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.