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13-514. Aid in enforcing laws; mobs; call for militia; forfeiture by person refusing to obey call.

13-514

Chapter 13.--CITIES OF THE FIRST CLASS
PART I.--GOVERNMENT BY MAYOR AND COUNCIL AND GENERAL LAWS
Article 5.--EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT; POWERS AND DUTIES OF OFFICERS

      13-514.   Aid in enforcing laws; mobs; call for militia; forfeiture by person refusing to obey call. The mayor is hereby authorized to call on every male inhabitant of the city over eighteen and under fifty years of age to aid in enforcing the laws and ordinances of the city, and in cases of necessity to call out the militia within the city to aid in the suppression of any riot or unlawful assembly or in the enforcement of any ordinance; and any person who shall not obey such call shall forfeit to the city a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, which shall be recovered in an action in the name of the city in any court of competent jurisdiction.

      History:   L. 1903, ch. 122, § 78; March 18; R.S. 1923, § 13-514.