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Ord 1082 12/7/1931 =� l 0RDI11ANCE N0. /`2 liN ORDINANCE REGULATING WATER SUPPLIES tiJITHIN THE CITY OF VICHITA FALLS, TE�:AS, PROVIDI_ G FOR A PERMIT B ,FORE ENGAGING IN THE BUSINESS OF SUPPLYING 'DATER TO THE CITIZENS OF WICHITA FALLS, PROVIDING FOR TH TESTING OF WATER AND WATER SUPPLIES i=�t�TD PRE- SCRIBING THE PENALTY, LND DECLARING AN E11ERGENCY. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF ALDERM�N OF THE CITY OF r7I CHI TA HALLS, TEYLAS I SECTION 1. Any person, firm, association, or corporation to operate any water supply within the City of Wichita Falls, Texas, from which water is sold to others through pipinS, in bottles, or otherwise shall make application in writing to the Department of Health and Sanitation upon prescribed forms for a permit to do business in the City of Wichita 2alls. When such water sup- ply has been inspected by the Director of Health and Sanitation or his assistant and has been found to comply with the ordi- nances of the City of Wichita Falls and the rules and regula- tions of Department of Health and Sanitation covering same, said Director shall issue a permit on a form prescribed by himself. Such permit shall be renewed annually. SECTION 2. All persons, firms, or corporations ovming or operating water supplies from which water is sold in bottles , which water is bottled in the City of Wichita Falls, shall equip its bottl- ing plant so as to comply with the rules and regulations of the Health and Sanitary Department, so as to avoid contamination in bottling such .water. S.:AC T ION 3. No dry toilet, septic tank, cesspool, unsanitary cow lot, horse lot, hog pen, or any collection of filth, garbage, or any other filthy thing or substance shall be permitted with- in two hundred (200) feet of any such well or water supply or water bottling plant or farther if it is evident that pollution is reaching such well or other water supply froth a source far- ther away than the distance mentioned above. SECTION 4. All water sold dnd distributed from any water supply, whether produced within the city limits of the City of Wichita Falls or whether shipped into said city, shall meet the require- ments of the United States Treasury Department standards as ap- plied to the interstate use of waters. SECTION 5. The Director of the Department of Health and Sanitation or his assistant shall at regular intervals take samples of water from any webs, bottle4 tank, or other receptacles that may be used in such water supply; and where such samples do not, from analysis, meet the requirements as to bacterial count and chemical content of the United States Treasury Department standards as applied to the interstate use of water; he shall cause such water to be disposed of in such a manner as not to be used for domestic purposes .within the City of Wichita Falls. _1 SECTioy 6. Inspections and analyses of samples of water supplies shall be taken and made by the Department of Health and Sanitation at such intervals as will assure the supplying of pure grater and protect the health of persons using such water supply. SECTION 7. Any person, firm, or corporation who shall engage in the business of supplying water to the public without first having procured a permit shall, upon conviction in the Corporate Court, be fined in any sum not less, than Ten Dollars (410.00) and not more than Two hundred Dollars (y'200.00) and each and every day such person, firm, or corporation shall so engage in business without a permit, shall be a separate offense ; any person, firm, or corporation violating any other provisions of this ordinance or any of the rules and regulations prescribed by the Department of Health and Sanitation under this ordinance, shall, upon con- viction, be fined any sum not to exceed Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) . SECTION 8. The fact that there is no ordinance regulating water sup- piies and the sale of water within the corporate limits of the City of 'Wichita Falls, the further fact that water is being shipped into the City of Wichita Falls , and supplied fron-, other sources which might be subject to contamination and affect the health of the citizens of Wichita Falls, creates an emergency; and this ordinance is declared an emergency measure and the rule requiring the reading of ordinances on three (3) several days is hereby suspended and this ordinance shall take effect from and after its passage and approval. PASSED I,.ND APPROVED this day f NYOWPAPW h.y 1931. Layo r. LTTEST: '4 City Clerk.