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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance No. 360, i `, z ORDINANCE 140. 360. AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF . AZUSA PROHIBITING PERSONS UNDER 17 YEARS OF AGE FROM BEING ON THE PUBLIC STREETS, ALLEYS AND PUBLIC PLACES IN THE CITY OF AZUSA AT NIGHT AFTER THE'HOUR OF 9 O'CLOCK P.M. AND PROHIBITING THE LOITERING OF PERSONS UNDER THE AGE OF 17 YEARS AND PRESCRIBING THE PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION OF THIS ORDINANCE. The City Council of the City of Azusa does ordain as follows4 SECTION 1. It is hereby made unlawful for any person under 17 years of age to be or remain in or upon any of the streets, alleys or public places in the City of Azusa at night between the hours of 9 o'clock P.M. and 5 o'Clock A. M. of the following day, unless such person is accompanied by a parent, guardian or other .persons having legal custody of such minor person, or whose employment makes:it necessary to be upon such streets, alleys or public places during the night time after the hour specified. In the event such minor person after the hour specified shall be in or upon any of the streets, alleys or public places in said City in pur- suance of an errand of duty and directed by his or her parent, guardian or other person having the care and custody of such minor person, or shall be upon any of the streets, alleys or public places, then such minor shall provide himself or herself with a written permit for the purpose, signed by his or her parent, guardian or other person having the care and custody of such minor person. SECTION 2. It is hereby made unlawful for any parent, guardian or other person having the legal care and custody of a person under 17 years of age to allow or permit such minor to go or be in or upon any of the public streets, alleys or public places in the City of Azusa, within the time prohibited in Section 1 of this Ordinance unless there exists a reasonable necessity therefor or unless the employment of such minor makes it necessary for him or her to be upon such streets, alleys or public places within the time prohibited by Section 1 of this Ordinance. SECTION 3. Any person violating the provisions of Sections 1 or 2 of this Ordinance shall supon convicition be fined 1n a sum not less than $1.00 nor more than $15.00 for each offense and in the event such fine shall not be paid, shall be imprisoned in the City or County jail for a term of not to exceed 20 days or by both such fine and imprisonment. SECTION: 4. If any 'section,' subject; paragraph, sentence or dlause of this ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid; the 'City .Council hereby -declares that had it known of the invalidity, of that portion'at the -time of'its enactment, it would have.passed the remainder,of this ordinance without the invalid portion and that it is the intention of the City,Council that the remainder Of this ordinance operate; in'the event of the invalidity of.any portion of'this ordinance. ' SECTION: 5. The Mayor shall sign''this Ordinance and the City Clerk shall attest the same and certify to the passage, adoption and publication of the same -and shall cause the .same to be published once, within -fifteen 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 designated for that purpose, and thereupon and thereafter thirty days after its.passage this Ordinance shall take,effect and be in force. Z2 V. A. Owens, Mayor of the City of -Azusa. Attest: y Mae A. Hynes/./City CClerk of the City of zus.a. Passed, approved and adopted this 16th day of June, 1941. State of California ) County of Los Angeles) SS. I, Mae A. Hynes, City Clerk of the City of Azusa, do hereby certify that the foregoing ofdinance was intruduced, placed upon it first reading and rad at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Azusa, Los Angeles County, California,.duly and regularly held June 2, 1941, in the regular Council - Chambers in said City of Azusa, Los Angeles County, California; that said ordinance was regularly passed and by said City Council, signed by the Mayor and attested adopted by the City Clerk of said City at a regular meeting of said City Council so held in the regular Council Chambers of said City on the 16th day June, 1941 and that the same was passed and adopted by the following vote of Council: AYESs Councilmen: Jumper, Malone, Bradshaw, Arnold, Owens. NOES: None ABSENT: None I, the City Clerk of the City of Azusa, do further certify that I caused said ordinance to be published on the 19th day of June, 1941, in the Azusa Herald and Pomotropic, a newspaper of general circulation printed, published and circulated in said City of Azusa and that the same was published in accordance with law. Mae AHynes, i Clerk of the City of Azua .