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(a) No person, association of persons, firm, copartnership or corporation, except the duly authorized agents of a railroad, steamboat, bus line or any other public conveyance for the transportation of passengers maintaining agencies in the City shall sell, barter, offer for sale or barter, advertise for sale or barter or in any other manner aid in the sale or barter of the whole or any part of any ticket or tickets, passes or other evidence of the holder’s title to travel on any railroad, steamboat, bus line or any other public conveyance, within the limits of the City.
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree, and each prohibited transaction shall be deemed a separate offense.
(Ord. 3-1974. Passed 1-14-74.)
(a) No person or persons, except the Mayor, members of the Division of Police or the Fire Chief shall make or cause to be made any key or keys of any fire engine house, truck house or fire alarm, telegraph or police alarm box. No person, without the consent of the proper authority shall use or cause to be used any such key or keys, or any device, for the purpose of opening any engine house, truck house or fire alarm telegraph box, or police alarm box.
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(Ord. 3-1974. Passed 1-14-74.)
(a) No person shall take unrequested pictures of pedestrians or other persons upon any of the streets or public places of the City, or, by card or otherwise, solicit on the streets or public places of the City the sale of pictures so taken.
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(Ord. 3-1974. Passed 1-14-74.)
(a) No person shall obtain money or property from another by fraudulent devices and practices in the name of palmistry, card reading, astrology, seership or like crafty science, fortune telling of any kind, or spiritualism or mediumship.
(b) No person shall advertise by display, sign, circular, hand bill or any newspaper, periodical, magazine or other publication, or by any other means, to tell fortunes or reveal the future; to find or restore lost or stolen property; locate oil wells, gold or silver or other ore or metal or natural product; restore lost love, friendship or affection, reunite or procure lovers, husbands, wives, lost relatives or friends or to give advice in business affairs or advice of any kind or nature to others for or without pay, by means of occult or psychic powers, faculties or forces, psychology, psychometry, seership, prophecy, astrology, palmistry, necromancy, or like crafty science cards, talismans, charms, potions, magnetism or magnetized articles or substances, oriental mysteries or magic of any kind or nature, or by means of clairvoyance, spiritualism or mediumship.
(c) No person shall represent himself to be a fortune teller or palmister.
(d) Whoever violates subsection (a) or (c) hereof is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. Whoever violates subsection (b) hereof is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.
(Ord. 3-1974. Passed 1-14-74.)
(Ord. 3-1974. Passed 1-14-74.)
(a) For the purpose of this section certain words and terms are herewith defined as follows:
(1) “Owner” means any person, copartnership or corporation having a legal or equitable title or any interest in a multiple dwelling.
(2) “Dwelling” means any building which is wholly or partly used or intended to be used for living or sleeping by human occupants.
(3) “Multiple dwelling” means any dwelling containing more than two dwelling units.
(4) “Sale” means the transfer from one owner to another owner of a legal or equitable title or any interest in a multiple dwelling unit.
(b) In any sale of a multiple dwelling or dwellings it shall be conclusively presumed in any action in law or equity instituted by the purchaser against an owner, that the owner at the time of such sale represented and warranted to the purchaser that such property was being used in compliance with the then existing zoning laws of the City and that there were no pending health orders against the property issued by the Board of Health or Division of Building and Zoning Inspection. This presumption shall not apply when the owner by written instrument represents to the purchaser that the present use of the property is in violation of the then existing zoning laws of the City and that there are health orders issued against the property by the Board of Health.
(c) Any owner who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(Ord. 3-1974. Passed 1-14-74.)
(Ord. 3-1974. Passed 1-14-74.)