HomeMy WebLinkAbout1955-009 Council OrdinancesTHE VILLAGE OF LINO LAKES
ORDINANCE NO. 9
An Ordinance defining crimes against public health and safety and
prohibiting and punishing the same.
The Village Council of the Village of Lino Lakes ordains:
Section 1. Itinerant carnivals are hereby declared to be a public
nuisance and are prohibited. An itinerant carnival is any itinerant
carnival, show, act, or exhibition, which is held in the open or indoors
or upon or within any public or private grounds at which congregates and
assembles with or without payment of any admission fee, a promiscuous
gathering of people as spectators or otherwise, and at which lewd or
obscene features are a part, or at which any gambling concessions are
given or games of chance practiced, or in or about which actors or other
persons connected therewith are engaged in immoral pursuits, or at which
attractions are exhibited which affect the health or morals of the
community. Any person who shall participate in allowing or conducting
any itinerant carnival shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 2, Every person who shall commit or maintain a public nuisance,
for, which no special punishment is prescribed, or who shall wilfully omit
or refuse to perform any legal duty relating to the removal of such
nuisance; and every person who shall let, or permit to be used, any
building or portion thereof, knowing that it is intended to be used for
committing or maintaining any such nuisance, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor.
Section 3. Every person who shall make or keep gunpowder, nitroglycerin,
or other explosive or combustible material in this village or carry it
through the streets in a quantity or manner prohibited by ordinance shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 4. Every person who shall wilfully oppose or obstruct a health
officer or physician charged with the enforcement of the health laws, in
performing any legal duty, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 5. Every manufacturer or vendor who shall sell or cause to be
sold, place or cause to be placed, any gasoline or benzine, in quantities
of more than one pint and less than six gallons, in any receptacle except
one of a bright red color and tagged and labeled in large plain letters
with the name of the contents, or who shall sell or cause to be sold,
place or cause to be placed, kerosene or other illuminating oils in the
same quantities in a receptacle of a red color, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor.
Section 6. Every person who, with intent that the same may be sold as
unadulterated or undiluted, shall adulterate or dilute milk, or any
drugs, medicine, food or drink for man or beast; or shall offer for sale
or sell the same as unadulterated or undiluted, or without disclosing to
or informing the purchaser that the same has been adulterated or diluted;
or shall manufacture, sell, expose, or offer for sale, as such article
of food or drink, any substance in imitation thereof, without disclosing
the imitation by a suitable and plainly visible mark or brand; or with
intent that the same may be used as food, drink, or medicine, shall sell,
offer, or expose for sale, any article whatsoever which to his knowledge
has become spoiled, tainted, or for any cause unfit to be used as food,
drink or medicine, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 7. Every person who shall offer or expose for sale at retail,
for human food, at any public market, store, shop, or house, or in or
about any street or other public place, any domestic or w
any slaughtered rabbits, squirrels, or other small animals, wild or tame,
unless the entrails, crops, and other offensive parts are properly drawn
and removed , shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section S. Every dealer in slaughtered fresh meats, fish, fowl, or
game for human food, at wholesale or retail, at any established place
or as a peddler, in the transportation of such food from place to place
to customers, who shall fail to protect the same from dust, flies, and
other vermin or substance which may injuriously affect it, by securely
covering it while being so transported, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 9. Every person, firm, or corporation who shall sell, offer or
expose for sale, or have in possession with intent to sell, the veal of
calves killed when less than four wesks old, shall be guilty of a mis—
demeanor.
Section 10. Every person, who shall sell, give, loan or in any wise
furnish any firearm or ammunition to a minor under the age of eighteen
years without the written consent of his parents or guardian, or of a
police officer or magistrate, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
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Section 11. Every person who shall manufacture, use, sell or keep
for sale within this village any blank cartridge pistols, blank cartridge
revolver or other blank cartridge firearms, blank cartridges, caps,
containing dynamite, and fire crackers exceeding three inches in length,
and exceeding one-half of an inch in diameter, shall be guilty of a mis-
demeanor.
Section 12. Every person who shall negligently or carelessly set on fire,
or cause to be set on fire, any combustible material, whether on his own
land or not, by means whereof the property of another shall be endangered,
or who shall negligently suffer any fire upon his own lands to extend
beyond the limits thereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
!Section 13. Every engineer, driving a locomotive on any railway, who shall
fail to ring the bell or sound the whistle upon such locomotive, or cause
\the same to be rung or sounded, at least eighty rods from any place where
such railway crosses a traveled road or street, on the same level t
lttleetibtespi, or to continue the ringing of such bell or sounding of such
whistle at intervals until such locomotive and the train thereto attached
shall have completely crossed such road or street shall be „j tv cL.,a
misdemeanor.
Section 14. Every proprietor, lessee, or occupant of any place of
amusement, or any plat of ground, or building, who shall use or allow
it to be used for the exhibition of skill in throwing any sharp instrument
at or toward any human being, or who shall aim or discharge, or allow to
be aimed or discharged, at or toward any human being, any blowgun, pistol,
or firearm of any description, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 15. Every person who shall wilfully expose himself or another
affected with any contagious or infectious disease, in any public place
or thoroughfare, except upon his necessary removal in a manner not
dangerous to the public health, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 16. Every person owning or having in charge any domestic animal
that has died or been killed on account of disease shall immediately
bury the carcass thereof at least three feet deep in the ground or cause
the same to be consumed by fire. No person shall sell or offer to sell,
or give away such carcass when the animal died or was killed on account
of disease, nor convey the same along any public road or upon any land
not his own; nor shall any person negligently or wilfully permit
diseased animals owned or controlled by him to escape his control or
to run at large. Every violation of any provisions of this section
shall be a misdemeanor.
Section 17. That every person, directly or indirectly, by agent or
otherwise who shall scatter, distribute or give away any samples of
any medicine, drugs or medical compounds, salve or liniment of any
kind, unless the same is delivered into the hands of an adult person,
or mailed to such persons through the regular mail service, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 18. In order to prevent the spread of communicable diseases,
the use of common drinking cups in public places, p blic conveyances
and public buildings, is hereby prohibited. Whoever violates the
provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
Pass .d by the Village Council this __.. day of Jmly, 1955
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