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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 17, 1978)
TEN The Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, August 17, 1978 Old city laws could mean trouble for bean shooters, insomniacs, spitters .- 1 v ' v I i ,t I f If you come to Heppner armed with a bean shooter, with plans to do some girl watching, don't spit on the sidewalk you could be jailed for three criminal offenses. Section 45 of Heppner's Ordinance 183 states that it is "unlawful for any person to discharge. ..any bean shooter, slingshot or similar weapon or device." Section 25 of the same ordinance makes it illegal for "any male person to ogle vulgarly" or "imperti nently to attract or gain the attention of any female." Section 37 of the same ordinance could make life miserable for town tobacco chewers, were it enforced to the limits of the law. It's okay to chew tobacco in Heppner, provided you're over 18 years old, but it's technically illegal to spit just about anywhere. According to Section 37, it is unlawful "to spit or expector ate upon any sidewalk, street, parking lot, on any building, or in any public place. If you enjoy the daily "star gazing" columns that appear regularly in the Portland newspapers, you may be subject to discipline for break ing the town's occultism laws. Under Section 38 of Ordi nance 183, it is against the law to practice astrology, palmis try, fortune telling, phreno logy, and mesmerism (hypno tism) within the city limits. Thinking about putting up a pigsty in Heppner? Forget it. Section 63 states that "it shall be unlawful for any person to maintain a pigsty.. .within the corporate limits." Insomniacs, take note: Sec tion 8 of Ordinance 183 states that it is "unlawful to roam or wander about the streets at late or unusual hours of the night." Planning to drive your chickens down Chase Street? That's another no-no. City laws make it illegal for residents to have any "fowls, horses, cattle, sheep, swine, goats, mules or asses" to roam on any city streets. Another city ordinance still on the books makes it illegal to operate on opium den in Heppner, not that the Cham ber of Commerce has been receiving many inquiries on the subject. The city was fairly lenient towards opium smokers around the turn of the century, when now-appealed ordinances provided for fines of only $25 for possessors of the drug. Heppner would not be an ideal place in which to stop during a honeymoon trip, since it remains technically illegal to use hotel or motel rooms for, well, anything other than sleeping, even if a couple is married. While the laws above re main on the books today, a number of other equally arcane, outdated, or unconsti tutional city laws have al ready been repealed since the office of town marshall was created in Ordinance 1, signed into law on March 8, 1887. The city is currently prepar ing to re-enact a revised code book, a process which would eliminate most of the outdated old laws. City Attorney Bill Kuhn has taken the scalpel to many of the archaic ordi nances, and has sent an edited and revised list of city laws to a publishing firm for collation and publishing. City council is expected to adopt the revised laws in late September or early October. So, until then, lend your bean shooters to a relative in lone. A v'v if ...,,( if . If k nf"V h - f If fl J u UyPt y St ill! wants government to live within it's means! Pd. Adv. By Comm. To Ebct Bill Bellamy, Rep. Suzanne Jepean, (one, Tmas. 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