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HomeMy WebLinkAbout012 - 12/23/1938 - PROHIBITING THE KEEPING OPEN OF MOTOR CAR SALES PLACES ON SUNDAYS AND NATIONAL LEGAL HOLIDAYS AND PR ORDINANCE NO. 12 , 1938 , B211G AN ElDiRGEINCY ORDINANCE PROHIBITING THE KMPING OPEN OF MOTOR CAR S:I,=S PLACES ON SUP?DiYS i iw PID ATIOPl'�I LEit1I.HOLIDAYS ATM PROVIDING A PKLUTY FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF TETE CITY OF FORT COLLINS: Section 1. No person, firm or corporation, whether owner, proprietor, agent or employee, shall keep open, operate or assist in keeping open or operating any place or premises or residences , whether open or enclosed., for the purpose of selling , bartering or exchanging, or offering for sale, barter or exchange, any motor vehicle, or motor vehicles, whether new , used or second hand, on the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday, and also on the following motional Legal Holidays , namely: New Year' s Day, Decoration Day , Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. Section 2. Any person, firm or corporation, violating any of the provisions of this ordinance , shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than Fifty (450,00) Dollars , nor more than Three Hundred ( p300.0O) Dollars, and each day' s violation of this ordinance shall constitute a separate offense. Section 3. In the opinion of the City Council an emergency exists for the preservation of the public heglth, 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 unanimous vote of all members of the City Council, at a regular meeting held this 3,p . day of December, :'..D.1938. attest ; Conu:iissi r f E ety and x-Officio Mayor. City Clerk.. STATE OF COLORADO, ) ss County of Larimer ) I, MILES F HOUSE, City Clerk of the City of Fort Collins , do hereby certify and declare that the foregoing Ordinance, consisting of three (3) Sections, was auly proposed and read at length at a regular meeting of the City Council, held on the 23rd day of December, A D 1938, and was duly adopted and ordered published in the Fort Collins Express- Courier, a daily 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 27th day of December, 1938, said Ordinance No 12 was duly published in the Fort Collins Express-Courier, a daily newspaper published in the City of Fort Collins, Colorado IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said City, this 27th day of December, A D 1938 City Clerk