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AND ORDINANCE AMENDING AND RE-ENACTING SECTION 282 OF THE CITY CODE. <br /> <br />BE IT ORDAINED, BY THE COUNCIL OF CHARLOTTESVILLE,That section 282 of the City Code <br /> <br />I be amended and re-enacted to read as follows; <br /> <br />Section 282. VIOLATION OF THE SABBATH PUNISHED. <br /> <br />If a person,on the Sabbath day, be found laboring at any trade or calling, or employ <br /> <br />his apprentices or servants in labor or other business, except in household or other <br /> <br />work of necessity or charity,he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon <br /> <br />conviction thereof shall re fined not less than $5. for each offense. Every day any <br /> <br />person or servant or paprentice is so employed shall constitute a distinct offense <br /> <br />and the Court in which or the Justice by whom any judgement of conviction is rendered <br /> <br />may require of the person so convicted a recognizance in a penalty of not less than <br /> <br />$100. or more than $5,000. with or without security, conditioned that such person shall <br /> <br />be of good behavior, and especially to refrain from a repetition of such offense, for a <br /> <br />period not exceeding twelve months. <br /> <br />This ordinance shall be in force from and after its passage. <br /> <br />Adopted August 8, 1912. Presented and approved August 13, 1912. <br />President Signature. Mayor Signature. <br /> <br />AN ORDINANCE AMENDING AND RE-ENACTING SECTION 273 OF THE CITY CODE. <br /> <br />BE IT ORDAINED, BY THE COUNCIL OF CHARLOTTESVILLE, That section 273 of the City Code <br /> <br />be amended and re-enacted to read as follows; <br /> <br />SECTION 273. KEEPING HOUSES OF ILL -FAM <br /> <br />Any person who shall keep a house of ill-fame, resorted to for the purpose of <br /> <br />prostitution or lewdness,or any inmate thereof, shall be fined not less than $25. nor <br /> <br />more than $200, or confined in jail not exceeding three months, or both. In a prosecution <br /> <br />of this offense the general character of the house may be proved, <br /> <br />This ordinance shall be in force from and after its passage. <br /> <br />Adopted August 8,1912. Presented and approved August 13,1912. <br />President Signature. Mayor Signature. <br /> <br />Section 321. Buildings within the Fire Limits. <br />No person shall erect, or cause to be erected,within the fire limits as hereinbefore <br /> <br />defined, any building or buildings, or any addition to any existing, building, unless, the <br /> <br />walls thereof are composed entirely of brick, stone,or concrete or other material <br /> <br />equally subotantial, permanent and fireproof, except that the outer walls of any building <br /> <br />within said limits and not fronting on Main street may be constructed of what is <br /> <br />comnonly known as brick veneering, and the roof or roofs of any and all buildings within <br /> <br />said fire limits scall be covered with slate ,tile ,metal or other material which shall <br /> <br />be deemed fireproof; provided that a wooden building, or a wooden addition to an existing <br /> <br />building, costing fifty dollars or less may be erected upon the rear of any property <br /> <br />provided a special permit be first obtained from the Council. <br /> <br />And provided further that a wooden addition costing more than fifty dollars may be made <br /> <br />to an existing building if the owner, having first obtained the written approval of the <br /> <br />local board of underwriters and the written consent of the owners of the adjacent <br /> <br />property, shall , at a rgular meeting of the City Council, present a petition in the <br /> <br />manner prescribed by section 322 and be granted a permit by the affirmative vote of <br /> <br />two-thirds of all the members elected to the Council, which vote, with the names of the <br /> <br />Councilmen delivering them, shall be entered upon the minuses. <br /> <br />NO shingle roof small be put on any building within the fire llimits, either in repairing <br /> <br />an old or constructing a new one. <br /> <br />Adopted September 2, 1912. presented and approved September 3, 1912. <br />President Signature. Mayor Signature. <br />