ASL-KFA1225.A3-1945-p35

 

Chs. 1,2]    LAWS OF ALASKA, 1945             [page]35

Chapter 2
AN ACT
[H.B. 14]

To provide full and equal accommodations, facilities, and privileges to all citizens in places of public accommodations within the jurisdiction of the Territory of Alaska; to provide penalties for

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violations.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the Territory of Alaska:

All citizens

entitled equal

enjoyment - 

advantages.

Section 1. All citizens within the jurisdiction of the 

Territory of Alaska shall be entitled to the full and 

equal enjoyment of accommodations, advantages, facili-

ties, and privileges of public inns, restaurants, eating 

houses, hotels, soda fountains, soft drink parlors, taverns, 

roadhouses, barber shops, beauty parlors; bathrooms, 

resthouses, theaters, skating rinks, cafes, ice cream par-

lors, transportation companies, and all other conveyances 

and amusements, subject only to the conditions and 

limitations established by law and applicable alike to all 

citizens.

Penalties.


Section 2. Any person who shall violate or aid or 

incite a violation of said full and equal enjoyment; or any 

person who shall display any printed or written sign 

indicating a discrimination on racial grounds of said full 

and equal enjoyment, for each day for which said sign 

is displayed shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor 

and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprison-

ment for not more than thirty (30) days or fined not 

more than two hundred fifty ($250.00) dollars, or both.

 

Approved February 16, 1945.

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