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O#28 ORDINANCE NO. 28 AN ORDINANCE TO PROHIBIT THE SALE, MANUFACTURE, TRANSPORTATION AND POSSESSION OF SPIRITUOUS, VINOUS, ~IAL? AND ALL O~ER INTOXICATING LIQUORS IN THE TO:f~ OF BOYNTON, FLORIDA. BE IT ORDAI5~D BY THE TOWN CO~ikISSI ON OF THE TOVfN OF BOY/~TON, FLORIDA: Section 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person, association of persons, or corporation, or any agent or employee of any person, association of persons or corpora- tion, to manufacture, sell, barter or exchange, or cause to be manufactured, sold, bartered, or exchanged, or in an~vise to be concerned in the manufacture, sale, barter or exchange, or to transport, cuase to be transported, or in anywise be concerned in the transportation, in the Town of Boynton, Florida, of any alcoholic or intoxicating liquors or beverages, whether spirituous, vinous or malt, except as is hereinafter provided. Section ~. That it shall be unlawful for any person, association of persons or corporation, or any agent or employee of any person, association of persons, or corpora- tion to sell, dispense, or give away to any person the tract, essence or tincture of Jamaica ginger in the Town of Bo~nton, Florida, except as is hereinafter provided. Section 3. That it shall be unlawful for any person, association of persons, or corporation, or any agent or employee of any person, association of persons, or corpora- tion, to have in his, her, their or its possession, custody or control, in the Town of Boynton, ~'lorida, any alcoholic or intoxicating liquors or beverages, except as is herein- after provided. Section 4. That nothing contained in this Ordinance shall be construed to make unlawful the manufacture and sale at wholesale, or to transport, or cause to be trans- ported, alcohol for medicinal, scientific and mechanical purposes; or wine for sacramental purposes, or prohibit the sale and keeping for sale for licensed druggists of alcohol for medicinal, scientific and mechanical purposes, or of wine for sacramental purposes by religious bodies, or any duly organized secret organization using wine for sacramental purposes. Section 5. It shall not be unlawful for any retail druggist in the Tovm of Boynton, Florida, who is himself a licensed pharmacist, or who regularly employs a licensed pharmacist, to sell in reasonable quantities alcohol to be used for scientific or mechanical purposes, and such druggist may sell in reasonable quantities wine to be used for sacra- mental purposes only. Section 6. It shall be unlawful to sell wine for sacramental purposes, except to a regularly ordained minister or priest in charge as pastor of a church, or to any or- ganized secret organization, using wine for sacramental purposes. Section V. It shsll not be unalwful for a pharmacist regularly admitted and licensed to practice his profession in this State by the State Board of Pharmacy of this State, to sell, dispense, or give away to any person, the ex- tract, essence, or tincture of Jamaica ginger when pre- scribed in writing by a physicien duly admitted and li- censed to practice his profession in this State by a State Board of ~,Iedical Examiners, or any druggist or general merchant to se].l flavoring extracts, when manu- factured and sold in accordance ~ith the pure food laws of the State of Florida, and pure food laws of the United States, and regulations la~fully prescribed pursuant to such laws of the State and United States, but it shall be unlawful for any persma, persons, firm or corporation, to sell any flavoring extract for beverage Purposes in the guise of such extracts; and it shall be unlawful for any person, persons, fi~m or corporation to sell in the T~vn of Boynton, Florida, any ext?acts, flavors, perfu~.es, toilet preparations or medicines, patent or proprietary, for beverage purposes in the guise of such extracts, flavors, perfumes, toilet preparations or medicines, patent or proprietary. Section 8. And nothing contained in tl~is Ordinance shall be construed to make it unlawful for any person over the age of twenty-one years to possess, have in custody, or control, in such pe~son's bona fide resi- dence for the personal use of himself or herself and family, and not to be disposed of to any other person in any way, distilled alcoholic or intoxicating liquors or beverages or fermented alcoholic or intoxicating li- quors or beverages, either or both; provided, however, that such possession was lawfully accuired. Section 9. Ttlat all drinks, beverages or alcoholic liquors, for beverage purposes, containing one-half of one per centu~ of alcohol, or more, by volume, at si~'ty degrees Fahrenheit, and all intoxicating liquors and beverages, whether spirituous, vinous or malt, shall be deemed and held to be within the prohibitions of ttlis 0rdinanc e. Section 10. Any person violating any of the pro- visions of this Ordinance shall, upon conviction, be fined in a sum not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars (ifS00.00), or imprisoned in the Tovau J~i I or at hard labor on the streets or other public works of said To~n not exceeding sixty (60) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Section ll. All Ordinances or parts of Ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. Section 12. This Ordinance shall become effective immediately upon its passage by the Town Commission, or as soon thereafter as it can become effective under the Town Charter. The above Ordinance ~o. 28, having been read in full at a meeting of the Town Corem'is sion of the To~vn of Boynton, Florida, held on the 1st day of ~ay A. D. 1923, was adopted and passed at a regular meeting of said Commission held on the 15th day of ~ay A. D. 1923, and a copy thereof posted at the front door of the Town Hall at Boynton, Florida, on the 16th day of Nay A. D. 1923. C. F. Knuth (Signed) J. C. Powell,Clerk (Signed) Commissioners of the T~wn of Boynton, Florida.