Ex parte Hayes

Citations

• 98 Cal. 555
• 20 L.R.A. 701
• 33 P. 337
• 1893 Cal. LEXIS 957

Syllabus

<p>Constitutional Law—Police Power—Regulation of Liquor Traffic—Withholding of Lioenses—Munioipal Ordinance.—An ordinance of the city and county of San Francisco, making it unlawful to sell liquors without a license, and providing that no license shall be issued to persons engaged in the sale of liquors in dance-cellars or dance-halls, or in places where musical, or theatrical, or other public exhibitions are given, and where females attend as waitresses, is a valid exercise of the power conferred by section 11 of article XI. of the constitution upon counties, cities, and towns to make “all such local, police, sanitary, or other regulations as are not in conflict with general laws.”</p> <p>Id. — Disqualification on Account of Sex. — Such ordinance does not violate section 18 of article XX. of the constitution, prohibiting disqualification of any person on account of sex “from entering or pursuing any lawful business, vocation, or profession,” which section does not operate as a limitation upon the power of the state or its municipalities to prescribe the conditions upon which the business of retailing intoxicating liquors shall be permitted to be carried on, or in regulating the manner in which such business shall be conducted.</p>