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ORDINANCE NO. 1007 AN ORDINANCE PROHIBITING DANCE M~RATHON, ¥~ALKATHON, TREE SITTING, POLE SITTING, PLATFORM ENDURANCE AND OTHER CONTESTS OF SIMILAR CHARACTER 0R NATURE. The Board of Trustees of the City of Santa Ana ordains as follows: Section 1. The word person as used herein Bhall include any firm, co- partnership, corporation, association, society, club or individual. Section 2. Words used herein in the singular shall include the plural and words used in the neuter shall include the masctuline and femztnin~. Section 3. It shall be unlawful for any person to conduct or carry on or to participate in any dance marathon contest or contests, exhibition or exhibitions, or any walkathon or walking contest or contests, exhibition or exhibitions, or any tree sit~ing, pole sitting or platfoEm endurance contest or contests or exhibition or exhibitions or any endurance contest or contests of a nature similar to any dance marathon, walkathon, tree sitting, pole sitting or platform endurance contest or contests, exhibition or.exhibitions. Section 4. If any section, sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance is for any reason held to be tmconstitutional, such decision shall not effect the validity of the remaining portions of this act. The City Council hereby declares that it would ~ve passed this ordinance and each section, sentence, clause, phrase hereof irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, sentences~ clauses or phrases be declared unconstitutional. Section 5. That any person, firm, corporation, association, society or club violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be deeme~i guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punishable by a fine of not more than Five Hundred Dollars (5500.00) or by imprisoEnent in the County Jail of the County of Orange for a pezdod of not more than six months, or by both such fin and imprisonment. Every person, lien or corporation shall be deemed guilty of a separate offense for each day during any portion of which any violation of any provision of this ordinance is conmuttted, continued or permitted by such person, firm or corp- oration, and shall be punishable therefor as provided by this ordinance. Section 6. That said so-called Marathon, Walkathon and walking contest; tree-sitting, pole sitting and platform endurance contests are injurious and dangerous to the health of the people who participate therein, and such~contests, if permitted to be conducted, tend to disturb the public peace and are deteriment~ to the neighborhood adjacent to where the same are conducted and provide an undesirable environment for the young people of the community, therefore this ordinance is urgently required for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety of the people of the City of Santa Ana. Section 7. That all ordinanc~or parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Section 8. The City Clerk shall cause this ordinance to be published once in the "Santa Ana Daily Evening Register", a daily newspaper printed and pub- lished in the City of Santa Aaa, California, and thereupon and thereafter it shall take effect and be in force.