HomeMy WebLinkAbout06 - Prohibiting Disorderly ConductORDINANCE NO. 6
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF COSTA MEGA PROHIBITING DISORDERLY CONDUCT,
The City Council of the City of Costa Mesa does ordain as follows:
Section 1.
No person shall use vulgar, profane, or indecent language on any public street or
other public place or in any public dance hall, club dance, skating rink, or place of
business open to p-:blic patronage.
Section 2.
No person shall publicly expose his person, or make indecent gestures, or use or
make any profane, lewd or indecent language or noise within the City, whereby the good
order is violated, or the i)ublic peace is disturbed or public decency is outraged.
Section 3.
Ito person shall commit the act of prostitution anywhere in the City.
Section 4•
No person shall keep or maintain or become an inmate of, or a visitor to, nor shall
any person in any manner contribute to the support of any disorderly house, or house of
prostitution or ill fame, within the City, or knowingly let or underlet or transfer the
possession of any house or lands or other places for use by any person for any of the
aforesaid purposes.
Section 5+
This ordinance shall be in force and take effect from and after thirty (30) days
after its passage and approval.
Section 6.
The City Clerk of the City of Costa Ifiesa shall cause this ordinance to be posted
within fifteen (15) days after its passage in three public places in the City of Costa Mesa.
Section 7.
Any person violating any provisions of this ordinance shall be guilty of a misde—
meanor and Wpon conviction shall be ,,punished by imprisonment not to exceed six (6) months
or a fine not to exceed $500.00 or of both such fine and imprisonment.
i-iayor of the City of Costa Mesa
ATTEST:
City Clerk of the City yrf Costa Mesa
STATE OF CALIFORNIA:
COUNTY OF ORANGE ss
CITY OF COSTA MESA
I, A. C. SWARTZ, City Clerk of the City of Costa Mesa, do hereby certify that at
a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa, held on the M day
of , 1953, the foregoing Ordinance, containing 7 sections, was considered
section by section, and that the said Ordinance was then passed and adopted as a whole by
the following vote:
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AYES: COUNCILMEN:
NOES: 0 COUNCILMEN: no.
ABSENT: COUNCILPM :
I further certify that said Ordinance was thereupon signed by the Mayor of the
City of Costa Mesa.,
ATTEST:
City Clerk of the City of costa Mesa
STATE OF CALIFORNIA:
COUNTY OF ORANGE : ss
CITY OF COSTA MESA :
11 It A, C. SWARTZ pity Clerk of the City of Costa Mesa, do hereby certify that on
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the ______ day of J , 1953. I posted the foregoing true and correct copy of
the foregoing Ordinance in the following public places in the City:
Justice Court
567 West Eighteenth Street
Costa Mesa, California
Costa Mesa Branch Library
526 Center Street
Costa Nesa, California
Costa Iiesa Fire Hall
111 Rochester Street
Costa Mesa, California
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WITNESS my hand and seal this day of It
City Clerk of the City o Costa Mesa