HomeMy WebLinkAbout008 - 11/25/1940 - CONCERNING THE SALE, POSSESSION, AND OFFERING FOR SALE OF SEVERED EVERGREEN TREES AND BOUGHS WITHIN ORDINANCE NO 8 1940
BEING AN MRGENCY ORDINANCE CONCERNING THE SALE, POSSESSION,
AND OFFERING FOR SALE OF SEVERED EVEPGREEN TREES AND BOUGHS
WITHIN THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS, PRO-
VIDING FOR LICENSE THEREFOR, AND A PENALTY FOR THE VIOLATION
HEREOF
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
Section 1 It shall be unlawful for any person or
persons , firm or corporation to engage in the business of sell-
ing pine, fir, spruce, cedar , or other evergreen trees commonly
called Christmas trees , or boughs therefrom, within the cor-
porate limits of the City of Fort Collins without first obtain-
ing a license therefor
Section 2 It shall be unlawful for any person or
persons , firm or corporation to sell at any time or offer for
sale in the City of Fort Collins any pine, fir, spruce, cedar,
or other evergreen trees , or boughs therefrom, cut or procured
from or within the public domain of the State of Colorado or
the United States or from any private land within the State of
Colorado without written authority having been first obtained
from said State of Colorado or the United States or from the
owner of such private land to cut and remove such trees there-
from
Section 3 It shall be unlawful for any person or
persons, firm or corporation to have in his or its possession
for sale or to sell or offer for sale in the City of Fort Col-
lins any such trees hereinabove aescribed until the same shall
have been officially tagged with a tag furnished or approved
by either the United States Forestry Service or the Colorado
State Board of Forestry, and showing the place from which said
trees were taken and the name and address of the owner of the
lands from which taken
Section 4 The use of sidewalks, streets and alleys
in the City of Fort Collins for keeping stocks of pine, fir,
spruce, cedar, or other evergreen trees , or boughs therefrom,
for sale is prohibited except for making deliveries to pur-
chasers
Section 5 Any person or persons, firm or corpor-
ation desiring a license to sell and dispose of pine , fir,
spruce, cedar, or other evergreen trees cut or severed, or
boughs therefrom, within the corporate limits of the City of
Fort Collins , shall make application therefor under oath to
the City Clerk of said city, and in such application shall
specifically state and set forth the source of title of the
trees or boughs to be sold, whether the same or any part there-
of were cut or procurea within any public domain of the State
of Colorado or of the United States or from any private land,
and shall be required in connection with such application for
such sale to furnish the said City Clerk evidence of ownership
of such trees or boughs or authority to cut and procure the
same from the public domain or from private lands
Section 6 The City Clerk shall , if he be satisfied
from such application and the showing made by the applicant
that such applicant has a bona fide title to said trees and
boughs ana that the same were not obtained illegally and in
violation of any laws of the State of Colorado or of the United
States relative to the cutting down of pine , fir, spruce, ceaar,
or other evergreen trees upon the public domain, or that he or
it has authority to cut ana procure the same from the public,
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domain or from private land, grant to such applicant a license
upon the payment of a license fee of $ 2.50 , which said
license shall expire on December 31 of the current year in
which issued
Section 7 Any person or persons, firm or corpor-
ation who shall violate any of the provisions of this ordinance
or shall make a false representation of the facts in his
application or present any false evidence of title or author-
ity shall be deemed guilty of a violation of this ordinance
and upon conviction thereof be fined in the sum of not less
than �5 00 nor more than $300 00
Section 8 Ordinance No 28 of the Series of 1922
and all other ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict
with this ordinance are hereby repealed
Section 9 In the opinion of the City Council an
emergency exists for the preservation of the public health,
peace and safety, and this ordinance shall take effect upon
its passage under and by virtue of the authority contained in
Sections 6 and 7 of Article IV of the City Charter
Introduced, read at length, and adopted by the unan-
imous vote of all members of the City Council at a regular
adjourned meeting held this 25th day of November, A D 1940
Comm on f Safety and Ex-Officio
Mayo=
Attest /
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City Clerk
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STATE OF COLORADO , )
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County of Larimer )
I, MILES F HOUSE, City Clerk of the City of Fort
Collins , do hereby certify ana declare that the foregoing
Ordinance , consisting of nine (9) sections , was duly proposed
ana read at length at a regular adjourned meeting of the City
Council , hela on the 25th day of November, A D 1940, and
was duly adopted and ordered published in the Fort Collins
Leader, a weekly newspaper and the official newspaper of the
City of Fort Collins, by the unanimous vote of all members of
the Council , as an emergency ordinance, in accordance with
the provisions of Sections 6 and 7 of Article IV of the City
Charter , and thereafter, and on, to-wit the 28th day of
November, 1940, was duly published in the Fort Collins Leader,
a weekly newspaper published in the City of Fort Collins, Colo-
rado
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the seal of said City, this 28th day of November,
A D 1940
ity Clerk