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<br />edge of insufficient funds in, or credit with such bank, banking
<br />institution, trust company, or other depository, unless such
<br />maker or drawer shall have paid the drawee thereof the amount
<br />due thereon; together with interest and protest fees, within five
<br />days after receiving notice that such check, draft, or order has
<br />not been paid to the drawee.
<br />The word credit, as used herein, shall be construed to mean
<br />any arrangement or understanding with the bank, banking insti-
<br />tution, trust company, or other depository for the payment of
<br />such check, draft or order.
<br />In any civil action growing out of an arrest under this section,
<br />no evidence of statements or representations as to the status of
<br />the check, draft, order or deposit involved, or of any collateral
<br />agreement with reference to the check, draft, or order, shall be
<br />admissible unless such statements, or representations, or collat-
<br />eral agreement, be written upon the instrument.
<br />Sec. 307. Protecting female persons in the city.
<br />Any male person who shall, by signalling, addressing, solicit-
<br />ing, catching hold of or in any way interfering with the free pas-
<br />sage of any female person with whom he is not personally ac-
<br />quainted for the purpose of inducing her to converse with, accom-
<br />pany or ride with him shall be subject to a fine of not less than
<br />$10.00 nor more than $50.00 or confinement of not less than
<br />thirty days in jail, or both for each offense.
<br />Sec. 308. Betting, wagering and gambling.
<br />It shall be unlawful for any person to bet, wager, or play at
<br />any game for money or any article of value. Any one violating
<br />the provision of this section shall upon conviction, be fined not
<br />less than $5.00 nor more than $50.00 or confined in jail not ex-
<br />ceeding sixty days, or both.
<br />Sec. 309. Untrue, deceptive or misleading advertising.
<br />a. Any person, firm, corporation or association who, with in-
<br />tent to sell or in any wise dispose of merchandise, securities, serv-
<br />ice or anything offered by such person, firm, corporation or asso-
<br />ciation, directly or indirectly, to the public for sale or distribu-
<br />tion, or with intent to increase the consumption thereof, or to
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<br />induce the public in any manner to enter into any obligation relat-
<br />ing thereto, or to acquire title thereto, or an interest therein,
<br />makes, publishes, disseminates, circulates, or places before the
<br />public or causes, directly or indirectly, to be made, published, dis-
<br />seminated, circulated, or placed before the public, in this City, in
<br />a newspaper or other publication, or in the form of a book, no-
<br />tice, handbill, poster, bill circular, pamphlet, or letter, or in any
<br />other wav, an advertisement of any sort regarding merchandise,
<br />securities. service, or anything so offered to the public, which ad-
<br />vertisement contains any assertion, representation or statement
<br />of fact which is untrue, deceptive or misleading, shall be guilty
<br />of an offense punishable as hereinafter provided.
<br />b. It shall be deemed deceptive advertising and a violation of
<br />the provisions of this section, for any person, firm, corporation
<br />or association engaged in the business of buying and selling new
<br />or secondhand articles or merchandise, or other property, real
<br />or personal, or in the business of furnishing any kind of service,
<br />to advertise by means of "liner ads" in a newspaper or otherwise,
<br />such articles, property or service for sale in a manner indicating
<br />that the sale is being made by a householder or private party not
<br />engaged in such business; and every person, firm, corporation or
<br />association engaged in any such business shall in advertising
<br />goods, property or service for sale, either through "liner ads" or
<br />other wise, affirmatively and clearly indicate that the seller is en-
<br />gaged in such business and is not a private party.
<br />c. It shall be deemed deceptive advertising and a violation of
<br />the provision of this section, for any person, firm, corporation or
<br />association, in a newspaper or other publication, or in any other
<br />manner hereinbefore set out, to offer to the public, for sale or
<br />distribution, any merchandise which is secondhand or used mer-
<br />chandise, or which is defective in any manner, or which consists
<br />of articles or units or parts known as "seconds" or blemished
<br />merchandise, or which has been rejected by the manufacturer
<br />thereof as not first class, unless there be conspicuously displayed
<br />in direct connection with the name and description of such mer-
<br />chandise and each specific article, unit or part thereof, an un-
<br />equivocal statement, phrase or word which will clearly indicate
<br />that such merchandise or each article, unit or part thereof so ad -
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<br />vertised is secondhand, used, defective or consists of "seconds"
<br />or is blemished merchandise, or has been rejected by the manu-
<br />facturer thereof as not first class as the fact may be.
<br />d. Any person, firm, corporation or association violating any.,
<br />of the provisions of this section shall be liable to a fine of not
<br />less than twenty nor more than five hundred dollars, and each
<br />day's publication or continuance shall be deemed a separate of-
<br />fense.
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<br />CHAPTER XXIV.
<br />CHAIN GANG -PRISONERS.
<br />Sec. 310. Establishment.
<br />A prisoners working force to be known as a chain gang, shall
<br />be established in this City and shall be under the direction and
<br />control of the City Manager, subject to such rules as may be pre-
<br />scribed by the Council. The City Manager shall direct such chain
<br />gang or part thereof to be worked at such time and places as he
<br />may designate or as necessity may require.
<br />Sec. 311. Who liable thereto.
<br />Any male person over the age of eighteen years convicted of
<br />a misdemeanor, or any offense, and sentenced to confinement
<br />in jail as a punishment, or part punishment, or who is imprisoned
<br />for failure to pay any fine or penalty, imposed upon or assessed
<br />against him upon such conviction, or for any violation of any or-
<br />dinance of this City which is punishable by fine and imprison-
<br />ment or for failure to give a bond required of him, shall be re-
<br />quired to work in such gang, unless excused for cause by the
<br />City Manager.
<br />Sec. 312. Manager—assistant.
<br />The City Manager shall appoint a competent and efficient per-
<br />son as manager of said chain gang and when necessary shall ap-
<br />point another as assistant manager.
<br />Sec. 313. Their duties and authorities.
<br />The manager, and assistant manager, of the chain gang, are
<br />hereby vested with all the powers and responsibilities of police-
<br />men, and shall be under the control of the City Manager and may
<br />be suspended or removed from office peremptorily by the City
<br />Manager or Council, without formal proceedings, for any cause
<br />deemed sufficient by him or them.
<br />Sec. 314. Rules and regulations.
<br />The following rules shall govern the City Manager and other
<br />officers in the discharge of their duties relating to the chain gang:
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