The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-11
CITY ORDINANCES
Ordinance No. 448-C
An ordinance to amend ordinance
 4OS-C. entitled. an ordinnnce fn levy

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 An ordinance to amend ordinance
 AVS-C. entitled. an ordinance to levy
 n street tax. approved July 10, 1916.
 pc It ordained by the commission of the ,lty of Birmingham as follows:
 Il mat section of ordinance 405-C, en- titled, an ordinance to levy a street tax, amended so as to read as follows:
 Ts'c. 2. Be it further ordained, that every .itIe inhabitant of the city of Birming- ham, between the ages of 21 and 45 years, shall on or before the first day of March, 1917, and on or before the first day of aarch of every year thereafter, pay to he city comptroller, for the use of the city of Birmingham as communication of the duty to work on the streets of the ;ity Of Birmingham, the sum of two dol 1rs and fifty cents (s2,50), which shall dis 4 inarge or commute the obligation of such rhabitant to work on said streets for the rst six months of the year of 1917, and of very other year during which the same paid; provided that any person liable Eor street duty may in lieu of making l,uch payment work three days on the public streets of the city of Birmingham, Under the direction of the street commits sioner, by March 1, 1917, and each year thereafter.
 Be I further ordained, that section 5 of ordinance 405-C be amended so as to reae ss follows:
 S-. ,. Be it further ordained, that this ordinance shall not apply to persons re- siding in the city of Birmingham for a less period than three calendar months prior to the first day of January of the year for which the payment is demanded.
 Be it further ordained, that ordinance iaf-C be further amended by adding nc to sections six, seven, eight and nine, ing yn shall read as follows
 prsc. 6. That it shall be the duty or the te,y comptroller and the street tax col bctors and deputy street tax collectors, z ty collect from every male inhapltant able for street duty, as herinabove pro z-ided, the said sum levied by way or Communication of such duty. and for the purpose of collecting, or attempting to collect or demanding or receiving such sum from persons liable to pay the same the said comptroller and the street tax collectors and deputy street tax collectors are hereby authorized and empowered 10 enter upon any public or private prop erty or any storehouse, factory, manu- facturing plant, enclosure, yard, porch'! veranda, machine shop, furnace, foundry, pipe fshop, railroad yard, freight house. depok passenger station or upon any other private premises of any Kind or !, rsEeter whatsoever in the city of Bir-'
 sham Ala, where persons laple, or
 \ Unreasonable cause to believe are
 l B., gre at WOIk, UT WiiChO SN>AA f1S- s z may be or reside except between the hours of 6:30 in the evening and [ o'clock in the morning, and provided that the door of the home or the door or the dwelling place of no person shall be en- tered by such collector without the con- sent either expressed or implied, of the owner or occupant of such dwelling or residence.
 Sec. I. Be it further ordained, that it 1.n 1Iax ft1l narSOn, nrm or corporat ation to interfere with or obstruct any street tax collector in the discharge of the duty herein provided, or to, upon demand within the hours hereinapove provided, or to, upon demand within the hours hereinabove provided. refuse such officer admission to any place such as described in this ordinance.
 Sec. S. Be 1t further ordained, that upon demand from the city comptroller, IL shall be the duty of the managing head of all mercantile, industrial. manufsctur- ing and commercial establishments owned and operated by any person, hrm or cor poration in the city of Birmingham Whlch employs any person liable 10 perloiHl street duty, or to commute the same py paying moneys under this ordnance wien.' 4o z N 10 days after demand. to furnish 10
 comptroller, under oath, list or all ,mployes of such person, firm or corpora ton liable for such duty, and any person who fails or refuses to furnish such ist on demand within 10 days shall, upon con- viction, be punished within the lmlts ana as provided by section 12l6 or the coae of Alabama of the year lsoI. :.
 Sec. g. If any one or more sections or MS ordinance be declared ultra vires' Ebnstitutional or unlawful, the remain
 STS.1is ordinance shaiir not thereby be
 sd.
 g'Eoved January 10, 1917.
 tL GEORGE B. WARD,
 resident Board of Commissioners.
 fsste copy:
 al B. LLOYD, City Clerk.
 w9Herald, January Ii, 1917.