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ORDINANCE NO. 3S$
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF AZUSA LOS ANGELES COUNTY CALIF-
ORNIA, PROHIBITING THE COERCION OA INTjIP.QI-
DATION OF PERSONS IN THE STREETS, SIDEWALKS
OR PUBLIC 'NAYS IN THE CITY OF AZUSA, AND
PROVIDING A PENALTY FOR VIOLATION THEREOF.
The City Council of the City of Azusa does
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SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for
any person or persons in or upon any public street,
sidewalk, alley, park, parkway or public way in the
City of Azusa, to loiter, stand or patrol or to by
word or act make threats of violence, or to throw or
to by word or act threaten to throw missiles;; in
front of, about or near any place of business or
employment, residence, dwelling, garage, building or
other structure, for the purpose or with the intent
of deterring or preventing, by intimidation or coercion,
any person from lawfully entering or seeking entrance
to or from lawfully leaving or attempting to leave
such place of business or employment, residence, dwell-
ing, garage, building or other structure.
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SECTION 2. It shall be unlawful for
any person or persons in or upon any public street,
sidewalk, alley, park, parkway or public way in the
City of Azusa, willfully to block, impede or obstruct
Any entrance or approach to or exit or way from
any place of business or employment, residence, dwell-
ing, garage, building or other structure, for the
purpose or with the intent of deterring, by intimida-
tion or coercion, any person from lawfully entering
or seeking entrance to or from lawfully leaving or
attempting to leave said place of business or employ-
ment, residence, dwelling, garage, building or other
structure.
SECTION `. It shall be unlawful for
any person or persons to utter or proclaim to, or in
the presence or hearing of, any other person or persons,
in or upon any public street, sidewalk, alley, park,
parkway or public way in the City of Azusa, any
indecent, obscene, profane, opprobrious or insulting
epithets, words or language, or to so utter or pro-
claim to or within the hearing or presence of any
other person or persons any threats of violence, for
the purpose of threatening, coercing or intimidating
such other person or persons.
SECTION 4. The violation of any of the
terms or provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed
unlawful and a separate violation of this ordinance
for each and every day within which this ordinance is
Violated.
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SEBg_ .IOC_ Any person violating any of the
provisions of this ordinance shall, for each violation
thereof, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction by any court of competent jurisdiction, shall
be punishable by a fine of not more than 0200.00 or by
imprisonment in the Azusa City Jail or in the County
Jail of the County of Los Angeles for a period of not
exceeding 30 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
SECTION 6. If any section, sub -section, sentence,
clause or phrase of this ordinance is, for any reason,
held to be invalid or unconstitutional, such decision
shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions
of this ordinance. The City Council of the City of Azusa
hereby declares that it would have enacted this ordinance
and each section, sub -section, sentence, clause or phrase
thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more
other sections, sub -sections, sentences, clauses or
phrases be declared invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 7. The Mayor shall sign this ordinance
and the City Clerk shall attest same and certify to the
Passage, adoption and publication of the same and shall
cause the same to be published once, within 15 days after
its passage, in the Azusa, Herald and Pomotropic, a weekly
newspaper of general circulation published and circulated
in the City of Azusa, which said newspaper is hereby desig-
nated for that purpose, and thereupon and thereafter 30 days
after its passage this ordinance shall take effect and be
in force./,-
Attest; -V. A. OWENS _
Q7 Mayor of the City of Azusa.
RT. A. HYDE , .City Clerk of
the City of Azusa
Passed, approved and adopted
1941.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
(SS.
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES )
I, MAE A. HYNES, City Clerk of the City of
Azusa, Los Angeles County, California, do hereby certify
that the foregoing ordinance was duly introduced at a
regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Azusa
held on January 20, 1941, in the regular Council Chambers
of said City Council in said City; that the title of said
ordinance was placed upon its first reading at said regular
meeting January 20, 1941; that thereafter said ordinance
was -fully read and duly and regularly passed and adopted
by said Council, signed and approved by the Mayor and
attested by the City Clerk of said City at a regular
meeting of said Council so held in the regular Council
Chambers at a regular meeting of said City Council on
a 1941, and that the same was passed and
adopted by the following vote of the Council: -
Ayes Councilmen: U
Noes Councilmen:)2rA�
Absent : Councilmen: yl�
I do further certify that I caused said ordinance
to be published prior to the expiration of 15 days from the
passage thereof in the Azusa Herald and Pomotropic on
1941, a newspaper of general circulation, print-
ed, published,.and circulated in said City of.Azusa, and that
the same was published in accordance with law.
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MAE A. HYNES City Clerk��
of the City of Azusa.
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