Legislation Details

File #: ORD-1887:001    Version: 1 Name: Fines for working on Sunday
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 8/5/1887 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 8/5/1887
Title: ORDINANCE SETTING FINES FOR WORKING ON SUNDAY
Indexes: Other
Date Ver.Action ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsVideo
No records to display.

title

ORDINANCE SETTING FINES FOR WORKING ON SUNDAY

body

Every person who shall on the Sabbath or Sunday be found laboring or shall compel his apprentices or servants to labor or to perform other services than customary household duties of daily necessity, comfort, or charity, on conviction thereof shall be fined the sum of One Dollar for each separate offense. Providing, noting in this section shall be so construed  as to prevent livery stable keepers from letting out their hacks, buggies and horses on the Sabbath day, nor the barber shops from running till 11 a.m.

 

Passed and approved this 5th day of August, 1887

 

(Ordinance as modified by Ordinance of March 8, 1897)