HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance #6 Proposed by Trustee David O. Stewart: —
ORDINANCE NO. 6
"AN ORDINANCE PROHIBITING THE SALE, GIFT OR DELIEVERY OF
ALCOHOLIC OR INTOXICATING LIQUORS IN THE CITY OF
HUNTINGTON BEACH, OR IN ANY MANNER DEALING IN SUCH LIQUORS.
EXCEPT IN THE MANNER AND FOR THE PURPOSES PROVIDED HEREIN."
The Board of Trustees of the City of Huntington Beach do ordain as follows.
Section 1. — It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm, corporation, club or
association, or member of such club or association, to establish, carry in, keep or maintain a
place where spirituous, vinous, malt or intoxicating liquors, or any mixtures thereof, or any
alcoholic drinks what ever are sold, kept for sale, offered for sale, furnished, distributed, divided,
delivered or given away, except as in this ordinance here in after provided.
Section 2. — It shall be unlawful for any person, either as owner, employer, agent,
servant, clerk or otherwise to sell, keep for sale, offer for sale, furnish, distribute, divide, deliver
or give away, within the City of Huntington Beach, any spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors, or
any mixture thereof, or any alcoholic or intoxicating drinks whatever, except as in this ordinance
here inafter provided.
Section 3. — It shall be unlawful for any person, either directly or indirectly, to keep or
maintain, by himself or by associating or combining with others, or in any manner to aid assist or
abet in keeping or maintaining any club room or other place, within the City of Huntington
Beach, in which any spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors, or any a mixture thereof, or any
alcoholic or intoxicating liquors are received or kept, for the purpose of gift, barter or sale, or for
distribution or division among the members of any club or association, by any means whatever,
and it shall be unlawful for any person within the City of Huntington Beach, to disperse, barter,
sell, or give away, or assist or abet another in dispensing, bartering, selling, or giving away, any
such liquors so received or kept.
Section 4. — It shall be unlawful for any person to have in his possession within the
City of Huntington Beach, any spirituous, vinous, malt or mixed liquors, or any alcoholic or
intoxicating drinks, or bottles, barrels, vessels, or other articles, with the intent to use the same in
violation of this ordinance, and in addition to the penalty herein after provided, all such liquors
bottles, barrels, vessels, or other articles in the possession of such person shall be and are hereby
declared to be nuisances, and the City Marshal and his deputies shall have the right, and it shall
be their duty, to abate such nuisance by seizing the same, and upon the conviction of such
persons of violating this ordinance, all such liquors shall at once be destroyed by the said
Marshal in the presence of at least two witnesses, and a written report made by them to the Board
of Trustees.
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Section 5. — It shall be unlawful for any person to let or lease any building, tenement or
place owned by him or under his control within the City of Huntington Beach to be used, or
permit the same to be used, in violation of this ordinance.
Section 6. — It shall be unlawful for any officer, agent, or employee of a railroad
company, street railway company, express company, transfer company, or any person what ever
with in the City of Huntington Beach, to knowingly carry or deliver any spirituous, vinous, malt
or mixed liquors, or any alcoholic or intoxicating drinks, or vessels for containing the same, to or
for any person, to be sold or used in violation of this ordinance.
Section 7. — It shall be unlawful for any person to solicit or take orders within the
City of Huntington Beach for any spirituous, vinous, malt or mixed liquors, or any alcoholic or
intoxicating drinks to be used or sold in violation of this ordinance.
Section 8. — It shall be the duty of the city Marshal and his deputies to put persons
suspected of violating this ordinance under strict surveillance, and to use all legal means in
detecting and convicting persons violating this ordinance including the exercise of the right of
search, as provided in Section 13 of this ordinance.
Section 9. — Any registered pharmacist, under the laws of this state, as proprietor of a
regular drug store, may, in the manner herein specified, sell alcoholic liquors in the City of
Huntington Beach for bona fide medical purposes, in accordance herewith, upon the written
prescription of a physician entitled to practice medicine under the laws of the State of California,
provided, however, that said prescription shall be written signed, and dated by such physician
within twenty four hours of the date of sale; That the name of the person applying personally for
the prescription and the name of the person for whose personal use the prescription is made, shall
be inserted therein by the physician issuing the same, at the time the prescription is made or
given; that the prescription shall be presented to and filed by the druggist before any sale or
furnishing is made thereon, that all prescriptions shall be numbered and kept in regular
cuccession by the pharmacist filling the same, on a separate file, convenient for, and open and
subject during all business hours, to the inspection of the Marshal and his deputies, and to any
person who may be designated by the President of the Board of Trustees of said City; -that only
one sale shall be made on one prescription; that the prescription shall be written or given only,
when in the opinion of the physician, such liquor is actually necessary as a medicine for the
person named thereon, and such prescription shall specify the kind and quantity of liquor to be
furnished thereon.
Section 10. — Whenever the father, mother, wife, husband or guardian, or any adult
relative of any person, shall notify any registered pharmacists or druggist that such person,
naming him, uses intoxicating liquors as a beverage and shall forbid said pharmacist, or druggist
from selling, bartering or giving to such person any alcoholic liquors, it shall be unlawful for
such pharmacist or druggist, after such notice, to let such person have any alcoholic liquors upon
prescription or otherwise.
Section 11. — Every act in violation of this ordinance shall separately, or for each day of
its continuance, be deemed a perarate offense, and any person who shall in any manner
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encourage, aid, abet or assist in the violation of this ordinance, shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemanor, and any clerk, servant, agent, or person committing any act in violation of this
ordinance shall be deemed guilty as principal.
Section 12. — Wherever the city Marshal or any of his deputies shall have probable
cause to believe that any person has in his possession any spirituous, vinous, malt, or mixed
liquors, or any beverage containing alcohol in any percentage, with the intent to keep or dispose
of or use the same contrary to or in violation of any of the provisions of this ordinance, he may
apply to the City Recorder, as herein after provided, for a search warrant, and upon such search
warrant issuing, may search for and take possession of any such liquors.
Section13. — The provisions of Sections 1523 to 1540 both inclusive, of the Penal Code
of the State of California, except Sections 1536, are hereby adopted and made a part of this
ordinance the same as if fully set forth herein, and reference is hereby made to said sections.
When ever in said sections the words"magistrate" or"Justice of the Peace" are used, the words
"City Recorder" shall be deemed substituted therefor.
Section 14. — When the property is delivered to the City Recorder he must retain it in his
possession, and if the grounds on which the warrant is issued be controverted, and it be
determined by said City Recorder that the grounds stated in the affidavits upon which such
warrant issued were not sustained, he must order such property restored to the person from
whom it was taken, and if said City Recorder sustains the grounds upon which such warrant
issued, or if the person from whom such property is taken is convicted of violating any of the
provisions of this ordinance relating to such property or growing out of the possession or use
thereof, said City Recorder shall order the City Marshal to destroy such property in the manner
set forth in Section 4 of this ordinance.
Section 15. — The words "intoxicating liquors" used in this ordinance shall be construed
to mean alcohol, alcoholic liquors, wine, beer, spirituous, and all intoxicating liquors what ever.
The term "Marshal" as used in this ordinance shall be construed and understood to mean the City
Marshal of the City of Huntington Beach, and the term "Recorder" shall be construed and
understood to refer to the City Recorder of the said city.
Section 16. — Any violation of any of the provisions of this ordinance shall constitute a
misdemeanor, and every person found guilty of violating any of said provisions, shall, upon
conviction thereof, be fined in the sum of not more than Three hundred Dollars ($300), or be
imprisoned not more than three (3) months in the city jail of the City of Huntington Beach, if
there be one or in the county jail of Orange County, as the City Recorder may direct, or be
punished by both such fine and imprisonment.
Section 17. — All ordinances, or parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are
hereby repealed.
Section 18. — The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this ordinance and cause the
same to be published once in the Huntington Beach News, a newspaper published and printed in
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the said City of Huntington Beach, and thereupon and thereafter it shall take effect and be in full
force.
Ed Manning
President of the Board of Trustees of the
City of Huntington Beach.
M.D. Rosenberger
City Clerk and ex officio clerk of the
Board of Trustees.
I M. D. Rosenberger, City Clerk of the City of Huntington Beach, do hereby certify that
the foregoing ordinance was passed at a regular meeting of the Board of Trustees of the City of
Huntington Beach, held on the 8th day of March 1909, by the following vote.
Ayes. C. H. Howard. M. E. Helme, D. O Stewart C. W. Warner, Ed Manning.
Noes. None.
M. D. Rosenberger
City Clerk.
I M. D. Rosenberger, city clerk and Ex officio clerk of the Board of Trustees of the city
of Huntington Beach, hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance is a true and correct copy of an
ordinance of the city of Huntington Beach numbered"6" and entitled"An Ordinance Prohibiting
the Sale, Gift or Delivery of Alcoholic or Intoxicating Liquors in the City of Huntington Beach,
or in any manner Dealing in such Liquors, Except in the manner and for the purposes provided
herein," and that the same has been published in the Huntington Beach News a news paper
published and printed in the city of Huntington Beach according to law.
Date published
March 12th 1909 M.D. Rosenberger
City Clerk.
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