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Valley Tronlitrtmon
CITY OF PALMER ALA5K \
ORDINANCE NO. 12.
AN ORDINANCE DEFINING
MISDEMEANORS IN THE CITY
OF PALMER. ALASKA. PRO
VIDING PUNISHMENT AND
FOR OTHER PURPOSES
(Continued from Nov. 3. issue .
of the Valley Frontiersman.)
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Section 31. DISTURBING FU- '
NERAL. Any person or persons
who shall wilfully and unlawful- |
ly interrupt or disturb a funerai
assembly or procession in the
City of Palmer, shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 32. OBSCENE LITER
ATURE. Whoever shall bring
within the limits of the City of
Palmer, for the purpose of sale,
or shall sell or offer for sale, or
give away, or offer to give away,
or make, draw, print or po>t
within the said City of Palmei |
any obscene, indecent or scandal
ous picture, pamphlet, newspaper
journal, magazine, printed publi- j
cation, slip, papers, or writing of
any kind or character or any ob
scene, indecent, or scandalous
picture, drawing, engraving, card,
photograph, medal, caste, or in
strument or any article of an in
decent or immoral character,
shall be deemed guilty of a mis
demeanor.
Section 33. LEWD PLAY OR
EXHIBITION. Whoever shall ex
hibit or perform, or shall assist
in exploiting or performing any
indecent, obscene or lewd play,
exhibition or other representa
tion, or shall permit the same to
be performed in any building or
premises owned or controlled by
him or in any other place, withi i
the City of Palmer, shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 34. WRITING, CUT
TING OR PLACING OBSCENE
WORDS OR DESIGNS IN PUB
LIC PLACES. Whoever shall, in
any place open to the public view,
or to which the public have ac
cess, mark, write, draw, cut or
make any obscene or indecent
word, sentence, design or figure,
within the limits of the City of
Palmer, shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor.
Section 35. DRUNKENESS.
Whoever shall be drunk, or in a
state of intoxication, or under the
influence of liquor, within the
City of Palmer, or in any private
house or place therein, or in a
vehicle while driving or operat
ing the same, shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 36. HANDLING EX
PLOSIVES BY ARTIFICIAL
LIGHT. Any person who shall
weigh or handle any gunpowd *r,
gun-cotton, or explosive powder
of any kind, or draw kerosene,
oil or handle any inflamable ma
terial in any manner which is
dangerous and liable to explode,
by means of fire or ignition, in
any artificial light, except an
electric light, within the City of
Palmer, shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor.
Section 37. KEEPING GUN
POWDER, ETC. WITHIN CITY
LIMITS. It shall be unlawful for
any person, firm or corporation,
to manufacture or keep within
the limits of the City of Palmer,
Giant powder, gun-cotton, or any
other explosive without first hav
ing obtained from the Common
Council written permission so to
do; PROVIDING that such per
mit shall not authorize the keep
mg of more than fifty pound* of
Mid nubirtance. in any one place
within the City of Palmer, any
person firm or corporation vio- ;
Utini any provision of this sec
tion shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor PROVIDED, that
the Chief of Police may. and it
shall be his duty to go upon or
m the premise* of any person,
firm or corporation whom he has
good reason to believe is keeping
or storing explosives contrary to
the provisions of this section, and
to arrest all persons violating any
provision thereof.
Section 38. INJURING SIDE
WALKS. Whoever shall tear up
or injure any sidewalk, cross
walk, street, drain, water-pipe or
sewer, without written permis
sion of the City Council of the
City of Palmer, or who shall hin
der or obstruct the installing or
repairing of same, or of any othi r
public work or improvement be
ing done in said City by authori
ty thereof, or v.hoever shall ob
struct any street, highway, ave
nue, alley, crossing, sidewalk, or
other public passageway of said
City without written permission
of said Council, or whoever shall :
dig, remove, carry away, or cause
or procure the same to be done,
any material, wood, stone, earth,
sand or gravel, from any street,
alley, or public material, public
land or premises in said City
without the permission of said
City Council, shall be deemed j
guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 39. IMPERSONATING
OFFICER. Whoever shall unlaw
fully represent himself to be an
officer of the City of Palmer, or
shall without authority exercise
or attempt to exercise any pow
ers, duties or functions of any
such officer, or whoever, not be
ing a peace officer of said City,
shall wear or have in his posses
sion any policeman’s or police of
ficer’s badge, with intent thereby
to pass himself as a peace officer
OI said v-,liy» blldll UC uccnitu
ty of a misdemeanor.
Section 40. BOARDING RAIL
WAY CAR WHILE IN MOTION.
It shall be unlawful for any per
son to board any railway car or
engine in the City of Palmer
while the same is in motion. Any
person violating the provisions of
this section shall be deemed guil
ty of a misdemeanor, PROVID
ED, that the provisions of this
section shall not extend or apply
to the employes, operatives, or
officers of said railroad.
Section 41. KINDLING FIRE
ON PUBLIC STREET OR HIGH
WAY. Every person who shall,
within the corporate limits of the
City of Palmer, kindle, or cause
to be kindled, or use, or cause to
be used, any fire on any public
street or alley or highway, with
in said City without first secur
ing a written permit so to do from
the City Council, shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and up
on conviction thereof shall be
punished by a fine of not more
than one hundred dollars.
Section 42. NUISANCES. Who
ever shall construct, erect, or
maintain, in the City of Palmer,
either as agent or owner, any
thing which is a nuisance at com
mon law under the Statutes of
the United States, or under the
laws of the Territory of Alaska,
or under the Ordinances of said
City of Palmer, shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 43. DEPARTING FROM
QUARANTINED PREMISES.
Whoever shall depart without
permission from the health offi
cer of the City of Palmer from
any quarantined pirmim .»
houw of any kind whataoev«*r,
which ha* bwn quarantined un j
der the Ordinance* of the City of
Palmer, shall be deemed guil'y
of a misdemeanor.
Section 44 PENALTIES Un- j
less otherwise herein provided,
whoever violate* any of the pro
vision* of this Ordinance shall be
punished by a fine not to exceed
one hundred dollars ($100.00) ir
by imprisonment in the munici*
pal jail not more than thirty days
or both in the discretion of the
magistrate.
Section 45 LIMITS OF SPEED.
No person shall drive a motor
vehicle through the streets or al
leys of the City of Palmer in
access of twenty-five (25) miles
per hour. Any person who vio
lates this section shall be fined
not more than one hundred dol
lars or imprisoned for more than
thirty days or both such fine and
imprisonment.
Section 46. No person shall en
gage in prostitution, lewdness o*
assignation.
Section 47. No person shall so
licit, induce, entice, invite, com
pel, force, require, or procure an
other to commit an act of lewd
ness, assignation or prostitution.
Section 48. No person shall
maintain or operate any place,
house, building, vehicle, or trail
er for the purpose of prostitution
or assignation.
Section 49. No person shall
knowingly own any place, house,
building, other structure, or part
thereof, or vehicle or trailer used
fdr the purpose of lewdness, as
signation, or prostitution, or let,
lease or rent or contract to let,
lease or rent any such place,
premises or conveyance or part
thereof, to another with know
ledge or reasonable cause to be- '
lieve that the intention of the
lessee is to use such place, prem
ises or conveyance for prostitu
tion, lewdness or assignation.
Section 50. No person shall of
fer, or offer to secure, another
for the purpose of prostitution,
or for any other lewd or indecent
acx. I
Section 51. No person shall di
rect, take or transport, or offer
or agree to take or transport, Dr
aid or assist in transporting, an
other to any house, place, build
ing, other structure, vehicle, trail
er, or to any other person with
knowledge or reasonable cause to
believe that the purpose of such
directing, taking or transporting
is prostitution, lewdness or as-1
signation.
Section 52. No person shall
knowingly accept, receive, levy
or appropriate any money or oth4
er thing of value without con
sideration from a prostitute or
from the proceeds of any women
engaged in prostitution.
Section 53. No person shall at
tend or frequent, reside in, enter,
or remain in any house, place,
building or other structure, or
enter or remain in any vehicle nr
trailer for the purpose of prosti
tution, lewdness or assignation.
Section 54. No person shall at
tend or frequent, reside in, enter,
or remain in any place where
prostitution, lewdness, or assig
nation is practiced, encouraged or
allowed.
Section 55. DEFINITIONS.
Prostitution means the giving or
receiving of the body for sexual
intercourse for hire. Lewdness
means any indecent or obscene
act. Assignation means the mak
ing of any appointment or en
gagement for prostitution or
lewdness or any act in further
a nor of such appointment or en
gagement,
Station 56 Ln prewcutiont un
der thi« section common farm
shall be ctimprtrnt evidence ir
support of the complaint and ten
timony concerning the reputa
tion of any place, structure, o:
building and of the person 01
persons who reside in or frequent
the same and of the defendant
shall be admissable in evidence
in support of the charge.
Section 57. PERSONAL CON
DUCT. No person shall and il
shall be unlawful to
(a) Engage in any illegal oc
cupation or business.
(b) Engage in any window,
peeping.
(c) Beg in any street, alley di
public place.
(d) Jostle or roughly crowc
people unnecessarily in any
street, alley, or public place.
(e) Utter any profanity, inde
cent or improper language in z
public place.
(f) Accost a person or endea /
or to entice him into an automo
bile.
(g) Attend or frequent any
place in which an illegal business
is permitted or conducted.
(h) Solicit a person for the pur
pose of committing any illegal
act.
(i) Sell, use or explode any
fireworks, explosive or stench
bomb, to which fuses are at
tached or which are ignitable by
means of a match, without per
mission of the Chief of Police.
(j) Spit upon or otherwise mar
Dr litter any hallways, stairways,
sidewalks or steps or any public
building or place of worship.
(k) Trespass upon the private
property of another without his
consent.
(l) Engage for h'.rr in the prat
tiro or occupation of fortune toll
I mg mmd reading, character
reading or phrenology.
(m) Drive a vehicle not hi
! own without the owner's con
sent. without intending to steal
the same.
Section 58. Every act prohibit
ed by this Ordinance is hereby
declared unlawful; unless anoth
er penalty is expressly provided
by this Ordinance for any pat -
ticular provision or section, every
person convicted of a violation of
any provision of this Ordtnanct
or any rule or regulation adopt
ed or issued in pursuance there
of, shall be punished by a fine of
not more than one hundred
($100.00) dollars or by imprison
ment for not more than thirty
(30) days, or by both such fire
and imprisonment. Each act of
violation and every day upon
which any such violation shall
occur shall constitute a separate
offense.
Section 59. If any section, sub
section, clause, sentence, oi
phrase of this Ordinance is held
to be invalid, the decision shall
not affect the validity or the
meaning of the remaining por
tions of this Ordinance. The Com
mon Council of the City declares
that it would have pased this
Ordinance and each section, suo
section, sentence, clause and
phrase thereof, irrespective of
the fact that any one or more
sections, sub-sections, sentences,
clauses or phrases be declared in
valid.
This Ordinance shall be in full
force and effect from and after
the first day of September, 1951.
CARL H. MEIER, Mayor.
Attest:
Wm. HEAD, City Clerk.
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