§ 12.44.020. Street meetings.

The following ordinance is an initiative measure adopted May 18, 1915:

  AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE HOLDING OF PUBLIC MEETINGS ON ANY PUBLIC STREETS, OR IN ANY PUBLIC SQUARE, PARK, LANE, ALLEY, COURT OR OTHER PUBLIC PLACE WITHIN THE FIRE LIMITS OF THE CITY OF OAKLAND, AND REPEALING ORDINANCE NO. 1836 C.M.S., OF THE CITY OF OAKLAND, AND ALL ORDINANCES AND PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH, AND PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATION THEREOF.

  BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Oakland, as follows:

  SECTION 1. It is hereby declared to be unlawful for any person or persons to conduct, take part in or address any public meeting held on any public street, or in any public square, park, lane, alley, court or other public place within the fire limits of the City of Oakland; provided, however, that between the hours of six o'clock P.M. and thirty minutes after ten o'clock P.M. of each day, it shall be lawful for any person or persons to conduct, take part in or address any public meeting on the following streets within the said fire limits, to wit:

  On Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh Streets, between the westerly line of Clay Street and the easterly line of Franklin Street; on Fifteenth Street between the easterly line of Washington Street and the westerly line of Jefferson Street; on Clay Street between the southerly line of Ninth Street and the northerly line of Eleventh Street; and provided further, that such public meetings shall be so conducted as not to violate the traffic ordinances of the City of Oakland now in force and effect.

  SECTION 2. The words "address any public meeting" as used in this Ordinance, is defined to include the right to speak freely and publish one's views on any subject matter and illustrate the same; provided, however, that no person or persons shall speak or publish anything of an immoral or treasonable character.

  SECTION 3. Any person violating any of the provisions of this Ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not to exceed one hundred (100) dollars and in case said fine be not paid, the person or persons so fined shall be imprisoned in the City Prison of the City of Oakland at the rate of one (1) day for every two (2) dollars of the fine so imposed and remaining unpaid.

  SECTION 4. Ordinance No. 1836 C.M.S. entitled "An ordinance regulating the holding of public meetings in any public street, square, park, lane, alley, court, or other public place, or at or in front of the entrance to any public building situated within the fire limits of the City of Oakland," approved October 20, 1897, and all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this Ordinance are hereby repealed.

  SECTION 5. This Ordinance shall take effect at the time and in the manner provided by law.

(Prior code § 3-6.04)