HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes - City Council - Regular - 8/14/1922Augur,t 14th, 1922.
The City (;-r;unission of the C:it�; of Lubbock, 'Texas met in Special Session
withthe following present:
Percy Spencer, Mayor, Cor:Lmissioners, H.G.Love, J.O. Jones.
J.R.Germany, City Secretary.
Upon Motion made by Yr. Jon�s seconded by Mr. Lbve the following Ordinance
Was read and approved and ordered passed by a unanimous vote of the
Conanssion.
Ordinance No. 210-10
AN ORDINANCE prohibiting any person firm or corporation from showing, pro-
ducing, exhibiting, advertising, displaying or selling tickets for admission
to the production, exhibition or display in any place within the City Limits
of the City of Lubi-ock, any drama, play, theatrical performance, f'lm qr
raa ving picture where there is sc.ovin in said performance any reproduction of
any immoral of obsence act of any nature, or where such performance or pictui�e
tends to corrupt good morals and is offensive to the moral sence, or
;There there is produced, displayed or shown any picture takened of Roscoe
Arbuckle pr Clara Smith Hamon, or either of them, or where there is produced
displayed or shown in said perfor._ance or picture any person of notoriously
immoral or criminal character or reputation, or ;rho has been arraigned in
court charged with -he. offence of murder,. fixing a penalty for the violation
thereof, declaring all such performances and all films of same and 0.11
such advertising matter a publm.c nuisance, and declaring an emergency.
BE IT ORDAIYED DY TEE CITY OF LUE)BCCK AND THE CITY COMMISSION OF LULEOC K.
Section 1. From and after the passage of this Ordinance it shill be unlawful
for anzj person, firm or corporation to show, produce, exhibit, advertise, dis-
play or cause to be r6duced, exhibit, advertise, display, or cause to be
produced, exhibited, advertised or displayed, or sell tickets for admissi,::n
to the production, exhibition or display, in any place w1th h :the City Limits
of the City of Lubbock, any drama, play, theatrical performance, film or
moving picture show of the following kind and character:
(a) There there is shown i said performance any reproduct_on of any immoral
or absence act of any nature, or
(b) Whcre such performance or picture tends to corrupt good morals and is
offensive to the moral sence, or
(c) tivhere there is produced, displayed or shown in said performance or
picture any person of notoriously immoral or criminal character or reputation
or i..;ho has been arraigned in court charged with the offence of murder.
(d) Y-there there is produced, displayed or shovin any picture taker_ of, or any
picture advertized or claimed to have been taken of Roscoe Arbuckle (commonly
known as Fatty Arbuckle) or Clara Smith Hamon, pr either 6f them.
Section 2 Any parson, firm or corporation who shall violate any part of the
foregoing Ordinance shall be fined in the sum of One Hundred and No/100
Dollars, and the sale of a ticket to each person shall constitue a separate
violation hereof.
Section 3. All performances of any kind or character made unlawful by this
Ordinance, and all films of the same, and all advertising matter,a re hereby
declared public nuisances.
Section 4. On account of the fact that there is now being advertized for
production i- this City of Lubbock a picture show offensive to the public
morals, and unless this Ordinance be passed and put into force immediately
the same will display in the town of Lubbock, creates -an emergency and
imperative public necessity that this Ordiance take effect from and after
its passage, immediately, and it is so enacted.
Read approved and passed this 14t'_•,day of August, 1922.
Attest:
J.R.Germany, City Secretary.
Percy Spencer,
Mayor, City of LUbbock, Texas