Ex parte Moynier

Citations

• 65 Cal. 33
• 2 P. 728
• 1884 Cal. LEXIS 430

Syllabus

<p>Constitutional Law — Launbiíies—Police and Sanitabv Regulations.—An ordinance of the city and county of San Francisco, approved June 25, 1883, declared it to be unlawful for any person to establish, maintain, or carry on the business of a public laundry or wash-house where articles are cleansed for re, within certain named limits, without first obtaining a certificate from the health officer that the premises are sufficiently drained, and that the business can be carried on without injury to the sanitary condition of the neighborhood, and a certificate from the hoard of fire wardens, that the heating appliances are in good condition, and that their use is not dangerous to the surrounding property. It further provided that no person or persons owning or employed in such laundries or wash-houses shall wash or iron clothes between the hours of ten o’clock p. 11. and six o’clock A. 21., nor upon any portion of the day known as Sunday. Held, that these are police or sanitary regulations, and are not in conflict with the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution of the United States, nor with sections 1, 11, or 24, of article i. of the Constitution of Cali-0 fornia.</p>