ORDINANCE NO. 854

 AN ORDINANCE PROHIBITING UNMARRIED PERSONS FROM REGISTERING OR ROOMING TOGETHER AS MAN AND WIFE IN ANY HOTEL, ROOMING HOUSE OR OTHER PLACE IN THE CITY OF GRAND JUNCTION, AND PROVIDING A PENALTY THEREFOR.

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

 Section 1. No man and woman who are not married to each other shall register or room together as man and wife in any hotel, rooming house or other place in the City of Grand Junction. This offense shall be sufficiently proved by circumstances which raise the presumption of cohabitation and unlawful intimacies.

 Section 2. Any person convicted of the above offense shall be fined not less than Ten Dollars nor more than Three Hundred Dollars.

 Passed and adopted this 16th day of April, 1952.

/s/ Oscar Hanson, Jr.

President of the City Council

ATTEST:

/s/ Helen C. Tomlinson

City Clerk

 I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance, being Ordinance No. 854, 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 2nd day of April, 1952, 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 16th day of April, 1952.

/s/ Helen C. Tomlinson

City Clerk

First Pub April 4, 1952

Final Pub April 18, 1952