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HomeMy WebLinkAboutBy-law 1317B Y- L A W N U M B E R 1 3 1 7 TO PROVIDE FOR THE PRESERVATION OF PUBLIC MORALS IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF THE TOWNSHIP OF PICKERING, IMERNAS by the provisions of the Revised Statutes of Ontario power is wen to Councils of Township Municipalities to pass by-laws for certain purposes. BE IT HRACTED by the Municipal Council of the Corporation of the Township of Fickoringt 1. It shall not be lawful to post up or exhibit placards, play bills, posters, writings or pictures, or to write words, or to make pictures or drawings, which are indecent or may tend to corrupt or demoralize, on any wall or (once or elsewhere on any highway or in any public place in the said municipality. 2. It shall not be lawful for any person to utter any profane oath, or obsoone, blasphemous or grossly insulting language, or to commit any other immorality or indecency in the said municipality. 3. It shall not be lawful for any person to be intoxicated or guilty of disorderly conduct in any street, highway or public place, or at any public meeting held for a lawful purpose, in the said municipality. 4. It shall not be lawful for any person to keep a house of ill rams, or to harbour persons of bad character, in the said municipality. 5. It shall not be lawful for any person to keep a gambling house, or to allow gambling on his or her promises within the said municipality. 8. It shall not be lawful for any person to indecently oxpose his or her at or near any public highway or other public place in the said municipality. 7. Any person contravening any of the provisions of this By-Law shall, upon conviction before a Police Magistrate or Justice of the Peaces be liable to a fine not exceeding 150*00 for each offence, such fine to be recovorable under The Summary Convictions Act. 8. All ponalites recovered under this By-Law shall be p41d over to the Treasurer of the said municipality, for the use of the said municipal- ity. 9e By-Law Noe 743 and all other By-laws or parts of By-laws contrary to or inconsistent with any of the provisions of this by-law be and the same are hereby repealed. PASSED December 24ths 1928. "0. Me Forsyth" Reeve "Donald R. Beaton" Clerk