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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinances - No. 220ORDINANCE NO. 220 AN ORDINANCE SAFEGUARDING THE PUBLIC HEALTH OF THE INHBBITANTS OF THE CITY OF LODI BY REG- ULATING THE HOEIS OF CERRTBIN SUSINi3SSES WITH- IN SAID CITY. The City Council of the City of Lodi does ordain as follows: Section 1, Lt shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation or association within the corporate limits of the City of Lodi, to keep o2en any store, work shop, banking house, grocery store, butcher shop, meat market, fruit or vegetable market, or other place of business, or to transact therein any business during such time as the same are herein required to be kept closed, Section 2. All such places of business are hereby required to be kept closed and to transact no business during all of the daytime of eit'ner Saturday or Sunday [as the owner or proprietor thereof may select) of each week, and also on Yemorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Armistice Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and New Years. Section 3. All such places of business shall be kept closed and shall transact no business from and after seven o'clock in the afternoon of each day and until six o'clock in the forenoon of the following day. Section 4, If the owner or proprietor of such a business elects to keep such business closed during the daytime on a Saturday of any week, such business may lawfully be run after sundown and up to nine o*clock in t'ne afternoon of such Saturday and from six o'clock in the forenoon to seven olclock in the afternoon of the following Sunday. Section 5. If the owner or proprietor of such a business elects to / / i keep such business closed during the daytime on a Sunday of any week, such business may lawfully be run from six o'clock in the forenoon to nine ofclock in the afternoon of the preceding Saturday. Section 6. Nothing hereincontained shall prohibit anyone from con- ducting any such a business from sir, o'clock in the morning to nine o'clock in the evening upon any day preceding a holitiay, unless such preceding day be a Saturday or Sunday during the daytime of which such business is herein re-- $ uired to be kept closed, Section 7. This ordinance is passed and adolted for the purpose of providing for adequate rest and recreation for persons working or to work or ergaged or to engage in the operation of such businesses, for the purpose of insuring the adequate inspection, cleanliness and orderliness of such places of business and of the articles sold therein an& for the purpose of promoting the public health of said city. Section 8. The provisions of this ordinance shall not apply to any person, firm, corporation or association conducting or to conduct a bona fide hotel, cigar or tobacco store, boarding house, lodging house, restaurant, bakery, livery stable, retail drug store, confectionery store, ice cream parlor, garage, automobile service station, transfer business, railraod, telephone, telegraph or express office, dry or green frutt packing house, newspaper or periodical agency, dance hall, tavern, a place where liquid beverages or refreshments are sold, pool or billiard hall, skating rink, ice business, manufacturing establishments, baseball games, sporting contests, theater or other place of amusement. Section 9. Iithin the meaning hereof a church shall not be considered as a plaoe of business; nor shall any religious or social event be considered as a business. Section 10. In case any one or more of the herein excepted businesses is carried on in the same room with business coming within the operation of this ordinance and required at any time by this ordinance to be kept closed, the part of the room in which said excepted business is carried on shall be separated 2nd set apart from the said business coming within the operation of this ordinance, as aforesaid, by permanent partition or screen not less than five feet in height, and which said permanent partition or screen shall enclose and separate said place where said excepted business is carried on, from tlie remaining part of the room wherein the business, coming under the operztion of this ordinance, is operated as aforesaid, so that, though said excepted businesses or operctions may be conducted at all times, the said places of business, coming under the operation of this ordinznce, shall nevertheless be kept closed during the times herein provided. -20 Section 11, Should any section or subsection of this ordinance be declared unconstitutional or unlswful, such declaration shall not affect the validity of the remainin@; parts hereof, Shall Ordinance No. 220, provLding for closing of certain places of business on Saturday or Sunday and fixing hours for transaction of business ‘cnerein, be adopted? Section 12- Any person, who, as owner, proprietor, employee, OX otherwise, shall violate any of the provisions of this ordl.nPnoe shall *” punished by a fine of not .to exceed g2QO.00 or by imprisonment for not to exceed ninety days, IU? by both such fine and iWrlsoment* YES NO The foregoing ordinance will be informally submitted to vote at the City Election of April 14, 1936 and separate ballots substantially in the following form will be furnished to each voter: , . . .. . . J