O-008-32 MIA SHORES VILUGEl ORDINANCE No*
AN ORDINANCE DEFINING OFFENCES 9 FIM G PUNISHBMTS
AND REL&TIVG TO EVIDMM t SEARCHES AND SEIZURES,
BE IT ORDAINED BY MIAMI SHORES VILLAGE:
___�Sectlm 1* Offences, Whoever# in the villages shall commits
or shall aids abet or assist another In comnitting any
of the followings to-wit:
accepting a bribe,*
adulterating food or drink for sale ;
aiding, with knowledges a person to escape from lawful
custody of an officers or to flee the scene of an
offence;
affray- engaging in an affray;
arrest- resistings or hindering or obstructing an arrest
or attempted arrest;
assault or assault and battery;
brothel- keeping a brothel or disorderly house or being an
inmate thereof;
cheating;
culpable negligence to the injury of any person or property;
embezzlement;
extortion or malpractice by any public offioer;
falsifying public records or making false entries therein;
fighting;
firearms- oarryingg discharging or using a firearm or other
deadly weapon without written permit from the council;
food and drink- selling diseased-9 decayed or unwholesome
food or drink;
fraud;
impersonating any public officer;
indecent exposure of the persm;
intoxicating liquors- selling alcoholic or intoxicating
liquor to a minor;
lewd and lascivious cmduot ;
obtaining propertyp money or lodging by false pretense
or by fraudulent representation;
open adultery;
perjury or subornation of perjury;
petit larceny;
poisonous beverages- manufacturing* selling or trans-
porting poisonous beverages dr .00ncootione -for -
beverage ,purposea;
process- resisting or evading service of legal process;
public fomication;
quarantine- breaking or violating a lawful quarantine ;
receiving or concealing stolen goodsp with knowledge
thereof;
riot- inciting or engaging in a riot 9 rout 9 mob or un-
lawful assembly;
upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not
less than $25.00 nor more than $500.009 or by imprisonment
on the streets or other works of the village for not exceeding
sixty days9 or by both such fine and imprisomen.to in the
discretion of the court,
Section 2, Other offences* Whoever, in the villages shall commit
or shall aids abet or assist another in committing any of
the f011OWi3*9 tO-Wit:
animals- maliciously or wantonly or by gross negli-
genoe killing a dog or other animal of another person;
assembly- disturbing a lawful assembly;
bonfires and grass fires- making or causing a bonfire
or grass fire without permission from the village
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manager or at a time or place not so permitted;
breach of the peace;
disorderly conduct;
dogs- permitting a dog' awned by oneself to bite a person$*
or failing to keep securely tied or enclosed any vicious
dog or other animal, or maintaining a barking dog 'after
complaint against the same by a neighbor or by the vil-
lage manager';
drumkeness- being publicly drunk
explosive- keeping dynamites nitroglycerine ,, gunpowder,
gasoline or kerosene in excess of fifty gallonst or
other explosive or highly inflammable substance with-
out written, permit from the council; exploding or
blasting with-any explosive substanae without written
permit from the council or at a time or place not so
permitted;
false statement- knowingly making 4 false statement in
applying for any permit or permission required by any
ordinance;
fire fighting equipment- driving over a fire hose or into
a fire hydrant; or obstructing or interfering with a
fireman, fire fighting equipments vehicles or appara-
tus; blowing or imitating a fire whistle or siren;
turning in a false alarm of f ire;
fence or hedge- wilfully breaking or damaging anotherts
fence or hedge;
gambling- maintaining a gambling house;
garbage- any occupant failing to promptly dispose of all
garbaget offals and animal carcasses from the premises
occupied by him;
hogs- keeping hogs or pigs
nuisances- maintaining any source or cause of noxious odor *
or gas or of any loud * disturbing noise Or,,other
nuisance; or causing the same to exist;
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monuments- removings defaoingg or otherwise damaging
or destroying a monument or boundary marker without
the ownerts consent;
obscene prints- circulating or offering for sale an
obscene print or picture;
petting in a public place;
profanity- publicly indulging in profanes obscene or
abusive language;
public utilities- driving Into electrical poles standard
or fixture; tampering withe removing # defacing or
otherwise damaging a water mainj fire hydrants el-
eotrioal or water meters electrical powers, light#
telephone or telegraph poles wires circuit , insu-
latort transformer or apparatus- except by lawful
authority so to do;
6hrubbery- outtinge t earings, burnings pluckingg or
otherwise damaging or removing any treeg shrubs
flower or other plant on a public park or parkways
or on village propertyt without authority of the
village;
shrubbery- outtingt tearingo burningt plucking or
otherwise damaging or removing any tree# shrubs
flower or other plant on private property without
permission of the owner or caretaker thereof;
streets and sidewalks". writing on# printing on# or
painting on or digging In a public street or side-
walks or placing any -sign or banner thereon .or
thereover without permission of the council;
placing or keeping any beach, abairt pots box or
other article in a public street or on a public
sidewalk or parkways or otherwise obstructing a
public streets walk or way; throwing trash or refuse
in a public street , sidewalk,, park or parkway.
toilets- maintaining an ope3;t outsXde toilet or privy;
trespassing on another pef-son's real property.
village property- writing one printing one painting one
cuttings burningo tearing or otherwise damegin�or
defacing village offioess furniture$ machinery or
other property owned or used by the village;
upon conviction thereof's shall be punished by a fine not ex-
oeeding $100009 or by Imprisonment for. not exceeding thirty
days on the streets or other works of the villages or in any
lawful places or by both such fine and impriscnments in the
discretion of the court # provided that one convicted of any
offences resulting in damage to property owned or used by
the village shall be punished by a fine of 050.00 and the
amount of the damages or cost of repairing the saw 9 or
by such Imprisonment not exceeding thirty dayss or by both
such fine and imprisonments as in the discretion of the court
shall seem proper..
Section 3* Definition$ Adopted by Reference* The definitions
and elements of all offenses not otherwise defined* shall
be the same as in cases Of crimes against the State of
Floridal the same as"I' as and
,,,,the nearest corresponding nam
terms as defined by the Statutes of Florida and decisions
of the Supreme Court of Florida from time to times and when
no such applicable statute or court decision bgfoundq .the
definitions of such offences by the Common Law of England
shall govern and apply.
Section 4. Vagrants. Vagrants as defined in chapter 5419 Acts
of Florida of 1905 as amended by chapter 5720s Acts of Florida
1907 ( See. 7655 0. G. L. , 1927) being or)found in the
village shall be punished by fine not exceeding one hundred
dollars or by imprisonment on the streets or other works of
the village for not exceeding thirty days # or by both such
fine and imprisonments in the discretion of the court.
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Section 5, Presumptions and evidence.a The same presump-
ticnA and rules of prima facie proof and other rules of
evidence as from time to time shall be provided by the
statutes of Florida concerning crimes by the same er"es
the nearest corresponding nelmes to the offences herein-
before enumerateds shall apply and be enforced in trials for
such offenoest in the village court, so far as the same
be applicable.
Section 6* Forfeitures, All weaponsq gambling devices and
other personal.property and paraphenalia used illegally
by any person shall be seized upon his arrest and if he
be convicted, shall be forfeited to the villages and shall
be sold or otherwise disposed of under direction of the
. council; but if he be acquitteds such property shall be
returned to him.
Section 7. Crimes Any officer of the village may arrest,
without a warrants any person committing a crime against
the State of Floridap in his sight or presences whether
the same be an offence against the Village or not,, such
arrested person to be held for the sheriff of Dade County.
Section 8. Searches Any officer of the village may enter
upon premises without a warrant if he observe an offence
committed thereon or a fugitive flee thereto-, otherwise
he shall enter only with a search warrant to be issued
by the village judge upon affidavit of reasonable cause
existing to believe an offence has been or is being com-
mitted on such premises or that a fugitive from justice
-is on such premises. Such warrant shall deforibe the
premises. briefly and may be served eith6r by day or by
night
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Sedtion .-9. Traffic Regulations,'; No private vehicle ex- t,
cepting ambulances shall be operated. or driven in the
village at A .speed exceeding forty�-flve miles per
hours nor shall a vehicle7be, 'parked within fifteen
feet of an7 f ire- h7drant or the same distance of an ,
intersecting �street or alle7 line, nor In front: of-another
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person's walk or drivewa7 without his permission.-, Ppon
sounding of a fire alarm., and approach offir kppa
P_ ratub
on a street where)a vehicle shall be hicles in
, -all ve
such street shall stop at the nearest curb� ofthe a
treet
and remain stationar7. until the fire apparatus shall pass,
F Ire trucks, police trucks and cars ambulances -shall
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have the right of way atalltlmes as against other -
hicles on all streets. As between othe vehiclesi east
and west traffic shall have the right of wa7 on all streets�
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except -across Bisoa7no .Boulevard or Federal Hi
ghwayL
Northeast Sixth Avenues Northeast Second Avenud-and
North Miami Avenue, on which 'last mentioned streetsAtI
all intersections,, the 'north and south bound traffic shall
right of wa7s provided tb:at children 'on foot'
under sixteen .years of age$ shall. have the superior right
of way at all times and plaoes, and all vehicles shall
sto
- before entering right-of- streets
wa7 and where provisions
hereof do not appl7s the law of the roa d as contained in
the statutea of Florida from time' t -
0 time shall
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-and govern trafflcin �and through the Village, but
shall be unlawful
-for any person under any cl
rcumstances
regardless Of right Of wa7 Or rules or- otber- law
of the road
to 'operate a motor or other vehicle re o k__
lessl-7., -or at a rate of speed gr
eater 'than, � or In
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manner other than shall be reasonable and proper in a good
sober drivers having due regard to the widths traffic and
use of the highwayst or so as to endanger the property or
life or limb of any other person. Any person violating
this section or any part hereof shall be punished by fine
of not exceeding $250.00 or by imprisonment on the streets
or other works of the village during not exceeding sixty
days or by both'-suoh fine and imprisoment in the discretion
of the court.
Section 10. Construction. Every sections clause, sentences
designation of offence and other part of this ordinance
is severable from. all the remainder hereof, and the in-
validity or failure to operate , of any sections clauses
sentences designation of offence or other part hereof
shall in no way or degree impair the validity or opera-
tion of any other part hereof*
Section 110 This ordinance all take effect upon passage
and publication in 7:� - - -_ C
a newspaper published in Miemiq Florida.
Regularly passed and adopted by the council of Miami
Shore s Village , Mar aoh 19,32.
Attest: A
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A"illage Manager and As Mayor or th-6 Village.
Clerk.