The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-12-23
Town Ordinances.

authority of the same
Section |. Any person who shall
hitch or tie any borse, mule or other
animal to any shade tree or to any box
ing around said trees, or to any lamp
post, we'll, or any other property be-
longing to the town shall be fined
not more than One Hundred (1O0)
dollars or be imprisoned not mole
than Thirty (30) days.
Section q. Any person who shall
deface, cut, break, destroy, remove
or interfere with aoy of the shade
trees, lamps, lamp poste, we'll, guard
house or any other property belong
ing to the town, ehall be fined not
more than One Hundred (1OC dol
lars or be imprisoned not more than
Thirty (S0) days.
Section 3 Any person owning a
lot within the incorporate limits of
the town, who shall fail or refuse to
repair the sidewalk adjacent to the
lot, after Ten (10) days notice either
from one of the policemen in person
or from one of the Aldermen or
the Mayor in person, or from either
of them in writing, shall be fined not
more than Ore Hundred (l0O) dol:
lars or be imprisoned not more than
Thirty (3O) days.
Section 4. Any person who shall
play at any game of chance for
money or other valuable considera-
ton or suffer the same to be played
upon his or her premises, within the
Incorporate limits of the town, shall
be fined not more than One Hun
dred (1O0) dollars or be imprisoned
not more than Thirty (3O) days.
Section 5 Any person who shall
keep on his, her or their premises
any nuisance to the annoyance Of the
citizens or any of them, within tie
incorporate limits of the town, after
having been notified by any of the
Policemen or any member of the
Council to remove or discontinue
such nuisance, shall be fined not
more than One Hundred (1O0) dol
lars or be imprisoned not more than
Thirty (30) days.
Section 6. Any person who shall
keep a disorderly house, house of
lusts or house of ill-fame within the
incorporate limits Of the town, ard
all adult persons inhsbiling or living
in such house, shall be fined not
more than One Hundred (100) dol
lars or be imprisoned not more than
Thirty (3U) days.
Section 7. Any person who shall
resist any policeman or policemen or
others who may be called to their as
sistance when in the discharge of
their duty as such officer or officers,
or who shall resist any other officer
in the discharge of their duty Or
others whom they may lawfully call
to their aid, or who shall aid and as
sist others in such resistance in any
manner whatsoever, ehsll be fined
not more than One Hundred (100)
dollars or be imprisoned not more
than Thirty $780, days.
Section 8. Any person having been
summoned before the Mayor or Council
by a Policeman of said town, to testify as
a witness in any case, who shall fail or re-
fuse to do so, or shall fail or refuse to an
swer any question propounded by the
proper authority. shall be fined not more
than One Hundred (100) dollars or be i'm
prisoned not more than Thirty (30) days.
Section 9. any person who violates IN
ordinance or any regulation of the town
whatsoever, within the view of any Pc.
liceman or member of the Council shall
be arrested by such officer {; and if any
offense be committed within their view,
the Mayor, upon information on oath be-
ing given, may issue a warrant for the ar
rest Of the offender, which said warrant
shall be executed and served by any one of
The Policemen of the town.
Section 10. When any policeman shall
arrest any party as provided il the preced-
ing section (9), be shall Immediately con-
duct such person before the Mayor, who
shall make such disposition Of the case as
is provided by law and the ordinances of
the town.
Section IL. That all the streets and
roads now laid off in the town and all that
may hereafter be laid off or accepted BY
the authority of the Council, shall be the
p-blic th%oroughfares of the town, until
the right to the same he ~relinquished by
the Council.
Done and ratified this 18th day of No
November, 1903, in the Council Chamber
ATTEST. Altered j. FOX,
Mayor.
GEO. BELL ZIMMERMAN. Clerk.
Be it Ordained by the Town Council OF
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