Posts Tagged ‘public intoxication’
Nome City Council Talks Mining Laws, Property Abatements
Heated words on mining and property abatements were exchanged during what Mayor Richard Beneville called a “productive” Nome City Council meeting Monday night. The Council also addressed a possible resolution on public intoxication and vagrancy on Front Street.
Read MorePublic Intoxication Ordinance Fails; City Seeks To Buy Old Masons’ Property
An ordinance to prohibit intoxication in public right-of-ways was voted down. For $20,000, the City of Nome could buy the west half of the Masonic and City cemeteries, providing more space for community members to be buried until a new cemetery area is designated.
Read MoreProfile: Regional Public Intoxication — The Nature of the Problem, and How to Better Manage It
The number of drunken-person calls Nome Police responded to more than doubled between 2015 and 2016, and that number could be even higher this year. What’s to be done?
Read MoreCity of Nome Aims to Curb Public Intoxication with New Ordinances
These items of new business include an ordinance making it illegal to be intoxicated in a public right of way, an ordinance limiting the hours to sell liquor in town, as well as an ordinance to put a ten percent excise tax on alcohol sales.
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