Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-02
SALOON MEASURE
NOW IN EFFECT
NEW ORDINANCE CARRIES AN
EMERGENCY CLAUSE
Hereafter Signatures Of Owners Of
Two-ThIrds Frontage on Both
Sides Of street VIII Be
Necessary

Citizens and tax payers who have
presented petitions to the city council
and waited weeks and sometimes
months for action will be surprised to
learn the rapidity with which the coun-
ell can do business when It chooses.
The saloon restriction ordinance
passed by the council at it's special
meeting Friday afternoon was a law
early yesterday morning. The ordin-
ance was presented to the mayor for|
his signature at 10 o'clock Friday night.
1t was published in the official paper
yesterday morning and as 1t bore the
emergency clause. 1t became a law Inn
mediately on publication.
The surprising readiness with which
Mayor McAleer signed the ordinance,
after having voted for the granting of
a retail liquor license to T. p. Roberts
for 220 Broadway, which the hastily
passed ordinance Is designed to frus-
trate, has. in q measure, taken from
him the odium that the Broadway mer-
chants cast upon him when his hand
In the case was made known.
Not in Business Precincts
BY the terms of the ordinance now in
force it will be practically impossible
for any saloon to enter the precincts
AS a rule mercantile men do not look
upon a saloon in their immediate vi
cinity with a favorable eye and, as in
future, 1t will be necessary for appli |
cants for saloon licenses to obtain the
consent of two-thirds of the frontage
on both sides of the block in which
1t is proposed to establish the liquor
house before the commission can legally
grant a license.
This annlies to 1uhnIaca1a Iiotior
houses and those places known as
family liquor stores, as well as to a |
retail saloon.
The police commission has heretofore
had ruling of it's own that property |
owners must consent to the granting
of license for a retail saloon and 1t
was through the suspension of this rule
that the license was granted Tuesday /
evening to T. p. Roberts.
Thank the Mayor
Yesterday morning Mayor McAleer
received the following letter:
1--WE sincerely thank you for your
action in promptly approving the or
dinance passed by the city council,
regulating the granting of liquor IL
censes and prohibiting saloons on
Broadway in the vicinity of the city
hail."
Signed by F. NJ Coulter, j. M. Schnei-
der, c. M. Staub and +. W. Blanchard.
The ordinance now in effect is as
follows:
The Ordinance
An ordinance regulating the granting
of permits for wholesale and retail
liquor licenses and prohibiting the es-
Enlistment, conducting or carrying on
of wholesale or retail liquor estab
lishment on premises fronting on
between Second street and
Third street. in said city.
The mayor and council of the city of
Los Angeles do ordain as follows:
Section /. That no permit for Ii
cense to conduct Wholesale or retail
liquor establishment shall be granted
by the board of police commissioners
of the city of Los Angeles, unless there
shall have been first filed with said
board the consent in writing of the
owners of two-thrds of the frontage
upon both sides of the street whereon
the premises, proposed to be occupied
by such liquor establishment, are sltu-
ated. between the two nearest inter-
secting streets bounding the block in
which said premises are located.
Section 2. 1t shall be unlawful for |
any person to establish, conduct or .
carry on wholesale or retail liquor
on any premises fronting
on either side of that portion of Broad
way in the city of Los Angeles, on ,
which the city hall Is located, to-wit:
That portion thereof between Second
street and Third street.
Section 3. Any person violating any
Of the provisions of this ordinance
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemean-
Dr., and upon conviction thereof shall
be punishable by fine not exceeding
The sum of $500, or by Imprisonment in
he city Jail for term not exceeding
100 days, or by both such fine and i'm
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