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ORDINANCE NO 5 1942,
BEING AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE CONCERNING THE PROTECTION OF
PROPERTY AT THE FORT COLLINS PUBLIC LIBRARY AND AT THE PION-
EER MUSEUM, AND PROVIDING A PENALTY FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
Section 1 It shall be unlawful for any person to
willfully and maliciously or wantonly and without cause write
in or upon or injure, deface , tear, destroy, conceal, or
steal any book, plate , picture, engraving, map, newspaper,
magazine, pamphlet, or manuscript, or any other chattel
property belonging to or kept in the Public Library or the
Pioneer Museum of the City of Fort Collins
Section 2 It shall be unlawful for any person to
willfully or maliciously commit any injury upon the Public
Library or the Pioneer Museum or upon the grounds, building,
or buildings, furniture , fixtures, or other property thereof
Section 3 It shall be unlawful for any person to
fail to return any book or other public property belonging
to the Public Library or any of its branches, according to
the requirements of the rules and regulations duly made and
adopted by the Board of Directors of the Public Library.
Section 4. Any person who shall violate any provi-
sion of this Ordinance shall be fined in a sum not in excess
of $300.00 for each violation thereof or may be imprisoned
until such time as such fine is paid
Section 5 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
meeting of the City Council, held this 2nd day of October,
A D 1942. ,
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Mayor
Attest-
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 and declare that the aforesaid
Ordinance, consisting of five ( 5) Sections, was duly proposed
and read at length at a regular meeting of the City Council,
held on the 2nd day of October, A D 1942, and was duly
adopted and ordered published in the Fort Collins Express-
Courier, a daily newspaper and official newspaper of the
City of Fort Collins, by the unanimous vote of all members
of the City 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 6th day
of October , A D. 1942, said Ordinance No 5
was duly published in the Fort Collins Express-Courier, a
daily 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 6th day of October ,
A D 1942
j City Clerk