HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity of Tamarac Ordinance O-1963-002ORDINANCE NO. 2-63
AN ORDINANCE DEFINING CERTAIN OFFENSES, PRO-
VIDING PENALTIES FOR CONVICTION THEREOF, AND
PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF TAMARAC, FLORIDA:
SECTION 1. Alcoholic Bevexa es - Consumin on Streets or in
Public Places.
It shall be unlawful for any person to drink or consume
alcoholic beverages, including liquor, beer or wines, on any
public streets, in any public parks, or in any other public
place, unless such place is licensed by the City for the sale
of alcoholic beverages.
SECTION 2. Assault and Battery.
Whoever commits an assault and battery on another person
or assaults another person within the corporate limits of the
City shall be punished as provided by this Ordinance.
SECTION 3. Assemblies.
Any person or persons who shall stand, congregate or
assemble upon any of the sidewalks or corners of the streets,
or in, around or about the parks or other public places or
buildings in this City, to the annoyance of or hindrance to
the passers-by, shall be liable to arrest, and it shall be the
duty of the chief of police or any other officer of the police
force under his direction to order all persons violating this
section, to move away or disperse and in case of neglect or
refusal to obey such order, to arrest or cause to be arrested
the person so refusing or neglecting to obey, and take him or
them before the municipal court for trial.
SECTION 4. Bathinq in Nude Condition.
It shall be unlawful for any person to bathe, wash or
swim in any river, bay, lake, pond or pool within the corpor-
ate limits of the City naked or insufficiently clothed to
prevent exposure of the person.
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SECTION 5. Bribin Police Officers.
It shall be unlawful for any person to give or offer
or promise to give anything of value to any police officer of
the City with intent to influence his act in the carrying out
of his official dutues.
It shall be unlawful for any police officer to receive
or agree to receive anything of value for any services rendered
in his official capacity, except his regular pay from the City.
It shall be unlawful for any police officer of the City
to unlawfully promise, expressly or impliedly, that any person
shall be immune from arrest or any house or establishment shall
be immune from police inspection or that it shall have protec-
tion from police investigation or inspection.
SECTION 6. Dense Smoke - Prohibited.
The emission of dense smoke from the smoke stack, chim-
ney or fireplace of any building or plant anywhere within the
corporate limits shall be deemed and is hereby declared to a
public nuisance, and the persons responsible shall be punished
as provided by this Ordinance.
For a violation of this section, the owner, lessee or
occupant of any building or plant shall be deemed guilty of
creating a nuisance and held responsible.
SECTION 7. Despoiling Property.
Any person guilty of desecrating or despoiling any
publicly -owned property, cemetery, church or any other property
set apart for public use or held for benevolent or charitable
purposes, or who shall in any way deface or post bills upon any
private property, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction shall be punished as provided by this Ordinance.
SECTION S. Disorderly Conduct.
All persons who shall make, aid', countenance or assist
in making improper noise, riot, disturbance, breach of the
peace or diversion tending to a breach of the peace, within
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the limits of the City; all persons who shall collect in
bodies or crowds for unlawful purposes, or for any purpose to
the annoyance or disturbance of other persons; all persons
who are idle or dissolute and go about begging; all persons
who use or exercise any juggling or other lawful games or
plays; all persons lodging in or found at any time in sheds,
barns, stables or unoccupied buildings or underneath side-
walks or lodging in the open air and not giving a good ac-
count of themselves; all persons who are found in houses of
ill -fame or gaming houses; all persons who shall wilfully
assault another in the City, or be engaged in or aid or abet
any fight:., quarrel or other disturbance in the City; all.
persons who stand, loiter or stroll about in any place in the
City, waiting or seeking to obtain money or other valuable
things from others by trick or fraud, or to aid or assist
therein; all persons who shall engage in any fraudulent scheme,
device or tricks to obtain money or other valuable things in
any place in the City, or who shall aid or abet or in any
manner be concerned therein;.all touts, rapers, steerers or
cappers, so called, for any gambling room or house who shall
ply or attempt to ply their calling on any public street in
the City; all persons found loitering about any hotel block,
barroom, gambling house or disorderly house or wandering
about the streets either by night or by day, without any known
lawful means of support; all persons who shall have or carry
any pistol, knife, dirk, knuckles, slingshot or other danger-
ous weapon concealed on or about their persons; and all
persons who are known to be thieves, burglars, pickpockets,
robbers or confidence men, either by their own confession or
otherwise, or by having been convicted of larceny, burglary
or other crime against the laws of the State or any state in
the United States, who are found lounging in or prowling or
loitering around any hotel, store, shop, thoroughfare, motor
vehicle, public gathering, public assembly, building, or any
public place, and who are unable to give a reasonable excuse
for being so found, shall be deemed guilty of disorderly con-
duct.
SECTION 9. Disturbin Reli ious Worship.
It shall be unlawful for any person to disturb any
congregation or assembly met for religious worship, by making
any noise, or by rude and indecent behavior, or by profane
discourse when in a place of worship or so near thereto as to
disturb the order and solemnity of the meeting.
SECTION 10. Firearms - Discharging.
It shall be unlawful for any person to discharge any
kind of firearms, including air rifles and air pistols (com-
monly known as BB guns), within the corporate limits of the
City.
SECTION 11. Firearms - Carr in Concealed.
It shall be unlawful for any person to carry concealed
upon his person or have in his manual possession any pistol
or rifle without having a permit to carry the same, which
permit shall be issued by the chief of the police department.
Before any permit shall be issued under this section, the
police department shall procure the make, number and owner of
such gun, and such information shall be filed in the police
department.
SECTION 12.01. Gambling -- Gambling Paraphernalia and Lotter
Ticket Defined.
Within the provisions of this section, gambling para-
phernalia and lottery tickets shall include the following:
(a) Gamblin2 paraphernalia. The term "gambling Para-
phernalia" includes every description of apparatus, implement,
machine, device or contrivance used in, or in connection with,
any violation of the lottery, gaming and gambling statutes
and laws of this State, except facilities and equipment fur-
nished by a public utility in the regular course of business
and which remain the property of such utility while so fur-
nished.
(b) Lottery ticket. The term "lottery ticket" shall
include every ticket, token, emblem, card, paper or other
evidence of a chance, interest, prize or share in, or in
connection with, any lottery, game of chance or hazard or
other things in violation, of the ,lottery and gambling statutes
and laws of this State (including bolita, caba, bond, New
York bond, butter and eggs, night house and other like and
similar operations, but not excluding others). The said term
shall also include so-called run down sheets, talley sheets,
and all other papers, records, instruments and things designed
for use either directly or indirectly in, or in connection
with, the violation of the statutes prohibiting lotteries and
. gambling in this State.
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SECTION 12.02. Gambling - Lotteries - Prohibited.
It shall be unlawful for any person -in -the City to set
up, promote, conduct, operate, engage in or participate in
any way in any lottery, scheme or device for money or for any-
thing of value; to dispose of money or property or things of
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value by lottery; to conduct any lottery drawings for the
distribution of prizes by lot or chance, or to advertise any
such lottery scheme or device in any newspaper or by circulars,
posters, pamphlets or otherwise; to sell, offer for sale or
transmit by mail or otherwise any lottery tickets, coupons
or shares in or fraction or part of any lottery ticket, share
or coupon; to attempt to operate, conduct or advertise any
lottery scheme or device; to have in his possession any wheel,
balls, implement or device whatsoever for conducting any lot-
tery or scheme for the disposal by lot or chance of anything
of value; to have in his possession any of the implements,
devices, apparatus, tickets, receipts, books, coupons, lists,
code numbers, or other things commonly or customarily used in
bolita, cuba, New York bond, parlay or any form of lottery,
whether for a lottery yet to be played or one that has here-
tofore been played; to have in his possession any lottery
ticket or evidence of any share or right in any lottery ticket
or any lottery scheme or device; to have in his possession any
lottery advertisement, circular, poster, pamphlet, numbered
books, or any list or schedule of lottery prizes, gifts,
drawings or odds, or to aid and assist in the conducting or
holding or participation in a lottery, either by writing,
printing or otherwise; to be interested in or connected in
any way with any lottery or lottery drawing; or to aid or
assist in the sale, disposal or procurement of any lottery
ticket, coupon, share or right to any drawing therein.
SECTION 12.02.1. Same - Possession of implements Prima Facie
Evidence of Violation.
If any of the implements, devices, apparatus, tickets,
receipts, books, balls, coupons, lists, code numbers or other
things commonly or customarily used in bolita, cuba bolita,
cuba, New York bond, parlay or any form of lottery are found
in the possession of any person in the City, it shall be
prima facie evidence that said person is engaging in, parti-
cipating in or connected with a lottery scheme or device or
has recently engaged in, participated in or has been connected
with a lottery scheme or device; and such person shall be
guilty o d possession of devices and things used in a lottery,
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as prohibited by Section 12.02 hereof. Such possession
raises the presumption that the lottery is yet to be played
or has recently been played, but such presumption may be
overcome by proof.
SECTION 12.03. Forfeiture of Money Seized ]2y Police Officers.
The municipal judge is authorized and empowered to ad-
judicate a .forfeiture to the City of all sums of money seized
by police officers and used in evidence against any defendant
or defendants charged with and convicted of a violation of
any ordinance of the City.
SECTION 12.04. Slot Machines - Defined.
Any machine or device is a slot machine or slot device
within the provisions of this section if it is one that is
adapted for use in such a way that, as a result of the inser-
tion of any piece of money, coin or other object, such machine
or device is caused to operate or permitted to operate or
function, and by reason of some element of chance or unpre-
dictable outcome the user, player or operator may receive or
become entitled to receive any piece of money, credit or
thing of value or any check, slug, token or memorandum,
whether of value or otherwise, which may be exchanged for any
money, credit, allowance or thing of value, or which may be
given in trade, or the user or operator may secure additional
chances or rights to use such machine, contrivance or device,
even though it may, in addition to any element of chance or
unpredictable outcome of such operation, also sell, deliver
or present some merchandise, entertainment or other thing of
value.
SECTION 12.04.1. Same - Manufacture, Sale, Possession, etc.
Prohibited.
It is unlawful for any person in the City:
(a) To manufacture, store, keep, possess, sell, rent,
lease, lend, give away, transport, or expose for sale or
lease, any slot machine or slot device or any part thereof;
device;
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(b) To operate, use or play any slot machine or slot
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(c) To permit to be placed, maintained, used or kept,
in any room, space, building, booth, tent, boat, vehicle,
shelter, or any other place in the City, owned, leased or
occupied by or under the management or control of any person,
firm or corporation, any slot machine or slot device or any
part thereof.
SECTION 12.05. Machines, Contrivances and Devices Other Than
Slot Machines.
In addition to the machines and devices prohibited by
Section 12.04.1 hereof, it is unlawful for any person in the
City to manufacture, possess, sell, rent, operate or maintain
at any place within the City or to permit to be kept, oper-
ated or maintained in any premises under their control, any
machine, contrivance or device, whether operated by the in-
sertion of a coin or in some other manner, which is adapted
for use in such a way that the results of the operation or
playing of such machine by reason of some element of chance,
skill or unpredictable outcome, will entitle the operator or
player to anything of value or anything which may be exchanged
for value. The provisions of this section shall not apply to
marble, ball, and pin machines in which marbles, balls or
other pellets are projected or propelled by a spring or
plunger, or any other method, whereby said marbles, balls or
pellets are caused to strike objects or to fall into definite
slots or grooves or any other position, wherein such machine
is played for consideration strictly as a game of skill as
amusement and which does not entitle the player or operator
to any prize or award; nor do the provisions of this section
apply to any other machine, contrivance or device adapted and
used for amusement only which is licensed by the City for
operation as strictly an amusement device.
SECTION 12.06. Pools.
It is unlawful for any person in the City to sponsor,
carry on, operate, maintain, participate,in, be financially
interested in, or otherwise be engaged in any scheme or game
commonly called a "pool," for the disposal or distribution of
property or anything of value among persons who have paid, or
agreed to pay, any valuable consideration for the privilege
of attempting to obtain such property or a portion of it, or
for any share of or interest in such property by participation
in .such scheme or game, wherein the consideration is paid or
agreed to be paid upon any agreement,,understanding or ex-
pectation that such property is to be distributed or disposed
of by lot or chance or in some manner determined by the out-
come of any game or contest of skill or chance, or by any
other method. It is unlawful for any person to own or have
control, custody or management of any papers, lists, or any
other equipment or thing used in the operation of any such
scheme or game.
SECTION 12.07. Renting House, Boat, Vehicle, etc., for
Gambling Purposes.
It is unlawful for any person knowingly to rent or
lease to another any house, room, booth, tent, shelter,
space, boat, vehicle, or other place in the City used or to
be used for gambling, or as a place in which to manufacture,
keep, sell, operate,, rent, maintain, or permit to be operated
or played, any of the games, contests, pools, devices, contri-
vances, apparatus, equipment or things prohibited by this
Ordinance, or used for any of the purposes prohibited by this
Ordinance.
SECTION 12.08. Conductin or Partici ating in Contests for
• Wager.
It is unlawful for any person in the City to conduct,
play or participate in any contest or game for a prize,
purse, premium, stake, bet or wager containing the element
of chance, and in which any person risks money or other thing
of value with the expectation or chance of getting for nothing
the money or goods of another, regardless of the name ;by which
such contest or game is called, the implements employed to
accomplish the act, or the manner in which it is conducted.
SECTION 12.09. Gambling Para hernalia - Possession.
It shall be unlawful for any person to have in his
possession, custody or control in the City any machine,
device, paraphernalia, equipment, or thing commonly used in
gambling or prohibited by the provisions of this Ordinance.
SECTION 12.09.1. Same - Confiscation and Destruction.
Any machine, device, paraphernalia, equipment or
thing prohibited by the provisions of this Ordinance found
or discovered within the limits of the City shall be seized
by and taken into possession of the police department of the
City, and shall be destroyed upon 'the proper order of the
municipal judge of the City. .any money'so -taken possession
of may be confiscated upon order of the municipal judge.
SECTION 12.10. Defrauding Others - By False Statements.
It is unlawful for any person in the City -to defraud
or attempt to defraud any person out of anything of value
by false pretenses, impersonations, false statements, or by
assuming to have or be able to obtain any secret, advance or
inside information by wire, telephone or other disclosed or
undisclosed means, regarding any person, transaction, race,
contest, act or thing, whether such person, transaction,
race, contest, act or thing exists or not_
SECTION 12.10.1. Same -- Renting House, Boat, Vehicle, etc.
for Defrauding Purposes or Wire--Tappinq Service_
It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly to rent
or lease to another any house, room, booth, tent, shelter,
space, boat, vehicle or other place in the City for the pur-
Je pose of defrauding another or for the purpose of conducting
a wire -tapping game as herein prohibited, or for any illegal
purposes.
SECTION 12.11. Punch Boards, Trade Boards, etc., Prohibited.
It shall be unlawful for any person to display, use,
operate, maintain, control, have in possession or permit to
be used in the place of business operated by such person any
punch board, trade board or other implement, device or ap-
paratus for gambling purposes or for a game of chance involv-
ing money, merchandise or other thing of value, whereby any
person punching, playing, participating or using such punch
board, trade board or other implement, device or apparatus
risks money, merchandise or other thing of value upon a
chance, depending upon the result of the punch, manipulation
or use of same, of receiving money, other thing of value, or
merchandise of less or more value than the money, other thing
of value or merchandise paid, surrendered or deposited for
such punch or chance.
SECTION 13. Gunshot Wounds---- Rc ortin .
Every physician, doctor, surgeon, nurse, or private
person, who in the first instance is called upon and does
give medical treatment or .relief to, or perform surgery upon,
a person afflicted with a gunshot wound, pistol., rifle or
shotgun, in the City, shall, within one hour after such
treatment is administered, notify the police department of
the City of such medical or surgical treatment, stating the
name, age, and place of residence of the person treated, the
nature of the wound, the cause thereof, and circumstances
surrounding the injury, as far as he is able to ascertain.
Other persons later treating the patient, with the knowledge
that a physician or medical advisor in this City has previ-
ously treated the patient for such wound, shall not be
required to give the notice required. Any person violating
the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction, be
punished as provided by this Ordinance.
SECTION 14. False Information Concerning Bomb Explosions.
It shall, be unlawful for any person to knowingly give
false information to the effect that a bomb will explode or
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in any public place.
SECTION 15.01. Douses of Prostitution - Renting.
Any owner, or agent of such owner, of any house or
houses, who may knowingly rent or cause to be rented, or oc-
cupied or allowed to be occupied, any house or portion of a
house to be used as a house of prostitution in the City,
shall, upon conviction, be punished as provided by this Ordi-
nance.
SECTION 15,02. Same - Kee in _
Any person keeping a house of prostitution shall, upon
conviction, be subject to the punishment provided by this
Ordinance.
SECTION 15.03. Same - Occupying or Entering.
Any person who shall occupy or enter a house of pros-
titution, for any purpose except to enforce the law, shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, be pun-
ished as provided by this Ordinance.
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SECTION 16. Indecent Behavior Generall
It shall be unlawful_ for any person to commit an
indecent or lewd act, to exhibit or perform an indecent, im-
moral or lewd play or other representation, or to appear in
public in a state of nudity or indecent exposure of person.
SECTION 17. Indecent Proposals.
It shall be unlawful for any person to make any in-
sulting, indecent, lascivious or lewd proposal -to any other
person of either sex within the corporate limits of the City.
SECTION 18. Intoxication on Streets.
It shall be unlawful for any person to be found in a
state of intoxication in any public place, street or thor-
oughfare in the City.
SECTION 19.01. Larcenv, Petit.
Whoever commits larceny by stealing any money, goods,
chattels, bank notes, bonds, promissory notes, bills of ex-
change, books of account, deeds, contracts, writs, process,
public records, or any other property of another, the value
of which does not exceed one hundred dollars, with the in-
tention to permanently deprive the owner of the use and
benefit thereof, or to appropriate the same to the use of the
taker or any other person, shall be guilty of petit larceny,
and shall be punished as provided by this Ordinance.
SECTION 19.02. Takina Possession of, or Concealin Pro ert
of Another.
It shall be unlawful for any person to take possession
of or conceal property of another without the owner's consent,
or to have in his possession or control property of another,
knowing that the owner has not consented thereto, whether .
the said'person is on or off the owner's premises, or for any
person in any manner to aid, assist or abet another person to
do the aforesaid; and any person found guilty of violating
the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction, be
subject to the punishment provided by this Ordinance.
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(e) The use of any automobile, motorcycle or vehicle
so out of repair, so loaded or in such manner as to cause
loud and unnecessary grating, grinding, rattling or other
noise.
(f) The blowing of any steam whistle attached to any
stationary boiler except to give notice of the time to begin
or stop work or as a warning of fire or danger, or upon
request of proper City officials.
(g) The discharge into the open air of the exhaust of
any steam engine, stationary internalcombustion engine,
motor vehicle or motor boat engine except through a muffler
or other device which will effectively prevent loud or ex-
plosive noises therefrom..
SECTION 20.07. Same - When, Sections 20.05 and 20.06 Inappli-
cable.
None of the terms of prohibition of Sections 20.05 and
20.06 hereof shall be applied to or enforced against:
. (a) Any vehicle of the City while engaged in necessary
public business.
(b) Excavations or repairs of bridges, streets or
highways by or on behalf of the City, county or the state
during the night; when the public welfare and convenience
render it impossible to perform such work during the day.
(c) The reasonable use of amplifiers or loud speakers
in the course of public addresses which are noncommercial in
character.
SECTION21. Obscene Pictures, etc.
It shall be unlawful for any person within the limits
of the City publicly to display, or to offer to sell or give
away or distribute, any book, pamphlet, magazine, paper, pic-
ture, letters, writing, print or other matter containing any
obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy or indecent photographs or
pictures.
SECTION 22. Poles on Streets, Telephone, Tele ra h, etc. -
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It shall be unlawful to attach posters or handbills to,
SECTION 19.03. Bu in , Rcceivin , Concealing Stolen Pro crt .
Whoever buys, .receives or aids in the concealment of
stolen or embezzled money, goods or property, knowing the
samo to have been stolen or embezzled, shall be punished as
provided by this Ordinance.
SECTION 20.01. Noise - Musical instruments and Radios.
It shall be unlawful for any person -to maintain and
oporate in any place or on any premises in -the City, any
radio or other mechanical musical instrument or aevicc of
any kind whereby the sounds therefrom are cast directly upon
public streets and places.
SECTION 20.02. Same -- Hours Nois Outdoor Amusements Must
Close.
It shall be unlawful for the owner of, or any person
employed at, any place where an outdoor amusement is operated,
to operate or conduct such business between the hours from
10:00 P.M. to 6:00 A.M. of each day, whereby noise emitting
therefrom shall disturb the peace and quiet of inhabitants
or occupants of any occupied building.
SECTION 20.03. Same -- Hours Noisy Businesses May Operate.
It shall be unlawful for any person to perform labor
or work or to operate or conduct any business or enterprise
in the City on any day except between the hours of 8:00 A.M_
to 6:00 P.M. at a location so close to inhabited dwellings,
apartments or hotels so that the noise emitted from the opera-
tion of such business or enterprise shall disturb or is
detrimental to the health, peace and quiet of any occupants
thereof. In the event any emergency exists, or conditions
with reference to the operation of any business are such that
it would be unjust and inequitable for the same not to be
operated during the prohibited hours upon application made to
the chief of police, and after an investigation has been made
by him, he may issue a permit authorizing any business to
operate for only a limited period of time because thereof.
SECTION 20.04. Same - Loud and Disturbing Noises from Fillin
Stations.
It shall be unlawful for the owner of or any person
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employed at any gasoline filling station located within three
hundred feet of any inhabited dwelling, apartment house or
hotel in the City to carry on or conduct any business thereat
From 11:00 P.M. to 5:00 A.M. of each day, whereby loud or
disturbing noises are caused thereby.
SECTION 20.05. Same - Loud and Unnecessary -Noises Prohibited.
The creation of any unreasonably loud, disturbing and
unnecessary noises in the City is prohibited. Noises of such
character, intensity and duration as to be detrimental to the
life or health of any individual, or in the disturbance of
the public peace and welfare, are prohibited.
SECTION 20.05. Same - Acts Declared Loud and Unnecessary.
The following acts, among others, are declared to be
loud, disturbing and unnecessary noises, and noises in viola-
tion of this section, but this enumeration shall not be deemed
to be exclusive, namely:
(a) The sounding of any horn or signal device on any
. automobile, motorcycle, bus or other vehicle while not in
motion, except as a danger signal if another vehicle is
approaching apparently out of control, or, if in motion, only
as a danger signal after or as brakes are being applied and
deceleration of the vehicle is intended; the creation by means
of any such signal device for an unnecessary and unreasonable
period of time.
(b) The playing of any radio, phonograph or any musi-
cal instrument in such a manner or with such volume, particu-
larly during the hours between 11:00 P.M. and 7:00 A.M., as to
annoy or disturb the quiet, comfort or repose of persons in
any office, hospital or in any dwelling, hotel or other type
of residence, or of any persons in the vicinity.
(c) Yelling, shouting, hooting, whistling or singing
on the public street, particularly between the hours of'11:00
P.M. and 7:00 A.M., or at any time or place so as to annoy or
disturb the quiet, comfort or repose of any persons in any
hospital, dwelling, hotel or any other type of residence, or
of any person in the vicinity.
(d) The keeping of any animal, bird or fowl which by
-- causing frequent or long -continued noise shall disturb the
comfort or repose of any person in the vicinity.
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or to cut, scratch or otherwise disfigure, any telegraph,
telephone, electric light, signal or other pole or gas post
standing in the street.
SECTION 23. Public Property - In'urin , etc.
It shall be unlawful for any person to injure, cut,
break or destroy in any manner any building or other thing
belonging to or under the control and care of the City.
SECTION 24. Removin Soil.
It shall be unlawful for any person to remove or cause
to be removed from any real property within the City any soil,
subsoil, rock, sand, trees or shrubbery; provided, however,
this provision shall not be applicable to the owner of any,
such real property, nor to any person removing such soil,
subsoil, rock, sand, trees or shrubbery with the written con-
sent of the owner of the real property. Before any person
other than the owner shall remove or cause to be removed from
any real property in the City any soil, subsoil, rock, sand,
trees or shrubbery, such person shall first file with the
City Clerk a written consent of the owner to such removal and
obtain from the City Clerk a written permit for such removal.
SECTION 25. Resisting Arrest or Service of Process; Refusing
to Aid Police.
It shall be unlawful for any person to obstruct or
resist a police officer of the City in making or attempting to
make a lawful arrest or resist any person called upon by an
officer to aid in making an arrest or in serving or attempt-
ing to serve any legal process, or.knowingly to give false or
untrue or misleading .information upon inquiry by an officer
of the City regarding the whereabouts or identity of a person
for whom an officer shall have a warrant or in performing or
attempting to perform his official duty, whether such person
be acting as principal or accessory.
SECTION 25. Making False Reports to Police Department.
Whoever makes or submits to the police department, or
any member thereof, a report of any kind, knowing that such
report is false and untrue in whole or in part, shall be
deemed guilty of an offense and, upon 'conviction, shall be
punished as provided by this Ordinance. F
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SECTION 27. State Misdemeanors.
It shall be unlawful for any person to.commit, within
the corporate limits of the City, any act which is or shall be
recognized by the laws of the state as a misdemeanor, and the
commission of such acts is hereby forbidden.
Whosoever shall violate the provisions of this section,
upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by the same penalty
as is therefor provided by the laws of the state, but in no
case shall such penalty exceed a fine of five hundred dollars
or an imprisonment for more than ninety days, or both such
fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the municipal judge.
SECTION 28. Trespass.
Whoever wilfully enters upon the land or premises of
another or into any residence, house or building of another,
being forbidden so to enter, or not being previously forbidden,
is warned to depart therefrom and refuses to do so, or having
departed, re-enters without the previous consent of the
owner or person in the lawful occupation thereof, or having
departed, remains about in the vicinity using profane or in-
decent language, shall be punished as provided by this
Ordinance.
SECTION 29. Vagrants.
Rogues and vagabonds; idle or dissolute persons who go
about begging; common gamblers; persons who use juggling or
unlawful games or plays; common pipers and fiddlers; common
drunkards; common night walkers; thieves and pilferers; trad-
er's in stolen property; lewd, wanton and lascivious persons
in speech and behavior; keepers of gambling places; brawlers;
persons who neglect their calling or employment, and misspend
what they earn and do not provide for themselves or for the
support of their families; persons wandering from place to
place, who are able to work and who are without means, and,
who neglect to earn their support and live by pilfering and
begging; idle and disorderly persons, including therein those
who neglect all lawful business and habitually spend their
time by frequenting houses of ill fame, gambling houses or
tippling shops; persons who are able to work but who are
habitually idle and live upon the earnings of their wives or
minor children; and all able-bodied male persons over eighteen
years of age who are without means of support, and whose
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parents or guardians are unable to support them and who are
not usually in attendance upon some school or educational in-
stitution but who live in habitual idleness, Ore declared to
be vagrants, and shall be punished as provided by this Ordi-
nance.
SECTION 30. Wea ons - Carrving Concealed.
All persons, except officers of the law, authorized to
make arrests, are hereby prohibited from carrying secretly about
their person any dirk, bowie -knife, clasp knife, razor, metallic
knuckles, sling'slot or any othor deadly weapon, moro than an
ordinary pocket knife.
SECTION 31. House Trailers.
No person shall park or store any house car or trailer
which is commonly used for living or sleeping purposes, whether
the same be so used or not, upon any lot, piece or parcel of
land in the City, except where such house car or trailer is
kept entirely within a closed building and not used for living
or sleeping purposes.
SECTION 32. Commercial Vehicle Parkinq in Residential Areas.
(a) No owner or person having the use of a commercial
vehicle bearing a Florida "CV" license plate, or which would
require a "CV" license plate if licensed in the State of
Florida, shall cause or permit the same to be parked for any
period of time between 9:00 P.M. and 6:00 A.M., or for any
period of time on Sunday, on a public right-of-way adjacent to
or on private property zoned in an R-1 or R-2 District under
the zoning regulations of the City.
(b) For the purpose of determining the Florida license
plate a vehicle not licensed by Florida would require if li-
censed by Florida, the following shall apply:
Truck Weight (Net)
Less than 2,000 lbs.
2,000 lbs. to 3,000 lbs.
3,000 lbs. to 5,000 lbs.
Over 5,000 lbs.
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License Designation
G
GH
GK
CV
(c) Any owner of a commercial vehicle of one of the
types above described who knowingly permits said vehicle to
be parked in violation of this section and any, owner or occu-
pant of land zoned as above described who knowingly permits
any vehicle to be parked on such property in violation of
this section shall also be guilty of violating this section.
SECTION 33. Forfeiture of Bail Bond - Unlawful.
It shall be unlawful for any person who is charged with
an offense against an ordinance of the City, and who has
entered into and executed any bail cond conditioned upon his
appearance before the municipal court of Tamarac, to forfeit
such bail bond by not appearing before the court at the time
and place stated in the bail bond.
SECTION 34. Responsibility_of Owners and Occupants for Viola-
tions.
The occupant of any premises upon which a violation of
any ordinance is apparent, the owner of any object or mate-
rial placed or remaining anywhere in violation of an ordinance,
and the occupant of any premises served by any excavation or
structure illegally made or erected, shall be deemed prima
facie responsible for the violation so evidenced, and subject
to the penalty provided therefor.
SECTION 35. Principal in First Degree.
Whoever commits any misdemeanor against the State of
Florida or offense against this City, or aids, abets, counsels,
hires, or otherwise procures such offense to be committed,
is a principal in the first degree and may be charged, con-
victed and punished as such, whether he is or is not actually
or constructively present at the commission of such offense.
SECTION 36. Narcotics Prohibited, Defined
(a) It is unlawful for any person to manufacture,
possess, have under his control, sell, prescribe, administer,
dispense or compound any narcotic drug, except as authorized
by Florida law.
(b) "Narcotic drugs" shall mean coca leaves, opium,
go isonipecaine, cannabis and every substance neither chemically
nor physically distinguishable from them,and any and all
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derivatives of same, and any other drug to which the narcotics
laws of the State of Florida and of the United States now
apply.
SECTION 37. Penalty.
Whenever in this Ordinance any act is prohibited or
is made or declared to be unlawful or an offense, the viola-
tion of such provision of this Ordinance shall be punished
by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or by imprison-
ment for a term not exceeding ninety days, or by both such
fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the municipal court.
SECTION 38. Code.
This Ordinance shall be included in the Tamarac City
Code.
SECTION 39. Effective Date.
This Ordinance shall become effective immediately upon
its final passage.
PASSED FIRST READING THIS 3ard DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1963.
PASSED SECOND READING THIS 7th DAY OF OCTOBER, 1963.
PASSED THIRD READING THIS 4th DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1963.
Mayor
ATTEST:
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Clerk
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