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O-313-63 ORDINANCE NO. 313 AN ORDINANCE TO REQUIRE THE HONEST LABELING OF COMMUNIST GOODS; PROVIDING A PENALTY FOR KNOWING VIOLATION; PROVIDING SEPARABILITY CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. BE IT ORDAINED BY MIAMI SHORES VILLAGE: Section 1. Findings of Fact and Public Policy: The Village Council finds as a matter of fact and of public policy that the communist dictatorship is a vicious, atheistic, criminal conspiracy which has long waged war on the Free World, including the United States, the sovereign State of Florida, and the Village of Miami Shores; that this war is waged by military, political, psychological, and economic means; that the communist war aims at the total destruction of our free, Judaic- Christian, tolerant, Constitutional way of life based on limited government, the rule of law, bill of rights, and free enterprise, which has brought the greatest prosperity, freedom, happiness, progress, and spiritual blessings enjoyed anywhere in the world; and that it is the right, duty, and obligation of all Americans, including the Village officials of Miami Shores, under the State and Federal Constitutions, to take a positive stand to defend America and defeat the enemy; that economic warfare, penetration, and subversion are financed by the sale of communist imported goods, some of which are produced under cruel and brutal conditions of slave and convict labor and unfairly compete with American labor in violation of Federal law; that such goods are often labeled in a false, misleading, or inadequate manner to hide their communist origin and deceive buyers who would in many cases refuse to buy them; that such goods have come to rest and enter into intrastate and local commerce in retail trade; and that it is necessary under the basic powers of defense, and under the police powers, to promote the public welfare, convenience, and necessity, and under other powers of government, that the Village require all persons selling said products clearly and honestly to show the source and origin of such communist produced or processed goods; and that this practice will aid and assist in the enforcement of Federal customs laws, and allow those Americans who wish to buy communist goods to locate such goods for purchase. Section 2. Definitions: (a) "Communist goods" shall mean all goods, wares, publications.' printed matter, or merchandise, offered for sale at wholesale or retail, which are wholly or partly manufactured, produced,grown, or processed in communist countries. (b) "Communist countries" shall be any countries which operate under the Marxist socialist revolutionary theory of govern- ment, and shall include the following countries: the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Communist China, Czeckoslavakia, Yugoslavia, Poland, Hungary, Cuba, Lithuania, East Germany, Bulgaria, Romania, Albania, North Korea, North Viet Nam, Estonia, Latvia, and Mongolia. Section 3. Labels - Signs: Each person who knowingly offers for sale communist goods shall tag or label prominently all such goods exhibited for sale. Each tag or label shall contain in easily discernible letters of not less than eight (8) point type the words "Communist Import. Section 4. Advertising: No person shall knowingly offer for sale, advertise, call attention to, or give publicity to the sale of any communist goods in any newspaper, magazine, circular, form letter or any publication, published, distributed or circulated in this Village, or on any billboard, card, label or other advertising medium, or by means of any other advertising device, unless there be conspicuously displayed directly in connection with the name and description of such merchandise and each specified article, unit or part thereof so advertised is a communist import. Section 5. "Good Faith" Exemption: This ordinance shall not apply to any visual or -2- sound radio broadcasting station or to any publisher or printer of a news- paper, magazine, or other form of printed advertising, who broadcasts, publishes, or prints such advertisement in good faith, without knowledge that communist goods are being advertised. Section 6. Separability of Provisions: Each section and each part of each section of this ordinance is hereby declared to be an independent section or part of a section, and, notwithstanding any other evidence of legislative intent, it is hereby declared to be the controlling legislative intent that if any such section or part of a section, or any provision thereof, or the application thereof to any person or circumstances, is held to be invalid, the remaining sections or parts of sections and the application of such provision to any other person or circumstances, other than those as to which it is held invalid, shall not be affected thereby, and it is hereby declared to be the legislative intent that these sections or parts of sections would have been adopted independently of such sections or parts of a section so held to be invalid. Section 7. Penalties: Whoever violates this ordinance shall be fined not more than Twenty-five Dollars ($25. 00) or imprisoned for not more than ten (10) days, or both. Any such violation shall constitute a separate offense on each successive day continued. Section 8. This ordinance shall take effect immediately upon its passage. PASSED and ADOPTED this - 17th - day of September, 1963. Ma�6-r ATTEST: A Village Clerk 3-