HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinances Book 7, Page 318, Ordinance Number 114All ORDINANCE AIIJENDIING^G SSECCTIOIIN SIXTEEN (16) OF ill ORDINANCE
ENTITIIIED "Jill ORDINANCE RELATING TO AILD REGULATING THE MAIRKET HOUSE OF THE
CITY OF PADUCAH, YENTUCKY, PRESCRIBING THE RULES FOR THE CONDUCT THEREOF
AND THE PENALTIES THEREUNDER, AND FIXING THE PRICES TO BE CHARGED FOR THE
REIT OF BENCHES AND STALLS THEREIN", PASSED BY THE BOARD OF COLUJISSIONERS
DECEMER 13, 1915.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COI;7IISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF
PADUCAH, KENTUCKY.
Section 1. That Section 16 of an ordinance entitled: "AN ORDINANCE
RELATING TO AND REGULATING THE MARKET HOUSE OF THE CITY OF PADUCAH,
KENTUCKY, PRESCRIBING THE RULES FOR THE CONDUCT THEREOF AND THE PEIIALTIES
THEREUNDER, AND FIXING THE PRICES TO BE CHARGED FOR THE RENT OF BENCHLS
AND STALLS THERE3111", passed by the Board of Commissioners December 13,
1915, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows, to-vrit:
Section 16. It shall be unlawful for any person to purchase,
sell, or make any contract or agreement or combination for the purchase
or sale of any vegetables, provisions, fowls, fruits or food products of
any character whatsoever, or any other marketing at said market, before
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the opening of same by the Market Master; nor shall it be lawful for any
person, huckster, hawker or peddler, or any other person or combination of
persons, who buys or resells on the Paducah market, to purchase any arti-
cle at said market house, or within four blocks thdreof, during market
hours, either for exportation or for reselling at said market house; nor
shall any person sell or offer for sale, at the market house, any article
which such person may have purchased or forestalled at any place while on
the way or designed or intended for sale at said market house, and any
article shall be deemed sold in violation of the provisions of this ordi-
nance when same shall he set aside to be delivered at the close of
market hours or shall be withdrawn from public offer for sale to any and
all persons who may desire to purchase same at retail prices during market
hours, or when the vendor of such article or articles at said market shall
put a price on same so high as to cause same to remain unsold for the pur-
pose of defeating the intent of this ordinance; and it shall be the duty
of all persons attending said market with provisions or food products, or
other marketing for sale, to sell or deliver to any person desiring the
same any quantity of such provisions or marketing bought by them on said
market- and no huckster, hawker or peddler, or any combination of persons,
shall be permitted, after market hours, to buy or sell any food products
whatsoever at said market house, or within four blocks thereof, that have
been previously offered for sale by any person at or within" four blocks of
said market house; and it shall also be unlawful for any huckster,
hawker or peddler to buy or sell or receive in his possession for sale any
of the food products herein mentioned to be sold by such hawker, huckster
or peddler at the market house or within four blocks thereof upon commis-
sion; and any of the food products herein mentioned that shall be delivered
to any huckster, hawker or peddler at the market house or within four
blocks thereof at any time during market hours, whether previously engaged
or not, shall be deemed a violation of the spirit, intent and purposes of
this ordinance and shall be unlawful and a violation hereof; and it shall
further be unlawful for any huckster, hawker or other person or persons to
form any combination or make or enter into any agreement whereby the
price of marketing or the sale of food products of any person whatsoever
shall be fixed and regulated by such agreement- nor shall Rny person sell
or offer for sale at the market house any article which has been purchased
from any farmer, gardener or other producer at any time contrary to the
provisions of this section. Provided, however, this ordinance shall not
apply to the purchase or sale of fruits or vegetables from bona fide
.commission merchants from their regular stock and who have well established
places of business- and upoh a conviction in the Paducah Police Court of
any huckster, hawker or peddler selling food products upon the market
house in violation of the provisions of this section, his license to
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operate or transact business at, upon or near the Paducah market shall
be revoked. And it is hereby made the special duty of the Market Faster
to see that the provisions of this section are strictly and rigidly
enforced.
Section 2. all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict herewith
are hereby repealed, and this ordinance shall take effect upon its
passage, approval, record and publication.
PASSED BY THE BOARD OF COIJIIISSIOIIERS JULY 11, 1917.
RECORDED BY H. D. HENDRIOK, CLERK, JULY 12, 1917.
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