0167 (Licenses)ORDINANCE NO. ILA
AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING A LICENSE ON DANCE HALLS, BOWLING
ALLEYS AND SKATING RINKS, WITHIN THE CITY OF OKEECHOBEE,
FLORIDA; PROHIBITING THE OPERATION OR MAINTENANCE OF SUCH
PLACES NEARER THAN FIFTEEN HUNDRED FEET TO ANY REGULAR
ESTABLISHED CHURCH OR PLACE OF PUBLIC WORSHIP; PROVIDING
F0_ THE CLOSING OF SUCH PLACES ON SUNDAY AND PROVIDING
0 LICENSE SHALL BE ISSUED TO ANY PERSON NOT HAVING
UTATION OF BEING A PERSON OF GOOD MORAL CHARACTER
PROVIDING A PENALTY FOR VIOLATION OF THIS ORDINANCE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF OKEECHOBEE, FLORIDA:
Section 1
All persons, firms or corporations operating dance
hails, bowling alleys and /or skating rinks within the City
of Okeechobee, Florida, shall be required to pay an annual
license of *15.00 for the operation of each or any of such
places of amusement.
Section 2
No license shall be issued to any person, firm or
or maintenance
corporation for the operation /of a dance hall, bowling alley
or skating rink within fifteen hundred feet of any regular
established church or place of public worship.
Section 3,
All dance hails, bowling alleys and skating rinks
shall close at midnight each Saturday and shall not reopen
until midnight of each Sunday.
Section 4
No license shall be issued to any person who does
not have the reputation of being a person of good moral
character and no such license shall be issued to any firm
or corporation unless the President of such corporation or
the General Manager cf such firm shall have the reputation
of being a person of good moral character.
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Section 5
Any person, firm or corporation violating any
of the provisions of this Ordinance, and upon conviction
thereof, shall be fined not more than 41100.00 or be
impOlooned not more than sixty days or both such fine and
imprisonment in the discretion of the Mayor.
Section 6
All Ordinances, or parts of ordinances, in conflict
herewith be, and the same are hereby repealed.
Section 7
This Ordinanoe shall take effect immediately upon
its passage by the City Council and approval by the Mayor
or upon its becoming a law without such approval.
Read a first time and by unanimous consent passed
to a second reading.
Read a second time and by unanimous consent passed
to a third and final reading.
Read a third time and was unanimously adopted in
open session of the City Council this • day of August,
A. D. 1935.
ATTEST:
CIT OKEECH,EE, FLORIDA
BY
Presider, City Council
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City Cler
The above and foregoing Ordinance is hereby approved
by me this day of August, A. D. 1935.
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MAYOR