HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 463 ORDINANCE NL1NEER, _
AN ORDINANCE, Amending Sections 11 and 12 of Title
VII, Chapter II, page 416 of the Revised Ordinances of the City of
Fort worth, relating to moving picture films, defing a kind and
character of picture films that shall be prohibited from being ex-
hibted and displayed within the City Qf Fort Worth, and 1=eating-a-
Censor Board, providing for the appointment thereof, defining their
duties etc., so that said sections 11 and 12 shall hereafter read
as follows:
$a3Kx :0 IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF
THE CITY OF FORT 'FORTH:
Sec. 11. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or
corporation, or the agent of any such person, firm or corporation
to keep, maintain, exhibit, display, or to be concerned in the
Maintaining, keeping , exhibition or display of any moving picture
show, picture or film, which is of a low, indecent or vulgar na-
ture, or of such archaracter as may be .reasonably calculated to
corrupt the morals of youth, or such as will likely create disorder,
or excite racial prejudice, or such as will reasonably provoke a b.�
breach of the peace; and the words "person" "firm" or "corporation"
to include
as used herein shall be construed Ie��sors of buildings where such
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pictures imiXfilms may be exhibited or displayed , Lessees, agents
operators and employees.
Sec. 12. For the purpose of aiding and assisting the of-
ficers of the City of Fort Worth in detecting and suppressing the
exhibition or display of the character of moving pictures or moving
pictures films prohibited in the foregoing section, there is hereby
created what shall be termed a " Board of Moving Picture Cen-sore
For the City of Fort Worth." The Board of Censors hereby created
shall consist of Five Resident Citizens of the City of Fort Worth,
to be appointed by the Mayor and confirmed by the Board of Com-
missioners, who shall serve without compen-
sation and shall hold office for a period of two years and until
the end of the administration making the appointment and until their
successors shall have been appointed and qualified.
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The members of said Board shall make and subscribe to the oath
prescribed by the constitution of the state of Texas before assuming
their duties; Said Censor Board shall be dili-gent in their ef-
f ,rts to see that prohibted pictures and films such as described in
section 11 are detected and prohibited; said Board or any member
thereof shall have the right at all reasonable times to enter any
picture show or theater wherexuwk moving pictures are being shown
or displayed for the pl4rpose of inspecting same; all films or a syn-
opsis thereof, before being shown or displayed in the City of Fort
Worth shall be first submitted to said Censor Board for approva;,
and any three of said Board shall constitute a quorum theeof and
authorized to give a certificate permitting the exhibition of said
pictures or films` It shall be the duty Censor Board
or any member thereof to make immediate report to the Mayor, Commis—
sioner of Police and Fire, the Chief of Police, the prosecuting At-
torney or any other executive officer of the .City of Fort Worth
of any picture or moving picture film that is being displayed, or
about to be shown or displayed within the limits of the City of
Fort Worth prohibted under the terms of this ordianance; failure
or refusal of a majority of said Censor Board to act, or failurey
or refusal of said Board to perform faithfully their duty as
herein provided, in any case, shall not be construed as in any man-
ner preventing the proper officeers of the City of Fort -Worth from
enforcing the provisions of section 11 hereof.
This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force From and
after its passage and publication as required by law.
Approved as to form,
Corporate n Counse2o
This is to certify that the above and foregoing Ordinance was
duly presented aid unanimously passed and adopted by the Board of
Coinnissioners of the City of Fort Worth Texas, at a regular session
of said Board held Tuesday May 4th, 1915.
M. P. Harwood Jr.
City Secretary.