G-574(55-64) ORDINANCE NO. G-574.
AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF DELRAY
BEACH, FLORIDA, AMENDING CHAPTER 7 OF THE
CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THIS CITY PERTAINING
TO THE RULES AND REGULATIO~S FOR THE USE OF
THE DELRAY BEACH MUNICIPAL BEACH.
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Delray Beach,
Florida, deems it necessary in order to promote and insure the
safety and health and welfare of the people using the municipal
beach to promulgate certain rules and regulations for the use
of said beach;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF DELRAY BEACH, FLORIDA, AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 7, Code of Ordinances of the City
of Delray Beach be and the same is hereby amended to read as
follows:
"Sec. 7-1. Rules and regulations for use of the
Municipal Beach:
"Ail persons using the Municipal Beach within this
City shall comply with and abide by the following rules and
regulations:
"(1) No person shall dress or undress on the beach
except in taking off or putting on dressing
robes and shoes.
"(2) No person shall be dressed indecently or act
indecently or be attired in indecent apparel.
"(3) No person or group of persons shall engage in
ball playing of any kind except in areas pro-
vided therefor.
"(4) No person shall use loud, boisterous, or pro-
fane language.
"(5) No ~erson shall fish upon the municipal beach
except at such times and in such places as
shall in no wise endanger other persons.
"(6) No person shall throw, place or deposit on
such beach any paper, food, trash or other
refuse, but shall deposit same in recepta-
cles provided therefor.
"(7) No person shall sell or barter any article or
personal property tangible or intangible on
the municipal beach except for those persons
or firms expressly licensed by the City to
operate a business on said beach.
"(8) No commercial photographer shall take pictures
upon said public beach except by written per-
mission of the chief of police.
"(9) No person shall drink intoxicating beverages
upon the public beaches.
Page 2. Emergency Ordinance No. G-574.
"(10) No person shall use any portion of the public
beaches for the purpose of assembling, where
over twenty-five persons are involved.
"(1!) No person shall use or bring upon the beach for
use any platform, trapeze bars or similar arti-
cles for gymnastic exhibition or use.
"(12) No motor vehicle shall be driven upon the
beaches without the previous written consent
of the chief of police.
"(13) No 9erson shall bathe or swim in the Atlantic
Ocean contiguous to the municipal beach naked
or insufficiently clothed to prevent indecent
exposure of the person.
"(14) No person who shall own or be in control of or
in charge of any dog shall allow same upon the
municipal beach.
"(15) No surfboarding shall be permitted except in
areas designated by the City Manager. It shall
be the duty of the life guard chief to see that
proper markers are maintained to indicate the
location of any area so designated.
"(16) The duly employed lifeguards of the City are
authorized to require persons using the beach
to obey reasonable commands designed to protect
the public and public property in the use of the
municipal beach, and the failure to obey any law-
ful command of such guards shall be a violation
of this code.
"(17) The life guard chief is hereby vested with all
the powers of policemen of the city while on
lifeguard duty, subject at all times to the
control and supervision of the chief of police
of the city.
"(18) For the purposes of this section, the "municipal
beach" shall be intended to mean all the frac-
tional East half of Section 16, Township 46
South, Range 43 East lying East of the East
curb of State Road AiA (Ocean Boulevard) in-
cluding the waters of the Atlantic Ocean with-
in the boundaries of this city.
"Sec. 7-2. Penalty for violation.
"Any person who violates the provision of Section 7-1
shall upon conviction be punished as provided in Section 1-6
of this code."
Page 3o Emergency Ordinance No. G-574.
SECTION 2. In the event any section, paragraph,
sentence, clause, phrase or portion of this Ordinance be held
unconstitutional, invalid or ineffective, the same shall not
repeal, nullify or in any manner affect any other section,
paragraph, sentence, clause or portion of this Ordinance.
Passed and adopted on the 28thday of September , 1964,
to be effective immediately.
MAYOR
DELRAY BEACH NEWS JOURNAL
Published Semi. Weekly
De[ray Beach, Palm Beach County, Florida
PROOF OF PUBLICATION
STAT~ O~ ~.~ORl~A ~
Affiant further saTs that the raid Delm7 Beach News-Journal is ~ newspaper published, at Delmy
Beach, in ~aid Palm Beach CountT, Florida, and that the said new~paper has heretofore been
eontinuou.sly publksh~ in ~aid Palm Beach County, Florida, each week and has been entered
as sec'~d elam mail matter at the post office in Delta>' Beach, in said Palm Beach CountT,
~lorida, for a period of one year next preceding the first l~ublieation of the attached copy ol ad-
vertisement; and affiant further says that he has neither paid no~ promised ~ l~emon, firm o~
corporation any discount, rebate, commission or refund for the purpose of securing ~ adver-
ti~.ment fo~ publication' in the r~.id newspaper.
Swan to and subscribed before me this
NOTARY
MY EXPIRES OCT. 25, 1866