Ord 0342-NO PERSON SHALL BLOCK OR OBSTRUCT ANY PUBLIC STREET, SIDEWALK OR PLACE OR ANY ENTRANCE, EXIT OR APPROACH TO ANY PLACE OF BUSINESS IN OR UPON ANY PUBLIC STREET, SIDEWALKORDINANCE NO.
FOLLOWS:
Section 1. No person individually or in concert with
another person or persons within the Town of Los Gatos shall block
or obstruct any public street, sidewalk or place or any entrance,
exit or approach to any place of business in or upon any public
street, sidewalk or place in a manner calculated or with the intent
to prevent the free passage therealong or therethrough of any other
person who is entering, occupying or leaving any place.of business,
or who is performing any services or labor, or who is seeking or
obtaining employment, or who is purchasing, selling, using, deliver-
ing, transporting or receiving any goods, wares, 'merchandise, services,
entertainment, accommodations or articles, or who is attempting or
seeking to do any of the foregoing, or to prevent the free passage
therealong or therethrough of any vehicle or conveyance operated
by or in the custody of any such other person or in which any such.
other person is riding or attempting to ride.
Section 2. It is unlawful within the Town of Los Gatos
for any person or persons to beset or picket the premises of another,
or any approach thereto, where any person is employed or seeks
employment, or any place or approach thereto where such employee
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or person seeking employment lodges or resides, for the purpose of
j' inducing such employee or person seeking employment, by means of
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threats of violence or acts of violence to quit his or her employ-
ment or to refrain from seeking or freely entering into employment.
Section 3. Peaceful picketing is hereby declared lawful.
Peaceful picketing is hereby defined to constitute the lawful dis-
semination of information concerning the facts of a dispute by a
person or persons in the vicinity of the place of business of , an
establishment where an alleged dispute exists. A picket is defined
as a person engaged in picketing.
Section 4. It shall be unlawful for any picket to sit,
i-Eand, march to and fro before any place of business involved in a.
dispute other than upon the outer one-third of the sidewalk in front
of said place of business, said outer one-third being defined as
that one-third portion of the sidewalk next to the curb; PROVIDED,
HOWEVER, that in areas within the gown of Los Gatos where no curb
exists it shall be unlawful for any picket to sit, stand, march to
and fro before any place of business involved in a dispute within
an area of five (5) feet of the entrance of the building in which
said business is located.
Section 5. Wherever the free passage of any street or
sidewalk in the Town of Los Gatos shall be'obstructed by a crowd,
the persons composing such crowd shall disperse or move on when
directed to do so by a police officer. It shall be unlawful for
any person to refuse to so disperse or move on when so directed to
do so by a police officer as herein provided.
Section 6. SEVERABILITY
If any section, sub-section, sentence, clause or phrase
of this Ordinance is for any reason held by a Court of competent
jurisdiction to be invalid, such decision shall not affect the
validity of the remaining portions of this Ordinance. The Town
Council hereby declares that it would have passed this Ordinance
and each section, sub-section, sentence, clause and phrase hereof,
irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, sub-sections,
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sentences, clauses, or phrases be declared invalid.
If any provision of this Ordinance or the application
thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, such
invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of
the Ordinance which can be given effect without the invalid pro-
vision or application, and to this end the provisions of this
Ordinance are declared to be severable.
Section 7. Any person violating any of the provisions
of this Ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on
conviction thereof, shall be fined the sum not to exceed Five
Hui dred. and no/100 ($500.00) Dollars or imprisonment in the County
Jail not to exceed six (S) months or by both such fine and imprison-
meat.
Section S. This Ordinance shall be published once in
the LOS GATOS DAILY TIMES, a newspaper published in the Town of
Los Gatos.
The above and foregoing Ordinance was duly and regularly
INTRODUCED at a regular meeting of the Town Council of the Town of
Los Gatos held on the day of .l~ , 1952, and was
thereafter at a regular meeting of the Town Council of the Town of
Los Gatos held on the day of LI- 19521 duly and
regularly ADOPTED by the following
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