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HomeMy WebLinkAbout490 - Public Drunkenness• ORDINANCE NO. 499 The City of Newport Beach, by and through its City Council, does ordain as follows: Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to be or appear at any public place or at any place open to public view or on any street, alley, highway, court, park, railway depot, bus station, parking lot, public beach, public water front, water way, navigable waters, public piers, wharfs, pub- lic plaza, public square, or public property in a state of drunken- ness or intoxication, within the corporate limits of the city of Newport Beach, in Orange County, California. . Secticn 2. It shall be unlawful for any person to be or appear on any public premises or any private house in a state of drunkenness or intoxication to the annoyance of other persons. Section 3. Any person who shall viclate any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof, shall be pun- ished by a fine not to exceed fifty dollars, or be confined in the City Jail of the city of Newport Beach for a period not to exceed twenty - five days, cr by both such fine and • imprisonment. Section 4. This ordinance shall take effect thirty (30) days from and after its adoption, and, prior to fifteen (15) days from the adoption thereof, shall be pub- lished for at least one week In NEWPORT BALBOA NEWS - TIMES, a newspaper published in the City of Newport Beach, State of California, together with the names cf the members of the City Council voting for and against the same. The above and foregoing ordl- nance was introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Newport Beach held on the 5th day of February, 1940, and was finally passed and adopt- ed on the 19th day of February, 1940, by the City Council at an adjcurned regular meeting them- - of, by the following roll call vote, to -wit: AYES, Councilmen: Gordon, Claire, Whitson, Brown, William- son. NOES, Councilmen: None. ABSENT, Councilmen: None. ATTEST: FRANK L. RINEHART, City Clerk. The above and foregoing ordi- nance is signed and approved by me this 19th day of February, 1940. HARRY H. WILLIAMSON, • Mayor of the city of Newport Beach. (Pub. Feb. 20, 1940.))