HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 1801 ORDINANCE NO. 0
AN ORDINANCE PROHIBITING THE SALE, DISPLAY AND ADVERTISING OF
CONTRA-CEPTIVE DEVICES, PROPHYLACTIC RUBBER GOODS AND ARTICLES
FOR THE PREVENTION OF VENERAL AND OTHER DISEASES AND INFECTIONS,
OR ANY SIX INCITING DEVICES OR CONTRIVANCES, EXCEPT BY REGULARLY
LICENSED PRACTITIONERS OF MEDICINE AND OR REGISTERED PHARMACIES
WITHIN THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXkS;
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF 1HE CITY OF FORT WORM:
SECTION I.
It shall hereafter be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation,
copartnership or association, to vend, sell or distribute at retail or to
the public, in any manner whatsoever, any article, drug or medicinal prepara-
tion primarily manufactured, produced or intended for use as, or which may
be used as a contraceptive within the Corporate Limits of the City of Fort
Worth, except regularly licensed practitioners of medicine and or registered
pharmacies. It shall be unlawful to vend, sell or distribute any such
articles, drugs, or medicines on the streets or elsewhere within the Corporate
Limits of the City of Fort Worth, by means of machines, or by peddling, can-
vassing or soliciting from house to house, except that the foregoing provisions
shall not apply to wholesale druggists, jobbers or manufacturers who sell to
retail drug stores only.
SECTION II.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation, eowpartner-
ship or association to display pi'expose for sale any of the above articles or
any containers or packages containing or advertising same. It shall be unlaw-
ful to advertise or print any placards, bill-boards, hand-bills, circulars,
newspapers, periodicals, signs, or any other printed or painted matter.
SECTION III.
Any person, firm, corporation, co-partaership or association violat-
ing any provision of this ordinance shall be punished upon conviction by a fine
not to exceed $200.00.
SECTION IV.
All ordinances, or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are here-
by repealed.
SECTION Q.
This ordinance is hereby declared to be necessary for the preserva-
tion of the public peace, health and morals and shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage and publication as by law required.
!Mayor
ATTEST:
City Seerstery
APPR RM AND LEGALITY:
City Attorney
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City Secretary