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HomeMy WebLinkAbout62 of 1925 - Relating to stink bombs, etc. ROLL CALL �1 VOTING AYE NAY 111 ; Salt Lake City,Utah, D.eCa Barnes Burton I move that the ordinance be passed. Finch SOUMW Green Mr. Chairman ® Result AN O DINANCE AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO STINK BOEBS OR BALLS OR NAUBEOUS SUBSTANCES. Be it ordained by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City, Utah: SECTION I. Tt shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to sell or offer to sell, give away or offer to give away, or to have in his, their or its possession, or for any per- son to carry about, any stink ball or fire ball, or any bomb, ball, tube, vial or bottle made of thin glass or other easily breakable material, containing any solution of corrosive or caustic acid, phosphorus or other explosive or inflammable fluid or substance, ammonium sulphide or any hydrogen sulphide,,.valerianic'acid, ammonium valerianate, valerianate of zinc, or any solution or mixture thereof, or any other stinking, causeous, offensive or filthy substance, or any jucltpulver, other itching or irritating powder, or any cachoo or other sneeze powder. SECTION 2. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to sell or give away any corrosive or caustic acid, ammonium sulphide, or any phosphorus or sultion thereof, or any hydrogen sulphide, ,, valerianic acid, ammonium valeriante, valerianate of zinc, or any solution or mixture of said substances, or any other stinking, nause- ous, offensive or filthy substances of like or similar nature, or any itching or irritating powder or sneezing powder, except upon the written prescription of a physician, licensed under the laws 62 -2- 1 of the State of Utah, which prescription shall be filled only !once and shall have written upon it the name and address of the etient; provided, that this section shall not apply to sales at (wholesale by manufacturing or wholesale druggists or chemists to (retail druggists, physicians or chemists. ! SECTION 3. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or { !corporation to have in his or its possession, or for any person to carry about any corrosive or caustic acid, phosphorus, or any solution or mixture thereof, or any hydrogen sulphide, ammonium sulphide, valerianic acid, ammonium valerianate, valerianate of zinc, or any other stinking, nauseous, offensive or filthy sub- stanee of like or similar nature; provided, that this section shall not apply to manufacturing and wholesale druggists, retail druggists, physicians, or chemists, or to regularly established laboratories or manufacturing plants, or to persons who have pro- cured any of said substances for medicinal purposes upon a pre- scription of a physician regularly licensed under the laws of the State of Utah. SECTION 4. It shall be unlawful for any person to cast, throw, deposit or place any stink ball, fire ball or bomb, itch- ing or sneeze powder as described in Section 1 hereof, or to cast — deposit or place any substance described in Section 2 hereof, fro,, upon or to any street or public place n the city, or at, upon or within any public conveyance, or upon the floor or within any restaurant, theater, hall, assembly room or public building, or at, upon or within any carriage, automobile, public park or other irehiale within the city. SECTION 5. Any person violating any provision of this 1 !ordinance shall be punished by a fine in any sum not exceeding !Two Hundred Ninety-nine 4299.00) Dollars, or by imprisonment in ;the City Jail for a period not longer than six months, or by both I ! such fine and imprisonment. The court may in imposing a fine 1 1 -nter as part of the judgment that in default of the payment of he fine the defendant may be imprisoned in the City Jail for a .eriod not exceeding six months. SECTION 6. In the opinion of the Board of Commissioners, 't is necessary to the peace, health and safety of the inhabitants of said city that this ordinance become effective immediately. SECTION 7. This. ordinance shall take effect upon phXication , • Passed bythe Board of Commissioners of Salt Bake City, y, Utah, this 22d day of December , A.D. 1925. • Mayor. City Recorder. 1 1 1 . --- - - L.- . . , - • . i - I . . - - ' , - • . , .. . • . ' . . , . . . . . L . . r 1 E--- I L. , ----.1 . .„ I . er rric: t i I•,11)I : , t c'ci t if ,----I , .._ i '--- 2.1 <!'' .H.• . 4\°.'''.,D [i.', '''. r••,.F, 1 . ., . i, • f •. . ... [ f P' 1 1 r. . . • •., , • 1 . } --1 --4