Arizona republican., 1916-01-18
ORDINANCE NO. 60

1OO N(ll< UT l1f- Nl l UT 1f1oE-- NIX AND CERTAIN OF THE OR DAMAGES OF THE COMMIS- SION OF THE CITY OF PHOENIX: DEFINING CERTAIN CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS AGAINST THE PEACE, HEALTH AND SAFETY OF THE SAID CITY OF PHOENIX AND PROVIDING PUNISHMENT THERE FOR; PROVIDING A PENAL CODE FOR THE CITY OF PHOENIX AND APPEALING CERTAIN ORDI- RANGES OF THE COMMON COUN- GIL OF THE CITY OF PHOENIX AND OF THE COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF PHOENIX.
 BE TT ORDAINED BY THE COM MISSION OF THE CITY OF PHOE- NIX AS FOLLOWS:
 CHAPTER l
 OFFENSES AGAINST THE PUBLIC
 PEACE
 Section l. Every person who keeps any disorderly house, or any house or place of general or public resort by which the peace, comfort or decency
 
 habitually disturbed, or who keeps any inn, hotel, rooming or lodging house in d disorderly manner, shall be guilty ot misdemeanor.
 section ,. Any person who shall, purposely or carelessly. discharge any gun, pistol or other frearm in any saloon, dance house. store or other public house or business house in the City, thereby endangering the life or person of another, or thereby dis turbing any of the inmates thereof, or who shall thereby injure, destroy or damage any property therein. or who shall discharge the same within the corporate limits of the City of Phoe- nix, except in necessary self defense, or upon obtaining permission from the City Manager therefor, upon good cause shown, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined in any sum not exceeding Three Hundred Dollars or imprisoned in the City Jail for a period not exceeding six months or by both suci fine and imprisonment Section ,. CD It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association or corporation to sell or give away or to have in his. their or it's possession for the purpose of sale or giving away, or to display for sale or gift any brass or other knuckles of metal, slung ahot, billy or black jack.
 It shall be unlawful for any person, except d policeman or peace officer in actual service and discharge of his duty, to have or carry concealed on or about his person. any pistol or other tirearm, dirk. dagger, slung shot, sWord-cane spear, brass knuckles or other knuckles of metal, bowie knife, or any kind of knife or weapon, ex- cept a pocket knife not manufactured and defense
 % Any person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of misdemeanor and may be arrested with or without a warrant either in the day time or in the night time, and any peace officer who shall fail, neglect or refuse to arrest any such person on his own knowledge of the violation of said section, shall be
 
 Any person found guilty of violating any of the provisions of this section shall re punished by a fine of not less than twenty nor more than Threo Hundred Dollars or imprisonment ir the City Jail for a period of not less than ten nor more than thirty days oi hy both such fine and imprisonment
 Section 4. Every person who, not ir necessary self defense, in the presence of any other person, draws or exhibits any deadly weapon in rude, angry ol threatening manner. or who in any manner unlawfully uses the same, is guilty of a misdemeanor
 Section ,. Every person who, with out authority of law, wilfully dis u1bs or breaks up. or attempts tC break uD any assembly or meeting no unlawful in it's character is guilty O a Inisdemeanor
 Section 6. Every person who ma liciOusly and wilfully disturbs tn, peace or quiet of any neighborhood family or person by loud or unusua noise, or by tumultous or offensiv, conduct, or by threatening, traducing quarreling, challenging to fight O fighting, or who applies any violen or aousive or obscene epithets to an other, is guilty or a misdemeanor an, is punishable by a fine not eXceedin, two hundred dollars or by imprison ment in the City Jail for a period no 10 exceed two months or by both sucl fine and imprisonment
 Every person who wilfully disturb or disquiets any assemblage of peopl met for religious worship, by noise pfotane discourse. rude or indecen behavior. or by any unnecessary noise either within the place where sue meeting is held, or so near it as t disturb the order and solemnity C the meeting, IS guilty of a misde meanor.
 Section [. Any person assisting c attempting to assist any prisoner con fined in the City Jail by sentence C order of the City Court or othe legally constituted tribunal to escal therefrom,e or rescuing or attemptin to rescue any person lawfully in th custody of any peace officer is guilt of a misdemeanOr
 Section 7H. An assault IS an UT lawful attempt coupled with presei ability to commit violent injuI upon the person of another
 A battery is any wilful and unlawf force of violence upon the person Q, another.
 An assault and battery may committed by the use of any part