The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1910-03-26
SATURDAY. MARCH 2s, 1910.
ORDINANCE.


in the corporate limits of the City
of Enterprise, Oregon; providing for :,
the regulation of the sale of imtox-
icating liquors upon prescription; de-
filming common nuisances and provid- \
ing for the abatement thereof within
the corporate limits of said City Of
Enterprise, and providing penalties
for the violation of this ordinance.
The city of Enterprise does ordain
as follows:
Section 1. No person or persons
shall sell, exchange, barter or give
away, within the corporate limits
of the City Of Enterprise, oregon,
any spurious, malt, vinous or any
intoxicating liquors, provided, how
ever, that the provisions Of this or
dinance shall not apply to the sale
Of wines to church officials for sac
ramental purposes, nor to the sale
of alcoholic stimulants used as a
medicine, provided such alcoholic
stimulants for medicinal purposes
shall be sold upon the written pre-
scription of a regularly licensed and
practicing physician.
Section 2. ALI places within the
corporate limits of said City of En-
terprise wherein any spurious, malt,
vinous or other intoxicating liquors
are sold, or shall be sold, -bartered
or given away in violation Of this
ordinance, or where Idle or disso-
lutte persons congregate or are permit
ted to congregate for the purpose of
drinking any of the liquids described
in Section / of this ordinance, or in
which any person or persons are
permitted to remain and lounge
about, or where any Of said liquids
described In said section 1 of this
ordinance are kept for sale, ex-
change, barter or gift, as bever-
age, are hereby declared ito be a CON-
mon nuisance, and any person or
persons keeping or maintaining any
place within the corporate limits Of
said City of Enterprise, wherein any
of the liquids described in said Sec
tIon of this ordinance, are sold,
bartered, exchanged or given away
in violation Of this ordinance, shall
upon conviction thereof before the
City Recorder of said City of Enter
prise, be fined in a sum of not less
than Ten Dollars, and not more than
Fifty Dollars, or be imprisoned in
the City Jail of said City of Enter
prise for not less than five days nor
more than twenty-five days, or by
both such fine and imprisonment in
the discretion of said City Recorder.
Section 8. In all prosecutions un-
der this ordinance, 1t shall not be
necessary to allege the kind of such
spurious, malt, vinous or other in
toxicating liquors sold; nor to show
the knowledge of the principal to
convinct for the acts Of an agent
or servant; and in all cases the per-
sons to whom any of the liquids de-
scribed In Section of this ordi-
nance shall be sold in violation OF
this ordinance, shall be competent
witnesses. The possession of
license or internal revenue special
tax stamp issued by the federal
government to any person for the
sale of any of the liquids described
in said section / Of this ordinance,
shall be prima facie evidence that
such person is selling, exchanging or
giving away the above mentioned
liquids in violation of this ordinance.
Section 4. Whenever 1T appears
to the said City Recorder of said
City of Enterprise, by affidavit or
duly verified complaint showing a
probable violation of this ordinance
and describing the place, and II
known, the name Of the person or
persons, violating the provisions OF
this ordinance, said City Recorder
shall issue warrant commanding
the City Marshal of said City OF
Enterprise, 10 search 'uch place
and fully and completely inspec'
the premises of such person OF
persons. and IL the law or this
ordinance is being violated. to arrest
and complain against and pros
ecute all such persons found vio
lating the same.
Section S. Any person or persons
found guilty of violating or faiiine
to comply with the provisions oil
this ordinance, other than section
2 thereof, which provides a penalty
for the violation thereof. shall bt
by said City Recorder of said City
Of Enterprise, punished by fine
Of not less than ten dollars NOS
more than fifty dollars. or be I'm
prisoned in the City Jai not less
than five days nor more than TWEEN