Ordinances of the City of Healdton Healdton, Okla. February 26, 1923 Excerpts from some of the ordinances: Ord. 3, Sec. 2 If two or more persons shall fight together within the City of Healdton, they shall deemed guilty of an Affray, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not to exceed Twenty Dollars, including costs. Ord. 6, Sec 1,2,3 1. Any person who keeps a bawdy-house, house of ill-fame, of assignation or of prostitution or any other house or place for persons to visit for unlawful sexual intercourse, or for any other lewd, obscene or indecent purpose, upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not to exceed Twenty Dollars, including costs. 2. Any person who keeps any disorderly house, or any house of public resort by which the peace, comfort or decency of the immediate neighborhood or the citizens of the City of Healdton are habitually disturbed, upon conviction, shall pay a fine of not more than Twenty Dollars, including costs. 3. Any person who lets any building or portion of any building knowing that it is intended to be used for any purpose declared punishable by this article, or who otherwise permits any building or portion of said building to be used, for the purpose aforesaid, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than Twenty Dollars, including costs. Ord. 8, Sec. 1, 2, 3 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to leave standing any horse or other animal, attached to any carriage, wagon, cart or other vehicle of any description whatsoever, on any street or alley of the City of Healdton, without a competent person to take charge of the same, or without first having securely tied the same. 2. It shall be unlawful for any person to stop any vehicle or leave the same standing upon the crossing or crosswalk of any of the streets of the City of Healdton. 3. It shall be unlawful for any person to ride or drive any horse or other animal upon the sidewalks of the streets of the City of Healdton. Ord. 10, Sec. 1-9 1. That the following persons are declared vagrants within the meaning of this article: 2. First: An idle person who lives without any means, or who has not visible support ad makes no exertion to obtain a livelihood by honest employment. 3. Second: Any person who strolls or loiters idly about the streets of the City, having no local habitation and no honest business or employment. 4. Third: Any person who strolls about to tell fortunes or to exhibit tricks not licensed by law. 5. Fourth: Any common prostitute, any manager, on controller of a house of prostitution , or ill fame, or any one employed therein as bar-keeper-, caller of figures for dances, or a habitual frequenter thereof. 6. Fifth: Any person who is a professional gambler, or a gambler commonly known as a tin-horn gambler, card player, or card sharks. 7. Sixth: Any person who goes about to beg alms, who is not afflicted or disabled by a physical malady or misfortune. 8. Seventh: Any habitual drunkard, who abandons, neglects or refuses to aid in the support of his family. 9, Any person adjudged guilty of Vagrancy as set forth in the above sections of this article, shall be punished by a fine of not more than Twenty Dollars, including costs. Ord. 13. Sec. 2 2, That hereafter no horse, cow, mule, ass, sheep, goat, hog, or any other animal, shall be suffered to run at large within the limits of the City of Healdton. And it is hereby declared to be unlawful for any person owning or in charge of any animal above mentioned to knowingly or willfully suffer or permit any such animal to run at large within the limits above mentioned. And the following penalties are hereby imposed upon each owners or persons in charge of each such animal so knowingly or willfully suffered or permitted to run at large, to-wit: For each horse, cow, ass, or mule, a penalty of Two Dollars; for each head of swine, goat, sheep, or other animal not mentioned herein, the sum of One Dollar. Ord. 25. Sec. 1, 2 1. That it shall be unlawful for any official or employee of the City of Healdton to e intoxicated during his term of office. 2. That it shall be unlawful for any person licensed by the City of Healdton to perform any service for the public under the supervision of the said City or its duly qualified and acting officers to become intoxicated while holding such license or permit. Ord. 36. Sec. 9 (Subject: Motion Picture Projection Booths) 9. Sides, bottom and top of booth, and main or entrance floor shall be covered with hard asbestos boards of at least 1-4 inch thickness or with steel or galvanized sheet iron of not less than No. 20 U.S. gage…….. There shall be not more than two openings in the booth for each machine, one for observation by the operator, and one for operation of the machine………The two openings for each machine shall be provided with a gravity door, constructed of metal not less than No. 12 gage sheet iron, and when closed shall overlap the opening at least two inches on all sides, Ord. 41, Sec. 1 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, not maintaining and operating a bakery within the corporate limits of the City Of Healdton, Oklahoma, to sell, or advertise for sale in any manner, any bread which is not baked within the corporate limits of said City of Healdton, without first securing from the said City of Healdton, a license permitting the same. Ord. 42, Sec. 1 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person to expectorate on the floors or walls of any store building, theatre or public building, or on the sidewalks, doorways or stairways within the corporate limits of the City of Healdton, Oklahoma. Ord. 47, Sec. 1 1. The Mayor of said City of Healdton shall receive a salary of One Hundred Fifty ($150.00) Dollars per month. The City Clerk shall receive a salary of Fifty Dollars ($50.00) per month and ten percent of all collections of Occupation Licenses. The City Marshal shall receive a salary of One Hundred Twenty-Five (4125.00) Dollars per month and fees. The City Treasurer shall receive a salary of Twenty-Five ($25.00) Dollars per month. The City Councilmen shall receive Three ($3.00) Dollars for each regular meeting of the Council, and Two ($2.00) Dollars for ach called meeting, and each adjourned meeting which they attend. The Street Commissioner shall receive Five ($5.00) Dollars per day for each and every day actually employed. The City Health Officer shall receive a salary of Thirty-Five ($35.00) Dollars per month and to act as City Physician Ord. 48, Sec. 1,5 (Does not include all license fees.) 1. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE Mayor and the City council of the City of Healdton, that each of the vocations, professions or privileges named below shall pay a license tax as follows…….. Auctioneers, $3.00 per day, per annum, $12.00 Banks, per annum, $12.00 Hotels, per annum, $12.00 Restaurants and Short Order places, per annum, $12.00 Hot Tamale Vendors, per annum, $12.00 Undertaking Establishments, per annum, $12.00 Dray Wagons, one horse, for each truck or wagon, per annum, $12.00 Pool Halls, per annum, $50.00 Ice Dealers, per annum, $50.00 Water Peddlers, per annum, $12.00 Service Automobiles, Omnibuses, Cabs and Hacks, per annum, $12.00 Telephone Companies, per annum $12.00 Blacksmith Shops, per annum, $12.00 Harness and Saddle Dealers or Repairers, per annum, $12.00 Theatres, Moving Picture Shows and Vaudeville, per annum, $50.00 Cotton Gins, per annum, $12.00 Chinese Laundry, per annum, $50.00 Sparring Exhibitions, per exhibition, $50.00 Jacks or Stallions for breeding purposes, each, $12.00 Bulls for breeding purposes, per annum, $12.00 Bill Posters, or firms, associations or corporations tacking up signs or circulars or cards, or distributing Books or Circulars, or printing or lettering on fences, billboards or elsewhere, or advertising by any other means, $5.00 per day, pr annum, $12.00 Doll Racks, per day (minimum 30 days) $5.00 Bowling and Box Ball Alleys, per annum, $12.00 Traveling Tent Show, per day, $10.00, each additional day, $50.00 Ord. 49. Sec. 1 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person to solicit either or directly or indirectly either for the direct selling or for the future delivery of any goods, wars, or merchandise, except traveling salesmen, selling to local merchants except under the following conditions, to- wit: That solicitors selling goods direct from house to house within the corporate limits of the City of Healdton, Oklahoma, said goods wither consisting of apparel, dry goods, notions, household goods, articles of food, meats, nuts, vegetables or provisions must first procure a license from the City Clerk at the rate of $5.00 per day, or $25.00 per month. Provided that this Section shall not apply to farmers or other producers selling vegetables or other articles of food of his own growth or production. Ord. 50. Sec. 1 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to allow chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, or any other domestic fowl or fowls, to trespass upon the premises of any other person, firm or corporation within the corporate limits of the City of Healdton, Oklahoma. Ord. 51. Sec. 1. 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, within the corporate limits of the City of Healdton, Oklahoma, to have in his possession, or to manufacture, or to sell, or to give away, or otherwise dispose of any spirituous, vinous, fermented or malt liquors, or substitutes threfor, containing more than one-half of one per cent of alcohol, or to convey any such liquor from one place within the City of Healdton, Oklahoma, to another place in said City of Healdton. Ord. 51. Sec. 1, 2. 1. That it shall e unlawful, within the corporate limits of the City of Healdton, Oklahoma, for any person to conduct, whether for hire of not, or carry on, wither poker, roulette, craps, or any gambling game played with dice, cards, or any device, for money, checks, credits, or any representatives of value, or to either as owner or employee, whether for hire or not, to deal for those engaged in playing any such game. 2. That it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, within the corporate limits of the City of Healdton, Oklahoma, to bet on or play at either poker, roulette, craps, or to bet on or play at any game whatsoever for money, property, checks, credits or other representatives of value, with cards, dice, or any other device which may be adapted to or used in playing any game of chance or in which chance is a material element.