40 of 1917 - Changing location of municipal market ROLLCALL "°"'°° DESEPf NEWS
VOTING AYE NAY Salt Lake City,Utah, '7, ,191.7
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Green I move that the ordinance be passed.
Newman..
Scheid
Wells '
Mr.Chairman ......
Result AN ORDINANCE
An ordinance providing for the regulation of moving picture
shows and other places of amusement attended by minors.
Be it ordained by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake
City, Utah:
SUC'1'ICE 1. It shall be unlawful for any .Person, firm or
corporation to hold, conduct or carry on, or to cause or permit
to be held, conducted or carried on, any motion picture, exhibition
or entertainment of any sort which is offensive to decency, or is
adapted to excite vicious or lewd thoughts or acts, or which is
lewd or obscene or vulgar, or which is of an obscene, indedent or
immoral nature, or so suggestive as to be offensive to the moral
sense.
SECTI0I1 2. It shall be unlawful for any child under the age
or aeparent age of sixteen years to attend any motion picture show,
or any place of amusement where motion _pictures are exhibited,
after the hour of a:30 P. II. upon days when the public schools are
in session, or after the hour of 9:00 P. Y. when such schools are
not in session, unless said child be in company with its parent,
guardian or an adult person designated by the parent or guardian
of such child.
It shall be unlawful for any such child to represent himself
or herself to have reached the age of sixteen years in order to
obtain admission to enter such places of amusement, or to be
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permitted to remain therein when such child is in fact under sixteen
years of age; and it shall also be unlawful for any person to
represent himself or herself to be a parent or guardian of any child
in order that such child may obtain admission to any public place
of amusement mentioned in this section, or to be permitted to remain
therein when the party making the representation is not in fact
either a parent or proper guardian of such child.
It shall be the duty of proprietors of public places of amuse-
ment to co-operate with officers and inspectors to prevent $41-tsig
idling and loafing about the entrance of such places, and to report
to officers and inspectors of amusements is all such cases. It
shall also be the duty of such proprietors to refuse admission to
all children coming under the provisions of this section under the
conditions herein set forth.
SECTION 3. For the purpose of better enforcement of this
ordinance, the Chief of Police shall designate two regular members
of the police force to act as Inspectors of Public Amusements, one
of whom shall be a woman.
It shall be the duty of the Inspectors of Public Amusements
to investigate conditions at all places of public amusement to see
that the provisions of this ordinance are being observed, and in
the course of their duties such Inspectors shall have access to all
public places of amusement upon display of proper credentials.
They shall investigate all complaints and report any and all
violations of ordinances, laws and regulations.
SECTION 4. Nothing in this ordinance shall be construed so as
to interfere with exhibitions given in public or private schools
or by societies or organizations where the exhibitions aim not
continued for a consecutive number of days or nights.
SECTION 5. The Department of Public Safety is herewith
empowered with authority to make such rules and regulations as may
be deemed necessary to secure proper observance of the provisions
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of this ordinance.
• SECTION 6. Any person, timeronapancticzni violating any of
the provisions of this ordinance shall upon conviction, be punished
by a fine in any sum not exceedin945O.00, or by imprisonment in
the City Jail for a period not longer than thirty days. The court
may in imposing the fine, enter as part of the judgment that in
default of the payment of the fine, defendant may,be imprisoned in
the City Jail for a period not exceeding thirty days.
In the event of a second violation of any of the provisions
of this ordinance by any exhibitor, the Board of Commissioners of
Salt Lake City may in its discretion revoke the license of suoh
exhibitor. •
SECTION 7. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict
herewith are hereby repealed to the extent of such conflict.
SECTION 8. This ordinance shall take effect Ras days after
iflex/iratxpuklieationx date of passage.
Passed by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City, Utah,
bfay 15, , 1917.
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Mayor .
City Recorder.
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