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ORDINANCE NO. gg~ AN ORDINANCE PROHIBITING THE SOLICITATION OF TORT CLAIMS OR CHOSES IN ACTION~ AND PROVIDING PENALTY FOR VIOLATION TH~REOFo The City Council of the City of Santa Aha ordains'as follows: .SECTION 1. The word "person" as used herein shall include any corporation, association, society, club, co-partnership or individual. SECTION 2. It shall be unlawful for any person to solicit employment for himself or for any other person, either directly or through some other person acting on his behalf, to prosecute, collect, settle, compromise or to negotiate for the settlement compromise or collection of any tort claim, on behalf of any tort claimant, in which he himself has no pecuniary interest arising from such to~t. SECTION 3. The provisions of this ordinance shall not be construed to prevent joint tort claimants from negotiating with each other for the purpose of combining respective claims or actions against the tort feasor. SECTION 4. Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than Five Hundred Dollars ((]500.00), or by imprisonment in the County Jail for a period of not more than ninety (90) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. SECTION 5. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this ordinance~ and cause the same to be published three (Z) times in the "Santa Ana Daily Evening Register", a daily newspaper, printed, published and circulated in the City of Santa Ana mhd said 0rdinauce shall take effect thirty (~0) days from the date of its final passage The foregoing Ordinance is approved this 4th day of September, 1904. ATTEST: E. L. Vegely Clerk of the City of Santa Anao Hayor of the Warner City of Santa Aha. I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced at a regular adjourned meeting of the City Council, held on the GOth day of July, 1934, and was duly passed and adopted at a regular meeting of said City Council held on the ~th day of September, 1934, A~ES, by the following vote, to-wit: TRUSTEES: A.F.LeGaye, Fred C. Rowland, W.H.Penn, Eo Go Warner. NOES, TRUSTEES: None ABSENT, TRUSTEES: None P!ummer W. Bruns~ ATTEST. E.L. Ve~ely Clerk of the City of Santa (SE L).