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Show NEW CITY LAWS ARE NOW READY They Provide for Merchant's License Milk and Saloon Regulations Most Severe Every Business Must Pay License None Too Small to Escape the Tax Over One Thousand Sections of New Laws. Tha city of Ogden at last Is to have legal laws. Something like four years ago tbo district court declared tho city ordinances ordin-ances as they existed at that time null and void by reason of tno fact that they had net been, properly passed by the city council, and over since then tho city council has been i trying to revise and codify the ordinances. ordin-ances. All through Dr. Conroy'6 administration ad-ministration the city government labored hard to have now ordinances adopted. During all of the last two years ordinances were considered by the city council and immediately alter alt-er tho new administration was inaugurated inaug-urated this year the city officials got busy on the revised ordinances. Tho mayor appointed City Attorney Do Vino to codify toe ordinances and put them in proper ehape for tho adoption adop-tion by the city council, and asked that J2G0 bo paid to Mr. Do Vine for stenographers and typewriter service, ser-vice, but that the money was not to be paid until tho laws were passed and actually published. One week ago today the city council coun-cil finished tho third reading of tbo ordinances consisting of 104S sections, sec-tions, .and on Saturday evening tbo mayor approved tho revised ordinances ordin-ances and tho contract for printing same was given to W. W. Browning & Co., the lowest bidders, and on yesterday yes-terday the first pagos of the same wero printed. The new laws will be printed within three weeks and all of tho laws will become effective Immediately Im-mediately on publication of tho books. The new laws provjde for a merchants' mer-chants' license running from $5 per year for tho smallest stores to $125 per year for the largest stores Every Ev-ery business, profession and calling which tho 6tato legislature authorized author-ized the city of Ogden to license is to pay a license hereafter. This includes in-cludes all professions, except dor-tors dor-tors and lawyers, which the state law does not authorize to license. Milk laws have been adopted in which all tho milk dealers must pay a license and must bottle all milk in quantities less than ono gallon All bottles roust be cleansed under kept at a certain temperature. All of the laws which the courts have declared null and void have been corrected to conform with tiie orders of the court. Fines have been provided for the violation of each and every act forbidden for-bidden by the ordinance or the state laws. It is expected that the llcenso receipts, in addition to the liquor license li-cense which has not been changed, will equal fully $15,000. Severo saloon regulations have been adopted. All saloons, whether they have restaurants or not must be closed on Sunday. All booths In salons sa-lons must bo removed excepting only those that have backs to them not over 4 1-2 feet high and where the whole sides and tops are open. All side doors of saloons leading into other rooms must bo eloped. . The saloons are ordered to close one hour earlier, 12 o'clock instead of 1 o'clock. Tho city officials expect ex-pect that with the taxes no higher than they were last year, that sufficient suffi-cient revenue will be received from the taxes and llcenso to pay tho expenditures ex-penditures of the city for this year without tunning behind, but the city will not get any revenue to pay off any part of tho floating dept left from last year which amounts to over $100,000, and which draws 6 per cent interest A communication of the mayor's has been referred by tho city council to the city attorney for an opinion as to whether tho floating debt can be bonded and paid off in annual installments of $10r000 to $20,-000 $20,-000 each year. In doing that tho city could save 2 per cent interest, or over $2,000 per year. If the bonding bond-ing of the floating debt can be legally legal-ly accomplished, the city then will be. with economical management, in shape to conduct the city's affairs within the income allowed by law. |