Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1918-03-16
OFFICIAL MINUTES OF the POLICE JURY

See. q Be it further ordained, ETC.,
That all houses, rooms, apartments OF
ether places of any kind or character
whatever in the limits of the Parish of
Vermilion, Louisiana, used for the pur
pose of prostitution or assignation OF
other lewd or indecent act, whether
situated in a district heretofore estab
lished or permitted or elsewhere, be
and the same are nereby ordered closed
prohibited and suppressed for such pun
poses and the use of any such house
apartment, room or place for the pur
pose of prostitution or designation OF
other lewd or indecent act is prohibited
Sec 3. Be it further ordained, That
it shall be unlawful for any person,
| association Of persons, firm or corpor
alton to keep, run, conduct or maintain
any house, room, apartment or Other
place used for the purpose of prosti
tuition or as a place of designation o.
other lewd or indecent act within the
limits of the Parish of Nermilion. La
Sec 4. BE it further ordained, Thai
| it shall be unlawful for any person
association of persons, firm or corpor-
| alton to rent or lease or build or have
| built any house, apartment, room or
other place knowing yhat the same will
be used for the purpose of prostitution
or as a place Of asSignatiOn or lewd OF
| other indecent or to otherwise know
! inglv authorize or permit the occupancy
of any house, apartment, room or other
| place or other lewd or indecent act
wit lin the limits of the parish of Yer
million, Louisiana, and that it shall be
unlawful for any person to use or Oc
cupy any hotel, house, room or Other
! building or place for the purpose Of
prostitution, designation or other lewd
for indecent act within the limits Of
the said Parish
Sec. 5. Be it further ordained, That
any persons found violating any of the
provisions OF this ordinance shall DC
! fined not less than Twenty-Five $3.50
| Dollars and not more than One Hun
! drcd ($l0G} Dollars, or be imprisoned
not less { an ten days nor more than
thirty dars in the discretion of the
court; provided, that each day any
! house, room, apartment or other place
| is kept, ran, conducted or maintaine
! in violation of this ordinance shall con
/ Stitute a separate offense and the of
Tended shall he punished accordingly.
| See. 6, lie it further ordained, That
all ordinances or parts thereof in con
flict heresri-h, and especially all orlin-
ances establishing a restricted dis
trict" foy tle practice of the acts
| herein declared, to be unlawful, are
hereby re! called.
See. Z. BE it further ordained, That
if any clause, sentence or paragraph or
part of this ordinance shall for any
reason be adiudged by any Court of
sompetent jurisdiction to be invalid,
such Judgment shall not affect, impair
or invalidate the remainder thereof,
but shall lie confined in its operation to
fthe clause, sentence, paragraph or part
thereof directly involved in the contro-
versv in which suel Judgment shall
have been rendered.
Which said ordinance. its title, defn-
ition and preamble were thereupon
moved Tor final passage by Desire
Meaux aud duly seconded by 4. W.
Richardson, and the President thereup-
! on stated that the same was ready for
yea and nay vote and the same
haesiRg been voted for section bv see
ton, the said title, ordinance definition
and preamble were adopted by the fol-
lowing vote:
Yeas: Jos. E. Moore, Howard Moss,
T. P Fleming, A. W. Richardson, Jos
L Frederick, T. J. Broussard, Chapman
Pierce and Desire Meaux
Nays: None
Absent, Jos. E. Broussard and P. R.
Wright.
And the president declared that the
same had been adopted, and the clerk
was instructed to yssQrd tho same upon