I could
have then amended the citations to the appropriate conservation board
regulations but no such regulations have ever been passed. They have the
authority;they just never bothered to do it," Benton said.
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