HARRISON – Selectmen discussed three of the town’s ordinances at their Tuesday meeting. A Dec. 7 date was set for a public hearing to further discuss the curfew and parking ordinances.

A proposed curfew ordinance would restrict minors from being on the streets after 9 p.m. during the winter. Board Chairwoman Susan Searles-Gazza said she has been asked whether the time could be changed by the public at town meeting.

“I’d hate to see it turned down because they thought it was too strict,” Selectman Sheila Smith said.

Town Manager Michael Thorne will find out whether the ordinance can be changed at town meeting or if it must be voted on as proposed by selectmen. If passed, the ordinance will replace a curfew ordinance which set different curfews for various age groups.

The public will also have a chance to comment on a proposed amendment to the town’s parking ordinance at the Dec. 7 hearing. The amendment would give selectmen the authority to impose 30-minute limits on parking in the new parallel parking spaces in front of the Block building on Route 117 and the diagonal parking spaces opposite the building.

The board was asked by the Block Association, a group of downtown Harrison merchants, to set the time limits when the new parking spaces were created last month. Selectmen took no action at that time, hoping that parking would “police itself,” Smith said.

Smith reported that some Main Street merchants have put up their own signs asserting a time limit on the parallel parking spaces. “We can’t have everybody making their own rules about parking,” she said.

Selectman Scott Andrews proposed the amendment to allow selectmen to legally set time limits.

“The town people want us to make decisions ourselves,” Selectman Donald Wooley said in support of the amendment. “That’s why they elected us.”

The amendment passed with Selectman Thomas Scribner, Andrews and Wooley voting in favor and Searles-Gazza and Smith against. It will not be enacted until it is voted on at a town meeting.

Selectmen also reviewed an ordinance prohibiting skateboarding in public areas. They voted unanimously to ask the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Department to be more diligent in enforcing the ordinance. Skateboarding is not allowed on streets, sidewalks or parking lots under the ordinance and is punishable by fines of up to $100 and surrender of skateboards for up to 90 days.