0187 (Dancing in Saloons)ORDINANCE NO. / 8 7
AN ORDINANCE DECLARING DANCING IN SALOONS OR ROOMS ADJACENT
THERETO, TO BE A NUSIANCE AND PRESCRIBING A PENALTY FOR
CONDUCTING SUCH DANCES WITHIN SAID SALOONS OR ROOMS ADJACENT
THERETO IN THE CITY OF OKEECHOBEE, FLORIDA.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF OKEECHOBEE, FLORIDA:
SECTION 1.
Any dances conducted or performed within a saloon,
or any room connecting with a saloon, within the City limits of
the City of Okeechobee, Florida, are hereby declared to be a
nuisance injurious to the morals and health of the citizens of
Okeechobee, Florida.
SECTION 2.
All owners, agents or operators of said saloons
within the City of Okeechobee, Florida, are hereby prohibited
from conducting dances in said saloons or any room connecting
with same.
SECTION 3.
Any person or persons who shall fail, after the
passage of this Ordinance, to abate such nuisance shall be fined
not less than fifteen, nor more than two hundred dollars, or
shall serve not more than sixty (60) days, or both such fine
and imprisonment, in the discretion of the Mayor, for each and
every such offense.
SECTION 4.
All Ordinances or parts of Ordinances in conflict
herewith be, and the same are, hereby repealed.
SECTION 5.
This Ordinance shall take effect immediately upon
its passage and approval by the Mayor or upon taking effect
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 PASSED in open session of the
City Council this day of October, A. D. 1937.
ATTEST:
res dent - City Council
The above and foregoing Ordinance is hereby
APPROVED by me this day of October, A. D. 1937.
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