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(A) It shall be unlawful for any person to play at any game with cards or dice, or any other means or instruments in the town when there is betting in such game or, for any person to bet on the sides or hands of such as do play, whether the players are betting or not.
(1982 Code, Ch. 10, Art. II, § 2-4)
(B) It shall be unlawful for any person to keep or maintain any house or place in the town for the purpose of gambling or permitting persons to resort thereat for such purposes.
(1982 Code, Ch. 10, Art. II, § 2-5)
(C) It shall be unlawful for any person to keep on his or her premises or operate or permit to be kept on his or her premises or operated within the town any slot machine or whatsoever name or kind in which there is any element of chance, or to keep on his or her premises or to operate or permit to be kept on his or her premises or operated within the town any punchboard or any punchboard of any other kind of board or device in which there is any element of chance or which does not give a uniform and fair return in value for the money paid by any person for the privilege of punching or otherwise operating same; provided that, this section shall not apply to automatic weighing, measuring, musical and vending machines or any other slot machines or device that gives a uniform and fair return in value for each coin deposited or paid for the privilege of using same and in which there is not any element of chance.
(1982 Code, Ch. 10, Art. II, § 2-6)
It shall be unlawful for any person in the town to behave disorderly in the opera house any public hall or other place of amusement or entertainment, or to enter the same in an intoxicated condition, or, to interrupt or to hiss any player, speaker or other person taking part therein.
(1982 Code, Ch. 10, Art. II, § 2-7) Penalty, see § 10.99
(A) (1) It shall be unlawful for any person to fail or refuse to abate a public nuisance on his or her property or on property controlled by him or her within the town.
(2) Each day that this section shall be violated shall constitute a distinct and separate offense; provided, however, that, if the nuisance is of such a nature that it cannot be abated immediately it shall be a defense to a prosecution under this section that the defendant in good faith has commenced (1) to abate such nuisance; and (2) is proceeding with the abatement thereof with reasonable diligence; but even though a defendant shall have commenced the abatement thereof, the failure to complete the abatement with reasonable diligence shall make the defendant liable to prosecution and conviction hereunder.
(3) In the event that a corporation shall violate this section, the corporation and its managing officers, and each of them, shall be equally guilty of the violation of this section and any one, or some, or all of them, may be charged with a violation or this section, and upon convection punished hereunder.
(1982 Code, Ch. 10, Art. II, § 2-8)
(B) (1) In the event of the prosecution of a corporation for violating section a summons shall be issued, based upon an affidavit conforming in all respects to an affidavit supporting the issuance of a warrant of arrest, against the corporation, requiring the corporation to appear in Municipal Court on a certain day and hour, to answer the charge, and served upon some officer or agent of the corporation, together with a copy of the affidavit, and upon proof thereon, the Municipal Court shall have jurisdiction of the corporation; and in the event a corporation shall be sentenced hereunder to pay a fine not exceeding $200, and shall not pay it within 5 days, the Town Clerk/Treasurer shall issue an execution therefor against the corporation to the Chief of Police, directing and commanding him or her to levy upon the property of the corporation to satisfy the execution and costs, in substantially the same manner as provided by law for the collection of executions on judgments in courts of record in civil actions.
(2) Upon receipt of any such execution, the Chief of Police, in enforcing the same, shall proceed in all respects as prescribed by state law for sheriffs of the state in the collection and endorsement of executions, issued to them under judgments in civil actions, and all sales thereunder shall be made at the front door of the county courthouse.
(1982 Code, Ch. 10, Art. II, § 2-9)
(C) It shall be unlawful for any person to so conduct himself or herself or to manage or allow to be used or managed any property, real or personal, belonging to or controlled by him or her in such a manner as to result in a nuisance to his or her neighbors or to the public, or to knowingly aid, assist or abet therein.
(1982 Code, Ch. 10, Art. II, § 2-10)
(D) Any person who shall be guilty of committing a nuisance in or about any cemetery, church yard, school yard or public building or place, or on private premises in the town shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
(1982 Code, Ch. 10, Art. II, § 2-11)
(A) It shall be unlawful for any persons, firm or corporation owning or operating a business with a licenses for on premise consumption of any beer, ale, porter, malt or other alcoholic beverages, to allow anyone under the legal drinking and purchasing age of 21 to enter the business and remain there, other than to make a legal purchase of items sold to persons under the age of 21 and to leave after making the purchase. Any owner or operator of such a business will be responsible for checking IDs to assure that all persons remaining in the business is of legal age. The owner will be required to post signs in the business for anyone under 21 years of age to make their purchase and leave.
(B) Any owner or operator found to be in violation of the ordinance shall be subject to pay a fine of no less than $50 or more than $200 plus court costs and assessments or 30 days in jail, if convicted.
(1982 Code, Ch. 10, Art. II, § 2-12) (Ord. passed 3-17-1992)