Ordinance 883ORDINANCE NO. 883
AN ORDINANCE,OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, MAKING IT
UNLAWFUL TO MAINTAIN OR DISPLAY ANY ADVER-
TISEMENT, NOTICE OR SIGN F'JHICH IS DISCRIM-
INATORY AGAINST PERSONS OF ANY RELIGION,
SECT, CREED, RACE OR DENOMINATION IN THE
ENJOYMENT OF PRIVILEGES AND FACILITIES OF
PLACES OF PUBLIC ACCOMMODATION, AMUSEMENT
OR RESORT; DEFINING PLACES OF PUBLIC AC-
COMMODATION AMUSEMENT C RESORT; PROVID-
ING FOR A RULE OF PRESUMPTIVE EVIDENCE;
PROVIDING FOR A PENALTY FOR THE VIOLATION
OF THIS ORDINANCE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH,
FLORIDA :
SECTION 1: It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association
or corporation in the City of Miami Beach, Florida, as
owner, lessee, operator, manager, superintendent, con-
cessionaire, custodian, agent or employee of any place of public
accommodation, resort or amusement, as hereinafter defined, to
place, post, maintain or display, or knowingly cause, permit or
allow the placing posting, maintenance or display of any written
or printed advertisement, notice or sign of any kind or description,
which said advertisement, notice or sign is intended to or tends to
discriminate directly or indirectly against, or actually discrimi-
nates against any person or persons of any religion or of any re-
ligious belief, sect, race or denomination in the full enjoyment
of any advantages, facilities or privileges offered to the general
public by places of public accommodation, resort or amusement.
SECTION 2: A place of public accommodation, resort or amusement,
within the meaning, intent and purpose of this ordinance,
shall be deemed to include inns, taverns, road houses,
hotels, apartment hotels, whether conducted for the entertainment
of transient guests or for the accommodation of those seeking health,
recreation or rest, and restaurants, or eating houses, or any place
where food is sold for consumption on the premises; buffets, saloons,
bar -rooms or any store, park or enclosure, where spirituous or malt
liquors are sold; or where beverages of any kind are retailed for
consumption on the premises; retail stores and establishments dis-
pensaries, clinics, hospitals, bath -houses, barber shops, beauty
parlors, heatres, motion picture houses, air dromes, roof gardens,
music halls, race courses, skating rinks, amusement and recreation
parks, fairs, bowling alleys, golf courses, gymnasiums, shooting
galleries, billiard and pool parlors; public libraries or educational
facilities supported in whole or in part by public funds or by con-
tributions solicited from the general public; and public conveyances
operated on land, air or water as well as the stations and terminals
thereof.
SECTION 3: In any prosecution for the violation of this ordinance,
the production of, or proof of the display or maintenance
of, any such written or printed notice or advertisement
purporting to relate to any place of public accommodation, shall be
presumptive evidence that such display or maintenance was authorized
by the person, firm, association or corporation maintaining and
operating such place of public accommodation.
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OFFICE OF CITY ATTORNEY - CITY HALL - MIAMI BEACH 39, FLORIDA
SECTION 4: If any section, sentence, phrase, word or words of this
ordinance shall be held or declared invalid or unconsti-
tutional, such adjudication shall in no manner affect
any other section, sentence, phrase, word or words of this ordinance
which shall be and remain in full force and effect.
SECTION 5:
a term not
prisonment
SECTION 6:
ATTEST:
Any person or persons violating this ordinance shall,
upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not ex-
ceeding $500.00 or by imprisonment in the City Jail for
exceeding ninety (90) days, or by both such fine and im-
in the discretion of the Municipal Judge.
That this ordinance shall go into effect immediately
upon its passage and posting as required by law.
PASSED and ADOPTED this 15th day of June, A. D. 1949.
1st reading
2nd reading
3rd reading -
Posted -
- June 1, 1949
- June 1, 1949
June 15, 1949
June 15, 1949
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OFFICE OF CITY ATTORNEY - CITY HALL - MIAMI BEACH 39, FLORIDA
STATE OF FLORIDA
COUNTY OF DADE:
I, C. W. TOMLINSON, City Clerk in and for the
City of Miami Beach, Florida, do hereby certify that Ordinance
No. 885, entitled: "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, MAKING IT UNLAWFUL TO MAINTAIN
OR DISPLAY ANY ADVERTISEMENT, NOTICE OR SIGN WHICH IS DISCRI-
MINATORY AGAINST PERSONS OF ANY RELIGION, SECT, CREED, RACE OR
DENOMINATION IN THE ENJOYMENT OF PRIVILEGES AND FACILITIES OF
PLACES OF PUBLIC ACCOMMODATION, AMUSEMENT OR RESORT; DEFINING PLACES
OF PUBLIC ACCOMMODATION, AMUSEMENT OR RESORT; PROVIDING FOR A RULE
OF PRESUMPTIVE EVIDENCE; PROVIDING FOR A PENALTY FOR THE VIOLATION
OF THIS ORDINANCE", having been passed and adopted by the City
Council of the City of Miami Beach, Florida, has been posted by
me in three conspicuous places in the City of Miami Beach, one of
which was at the door of the City Hall in said City on the 15th
day of June, A. D. 1949, and that said Ordinance remained posted
for a period of at least thirty days in accordance with the re-
quirements of the City Charter of the said City of Miami Beach.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the official seal of the City of Miami Beach, Florida, on
this the 18th day of July, A. D. 1949.
City Clerk
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