HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council Ordinance 1959-04ORDINAM NO. N-4
An Onnuanee Declare" Certain
Acta to be Misdemeanors and
CaatrarT to the Public Safety.
Walla" and Morals. and Pre-
scribing Penalties for the Vio-
latien of the Ordinance.
The Village Council of the Vil-
lage of Plymouth do hereby or-
dain as follows:
Section 1. This Ordinance shall
be known as the Public Safety,
Welfare and Morals Ordinance.
Section t The doing of any of
the acts or things prohibited, or
the failing to do any of the things
or acts commanded to be done
as set forth in this Ordinance, is
hereby declared to be an offense
against the good order, public
peace, health, welfare, morals,
and proper government of this
Village and unlawful.
Section 8. Disorderly CenducL
The doing of any of the following
acts without authority of law by
any person or persons is hereby
declared to be disorderly conduct
and unlawful.
(a) Wilfully disturbing an as-
sembly or meeting not unlawful
in its character or the peace and
quiet of any family or neighbor-
hood;
(b) Wilfully and lewdly ex-
posing the person or the private
parts thereof or procuring anoth-
er to so expose himself and any
open or gross lewdness or lasci-
vious behavior or any act of pub-
lic indecency;
(c) Using profane, vulgar or
indecent language in or about any
public buildings, store or place of
business, or upon any of the
streets, alleys or sidewalks of the
Village. so as to be audible and
offensive;
(d) Appearing on any public
street or other public place in an
intoxicated condition or drinking
intoxicating liquor on any vehi-
cle upon a public sweet.
Section 4. Assault. No person
shall strike or attempt to strike
nor in any unlawful manner of-
fer to do or do any bodily harm
to another person, nor unlawful-
ly make an attempt to apply any
degree of force or violence to the
person of another, nor in a vio-
lent, rude, angry, or insolent
manner touch or lay hands upon
the person of another.
Section 5. Vagrants. Vagrancy
Is hereby declared to be unlaw-
ful and the following persons are
hereby declared to be vagrant:
(a) A person. who being a ha-
bitual drunkard, abandons, ne-
glects or refuses to aid in the
support of his family;
(b) A person who has con-
tracted an infectious or other di-
sease in the practice of drun-
keness or debauchery requiring
charitable aid to restore him to
health.
(c) Fortune tellers and such
other like imposters;
(d) A person known to be a
pickpocket, thief, burglar, yegg-
man or confidence man and hnv-
ing no visible or lawful means of
support, when found loitering
around any railroad depot, rail-
road yard, banking institution,
broker's office, place of public
amusement, hotel, auction room,
store, shop, crowded tliornu,,h-
fare. car or omnibus or at any
public gathering or assembly.
(e) A person engaged in prac-
ticing or attempting any trick or
device to procure mony or other
thing of value when such trick or
device is made a public offense
by any law of this State or any
person engaged in soliciting, pro-
curing or attempting to solicit
monev or other thing of value by
falsely pretending and represent-
ing himself to be blind, deaf,
dumb, without arms or legs, or to
be otherwise physically deficient
or to be suffering from any phy-
sical defect or infirmity;
(f) A person wandering about
and lodging in taverns, groceries,
ale houses, market places, sheds,
stables, barns or other uninhabit-
ed buildings or in the open air,
not giving a good account of him -
elf.
Section & Destruction of Prop-
er,, and Trespass.
5.01, It shall be unlawful wil-
fully or maliciously to displace,
remove, injure or destroy any of
the following:
(a) A highway or private way
laid out by authority of law or
bridge upon such public or pri-
vate way;
(b) A tree, rod, post or other
monument, which has been erect-
ed or marked for the purpose of
designating a point in any boun-
dary or any mark or inscription
thereon;
(c) A mile board, a milestone
or guide post erected uTwn a
highway or any inscription there-
on:
(d) A line of telegraph or tele-
phone or any part thereof or any
appurtenance or apparatus con-
nected with the working of any
mnsnetic or electric telegraph or
telephone or the sanding or con-
v+i
veyance of messages thereby;
(e) The pipe or main for con-
ducting gas or water or heat or
any works erected for supplying
buildings with gas or water or
heat or any appurtenance or ap-
pendage connected therewith;
(f) A sewer or drain or a pipe
or a main connecter? therewith or
forming a part thereof.
(g) Any standing crops, grain.
cultivated fruits or vegetables,
the property of another, in any
case for which punishment has
not been otherwise prescribed.
5.02. It shall be unlawful in any
manner wilfully to damage any
building or part thereof, throw
any stone or other missile at or
break anv window therein or aid,
counsel, hire or procure any per-
sons so to do.
5.03. It shall he unlawful for
any person who has no right of
possession to refuse to depart
from and surrender possession of
nronerty when ordered to do so
by the owner thereof and there-
after wilfuly to continue to tres-
pass upon said property; provid-
ed. Oat this section shall not
apply in any case where imme-
diately prior thereto there existed
between the owner and the per-
son in possession the relationship
of landlord and tenant, vendor
and vendee, mortgagor and mort-
gagee, or their respective succes-
sors or assigns.
Section 8. Dangerous Articles.
6.01. It shall be unlawful for
any manufacturer or vendor to
sell, or cause to be sold, place or
cause to be placed any gasoline or
benzine in quantities of more
than one pint, in any receptacle
except of a bright red color and
tagged and labeled in large plain
letters with the name of the con-
tents or to sell or cause to be
sold, place or cause to be placed
kerosene or other illuminating
oil in the same quantities in any
recentacle except of a bright red
color.
6.02. It shall be unlawful to
sell, give loan or in anywise fur-
nish any firearm or ammunition
to a minor under the age of 18
years without the written consent
of his parents or guardian or of
a notice officer or magistrate,
6.03. It shall be unlawful for
any person to purchase, manu-
facture, use, sell or keep for sale
within this Village, firecrackers,
crackers and other explosive py-
rotechnics, except by special per-
m it.
$action 1. Lay. and Onler
teed $100.00 or by imprisonment
7.01. It shall he unlawful for
not to exceed 90 days, together
any person wilfully to oppose or
with the costs of prosecution in
obstruct a health officer or phy-
either ease.
sician charged with the enforce-
Section 11. This Ordinance
hent of the health laws in per -
shall be in full force and effect
farming any legal duties.
from and after its passage and
7.02 It shall be unlawful for
publication.
an;, person directly or indirect-
passed by the Village Council
ly t-) addres any threat or intimi-
of the Village of Plymouth this
datit.n to a public officer or to a
3rd day of February, 1959.
referee, arbitrator, appraiser or
Howard C. Anderson, Mayor
asseswor or to any other person
(SEAL)
author zed by law to hear or de-
Attest:
termine any controversy or mat-
H. T. Johnson, Village Clerk
ter wits intent to induce him
contrary to his duty to do or
make or to omit or delay in any
net, decision or determination.
Section L Conspiracy
It shall be unlawful for any
two or more persons to conspire
to commit any act injurious to
public health, public .norals,
trade or commerce or to conspire
for the perversion or obstruction
of public justice or the due ad-
ministration of the law.
Section & Carlaw La -
9.01. It is hereby declared to be
unlawful for any person under
the age of 15 to be or remain in
or upon any of the public streets,
alleys or public ,7ounds in the
Village of Plymo ith between the
hours of 9 p. m. and 5:30 a. m„
unles such person is accompa-
nied by and under the control of
a parent, guardian or other per-
son having the legal custody of
such minor person, unless such
minor person has obtained from
the Village Council a Special Per-
mit permitting said minor person
necessarily to be upon the said
streets, alleys or public places
during said times because of the
permit.
9.02. It is hereby declared to be
unlawful for any parents, guar-
dian or other person having the
legal care and custody of any per-
son under 15 years of age to al-
low or permit any such child,
ward or other person under such
age, while in such legal custody,
to go or be n or upon any of
the public streets, alleys or pub-
lic grounds of the Village of Ply-
mouth within the times prohibit-
ed in this Section, unless there
exists a reasonable necessity
therefor.
Section 10. penalties
Any person, firm or corpora-
tion convicted of violating any of
the provisions of this Ordinance
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor
and punished by a fine not to ex.