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Home My WebLink AboutORD NO 434 ORDINANCE N0.~__~ NEW SERIES AN ORDINANCE REGULATING PUBLIC SPEAKING. ............. · VIDING A PENALTY FOR VIOLATION 'THEREOF. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF TEE CITY OF BAKERSFIELD, as follows: SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to deliver, or announce or advertise that he will deliver a public address, sermon, talk, oration or speech in any public street of the City of Bakersfield; provided, however, that the City Manager may, in his discretion, issue a permit to any person to speak in a public street on any religious topic under the auspices of any church or religious organization in the City of Bakersfield. SECTION 2. It shall be unlawful for any person to deliver, or announce or advertise that he will deliver a public address, sermon, talk, ora- tion or speech in any of the public parks, including the City Hall Park, without having first procured a written permit from the City Manager of the City of Bakersfield so to do. SECTION 3. It shall be the duty of the City Manager to issue said permit to speak, upon written application signed by the person or persons reques.ting said permit to speak, to any person or persons applying therefor; provided no previous peanit has been issued to any other person or persons to speak at the same time and place for which application is being made. SECTION 4. Any person failing to procure such permit shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction t hereof shall be punished by a fine not to exceed three hundred ($300.00) dollars, or by imprison- ment in the County Jail not exceeding ninety (90) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. -1- I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance was passed and adopted by the Council of the City of Bakersfield on the ~l~ay of ~_ , 1934, by the following vote: AYES, BI3OEMI, GZST, SZEMON, SMI'TH, SOLLEAS, 1A~N.~W11-SOH NOES.*L ~ ........ ASSENTs __~ .......................... City Clerk and Ex- t Clerk of the Council of the City of Bakersfield. APPROVED by me thts~~ay of __~ '~AYOR of the dfty of Bakersfield. , 1934.