HomeMy Public PortalAboutOrdinance 63-108ORDINANCE NO. 63 -108
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF TEMPLE CITY AMEND-
ING THE BUSINESS LICENSE ORDINANCE OF THE CITY
OF TEMPLE CITY TO PROHIBIT IMMORALITY IN LICENSED
ENTERTAINMENT: PROVIDING REVOCATION PROVISIONS IN
RESPECT TO IMMORAL ENTERTAINMENT AND ADOPTING
AMENDMENTS TO SAID ORDINANCE CONSISTENT WITH CHANGES
MADE BY THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES TO ORDINANCE #5860
ADOPTED BY THE CITY OF TEMPLE CITY AS ITS BUSINESS
LICENSE ORDINANCE
THE C RTY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF TEMPLE CITY DOES ORDA I s''! AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Ordinance No. 5860 of the County of Los Angeles -
as adopted by Ordinance No. 60 -10 of the City of Temple City is amend-
ed as follows:
(a) Section 2015.1 is added to read as follows:
"2015,1. No entertainment shall contain any words, phrases,
gestures, signs, paintings or articles which are indecent,
lewd or obscene or suggest fornication, prostitution, or
homosexuality.
(b) Sections (K), (L) and (M) are added to Section 92 to
read as follows:
"(k) An entertainment license may be revoked in the event
any entertainment is performed which. contains indecent langu-
age, or lewd or indecent conduct.
(1) An entertainment license may be revoked in the event
any entertainment is performed which reasonably suggests
fornication, homosexuality or any obscene or lewd conduct.
(m) An entertainment license may be revoked if any enter-
tainment suggests vulgar reference to the private parts of
the human body."
SECTION 2. Changes in Los Angeles County Ordinance No. 5860
by Los Angeles County Ordinances Nos. 8269, 8283 and 8285 are hereby
adopted and approved and incorporated in and made a part of Ordinance
No. 5860 by reference as heretofore adopted by the City of Temple City
by Ordinance No. 60 -10.
SECTION 3. The City Council finds that this ordinance is fo-
the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety of
the City of Temple City. The City Council expressly finds as follows:
(a) This ordinance is necessary to preserve the morals of 'i
the people of the City of Temple City.
(b) This ordinance is necessary to regulate acts and prac-
tices which are immoral or indecent and if unabated have the
tendency to promote immorality and indecency.
(c) The kind of morality that may satisfy other areas in
Los Angeles County is not the standard by which Temple City
shall be guided, it being common knowledge that the level of
entertainment in Los Angeles County varies from the cheap
and vulgar to the very finest.
(d) The general welfare of the people of Temple City de- ---
mends that this ordinance shall be enacted and become effec-
tive forthwith.
SECTION 4. Based on the provisions of Section 3 this ordi-
nance shall become effective forthwith upon its adoption.
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Ordinance No, 63 -108, page 2
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Temple
City at a regular meeting thereof held this 12th day of August, 1963,
by the following called vote:
AYES: Councilmen- Dickason, Fitzjohn, Merritt, Tyrell, Nunamaker
NOES: Councilmen -None
ABSENT: Councilmen -None
ATTEST:
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES
CITY OF TEMPLE CITY
ss
I, Marjorie A, Woodruff, do hereby certify that 1 have been duly
appointed Deputy City Clerk of the City of Temple City, California,
and that the foregoing Ordinance No. 63 -108 was adopted as an
Urgency Ordinance at a regular meeting of the City Council held on
August 12, 1963, by the following roll call votez
AYES: Councilmen- Dickason, Fitzjohn, Merritt, Tyrell, Nunamaker
NOES: Councilmen -None
ABSENT: Councilmen -None
Deputy ' ty Clerk of the y of
Temple ity, California
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