FARGO (AP) - The Fargo Parking Commission is gauging support for parking meters in North Dakota cities.

Some commission members want to build a case to ask the Legislature to overturn North Dakota's 60-year ban of on-street parking meters.

Commissioner Margie Bailly says meters would be a good tool for controlling parking in high-demand areas of downtown Fargo.

Parking meters were banned from North Dakota's public streets in 1948. That's when Howard Henry, a Westhope businessman, farmer and legislator who had been ticketed 12 times in Minot, successfully backed an initiated measure to rid the state of them.

When state lawmakers overturned the meter ban in 1951, Henry led an effort to reverse the Legislature's action.