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.