ORDINANCE NO. 665

 AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING THAT CHILDREN UNDER 17 YEARS OF AGE SHALL NOT FREQUENT PLACES WHERE SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS ARE SOLD OR ESTABLISHMENTS HAVING POOL, BILLIARD, OR CARD TABLES IN CONNECTION THEREWITH: PROVIDED THAT NO PROPRIETOR OF ANY SUCH BUSINESS SHALL PERMIT MINORS TO FREQUENT HIS PLACE OF BUSINESS: PROHIBITING THE SALE OF ANY FERMENTED MALT BEVERAGE TO MINORS UNDER THE AGE OF 18 YEARS: PROHIBITING MINORS UNDER THE AGE OF 17 YEARS FROM LOAFING OR LOITERING ABOUT THE STREETS AND ALLEYS: PROVIDING FOR THE DUTY OF PEACE OFFICERS: PROVIDING FOR THE LIABILITY OF A PARENT UPON A SECOND VIOLATION OF THIS ORDINANCE BY HIS CHILD: AND PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS.

 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GRAND JUNCTION, COLORADO:

 Section 1. Minors Frequenting Bar-Rooms, Pool-Halls, Etc. No minor child under the age of 17 years shall at any time frequent, attend or be found in any bar-room or place where spirituous liquors are sold, or in any cigar store or other establishment having pool, billiard, or card tables therein or used in connection therewith, within the City of Grand Junction.

 Section 2. Proprietor's Duty. No proprietor, manager, or employee of any business set forth in Section 1 of this ordinance, shall at any time permit any minor under the age of 17 years to frequent or be in said place of business.

 Section 3. Sale of Malt Beverages to Minors. No person shall sell or permit to be sold, within the City of Grand Junction, to any minor under the age of eighteen years, any fermented malt beverage with any alcoholic content whatsoever.

 Section 4. When Children May be on Streets. No minor child under the age of 17 years shall in the night time after 10 o'clock p.m. loaf, loiter, or play about the streets, alleys, or other public places in this city.

 Section 5. Officer's Duty. If any such child be found upon the streets, or alleys, or in other public places in violation of this ordinance, and such violation be his first offense, it shall be the duty of any Peace Officer to forthwith place such child under custody and to take or cause such child to be taken to his home, and the parent, guardian or other person having the custody or care of such child shall be notified of such violation.

 Section 6. Parent's Duty. When a parent, guardian or other adult person having custody of a child, after having been notified that the child has violated this ordinance, knowingly allows the child to violate the ordinance a second time, he shall be guilty of a violation of this ordinance, and shall be subject to the penalties provided for herein.

 Section 7. Exceptions. The provisions of this ordinance shall not apply to any minor who is at the time accompanied by his parent, guardian or any adult person standing in loco parentis to such child.

 Section 8. Penalty. Any person who shall violate any provision of this ordinance, shall upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than $5.00 nor more than $50.00 for each offense.

 Section 9. Constitutionality. If any section, sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance is for any reason held or decided to be unconstitutional or invalid, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance, which can be given effect without the unconstitutional or invalid portion, and to this end the provisions of this ordinance are declared to be severable.

 Section 10. Repeal. Section 1 of Article XVII of Ordinance No. 83 and all other ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict or inconsistent with the provisions of this ordinance are hereby repealed.

 Passed and adopted this 17th day of March, A. D. 1943.

/s/ T. J. Treece

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President of Council

 ATTEST:

/s/ Helen C. Tomlinson

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City Clerk

 I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance, being Ordinance No. 665 was introduced, read and ordered published by the City Council of the City of Grand Junction, Colorado, at a regular meeting of said body, held on the 3rd day of March, A. D. 1943, and that the same was published in The Daily Sentinel, a newspaper published and in general circulation in said City at least ten days before its final passage.

 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of said City, this 17th day of March, A. D. 1943.

/s/ Helen C. Tomlinson

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City Clerk

 1st publication March 5th, 1943

Last publication March 19, 1943