Listed among the punishable offenses were several of dubious origin and doubtful application. Building inspector Joe Atwood suggested a top-10 list.
The Alert decided to take him up on his suggestion:
* Number 10: odor control, $109 fine. "No operation or activity shall emit any substance or combination of substances in such quantities that create an objectionable odor," Sec. 118-199.
* Number nine: harboring an animal with rabies, $109 fine.
* Number eight: worrying a domestic animal, $298 fine.
* Number seven: making obscene comments in bowling alleys, $172 fine.
Bowling alley owners are also required to be of good character.
* Number six: beekeeping violation, $109 fine. Sorry, no hives allowed.
* Number five: dognapping or catnapping, $109 fine.
* Number four: "Radios, phonographs, similar devices. The using, operating or permitting to be played, used or operated any radio receiving set; musical instrument, phonograph or other machine or device for the producing or reproducing of sound in a loud and unnecessary manner," Sec. 62-113, $109 fine.
* Number three: scattering of handbills, $109 fine.
* Number two: "No person shall climb any tree or pluck any flowers or fruit, wild or cultivated, or break, cut down, trample upon, remove, or in any manner injure or deface, write upon, defile or ill use any tree, shrub, flower, flower bed, turf, fountain, ornament, statue, building, fence, apparatus, bench, table, official notice, sign, bridge, dock, structure or other property within any park or parkway, or in any way injure, damage or deface any public building, sidewalk or other public property in the City," Sec. 62-148, $235 fine.
* Number one: steam whistle blowing prohibited, $109 fine.
All municipal fines have been compiled into one appendix, and the city's ordinance book is now on the Internet.
For a searchable list of regulations, go to www.municode.com, click on Online Library, select the state and city.
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