HomeMy WebLinkAbout~Master - Misdemeanor Ordinance, Repealing Ordinance 566, 570 4 PERMANENT ORD. NO. 812 Temporary Ord. No. 66
A GENERAL MISDEMEANOR ORDINANCE RELATING TO THE PEACE, SAFETY
AND GOOD ORDER OF THE CITY; CREATING AND DEFINING CERTAIN
OFFENSES; PROVIDING PUNISHMENT FOR THEIR COMMISSION; AND REPEAL
ING ORDINANCE NO. 5(76, 570 AND ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS THE EOF
CONTRARY TO OR INCONSISTENT HEREWITH.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AMES, IOWA:
i Section 1. Principal and Accessory. The distinction between principal and
accessory, either before or after the fact, shall have no application in the
enforcement of the provisions of this ordinance. All persons concerned in the
commission of acts prohibited herein, whether they directly commit the act
constituting the offense or aid, abet andc-o�hce slits commission, shall be tried
and punished as though they were principals.
Section 2. Disturbing the Peace and _,uiet. Any person, who willfully
disturbs or interferes with the peace and quiet of another by violent, offensive
or obstreperous conduct, or by using toward another profane, offensive or
threatening language, calculated to provoke a breach of the peace, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 3. Permitting Disturbance of Peace on Premises. Any person,
who suffers or permits quarreling, fighting, unusual noise or affray in any house,
building, or upon any premises owned, occupied, possessed or controlled by him,
in such manner as to disturb the peace of others or the public quiet of the
neighborhood or vicinity, together with all others taking part therein, shall be
gui_ty of a misdemeanor.
Section 4. Disorderly Hall, Fool Rooms, ac c. Any p= rson who keeps or
maintains any dance hall, pool or billiard room, skating rink, shooting gallery or
other place of amusement open to the public, in which any disturbance of the peac
or disorderly conduct is permitted, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
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S ction 5. Disturbing Public Meetings. Any person, who disturbs, inter-
feres with or interrupts the peace and order of any public meeting or lawful
i assemblage of people, by any disorderly act or conduct, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor.
Section 6. Using Blasphemous or Obscene Language. Any person, who use
blasphemous or obscene language, to the disturbance of the public peace and
quiet, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
r Section 7. Fighting. Any person, who engages in a .fight with, strikes or
attempts to strike, invites, challenges or defies another to fight, except in a
reasonable defense of himself and property, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 8. Assault and Battery. Any person, who commits an assault or
an assault and battery, as the same is defined by the laws of the State of Iowa,
within the city, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 9. Affray. Two or more persons, voluntarily or by agreement,
engaging in any fight or the use of blows or violence toward each other, in any
angry or quarrelsome manner, in a public or other place in the city, to the
disturbance of others, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 10. ;Unlawful Assembly. When three or more pe_'sons in a violent
or tumultuous manner assemble, within the city, to do an unlawful act, or, when
together, attempt to do an act, whether lawful or not, in an unlawful, violent or
tumultuous manner, to the disturbance of others, they shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor.
Section 11. Riot. When three or more persons assemble, within the city, and
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in a violent or tumultuous manner commit an act, unlawful under the ordinances
i of the city or laws of the state, or together do a lawful act in an unlawful, violent'
or tumultuous manner to the disturbance of others, they shall be guilty of a
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I{ Section 12. Assisting Police. In case of an affray, unlawful assembly or
riot, as defined by the three preceding sections, any police officer of the city
shall have the right to call to his assistance any able bodied male person present,,
and if such person, without reasonable excuse, neglects or refuses to come to
the aid and assistance of the said officer, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 13. Trespass Prohibited. It shall be unlawful to go upon or enter
any private lot, building, or premises without an invitation or request of the
owner or occupant.
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Section 14. Annoyance Prohibited. It shall be unlawful to ring any door
bell, or knock on any door, or peddle, or canvass, or solicit orders, or beg,
or solicit for any purpose, in or upon any private lot, building or premises
without an invitation or request from the owners or occupants.
Section 15. Inconvenience Prohibited. It shall be unlawful to telephone to
any private lot, building or premises for the purpose of peddling, or canvassing,
or soliciting orders, or begging, or soliciting for any purpose without an
invitation or request from the owner or occupant.
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Section 1.6. Radio on Streets. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm,
corporation or association to operate any radio sound producing device along or
iupon the streets, alleys or public places within the City of Ames for advertising br
other commercial purposes, without first procuring the written consent of the
city manager.
{ Section 17. Bells, Gongs, Etc. Any person, firm or corporation who rings
! bells, sounds gongs, blows or sounds horns, or other similar devices upon the
streets, avenues or alleys of the city for the purpose of advertising any auction
sale, event, or attracting the attention of the public, without first having secured
permission of the city manager, such permission being revokable at any time by
the city manager, shall be guilty of a misdem anor.
Chickens and Other Fowls. An person, firm or corporation
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owning, leping or harboring, within the city, chickens, ducks or other fowls,
which by their crowing, quacking or other noises during the night or early
morning hours, disturb or annoy the residents of the immediate neighborhood,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 19. Bees. Any person, firm or corporation owning, keeping or
harboring bees, within the city, which disturb or anifoy the residents and people
of the immediate neighborhood, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 20. Houses of Ill Fame. Any person, who keeps, maintains or
conducts a bawdy house, brothel, house of ill fame, or one resorted to for
the purpose of prostitution, lewdness, or fornication, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor.
Section 21.Frequenting House of Ill Fame. Any person who resorts to,
frequents or becomes an inmate of any house of ill fame, or resorts to any
ihouse, rooms, apartment, hotel, building, tourist court, or place, within the
city, for a lewd or immoral purpose, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 22. Lewd Women. Any lewd woman or prostitute, who plys her
trade, solicits patronage for herself or others, or commits any act of
prostitution or lewdness, within the city, shall be guilty of a misdeme—or.
Section 23. Disorderly conduct - Soliciting on Streets. Any person,
who frequents the streets, walks or other public places or is found thereon
jsoliciting acquaintance with any person for any immoral purpose, or frequents
or is found upon the streets, walks or public places with an intent to form ac-
quaintances for an immoral purpose, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 24. Disorderly Conduct - Pandering. Any male person, who
accosts, addresses offensive remarks to, attempts to make the acquaintance
I of or to force his company upon any female person with whom he is unacquainted,
� or who acts in an otherwise offensive manner toward such female person on the
streets or in public places within the city, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 25. Disorderly Houses - Keeping. Any person, who knowingly permits
or allows any drunkenness, lewd, obscene or indecent conduct in any house,
apartment, hotel, building, tourist court, or room therein, owned by him or
under his control, within the city, or suffers or permits persons to resort thereto
for a lewd or immoral purpose, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 26. Letting House or Room for Immoral Uses. Any person, who
lets or leases any house, apartment, building or room therein, within the city, j
knowing that the lessee thereof intends to use the same as a house of ill fame or
�f prostitution, assignation house, gambling house or otherwise disorderly house,
II or knowingly allows or permits the lessee thereof to use the same for any such
or other immoral purpose, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
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Section 27. Disorderly Conduct - Lewdness. Any person, who conducts
himself or herself in a lewd, indecent or immoral manner, or who engages with
another person or persons in any boisterous, offensive or disorderly conduct which
is shocking or degrading to the public morals and decency, shall be guilty of a
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i n person, who
Section 28. Indecent Behavior. Any p , appears in any public
place or exposes himself or herself to public view in a state of nudity or in an
indecent or lewd dress, or any person, who makes any indecent exposure of
his or her person or is guilty of any lewd or indecent act or conduct, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 29. Immoral Books Pictures, Etc. Any person, firm or corporation,
who, within the city, imports, prints, publishes, sells, gives away, or has
possession of any lewd, obscene or indecent book, pamphlet, magazine, picture, '
card or any written or printed paper whatsoever, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 30. Immoral Shows and Entertainments. Any person, firm or
corporation, who as owner, manager, director, agent, or in any other capacity,
prepares, advertises, gives, presents or participates in any obscene, indecent,
immoral or impure drama, play, exhibition, show or entertainment, which
would tend to the corruption of the morals of youth or others, within the city,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
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Sectim 31. Offensive Advertising Matter. Any person, firm or corporation,
for commercial reasons, who distributes, within the city, any advertising or
other matter that contains pictures or descriptions of private, venereal or
loathsome diseases, or is morally offensive, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 32. Gambling. Any person, who bets, wins or loses money or
other property at any gambling table, gambling device, or game of chance,
within the city, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
iSection 33. Keeping Gambling House. Any person, who keeps a house,
shop or place resorted to for the purpose of gambling, or permits or suffers
any person in any house, shop or other place under his control or care to play
slot machines, punch boards, at cards, dice, faro, roulette, or other game for
money or other things, within the city, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 34. Frequenting Gambling House. Any person, who resorts to
any building, railroad car or to any place for the purpose of gambling, or taking
part in any game of chance for money or any other tlnng, or who shall be found
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S-- ction 35. Slot Machines. Any person, firm, corporation, partnership
or unincorporated association, who operates or has in his or its charge, within
the city, any slot machine of any kind or character, or any other machine or
device into which may be deposited any sum of money, and which shall or may pay
to the person depositing such money any sum of money, article or merchandise in
an amount of value greater or less than the amount deposited, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor.
Section 36. Punch Boards. Any person, firm, corporation, partnership or
unincorporated association, who operates or has in his or its charge, within the
city, any punch board of any kind or character which shall or may pay to the
person paying for the privilege of playing same, any sum of money, article or
merchandise in an amount or value greater or less than the amount paid by an
individual for the privilege of playing or operating same, shall be guilty of a
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misdemeanor.
Section 37. Destruction and Confiscation. Any machine, device or other
articles used for gambling, as hereinbefore defined, and coming into the possession
of, or being taken by police officers in connection with any raid or arrest, shall
be destroyed under direction of the judge of the municipal court. Money found
or taken, under conditions stated, shall be confiscated to the use of the city.
Section 38. Intoxication. Any person, who, within the city, becomes drunk
or intoxicated, or is found in a state of intoxication, shall be guilty of a misde-
me anor..
Section 39. Intoxicating Liquor.. The manufacture, sale, possession or
transportation of intoxicating liquor, contrary to the statutes of the State of Iowa,
is hereby declared to be an offense against the City of Ames, and any person
guilty thereof shall be deemed to have committed a misdemeanor.
Section 40. Buying From a Bootlegger. Any person, who, within the city,
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buys or receives intoxicating liquor from a bootlegger, or from any person not
duly authorized to sell under the laws of the state or United States, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 41. False Drawing or Uttering of Checks. Any person, who, with
fraudulent intent, makes, draws, delivers, utters or gives any check, draft or i
written order upon any bank, person or corporation and who secures money,
credit, or thing of value therefor, and who knowingly does not have an arrange-
ment, understanding or funds with such bank, person or corporation sufficient
to meet or pay the same, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
The fact that payment of said check, draft, or written order when presenteId
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l course of business shall be refused by the bank, person, or torpor
ation upon which it is drawn, or that it be protested for nonpayment for lack of I
such arrangement, understanding or funds with which to meet the same, shall
ce of such lack of arrangement, understanding
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or lack of funds.
Section 42. Evading Admission Fee to Entertainments. Any person, who I
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willfully enters any building or inclosure where any public entertainment or
exhibition is being held, and at which an admission fee is charged, without paying
such fee, or without leave to enter from the proper party, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor.
Section 43. False Weights and Measures. Any person, firm or
corporation, who gives any false weight or measure or uses any weight, scale
or other in
strument for weighing or measuring any article for sale, unless the
same shall strictly conform to the standards adopted by the State of Iowa, shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor.
tel or Restaurant Keepers. Any person, who
Section 44. Defrauding Ho
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obtains foods, lodging or other accommodation at any hotel, motel or boarding
i or eating house, within the city, with the intent to defraud the owner or keeper
thereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
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Section 45. Soliciting Under False Pretense. Any person who solicits'
I alms, aid, or funds, for any charitable institution, or for any institution, enter-,
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prise, business or project under any false or fraudulent pretense, or who falsely;
or fraudulently represents himself or herself to be the agent, solicitor or I
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representative of any person, firm, corporation, business or institution for
f trade, business, or other purposes, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
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I' Section 46. IDrceny. The crime known as petty larceny is hereby declare4
to be an offense against the City of Ames. Therefore, if any person shall steal,
take and carry awa the money, goods, or property of another, when the value
thereof does not exceed the sum of twen* dollars ($20. 00), he shall be guilty of
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a misdemeanor.
t� Section 47. Receiving Stolen Goods. Receiving stolen goods when the valu¢
I does not exceed the sum of twenty dollars is hereby declared to be an offense
I against the City of Ames. Therefore, if any person shall buy, receive, conceal,
or aid in concealing any stolen money, goods, or property, the stealing of which
is larceny, or property obtained by robbery or burglary, knowing the same to ha�e
�i been so obtained, he shall, when the value of the property so bought, received on
concealed, does not exceed the sum of twenty dollars ($20. 00), be guilty of a
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Section 48. Damage in General. Any person, who defaces, damages, de-
stroys, or interferes with the property of another, either real or personal,
without the conseni of the owner, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
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S ection 49. Trespassing. Any person, who trespasses upon the premises !
of another, and there cuts, breaks or damages any tree, shrub, plant, flower on
vegetable garden, or takes, removes or damages any fruit, flowers, vegetables
or produce thereon, or interferes with or damages any other property lawfully
upon the said premise s, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 50. Damaging Public Property. Any person, who, without the
consent of the proper authority, defaces, damages or destroys any building,
I bridge, paving, side or cross walk, drain or sewer, or any other property
belonging to the City of Ames or State of Iowa, within the city, shall be guilty i
of a misdemeanor.
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Section 51. Interfering With Work of Employees. Any person who negli-
gently or willfully interferes with, damages, defaces or removes any implement
tools, receptacle, utensils or vehicle while being used by the City of .Ames or
by any of its agents or employees in the service of the city, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor.
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Section 52. Damaging Telephone, Telegraph and Electric Facilities. Anyj
person, who discharges any projectile from any bow, air-gun, 'ifle, or other {I
instrument or throws any stone, stick or other thing at fixtures or attachments
upon the telephone, telegraph and electric light and power poles, or at the
fixtures or lamps upon such poles, or who throws strings, wires, or other things
with stones or other weights attached across telephone, telegraph or other wire
or cables carrying electricity, within the City of Ames, or in any manner damages,
destroys or interferes with any poles, fixtures or public wires or cables carry-
ing electric current within the city, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
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Section 53. Defacing Notices. Any person, who defaces or tears down an�
notice, ordinance or advertisement, within the city, posted by order of the city
coancil or by any public officer in the performance of his official duties, shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 54. Posting Bills on Property. Any person, who defaces any
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private or public property, within the city, by posting, pasting, tacking, sticking
or nailing thereon any advertising bills, posters, or any other written or
printed matter, except legal notices provided by law, or in any manner defaces !
same without first having obtained the written consent of the owner or agent of
such property, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
ISection 55. Cemeteries. Any person, who damages or destroys, or
Ii interferes with any tree, shrub, flower or planting in any cemetery, within the
city, or damages, defaces or interferes with any grave, vault, tombstone,
marker, monument, building, fence or other property lawfully therein, shall bed
guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 56. Parks and Rules of Park Commission. Any person, who
willfully cuts, breaks, damages, destroys, or interferes with any tree, shrub,
flower, bush, or any other planting in any public park of the city, or willfully
violates any rule or regulation of the park commission, after the same has
been published or posted, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
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Section 57. Interfering with ElectricMeters. Any person, who interferes'
or tampers with, or changes any electric light or power meter used by the city
for the purpose of measuring electric current, or who, with an intent to defraud!,
I uses a wire or other device to prevent or attempt to prevent the full current from
passing through the said meter, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 58. Interfering with Gas or Water Meters. Any person, who, with
an intent to damage or defraud, interferes with, tampers with or changes any
gas or water meter of the city, or public utility, or any pipe or main thereof
conveying water or gas, within the city, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 59. Interfering With Motor Vehicles. Any person, who willfully
removes, damages, destroys, meddles or interferes with, or puts out of
adjustment, any apparatus or equipment attached to any motor vehicle, or who
damages, defaces, meddles or interferes with any motor vehicle, in any other
manner, without the consent of the owner or the person in lawful charge
thereof, within the city, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
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Section 60. Vehicles With Legs Prohibited. Any motor vehicle, truck,
tractor, or traction engine which by the laws of the state is now, or wkh may
at any time hereafter, be prohibited from operating upon any paved, bituminous ;
or graveled highway, is hereby prohibited from operating upon any paved or
bituminous surfaced street, avenue or alley within the city.
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Section 61. Walking or Driving Upon Newly Laid Sidewalk or Paement .
Any person, who walks or drives a vehicle upon any newly laid pavement or
sidewalk before the same has been opened up to traffic, or who removes or
interferes with any barriers protecting the same, shall be guilty of a misdemea�ier,
and such person, in addition to any fine that may be assessed, shall be liable foi
any damage done to th• said paving or sidewalk.
S ction 62. Fire on Pavement. Any person, who builds or causes to be
built any fire upon any pavement, bituminous surfaced street, or sidewalk on
any street, avenue, or alley, within the city, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 63. Street Signs. Any person, who damages defaces, breaks, takes
down or removes, or in any manner interferes with any street sign, traffic sig-
nal or device placed in a street under authority of the city council, within the
city, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 64. Blocking Street Crossings. Any railroad company, railroad
engineer, train conductor or other person, who causes or allows any locomotive,
engine, car or train of cars to stop at or remain upon, or in any manner obstruct
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any street crossing within the city, for more than five (5) minutes, at any one time,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
' Section 65. Street Parkings. Any person, other than the adjoining lot
owner, and other than one acting for the city of Ames or its park commission
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in a proper case, who ciLrts, breaks, damages or destroys or interferes with
any tree, shrub, flower, bush or any other planting upon a street parking within'',
1 the city, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
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Section 66. Guarding Excavations. Any person, firm or corporation, who
leaves or allows to be open any excavation or vault, in, on, or under any
street, avenue, alley or sidewalk, and fails to guard or protect people passing,
riding, or driving thereby, by proper guards and lights, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor.
Section 67. Guarding Obstructions. An7 person, firm or corporation,
while constructing any sidewalk, residence, building or other improvement, or
I while making repairs to the same, or for any other purpose, who piles sand,
dirt, brick, lumber, or other material upon any street, avenue, alley, or
public place, or within the street limits, without maintaining at and thereon at
proper places a lighted lamp, lighted lantern or flares between the hours of i
sunset and sunrise, sufficiently bright to be easily observed at a distance of
three hundred (300) feet shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
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Section 68. Ashes and Rubbish in Alley. Any person, who places or piles
ashes or rubbish in any street, avenue or alley, within the city, shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor. j
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Section 69. Throwing Paper in Streets. Any person, who throws or
deposits or causes to be thrown or deposited, any paper, cards, advertisements
or the like, into any street, alley or other public place, shall be guilty ofa
misdemeanor.
Section 70. Throwing Glass, Tacks, ETc. , in Streets. Any person, who ,
throws or places in any street or public place, any broken glass, glass bottles
or other articles of glass, -tacks, nails, or any other sharp pointed materials,
substance or things, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 71. Encumbering Sidewalks. Any person, firm or corporation,
who obstructs or encumbers any sidewalk, with boxes, barrels, packages, sign,
building or other material, except temporarily when receiving or taking away
goods or merchandise from adjoining premises, and except when building or
impro—i.ng such nronerty, and then only after ortaining Dermissinn from the
city manager under such conditions as he may impose, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor. 1
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Section 72. Removal of Guards. Any person, who takes down, removesi
carries away or interferes with any fence, railing, barricade, or other guard
placed about, around or at any excavation, pile of dirt, rock or other material,
in a street, avenue, alley, public ground, or on private property, which has
been set as a warning thereof, or who removes, extinguishes, carries away or
interferes with any light, lantern or flare placed at the said obstruction, shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor.
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Section 73. Removal or Interference With Grade Stakes or Monuments.
Any person, who removes, breaks, carries away, damages, destroys or inter-'
feres with, in any manner, any grade stake, stone or other marker or monumeAt
within the city, set by the city, federal, state authorities or duly registered
land surveyor to designate grade, corners, lines or bench marks, or who
defaces, removes any letters, figures or marks thereon, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor.
Section 74. Painting Signs on Sidewalks. Any person, firm o- corporation,
who paints or causes to be painted, any sign or other advertising matter upon
the public sidewalks shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 75. Streets, Allowing Material to Drop From Vehicles. Any
person, who hauls, carries or conveys dirt, stone, sand, coal, wood, hay, straw,
ashes or other substances or materials, on, over, or across any street,
avenue or alley, and allows or permits any portion thereof to fall or be
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j deposited upon the said street, avenue or alley, shall, unless the said material
is forthwith and immediately removed therefrom, be guilty of a misdemeanor,
provided, however, this section shall not apply to the construction, repair or
maintenance of streets, avenues or alleys within the city. i
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Section 76. Library Rules. Any person, who takes from any public
school, or library, within the city, any book, pamphlet, periodical, paper or !
other property, except in accordance with the rules of such library; or who
takes or borrows from such library any book, pamphlet, periodical, paper or
other property and neglects or refuses to return the same within one week
after receiving notice to do so; or who shall willfully cut, mutilate, mark, tear,
write upon, deface or otherwise destroy or injure any book, pamphlet, periodical.,
map, document, picture or other property of such library; or who violates any
other rule of the said library, or disturbs the peace and quiet thereof by
disorderly conduct, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. i
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Section 77. Resisting an Officer. Any person, who resists, obstructs, orf
interferes with the performance of any public officer in the performance of his
official duties, within the city, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
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Section 78. Impersonating Officers. Any person, who falsely represents
himself to be an officer of the City of Ames, of the State of Iowa, or any other
state, or of the United States, or who without legal/lathority attempts to exercise
any of the powers or duties of such officers, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 79. Commands of Police Officers. Anyperson, who refuses or
fails to obey the commands or directions of a police or traffic officer of the
city, stationed and doing duty at any street, avenue or crossing thereof, or at
any public place, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 80. Unlawful Use of Police :Telephone or Radio System. Any pers�n,
who willfully uses the police telephone or-radio system of the city to make a false'I
report as to any crime, offense, circumstance or condition, or in any manner
whatsoever uses such telephone or radio system, or any part thereof, for any
improper or wrongful purpose, or in any manner contrary to the rules of the
police department, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 81. Giving False Alarm. Any person, who by telephone, or in �
any other way or manner, willfully gives a false alarm whereby the fire depart-
ment is called out, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
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Section 82. Driving Over Public Property. Any person, who runs or
drives any engine, car, motor or other vehicle over or across any fire hose,
wire, rope, chain, cable or device used by any public employee in the performance
of his or their official duty, without the permission of the person in lawful
charge of the same, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 83. Interfering with Hydrants. Anyperson, unless properly
authorized, other than an employee of the city, or a member of the fire depart-
ment in the performance of his duty, who takes off or unscrews the cap from
any water hydrant in the streets or avenues of the city, or interferes or I
meddles with such hydrant in any manner, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 84. Concealed Weapons. Any person, other than one holding a
valid permit under the laws of the state,vho is armed with or has concealed
upon his or her person a revolver, pistol, dirk, dagger, stiletto, metallic
knuckles, pocket billy, sand bag, skull cracker, _ sling shot or other dangerous
weapon used for a destructive purpose, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 85. Drive in Careless Manner. Any person who shall drive,
ride, direct, cause or permit to be driven or ridden any horse or other
animal, carriage or vehicle in a careless or improper manner, shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor.
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Section 86. Confining Animals. Any person, firm or corporation, who
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fails to confine or keep confined upon his, her or its premises any cow, horse, I
I" mule, sheep, goat, swine or other domestic animal or allows or permits them
to pass upon the premises of another or the streets or public places of the city, I
shall be uilt of a misdemeanor.
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' Section 87. Discharging Firearms. Any person, who, except in proper
defense of himself or property, or a peace officer in the performance of his
i fires off or discharges any cannon, gun, rifle or other firearm, within
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the city, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Provided, however, that nothing
herein shall apply to the military department of Iowa State College or to military;
funerals.
Section 88. Removing Danger Signals. Any person, who removes, throws
down, destroys or carries away from any street, alley or public place, any lam ,
4 lantern, flare or other light, barricade or danger signal, erected and placed
i therein for the purpose of guarding or enclosing unsafe or dangerous places or
giving warning or notice thereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 89. Open Areaways. Any person, who leaves open any cellar door,
grating, areaway or other covering for a cellar, stairway, coal hole or other I
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excavation in any sidewalk, alley or street, without properly and securely
guarding the same, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 90. Selling Poison. Any persons, firm or corporation who shall
vend, give away or deliver any deadly poison,
without marking the same in legible
fcharacters "Poison", shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 91. Setting Out Poison. Any person, who places or throws any
poison, poisoned food or substances on any street, avenue, alley, public or
private grounds, within the city, in such a way that it may endanger the life of
any person or animal, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Provided, however,
that nothing herein shall prohibit the setting out of poison in a prudent manner
upon one' s own premises for the purpose of exterminating vermin or rodent.
Section 92• Obnoxious Substances. Any person, firm or corporation who j
shall sell, keep for sale, or have in their possession san
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such as stench bombs, sneezing powder or tear g Y substance
oxious
or intended to create sneezing, tears or bodily discomfort, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor.
Section 93• Antennae or Radio Wires. It shall be unlawful for any person,
firm or corporation to attach any antennae or radio wires to any pole used by
(� the City of Ames in conveying electric current, or to any pole carrying telephone
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or telegraph wires or cables; or to G*,-i-a place or continue any such antennae
or radio wires over or under any electric light or power wires or cables; or to
string any such antennae or radio wires in, on or across any street, avenue or
alley of the city. Any person, firm or corporation violating the provisions of the
section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 94. Bows and Slings. Any person, who discharges any projectile)
or missile from any bow, air-gun, sling or similar appliance, within the city,
! whereby any pe r s on may or shall be hurt or hit, any window broken or other
f property damaged or de-'-rr—ed, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
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Section 95. Throwing Stones. Any person who willfully or carelessly
throws any stone, stick or other thing whereby any person rshall beall be
hit
or hurt, any window broken or other propertydamag or destroyed,
i guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 96. Cars in Motion. Any per son, other than an officer or employiee
connected with the railroad or passengers departring ': or arriving thereon, who,
gets on or off, or attempts to get on or off, any railroad locomotive, car, train!
for bus, within the City of Ames, while the same is in motion, shall be guilty
!� of a misdemeanor.
I Section 97• Motor Cycles on Sidewalks. Any person, who rides a motor
cycle upon any sidewalk, or damages any sideway driving a motor vehicle
thereon, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Provided, however, that nothing
herein shall apply to carriages for the conveyance of infants or disabled persons:
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�! Section 98. Dogs. Any person, firm or corporation, who owns, keeps,
or harbors, within the city, any dog, whether actually dangerous or not, that
habitually runs out and barks at passing pedestrians or vehicles on the sidewalk
j' or streets and barks at and threatens passing pedestrians, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor.
�! Section 99. Vagrancy. All,persons begging upon the streets or avenues of
the city, or in public places, stores or private residences, or wandering about
and lodging in out-buildings, railroad cars and other similar places, without
visible calling or business to maintain themselves, shall be deemed tramps or
vagrants and guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 100. Loungers and Loafers. Any person, who obstructs or
encumbers any street corner or other public place in the city by loafing or
lounging in or about the same, after being requested to move on by a police
(� officer, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section M. Night Walking. Any person, who is found wandering about
the premises of another, in any railway yards or upon any railroad right of
way, within the city, in the night time, without any reasonable excuse therefor,
or any person, who is found loitering or roving about the streets or other
E public places on any night of the week later than 11:00 o'clock p.m. , without
any reasonable excuse or necessary business, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 102. Depositing Circulars in Letter Boxes. It shall be unlawful
for any person, firm or corporation to place, deposit, or put in any letter box,
j annexed or attached to any portion of the house or residence and intended for the
receipt of United States mail, any circular, hand bills or advertising matter
not contained in an envelope. Any person; firm or corporation violating the
provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
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Section 103. Fortune Tellers and Clairvoyants. It shall be unlawful for,
fortune tellers, palm readers and clairvoyants to practice their respective
professions, within the city, in any way or manner or under any guise or pretense.
Any person, firm or corporation violating the provisions of this section shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 104. Window Peepers. Any person, who, after nightfall peeps or,
looks into the windows of any private residence, apartment or room, within the
city, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
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Section 105. Removing Offensive Substances. Any person, who hauls
along or through any of the streets in the city, any refuse, garbage, offal,
decayed meat or vegetables, nightsoil, or any other filthy substance, giving
off offensive odors or stenches, except when the same is contained in boxes or
barrels orother receptacles as will in every case prevent the escape of such
odors or stenches and the dropping, scattering or depositing.of any such filthy
substance on any street or alley or private property, shall be guilty of a mis-
demeanor.
Section 106. Depositing Rubbish or Filth. It shall be unlawful to deposit
or place upon any street, avenue or alley or upon the premises of another, or in
any stream or creek, any filth, garbage, carrion, ashes, trash or nuisance of
any kind. Any person, firm or corporation violating the provisions of this
section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 107. Emptying Flammable Liquids in Sewer. Any person, firm
or corporation who shall place, dump, throw, empty or deposit into any public
sewer or into any sewer connecting with a public sewer any benzine, benzole,
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Einaphtha, gasoline, kerosene, or any other liquid product of petroleum shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor. f
Section 108. Spitting in Public Places. Any person, who expectorate- or
spits upon any sidewalk or upon the floor of any public building, hallway, steps,
cellar way, stairway, windows, public motor bus, depot platform, or deposits
i� any gum, tobacco quid, cigar or cigarette stubs in, upon or against any of the
places above mentioned �•
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city, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
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Section 109. Unwholesome .Food. Any person, firmbr corporation, who sell:or offers to sell for consumption any unwholesome, decaying or spoiled meat,
fruit, vegetable or other commodity unfit for food, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor.
Section 110. Samples of Medicine. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm
or corporation to distribute samples of medicine, drugs, or pills at dwelling
houses, stores or public places, within the city. Any person, firm or corporation
violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
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Section 111. Cruelty to Animals. Any person, hn tortures, torments,
deprives of necessary sustenance, mutilates, overdrives, overloads, drives
when overloaded, cruelly beats, or cruelly kills any animal, or unnecessarily
fails to provide the same with proper food, drink, shelter, or protection from
the weather, or drives or works the same when unfit for labor, or cruelly
! abandons the same or commits any other act or omission by which unjustifiable
pain, distress, suffering or death is caused to any animal, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor.
Section 112. Burial of Dead Animals. The owner of any dead animal who
( fails, neglects or refuses to properly bury, burn or dispose of the same within
1 twenty-four (24) hours after having notice thereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
i Section 113. Confining Fowls. Any person, within the city, who fails to
confine or keep confined upon his own premises any chickens, ducks, geese,
turkeys or other fowls owned by him, or allows or permits them to pass upon
the premises of another or the streets or public places of the city, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 114. Injuring Squirrels or Birds. Any person, who kills or injures
any squirrel or its nest, or kills or injures any bird protected by the laws of
the state, or interferes with the nest or eggs of the same, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor.
(� Section 115. Predatory Cats. Any person, who keeps or harbors any cat '.
which habitually hunts and preys upon, kills or seeks to catch and kill, birds
and squirrels, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
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Section 116. Penalty. Any person committing any of the offenses herein-
before defined, or violating any of the foregoing provisions, or, as provided in
section 1 hereof, aiding, abetting, or participating therein, shall, upon
conviction, be subject to imprisonment not exceeding thirty (30) days, or to a
fine not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100. 00).
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Section 117. Ba . The police officers of the city, in cases where persons
are arrested during t night time, or at other times when the judge of the
municipal court is not vailable to fix and approve bonds, shall have authority,
under such regulation as the judge of the municipal court may impose, to take
and accept from such erson or persons cash bail or other security for their
appearance in munici 1 court the following morning, or at the next session
thereof.
Section 118. F feiture of Bail. When cash bail or other security is
furnished under the p ceding section, and the arrested person fails to appear
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at the next session of the municipal court, the said bail or security shall be
forfeited to the city. Such forfeiture, however, shall not, in and of itself,
release the offender from further prosecution.
Section 119. Validity. If any section, sentence or clause of this ordinance
shall for any reason be held to be unconstitutional or invalid, such decision
shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of this ordinance.
Section 120. Repeal. Ordinance Numbers 556, 570 and all other
ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.
Section 121. This ordinance shall be in full force and eff
ect ect from and
after its passage and publication as provided by law.
Passed this 12th day of July, 1955.
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J. W. Prather, City Clerk J. P. Lawlor, Mayor
Moved by Smith and seoonded by Judge that Ordinance No. 812 be passed on its
first reading.
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Voting Aye: Griffith, Judge, Smith, De Hart, Bolton and Bliss
Voting Nay; None
Absent: None
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Moved by De Hart and seoonded by Griffith that the rules governing the
passage of ordinances be suspended, the second and third readings omitted
and Ordinance No. 812 be placed on its final passage.
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Voting Aye: Griffith, Judge, Smith, De Hart, Bolton and Bliss
Voting Nay: None
Absent: None
Moved by Griffith and seconded by Bolton that Ordinance No. 312 do now pass.
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Voting Aye: Griffith, Judge, Smith, De Hart, Bolton and Bliss
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Voting Nay: None
Absent: None
Mayor Lawlor declared Ordinance No. 812 duly adopted.
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I, J. W. Prather, City Clerk of the City of Ames, Iowa, do hereby certify
that the above and foregoing Ordinance No. 312 was duly and properly adopted
at a meeting of the City Council on the 12th day of July, 1955 and published
by codifying on the �A,, day of f r v< c , 19 1.
J. W. Praffier, City Clerk
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