The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1917-06-29
NEW TOWN LAWS ADOPTED

NEW TOWN LAWS ADOPTED
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owed by all keepers of these markets
1 Section l. No person, firm or cor
Doration shall sell, or offer for sale. any
fresh meats, oysters, dressed fowl, or
game of any kind, before obtaining
hermit to conduct such business from
Che mayor.
/ Sect. 2. All dealers in meats, fish,
vegeta bles, fruits or any other food
product Of such character, shall be,
and his employers, in person, neat,
and cleanly, and his premises kept
lin a neat and sanitary condition, and
all food containers must be clean and
sanitary.
Sec. g. All fresh meats must be
NEW ORDINANCES GOVERNING
PUBLIC PEACE AND MORALS
Section l. Any persons failing to as
sist in making arrest, or to assist a
peace officer in any way, after being
summoned to do SO by the proper
authority, shall pay a fine Of ten dol
lars. This ordinance shall be in full
one mile from the town.
Sec g Any and all persons who shall
make public disturbance by loud and
boisterious talking, so as to become
nuisance. shall upon conviction be
fined five dollars
Sec. 3. Any person, or persons dis
turbing the peace of the town by using
profane, obsence, indecent language, OF
by cursing and swearing shall upon
conviction be fined five dollars.
Sec. 4. Any person or persons who
shall become drunk or disorderly OF
who shall cause disturbance by
fighting, or in any other disorderly
manner disturb the peace and quiet o:
the town shall upon conviction be fine(
ten dollars.
Sec. 5. No persons engaged in an,
kind of business, shall allow drunken
ness, or noisy persons, in his place O
!, business, to disturb passers-by, or t.
render the street less commodious thai
it would otherwise shall upon convic
ton be fined five dollars.
Sec. 6. No person shall beg on tn
streets, or elsewhere. or commit an
act of vagrancy shall upon convictio
be fined five dollars.
Sec. 7. No crowds, or persons, sha
congregate, or loiter on the streets, {
sidewalks, to the obstruction thereo
under a penalty Of five dollars fin
upon conviction for each person
said crowd.
Sec. 8. No persons shall loiter in
around the railroad passenger static
or freight station, except on bushes
shall upon conviction be fined five d
lars.
Sec. g. Any person, or persons, w
shall drive, either automobile, wage
buggy or other vehicle, or any a
NAL, or wheel cart, on ride a bicy'
each street, or turn the corners
Main street, except around the 81
posts, where placed, or shall face
tomobiles. or vehicles, in the wrc
direction, and not in the direction
the traffic, or who shall fail to ps
cars or vehicles at an angle Of As
gree on the outside edge of the 81
walk Of Main street, from Ninth
Twelfth street inclusive, shall, VI
conviction, be fined five dollars
each offense.
Sec. 10. It shall be unlawful for !;
automobile to be on the streets Of
town at night without lights on II
and rear, when running and w
stationary the rear light shall be /
burning except as otherwise provl
for by the State law. Further tina
shall be unlawful for automobiles
be left on the streets Of the t.
without being lighted, shall upon
viction be fined five dollars.
Sec. IL. 1t shall be unlawful for
automobile to be operated on
streets OF the town, unless Lnere
be a display of the proper State lice
of the year in which it is issued,
June 3Oth to June 3Oth, and that
owner Of the car marked 'hcense
nlied for'' must first satisfy the c
of police that license has been apl
for, under penalty Of $500, for eac]
tense, each day being separate
Tense.
Sec. -. It shall be unlawful to {
an automobile, or vehicle through
streets of the town at greater S
than ten miles an hour, shall
conviction be fined five dollars.
Sec. 13. It shall be unlawful Tor
owner, or driver Of car, to run
through the corporate limits OF