Imperial Valley press., 1909-10-16
ORDINANCE NO. 4t.
An Ordinance Amending Ordinance No. of the City Of El centro Relative to intoxicating Liquors.

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 to intoxicating Liquors.
 Section |. Section one of Ordinance No of the City of E Centro being an ordinance entitled "An Ordinance for Police Regulations relating to Places where Spurious. Nnous, Malt, and Mix ed Liquors are Deposited, Distributed, Sold. Delivered or Given Away in the City of El Centro. Providing For the Sale of Same hy Druggist Under Guard ed Restrictions and Providing Punish ment. for the Violation Thereof is here bv amended to read as follows:
 Section 1. Any person. firm or cor poraton. club or association of persons who within the City of El Centro estab- ushes or keeps a place where spurious, vnous malt or mixed liquors or any in- toxlcatng liquors or any liquors con taining more than one per cent alco- hol are sold, furnished, distributed or given away in any quantity either to or for himself or themselves or any of their members or any other persons or who within the City of El Centro whether as owner. employee. or agent or other wise sells or gives away any such liquor or intoxicating drinks or furnishes or distributes the same to or for himself or themselves or any of their members, or has such intoxicating liquors in his pos session with intent to use the same as beverage; is guilty of a misdemeanor.
 The prohibitions of this ordinance shall not apply to the sale of liquors for bona iide medical purposes by a regularly hcenssd druggist upon receipt of writ ten prescription of a physician (other than such druggist or any one in his employ) entitled to practice medicine un- der the laws of the State of California; provided however. that said prescrip- tion shall be written, signed and dated within twenty hours of the date of sale; and that the name of the person ap- plying personally for the prescription and the name of the person for whose personal use the prescription is made shall he inserted therein by the physi- elan issuing the same at the time the prescription is made or given: and shall also contain the certificate of such phy- sician that the person for whose use such prescription is given is sick and | that in the opinion of such physician said hquor is the proper medicine for such illness: that the prescription shall ! be presented to and filed by the drug ! gist before any sale or furnishing is made 1 thereon that all prescriptions shall be numbered and kept in regular succesS sion by the druggist filing the same on 1 separate file, convenient and open and subject during all business hours to the | inspection of the sheriff of the county and his deputies or any constable or | deputy constable and the city marshal ! and his deputies; that only one sale | shall be made on one prescription, and | that prescription shall be given only 1 when in the opinion of the physicion 1 such liquor is necessary for medicine 1 for the person named therein and that any physician who gives a prescription 1 to any well person to enable him to procure such liquor or intoxicating drink l to be used a beverage, orN who vio- lates or assists in violating or evading any of the terms of this ordinance, shall l be deemed guilty of a msdemeanor. | Section ?. Section of said ordinance is hereby amended to read as follows Sec. All liquors and intoxicating drinks ! and vessels containing the same kept with intent to use the same as a beY- craze or to establish or keep a place in violation of this ordinance are hereby declared public nuisances and the City Marshal upon discovering such liuuor or
 
 vessels shall Summarily seize and de- stroy the same and the City Marshal shalhave the right to search any place where he has reasonable ground to sus- pect the presence of such liquors
 Section 3. A new section is hereby ad- ded to said ordinance to be know as section 61a to read as follows:
 Section 6B. It shall be unlawful for any railroad or express corporation or other carrier to receive, transport or de- liver within said City any such liouors | except which may be consigned to a regularly licensed druggist and it shall also be unlawful for any person except a regularly licensed druggist to receive any such liquors from any railroad or express corporation or carrier.
 ] Section 1. The Clerk shall certify to the passage of this ordinance and cause the same to be published once in the Imperial Valley Press and upon such publication the same shall be in full force and effect.
 Adopted October 13, 1909.
 Fl. E. PEARSON President of the Board of Trustees