HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinances - No. 238ORDINANCE NO. 238
AN ORDIN.Q?CE PROEIBITING 'ED3 UTTERING, PUBLISH-
ING OR USE OF CERlXUi SEDITIOUS LANGUAm:
REGUTACING THE USE OF, AND PROHIBITING THE
OBSTRUCTION OF, PUBLIC HIGBWAYS, ALIEEi AND
SIDEiPIXS; PROHIBITING TNE OBSTRUCTION OF
ENTRANCES AND ADROACHES TO CHURCHES, HLGLS,
THEATRES, PARK.. AND PUCES OF PUBLIC
ASSEl'iBME: PROHIBITING BESETING, PXmING,
ASSEMBLING AEJD CONGREGATING FOR CEXUTN
PURFOSES: PROHIBITING THE USE OF CERTAIN
DEROGATORY, INDECEDT AND @PPROBRIOUS LANGUAGE,
LOUD AND UX?USUAL NOISE, AND GESmS FOR
CERTAIN PURPOSES: AND PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR
TRE TSOLATION TREHEOF.
The City Council of the City of Lodi, County of Saa Joaquin, State of
California, does ordain as follows:
Section 1. It is unlawful for any person to utter, publish, or use any
seditious language, words, reparks, or epithets, or to address to another, any
such language, woras, remarks or epithets, Which create or provoke, or tend to
create or provoke, a breach of the peace.
Section 2. It is unlawful for any person to loiter, stand, or sit in
or upon my public highway, alley, sidewalk or crosswalk so as to in any manner
hinder or obstruct the free passage therein or thereon of persons or vehicles
passing or attempting to pass along the same, or so as to in any manner annoy or
molest persons passing along the same.
Section 3. It is unlawful for any person to loiter, stand, or sit in
or at the entrance of, or approach to any church, hall, theatre, park, or place of
public assemblage so as to in any manner obstruct said entrance or approach.
Section 4. It is unlawful for any person to beset or picket the premises
of another, or any approach thereto, where any person is employed or seeks employ-
ment, or any place or approach thereto where such employee or person seeking
employment lodges or resides, for the purpose of inducing such employee or person
seeking employment, by means of compulsion, coercion, intimadation, threatd, acts
of violence, or fear, to quit his or her employment or to refrain frcrm seeking
or freely entering into employment.
Section 5.
premises of another, or any approach thereto, for the purpose of inducing bthers,
by means of compulsion, coercion, intimidation, threats, acts of violence, or
fear, to refrain from entering such premises, or to refrain from patronizing,
negotiating with or transacting business with *he owner or occupant of such
premises.
It is unlawful for any person to beset or picket the
Section 6. It is unlawful for any person, in association or agreement
with one or more persons, to assemble, congregate, or meet together in the vicinity
of any premises where other persons are employea or seek employment, or upon the
streets, highway, approaches or places adjaoent thereto, for the purpose of
inducing such employees or persons seeking employment, by means of compulsion,
coercion, intimidation, threats, acts of violence or fear, to quit his or her
employment or to refrain from seeking or freely entering into employment.
It is unlawful for any person, in association or agreement Section 7.
with one or more persons, to assemble, congregate or meet together in the
vicinity of the premises of another, or upon the streets, highways or approaches
thereto, for the purpose of inducing others, by means of compulsion, coercion,
intimidation, threats, acts of violence or fear, to refrain from entering such
premises, or to refrain from patronizing, negotiating with or transacting business
with the owner or occupant of such premises.
Section 8. It is unlawful for any person to utter to, or within the
hearing of, another, any derogatory, indecent, opprobrious epithets or language,
or to make any loud or unusual noise, or to speak in a loud or unusual tone, or
to cry out or proclaim, or to use any gestures for the purpose of inducing any
person, by means of compulsion, coercion, intimidation, threats, acts of
violence, or fear, to quit his or her employment or to refrain from seeking or
freely entering into employment, or to refrain from patronizing, negotiating with,
or transacting business with any other person.
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Section 9.
ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a middemeanor and upon conviction thereof,
Any person violating any of the provisions of this
shall be punished by imprisonment in the City or County Jail not exceeding
three months, or by a fine not exceeding three hundred dollars (#SOO.OO), or by
both such Lmprisonment and fine.
Section 10. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed or held to
prbhibit peaceable picketing, nor to prohibit labor from attempting to accomplish
its aims in trade disputes by other peaceable means, including collective bargaining.
Section 11. This ordinance is hereby declared to be an urgency measure,
necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety.
The facts constituting the urg;?ncy are briefly declared to be as follows:
There now exists in the City of kdi a situation created by certain
agitators and opponents of our form of government which threatens to seriously
interfere with the orderly conduct of business of a11 kinds; which threatens to
cause great disorder and many breaches of the peace; and which threatens to attract
criminal, vicious and other undesirable characters to said City.
stated this ordinance shall take effect immediately after its adoption and
publication as required by law.
territory of the City of Lodi.
Section 12.
For the reasons
Said ordinance is effective only in the incorporated
Before the expiration of Fifteen (15) days after its
adoption this ordinance shall be published, with the names of the members of the
Lodi City Council voting for and against the same, for at least one week in the
Lodi News-Sentinel, a newspaper of general circulation, printed and published in
the City of Lodi, County of San Joaquin, State of California.
Section 13. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of
this ordinance is for any reason, held to be unconstitutional or invalid, such
decision shall not affect the validity or constitutionality of the remaining
portions of this ordinance.
have passed this ordinance and each section, sub-section,sentence, clause or
phrase thereof irrespective of the fact that one or more of the sections, sub-
sections, sentences, clauses, or phrases thereof be declared unconstitutional
or invalid.
The Eodi City Council hereby declares that it would
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