Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1920-10-20
Notice of Referendum Elec-
ton on the Prohibition
Enforcement Act
(ssMulh@r~er RifInl


Stste of Wisconsin. do hereby certify that the
following law IS to be submitted to a vote OF
the people at General Election 70 be held in
precincts Of the State of Wisconsin on the first
Tuesday Of November, 1920. being the second
day Of said month.
CHAPTER 55s. LAWS OF 1919.
An Act 70 suspend the operation Of chapter
Sc of the statutes of 1917 entitled Excise and
sections 1861 to I56s-22. inclusive, Of the
statutes, relating TO intoxicating liquors, to
provide for the enforcement Of Article IS Of
the Constitution Of the United States, provid-
ing penalties making an appropriation and
defining intoxicating liquor.
The people of the State of Wisconsin, re-
presented in senate and assembly. do enact as
Section /. Chapter Sc of the statutes Of
Wisconsin for 1917 entitled Excise and the
sale of intoxicating liquors" is hereby sus-
pended and declared 10 be imperative so long
effect
Sections 2. TWENTY-FIVE Kew sections are
added TO the statutes 10 read: Section 1861.
After this act becomes operative, the manu-
4acture, sale or transportation of Intoxicating
liquors, as herein defined, within the impor-
tation thereof into. or the expectation thereof
from the state of Wisconsin except as may be
herein or hereafter provided, is hereby pro-
hibited.
Section 1862 This act shall be deemed
TO be an exercise of the power reserved by and
granted to this state by Article Is of the con-
Section 1868 Intoxicating liquor, within
the purview of said constitutional amendment
and the provisions of this act shall be constru-
ed to be and include all liquors and drinks
patent proprietary medicines, capable of
being used as beverage containing more than
Ewo' and one-half per centum of alcohol by
weight at so degrees Fahrenheit. But if the
Congress of the United States shall hereafter
by valid act which shall become the law of
the land and be paramount to any state laws
On he Mt no
liquors" as used in article Is of the constitu-
tion Of the United States, then such deina-
ton, from the time such act of congress
becomes operative shall be the defnation there
of under this subdivision.
Section 1863. Pure grain alcohol, wines
and other liquors, containing more than two
and one-haf per eentum of alcohol by weight,
may be manufactured in imported into or
exported from this state for medicinal me-
chanical, scientific and sacramental purposes
and sold for such purposes only and may be
50 sold as herein provided and not otherwise.
Denatured alcohol may be freely manufactured
and sold, provided its manufacture complies
acted by Congress relative thereto and the rules
and regulations issued by the department of
internal revenue.
Section 1855. There is hereby created
the Office of Prohibition Commissioner. On
or before the sixteenth d-y of January, 1920,
the governor shall. BY and with the advice and
consent Of the senate. appoint q suitable per-
son as such prohibition commissioner. Such
prohibition commissioner shall have his Office
IN the capitol, at Madison, to be provided at
public expense, and such officer shall hold
his office for the term Of four years from and
after the date of his appointment and until
his successor shall be appointed. Arr vacan-
cy occurring in said office shall like wise be
filled by executive appointment. Said prohibit
&ion commissioner shall receive a salary of
Sour thousand dollars per year and his actual
and necessary expenses incurred in the dis
charge of his duties. He shall take and sub
scribe the constitutional oath of office and
Gle bond, for the faithful discharge of his
in snf ~
sand dollars, which shall be approved by the
governor. Such prohibition commissioner may
appoint necessary deputies. to be known and
designated as Deputy Prohibition Commits
sioners," and may employ all necessary clerks
and fix the compensation and remuneration of
all such deputies and clerks so appointed and
dle all such appointments, together with a
statement showing the compensation or salary
80 fixed, prior to the employee appontee en-
tering upon his duties or employment, with
the secretary of state; and such appointee or
-employe shall receive the compensation so fix
ed. tosbe audited, allowed and paid on the GER
tificate Of the prohibition commissioner in the
same manner as salaries and corporations
allowed and paid to state officials
and employees. The prohibition commissioner
shall have and possess suitable official seal,
and all permits issued by him under the pro-
visions of this act shall have affixed thereto
clear impression of said Official seal Other
Documents may be authenticated by printed
copy of the impression of said official seal.
Said deputies may perform all or any Of the
duties herein provided to be performed by the
prohibition commissioner. All such deputies
shall file such bond the prohibition COM
missioner shall require, to be approved by the
prohibition commissioner. 1t shall be the duty
of the prohibition commissioner to exercise
and perform all the duties and acts required
of him by this act. For failure to perform
such duties he shall be subject to removal by.
the governor. for cause, upon due notice and
an opportunity to defend.
Section 1865 It shall be the duty of all
district attorneys. sheriffs, deputy sheriffs
stables and other executive law enforcement
old ovr1 e1ck aaaI
missioner or his deputies in the enforcement
of the provisions of this act
Section 1857. It shall be the duty of
the prohibition commissioner to designate and
Issue permit (which permit may be revoked
for cause) to one or more persons in each mu-
nicipality in this state who shall be authorized
20 have in possession and sell under such gen.
eral rules and regulations he may prescribe,
alcohol, vinous, spirituous or malt liquors con-
tanning in excess Of two and one-half percent
UNI of alcohol by weight TO be used exclusive
sy for medicinal, mechanical, scientific and
sacramento purposes. The person so desig-
mated shall execute a bond in the penal sum
of one thousand dollars for the faithful COM
Dlisnee with the rules and regulations pre-
scribed by the prohibition commissioner, with
reference to the Possession and sale of any
such liquors. In the event or failure to COM
ply strictly Herewith the amount of said bond
shall be forfeited TO the state of Wisconsin
and in addition the persons so offending shall
scribed.
Section 1868. No person who shall keep
or have in possession for retail sale non-in-
tsxicating beverages as defined in section 1859
% hereof shall at any time have in his pos
session or under his control in the building
In which he conducts his business or selling or
dispensing any such beverages any intoxicat-
ing liquor defined in said section. The pro-
hibtion commissioner or his deputies shall
have the right of access at all reasonable
hours, without notice, TO the premises occupi-
ed by any such retail dealer in non-intoxicat-
ing beverages. to investigate if this provision
Is being violated.
Section 1868. No place in which non-in-
toxieating drinks or beverages, as difned IN
section 1868 hereof, are sold or dispensed
for consumption upon the premises where sold,
shall maintain standing bar counter at
which any such drinks or beverages contain
ing alcohol in any degree permitted to be
drank or consumed by the purchaser.
Section 1569-I0. The common council of
cities, the village board of villages and the
town board of towns for the purpose of regu-
lating sa6 enforcing the sanitary conduct of
places in which Notwithstanding beverages as
defined in section 1868 hereof are manufac-
tured or sold may pass ordinances fixing the
terms and conditions under which such places
the number of such places, and the locations
at which such business any part thereof
may be conducted, and may require that any
person who wishes to operate any such BUSH
ness shall first procure permit (wnch per-
nit may be revoked for failure to comply with
the conditions of this act or any ordinances
relating to said business.) A fee of not 4kore
than one hundred dollars per annum may be
exacted before the granting OF such permit
and shall be payable in such amounts and at
such times as may be fixed by ordinance. The
commodities TO be sold under such permit may
be separated into classes and separate fee
may be exaeted for each class not exceeding in
all the maximum of one hundred dollars.
Il shall be the duty Of the treasurer Of each
eowr village, or city in this state wherein q
fee is collected for q permit as herein proyid-
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