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Be it ordained by the Board of Aldermen of the City of Water

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SECTION I. The City Clerk of said city may issue licenses, as provided in the ordinances concerning licenses and permits. to such persons as shall be approved by the Board of Aldermen, to keep for hire, in premises to be designated in such licenses, one or more billiard tables or bowling alleys to be used solely for the purposes of health and recreation. Every person who shall keep and use, or suffer to be kept and used, for hire, in any premises occupied by him, or under his control, in said city, any billiard table or bowling alley, without a proper license in force therefor, shall forfeit and pay a penalty of five dollars for every such offense, and a like penalty for every day in which such table or alley is so used. SEC. 2. The City Clerk may issue a license, as provided in the ordinance concerning licenses and permits, for any public concert, play, farce, show, tragedy, comedy, pantomine or other theatrical or dramatic performance, exhibition of gymnastics, or skill of body, circus or exhibition of animals or curiosities for gain, specifying in such license the time and particular place of exhibition, provided that no part of such exhibition, show or performance shall be contrary to the statutes of this State or the ordinances of said city. Every person who shall take any part as actor, manager or agent in any such show, exhibition or performance, and every owner or

other person having charge of any building, room or premises in said city, who shall suffer or permit therein such show, exhibition or performance, without a license being first obtained therefor, as aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay a penalty of not less than twenty nor more than one hundred dollars for every such offense.

SEC. 3. Every person who shall, within said city, act, exhibit, show or perform in, or cause to be acted, exhibited, shown or performed, or be in any manner concerned in the acting, exhibition, showing or performance of any indecent or blasphemous play, farce, opera, public exhibition, show, entertainment or performance whatsoever, or of any indecent or blasphemous part of any play, farce, opera, public exhibition, show, entertainment or performance whatsoever, shall forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty dollars for every such offense.

SEC. 4. No play bill, or advertisement of any of the foregoing exhibitions, shall be posted upon any public building or fence in said city, nor on or about any tree in the streets of said city, nor upon any private property, without the consent of the owner of such property. Every person offending against any provision of this section, shall forfeit and pay a penalty of five dollars for every such offense.

SEC. 5. No person shall destroy, remove, tear, or otherwise deface any bill (posted in such places as may be permitted) descriptive of any performance to be exhibited, duly licensed as aforesaid. Every person violating any provision of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of two dollars for every such offense.

Passed by Board of Aldermen March 29, 1897. Operative April 9, 1897.

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Be it ordained by the Board of Aldermen of the City of Water

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SECTION I.

Whenever new streets are laid out, or the lines of existing streets are changed, building lines for said streets shall be established by the Board of Aldermen as soon thereafter as it is practicable.

SEC. 2. Whenever building lines for any street shall have been established, it shall not be lawful for any person to erect or place, or cause to be erected or placed, any building or structure any enclosed part of which, including bay windows, towers, swelled fronts and the like, shall be nearer such street than the lines so established. No veranda, porch, balcony, cornice or other similar projection shall be erected or placed nearer such street than eight (8.0) feet beyond the building line, nor beyond the lines of such street. No steps, belt courses, window sills, columns, cornices or any projection whatever shall extend beyond the street lines of any street, between the level of the sidewalk grade and a line ten (10.0) feet above such grade, nor shall any projection at any elevation extend beyond the street lines of any street more than one (1.0) foot, except the cornices, which shall not project more than three (3.0) feet beyond such street lines. Any person offending against the provisions of this section shall forfeit

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