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Charter and Revised Ordinances of Lake City Florida (1912) Gillen & Hodges
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Charter of the City oj Lake City
cases of violation of this ordinance that may be
called to their attention by any citizen, and the 136/257
City Marshal and police officers shall ascertain
whether any person to whom their attention has
been called has in his, her or their possession a
United States Internal Revenue license or tax
stamp as described in Section 3 of this ordinance,
and if the said Marshal or police officers find that
any person or persons have in his, her or their pos­
session the aforesaid license or tax stamp and that
said person or persons are violating this ordinance
the said Marshal or police officers shall thereupon
make a sworn complaint against such violator and
cause the holder of said license or tax stamp to
be arrested.

Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of the Marshal
and all police officers, and they are hereby author­
ized and empowered, to enter any building, booth,
tent or other place or part thereof, with or without
warrant, in which they have good cause to suspect
that spirituous, vinous, malt or other intoxicating
liquors are kept for sale contrary to law, and to
seize the same and arrest the parties so engaged in
such sale and if such liquors in such quantities as
to confirm the belief of illegal sales of the same be
found in building, booth, tent or other place, the
same shall be prima facie evidence of the selling of
liquors contrary to law. Provided, That this law
shall not be so construed as to apply to persons
keeping a reasonable amount of spirituous liquors
in their private residences for private use.

Sec. 6. Any Marshal or police officer who
shall wilfully refuse to perform his duty in making
search for spirituous, vinous, malt or other in­
toxicating liquors kept for sale in violation of this

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