HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance #72 ORDINANCE 72
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH PROVIDING FOR
THE PUNISHMENT OF DRUNKENNESS AND DISORDERLY PERSONS, AND
THE KEEPING OF DISORDERLY HOUSES.
The Board of Trustees of the City of Huntington Beach, do ordain as follows:
Section 1. It is hereby declared to be unlawful for any person to be or sleep in
or upon any street, alley, sidewalk or other public place, within the corporate limits of the
City of Huntington Beach, or to appear thereon or therein a drunken or intoxicated
condition.
Section 2. It is hereby declared to be unlawful for any person to keep a
riotous house, or permit any riotous or disorderly conduct in any house, yard or premises
connected therewith, owned or occupied by such person, or be guilty of any riotous or
disorderly conduct in any house, yard or premises whereby the peace, quiet, or decency
of any person in the neighborhood of such house, may be disturbed.
Section 3. Any person violating any of the provisions of this Ordinance shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a
fine in a sum not exceeding Three hundred dollars ($300.00) or by imprisonment for a
term not exceeding three (3) months, for by both such fine and imprisonment in the
discretion of the Court.
Section 4. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this Ordinance and
shall cause the same to be published once in the Huntington Beach News, a weekly
newspaper published and circulated in said city of Huntington Beach, California, and
thereupon and thereafter is shall take effect and be in force.
Ed Manning
President of the Board of Trustees of the
City of Huntington Beach, California.
Attest
C.E. Lavering.
City Clerk and Ex-Officio Clerk of the Board
of City Trustees of the City of Huntington Beach,
California.
State of California )
County of Orange ) SS.
City of Huntington Beach )
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I, C.E. Lavering, City Clerk of the City of Huntington Beach, and exofficio Clerk of the
Board of Trustees of said City, hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was read to the
Board of Trustees of the City of Huntington Beach on Jan 161h 1911 and was passed at
the regular meeting of the said Board held on the 6th day of Feb. 1911, by the following
vote:
Ayes: Helme, Seely, Stewart, French, Manning,
Noes: None.
Absent: None.
C.E. Lavering
City Clerk and Ex-Officio Clerk of the
Board of City Trustees of the City of
Huntington Beach, California,
Date of Publication Jan 1911.
I C.E. Lavering City Clerk, and Ex-Officio Clerk, of the Board of City Trustees of the
City of Huntington Beach, hereby certify that the foregoing is true and correct copy of an
ordinance of the City of Huntington Beach, numbered 72, and entitled an Ordinance of
the City of Huntington Beach, providing for the Punishment of Drunkenness and
Disorderly Persons, and the keeping of Disorderly Houses. and that the same was
published once in the Huntington Beach News, a weekly newspaper, printed and
published in the City of Huntington Beach according to law on the day of January
1911
C.E. Lavering
City Clerk and Ex-Officio Clerk of the
Board of City Trustees of the City of
Huntington Beach, California.
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phis Ordinance was
reproduced from a
handwritten original in
its exact form to maintain
its historicaCtntegrtty.
This typewritten format
allows for keyword
searching. the
handwritten originaCs can
be vie wed in the City
Clerks office on request.