A Rally Revived This Week In Myrtle Beach Area?
Biker event first since MB helmet law overturned
[This falls] bike rally [was] the first since Myrtle Beach's controversial helmet requirement was overturned, and some involved with the rally are optimistic that the law's end will bring the once-boycotting bikers back to the beach.
The fall rally, called "The Pilgrimage," [started] Wednesday Sept. 29 through Oct. 3. It has always been the smallest of the three major motorcycle gatherings on the Grand Strand. –Sun News
In other matters …
As Myrtle Beach prepares to adjust some of its ordinances passed in 2008 to quell the May motorcycle rallies, it faces another legal challenge that could require more changes.
Some residents and other motorcycle enthusiasts are suing the city, hoping the Horry County Circuit Court will overturn the city's noise ordinance.
Under the final version of the noise ordinance amendment, which gained final approval in March 2009, no vehicles except emergency vehicles can be louder than 89 decibels when measured from 20 inches away from the exhaust pipe, at a 45-degree angle, while the vehicle is idling.
Virginia-based attorney Tom McGrath filed the lawsuit last week on behalf of local motel owner William O'Day, Horry County and S.C. ABATE groups and other residents, he said.
The lawsuit says the city's law interferes with the uniformity of state law, that it is pre-empted by state law and is unconstitutional.
The noise ordinance wasn't included in the case the high court heard in February, he said, because the focus was on the helmet law.
"They were issuing tickets left and right [under the helmet law]," he said. "No one we know had gotten a ticket under the noise ordinance. It's still sitting there, and the city has bought decibel meters, so we assume they are planning to use them. We felt we shouldn't let the ordinance stay on the books."
The city has issued noise ordinance tickets since the rule went into effect in 2008, said city spokesman Mark Kruea, but because the city's noise rules cover music, cars, other equipment and mufflers, he said without pulling each ticket by hand, he didn't know how many were motorcycle-related.
"We wrote 1,776 city noise ordinance violations for all types of excessive noise and an additional 64 state muffler violations from Oct. 1, 2008, to July 19, 2010," Kruea said in an e-mail.
The court's opinion on the helmet law also reached into the package of 14 ordinances and amendments the city approved in 2008, invalidating four others as well.
The city still had four other violations listed as administrative infractions - the rules about hotel check-in procedures, the juvenile curfew, the rules about drinking in parking lots and regulations about convenience-store security procedures. –Sun News
Biker event first since MB helmet law overturned
[This falls] bike rally [was] the first since Myrtle Beach's controversial helmet requirement was overturned, and some involved with the rally are optimistic that the law's end will bring the once-boycotting bikers back to the beach.
The fall rally, called "The Pilgrimage," [started] Wednesday Sept. 29 through Oct. 3. It has always been the smallest of the three major motorcycle gatherings on the Grand Strand. –Sun News
In other matters …
As Myrtle Beach prepares to adjust some of its ordinances passed in 2008 to quell the May motorcycle rallies, it faces another legal challenge that could require more changes.
Some residents and other motorcycle enthusiasts are suing the city, hoping the Horry County Circuit Court will overturn the city's noise ordinance.
Under the final version of the noise ordinance amendment, which gained final approval in March 2009, no vehicles except emergency vehicles can be louder than 89 decibels when measured from 20 inches away from the exhaust pipe, at a 45-degree angle, while the vehicle is idling.
Virginia-based attorney Tom McGrath filed the lawsuit last week on behalf of local motel owner William O'Day, Horry County and S.C. ABATE groups and other residents, he said.
The lawsuit says the city's law interferes with the uniformity of state law, that it is pre-empted by state law and is unconstitutional.
The noise ordinance wasn't included in the case the high court heard in February, he said, because the focus was on the helmet law.
"They were issuing tickets left and right [under the helmet law]," he said. "No one we know had gotten a ticket under the noise ordinance. It's still sitting there, and the city has bought decibel meters, so we assume they are planning to use them. We felt we shouldn't let the ordinance stay on the books."
The city has issued noise ordinance tickets since the rule went into effect in 2008, said city spokesman Mark Kruea, but because the city's noise rules cover music, cars, other equipment and mufflers, he said without pulling each ticket by hand, he didn't know how many were motorcycle-related.
"We wrote 1,776 city noise ordinance violations for all types of excessive noise and an additional 64 state muffler violations from Oct. 1, 2008, to July 19, 2010," Kruea said in an e-mail.
The court's opinion on the helmet law also reached into the package of 14 ordinances and amendments the city approved in 2008, invalidating four others as well.
The city still had four other violations listed as administrative infractions - the rules about hotel check-in procedures, the juvenile curfew, the rules about drinking in parking lots and regulations about convenience-store security procedures. –Sun News
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Legends In Concert Will Move To Broadway At The Beach In Myrtle Beach
Legends in Concert, the tribute artist show, will move from its longtime Surfside Beach location to Broadway at the Beach, a company official said Thursday.
Legends will begin renovating the building next to Planet Hollywood later this year, said Brian Brigner, chief operating officer for On Stage Entertainment, which produces the show. That property has been vacant since Club Kryptonite moved out in October 2009.
The new location will to open on Mar. 11 and will bring in more business for the show, Brigner said.
The Surfside Beach location - where the show has been locate since it began in 1995 - will hold its last show Oct. 6, ending its season a couple of months early, Brigner said. The new theater will be a Las Vegas-style showroom with 600 seats and the show will be performed daily. –Sun News
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