HomeMy WebLinkAbout0237NORDINANCE NO. 237 i(New Series)
AN ORDINANCE PROHIBITING THE OPERATION OF RADIO
RECEIVING SETS, MUSIC BOXES; PLAYER PIANOS, PHO-
NOGRAPHS AND OTHER MACHINES AND MECHANICAL DE-
VICES FOR THE PRODUCING OR REPRODUCTION OF SOUND
IN PLACES OF BUSINESS, IN SUCH MANNER THAT THE
PEACE AND GOOD ORDER OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD IS DIS-
TURBED; PROVIDING A PENALTY FOR THE VIOLATION OF
SUCH ORDINANCE: AND REPEALING ORDINANCE NO. 235
(NEW SERIES)
BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of San Luis
Obispo as follows:
SECTION 1. The word "person" as used herein shall include
the singular and the plural and shall also mean and include any per-
son, firm, corporation, association, club, copartnership, society,
or any other organization.
SECTION 2. No person owning or having the care, custody,
possession or control of any radio receiving set, music box, player
piano, phonograph, or other machine or mechanical device mechanical-
ly operated, for the producing or the reproduction of sound, or for
the intensification or amplification of sound, shall play, use,
operate or permit to be played, used, or operated such radio receiv-
ing set, music bog, player piano, phonograph, or other machine or
mechanical device mechanically operated, in any restaurant, lunch
counter, hotel lobby, liquor establishment, cocktail bar or any
other place of business within the city of San Luis Obispo in such
manner that the peace and good order of the neighborhood is dis-
turbed or any person owning, using or occupying property in the
✓ neighborhood ,is disturbed or annoyed.
,-- -SECTION 3. The operation of any such radio receiving set,
music box, player piano, phonograph, or other machine or device in
such manner as-to-be plainly audible at a- distance of fifty (50)
feet from the building or structure in which it is located shall be
prima facie evidence of a violation of this ordinance.
SECTION 4. Any person violating any of the provisions of
this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon con-
viction thereof shall be punishable by a fine of not more than Fifty
Dollars ($50.00) or by imprisonment in the County Jail of the County
of San Luis Obispo for not more than thirty (30) days, or by both
such fine and imprisonment.
SECTION 5. Ordinance No. 235 (New Series), entitled "An
'Ordinance Prohibiting thezOperating of Radio Receiving Sets, Music
Boxes, Player Pianos, Phonographs and Other Machines or Devices for
the Producing or Reproduction of Sound Between the Hours of Twelve
O'clock Midnight and Seven O'clock A.M. of the Following Morning
in Places of Business; Prohibiting the Operation of any. such Device
at any Time in such Manner that the Peace and Good Order of the
Neighborhood is Disturbed, and Providing a Penalty for the Viola-
tion of such Ordinance ", finally passed and adopted by the City
Council of -the City of San Luis Obispo on January ?19, 1942, is here-
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by repealed.
SECTION 6. The City Clerk is hereby directed to publish
this ordinance, together with the ayes and noes, for two days before
its final passage in the Telegram- Tribune, a daily newspaper printed,
published and circulated in said city, and the same shall take effect
and be in force thirty (30) days after its final passage.
INTRODUCED AND PASSED TO PRINT this 24th day of February,
1942, by the following vote:
AYES: W. H. Brazil, R.P.Howell,Ralph 1�. Kennedy, F.0.Ki- ba11,Joseph Leery
NOES: None
ABSENT:
ATTEST:
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Finally passed this 2nd day of March, 1942 upon the
following roll call vote:
.yes: R.P.Ho.well, Ralph G. Kennedy, F. C. Kimball, Joseph Leary
Toes: None
Absent: W. H. Brazil
ATTEST
City Clerk