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HomeMy WebLinkAbout0267_265265 AN ORDTTIANCE OF T`E CTTY OF GEORC=ETO+';N, TEXAS, REPEALING AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF GEORGETOWN, TEXAS, PUNIS_HI`iG FLIRTING IN A PTTRLIC PLACE, PASSED ON AUGUST 9, 1920, A?ID ISO+'# CARRIED IN THE ORDINANCE OF THE CITY �S CHAPTER XVIII - NUISANCES - SvCTION 2 AND DECLARING AN Ev:'ERCENCY. BE IT ORDJIINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF Tr'E CITY Or GFORCETO'viN, TEXAS: That the following Ordinance now filed in Chapter XVIII, ^iuisances - Section 2, and designated "PUNISHING FLIRTING IN A P17PLIC PLACE", which said Ordinance was passed by the City Council of Georgetown, Texas, on August 9, 1920. The Ordinance here repealed is set out in full, as follows$ "Section 2. PUNISNI`IG FLTRTI71G IN A PUBLIC PLACE. Any man who shall hereafger go into and near any public place, within this City, and shall then and there, by word, motion, wink, sign, or action, invite or Itttempt to invite, solicit, or encourage any woman to become familiar with him, wihhout then and there first being invited or encouraged by said woman, to familiarity, shallibe deemed guilty of flirting , and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum, not less than one and not more than one hundr4d dollars. Any man and any woman, not then and there husband and wife, or not then and there engaged to each other to be married, or not then and there related to each other by blood or marriage within the third degree, who shall go into and hear any public place within the City, and shall then and there be found kissing, holding hands,or either putting their arm or arms about or around the body of the other, or in any manner, shall be deemed guilty of flirting , and each or either, upon conviction therefor, shall be fined in any sum, not less than one and not more than one hundred dollars. A public place, within the meaning of this ordinance is any public, public road, street, alley, public lot or block, public building, or at any place where people commonly resort for the purpose of business, pleasure, amuse- ment, or other lawful purpose, or any place at which people are then and there assembled, A man within the reaning of this section is any male person over 10 years of age, and a woman within the meaning of this section in any female person over 14 years of age. (Passed August 9, 1920)" From and after the passage of this Ordinance, by the City C Council of Georgetown, Texas. the above and foregoing Ordinance PUNISHING FLIRTING IN A PUBLIC PLACE' shall be null and void. The fact that a portion of the above Ordinance is vegue and indefinite and the further fact that the Council is of the opinion that the citizens of Georg -town, Texns,no longer desire to have such an Ordinance, upon the Ordinances now in force in the City, creates an emergency, re- quiring that this Ordinance be at once passed, it is ordered that the rules requiring Ordinances to be reed at their separate meetings before final passage be suspended; and that said rules here and now are suspended, and this Ordinance repealing the above described Ordinance shall be passed, arid it is ordered that it take effect and that said Ordinance be repealedt from and after the passage of this repealing Ordinance.