Compensation for Licenses

Act 1020 of 1868, § 22, under PUBLIC GROUNDS APPROPRIATED.

Act 1020 of 1868, § 22

Section 22. Compensation for Licenses

If said park commissioners should license the taking of ice in said park, or the entry of any street railroad car therein, or articles for sale, or musical entertainments, it may be with such compensation as they may think proper, to be paid into the City Treasury.

Any person who shall violate any of said rules and regulations, and any others which shall be ordained by the said park commissioners, for the government of said park, not inconsistent with this act, or the laws and Constitutions of this State and the United States---the power to ordain which rules and regulations is hereby expressly given to said commissioners---shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall pay such fine as may be prescribed by said park commissioners, not to exceed five dollars for each and every violation thereof, to be recovered before any alderman of said city, as debts of that amount are recoverable, which fines shall be paid into the City Treasury.

Any person violating any of said rules and regulations shall be further liable to the full extent of any damage by him or her committed, in trespass or other action; and any tenant or licensed party who shall violate the said rules, or any of them, or consent to or permit the same to be violated on his, or her, or their premises, shall forfeit his, or her, or their lease or license, and shall be liable to be forthwith removed by a vote of the Park Commission; and every lease and license shall contain a clause making it cause of forfeiture thereof for the lessee or party licensed to violate or permit or suffer any violation of said rules and regulations or any of them.

It shall be the duty of the police appointed to duty in the park, without warrant, forthwith to arrest any offender against the preceding rules and regulations, whom they may detect in the commission of such offence, and to take the persons so arrested forth with before a magistrate having competent jurisdiction. 1868, April 14, P.L. 1083, Sec. 22.