Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-23
LAYS IRON HAND
ON LIQUOR MEN
COUNTY LICENSE BOARD RE-
M0LDS ORDINANCE
FoRslDs OLD METHODS IN SALE
OF INToXlcANTS
Sweeping Revision Hits Dance Halls,
Bath Parlors and BiIlboards.
New Rules Now Under
AdVsement

In a new county license ordinance
presented to the board of supervisors
yesterday by Hartley Shaw, chief dep
uty district attorney and legal adviser
of the board. wineries, billboards, drug
stores and dance halls, sparring eNhl-
bitfons and a number of other things
are affected.
The ordinance was presented to the
board by Deputy Shaw upon the re
quest of the board of SUPERVISORS for
a few suggestions in regard to the
present license ordinance. Several see
tions of the old ordinance are revised
while a number of new sections are
added.
one of the changes in the ordinance
is the selling of wine by the wineries
throughout the county. Heretofore the
wineries could sell an amount as small
as one-ffth of a gallon, while under
the proposed ordinance the minimum
amount is increased to ten gallons
This change was made at the sugges-
tion of :. l.. Browne, chief detective
of the district attorneys office, VINO
has been investigating the matter.
Several other changes relating to the
liquor business were made at the re-
quest of Chief Detective Browne.
Soliciting liquor sales in dry" dis
tricts on the pretense of making de-
liveries is prohibited in the new ordl-
nance 1T has been the custom OF
retail liquor houses in the past to send
a delivery wagon loaded with lquor
into the dry districts with probably
one bona fde delivery, and at the
same time sell a large amount from
the wagon" said Browne in speaking
of the change. Under the new ordi-
nance this will be prohibited, and any
person we find selling liquor from a
wagon We will prosecute"
A new section is added to the
amended ordinance defining the term
intoxcation, so that all kinds of tntoX-
icating liquors sold for beverages VIII
be included therein. The district at
torney's office has had considerable
| difficulty on that point in connection
with so-called patent medicines, which
were claimed not to be within the
terms of the existing ordinance.
A new section is added intended to
be Incorporated into the ordinance re-
Quiring a vote upon the granting OF
Wholesale and retail liquor licenses at
each general election. The practice has
been for many years to take such vote,
and the present ordinance contem-
plates that such a vote be taken, yet
it contains no express provisions max
ing ii mandatory.
The new ordinance will allow drug
gists to sell liquors for medicinal pur-
poses only on a physicians prescrlp-
ton. or alcohol for mechanical or sci
entific purposes Physicians are pro-
hibited from prescribing liquors ex-
cept i'm cases of genuine medicinal pur-
poses.
Dance halls and dancing academies
are regulated practically the same as
in the city, although not to the same
extent
Commercial fumigators and sprayers
are required by the ordinance to re
port to the county horticultural com
missioner.
A provision is contained in the pro-
posed ordinance regulating the licenses
for Turkish bath establishments by
charging them $50 a quarter. The
provision also charges 81 a month for
intelligence offices, 81 month for
book agents. 50 a quarter for junk deal
ers and collectors, 81 week for aban-
doned oil wells 81 a month for soft
drink wagons, 81 a month for laundry
and dye works and $3.50 a quarter for
the renting of automobiles.
Billboards are to be taxed at the rate
of one-fourth of a cent quarter for
each square foot of advertising space.
! They must not be within twenty-five
feet of a highway or within 100 feet
| of a crossing highway or 100 feet of
/ street intersections or railroad cross
! ings. Immoral pictures are prohibited
on them.
The proposed ordinance was taken
under adyisement by the board until it
/ can he gone over thoroughly, so that
| changes may be made if they are de-
! sired before adopting 1t.