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Ord 19 3/13/1893 O�:DITvnT1C�; IuG i9.B7L IT ORD.;INED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WICHITA FALLS. Sec 1. All dead. decaying or putrid carcasses , flesh, fish, fowl or vegetables ; all deposits of manure or other unwholesome substances or flesh of any kind or description whatever; all filthy or offensive waters or slops when thrown or conducted into or upon any street , alley or public ground or any enclosure as to be unwhole- some or offensive or liable to become unwholesome or offensive, all privies or slaughter houses or slaughter pens that are offensive from use , or markets , stores or other buildings or places which are not kept clean and free from filth or unwholesome substances that are offensive or liable to engender disease, every trade , business or occupation injurious to the health or comfort of those who reside in the vaci.nity, any lots , barrells or recepticles containing water or slops until it becomes stagnant , offensive or unwholesome from any cause, any article or substance placed upon any street , sidewalk. alley, gutter, drain or bublie ground, except such as are permitted by ordinace of the city so as to obstruct the same , the throwing of glass , tin, queensware , crockery or other rubbish into or upon the public thoroughfare , any unwholesome food , liquor or adulterated medi- cines , all cattle , horse or hog pens , stable or encloseure in which any cattle , #orse or hog may be kept or confined which from use have become offensive , the printing,ppasting, sticking or peeing of any advertisement or hand bills , placard or any printed picture or written matter upon any house , waill, building, fence or other property, private or public , without the permission of the owner or person in chargethereof, any nauceous , foul or putrid liquor or substances likely to be nauceous, foul , offensive or putrid, discharged, placed, thrown or conducted into any or upon any street , alley, public grounds or commons. The wrongful throwing casting or depositing of any filth, substances , or thing into any private or public well or cistern, all gates car doors openeing upon any publie street or sidealk upon which it opens unless such gates or Boors be so constructed or hung as to be self-closing, the keeping or leaving open of any cellar or trap- door, or the grating of any vault in or upon any sidewalk, street, thoroughfare , or public passway, theemaking, keeping , permitting any uncovered opening or hole in or across any sidewalk or public passway, street or public thorlughfare unless the same is with the proper authority and is tufficiently guarded or pr-oteet.ed to insure the safety of all persons passing by, over or near the same , the sweeping or depositing of paper filth or rubbish of any kind from business houses or from private premises into the drain or gutters or into or upon any sidewalk, street , alley or public thorough1fi re, and failing to burn or remove the same, the burning of any hair, rags or substances of any kind in the city which may cause or pr6duce an: offensive small, smoke or order to the annoyance of persons, living in the vicinity or to the persons passing the same or any public thoroughfare in the city, defecating or urinating upon the streets , alleys or public grounds or in any place that may be seen from a private residence or by a person along the streets, alley or public thoroughfares , be and the same are each and all hereby held to be nuisances, and as such are liable to be abated, and the person ar persons, causing, creating ar keeping the same, are liable to punishment as hereafter provided. SECTION TWO: It shall be unlawful for any person a, persons to allow any growing weeds on any W emises or vacant lotz or lots owned, occupied or controlled by them, or any filth or rubbish of any kind to remain on the above said premises, lot or lots, or any sidewalks, or in any gutters , drains , streets or alleys to the centre of the same adjoining the premises so owned, occupied or controlled by them are the same are each and all hereby held and declared to be nuisances and as such are liable to be abated and the person or persons causing, creating or keeping the same are liable to punishment as hereinafter provided. SECTION THREE: Any person or, persons who shall cause , create, keep or otherwise be guilty of a nuisance as defined in the three prec 3ding sections of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upod conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum of not less than five nor more that fifty dollars. SECTION FOUR: Who zTe r shall, in this city, suffer or permit any cellar, vault , drain, privy, sewer, :yard, hogpen, grounds or premises belonging to or controlled by him to become from any cause rancucus , offensive or injurious to the public health or unpleasant and offensive to adjacent residences or persons shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be. fined in any sum of not less than f ive nor more than one hundre e dollars. SECTION FIVE: The o"rs or occupants of any premises in this city upon which there is located a privy, shall on and after the first day of ._;rr � ;, 1891, have the said privy so constructed that the contents or deposits thereof shall be confined in a box or other like receptacle and shall at least once every two weeks , during the months of May , June Duly August and September, and at least once every four weeks during the months of October, November, December Januafy,Febivary, March and April of each and every year thereafter have said contents or deposits removed to the place designated by, the city council for the burial of filth, offal and death'.. animals and they shall thoroughly disinfect said privies and boxes with lime or other disinfectants and whoever fails , refuses or neglects to comply with the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum of not less than One nor more One Hundred dollars, provided that privies to residence houses shall be cleaned out once a month during the months of May, June, July, August and September and once every two months during t1B months of October , November, December, Jan uar yk,Februar y, March and April of each and everyy ear. SECTION SIX: It shall be the duty of the owner or his agent or the occupant of any lot, building or place of any kind in this city where any nuisance may exist as defined in the first second, fourth and fifth sections of this ordinance , to remove abate or destroy the same d;ithout delay and it shall be the duty of the Marshall, Deputy 2rlarshall, policeman or any member of the Loard of Health who r--r--y be cognizant of any nuisance either from his own _i:nowledge or from credibly information, to make complaint against the occupants thereof before the Illayor Is Court , and any officer above mentioned failing to comply with the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and neglect of official duty, and upon conviction thereof , shall be fined in any sun of not less than Ten nar more than One Hundred dollars. SECTION SEVEN: It shall be unlawful for any scavenger or any other person to remove the contents of any privy or other material of like offensive character situated within the City Limits at any other hour of the day than between ten odl.ock in the afternoon of any day and four o'clock in the moni ing of the day f ollowi:ng,or to deposit the sane at any other place than that designated by the City Council for the burial of filth, offal and dead animals , or to leave the same , until he shall have properly buried or interred the same so that it shall not be offensive to persons passing said burial ground, and that any person or persons violating either of the provisions of this section shall be fined the sum of Ten Dollars . SECTION EIGHTIJ used Every vehicle/1-o-7ransfer or haul off dung, filth or any offensive matter or material through the streets , alleys , or public thoroughfares of this city, shall be fitted with a tight box or to be eo constructed and loaded that no portion of the offensive matter or material therein conveyed shall escape or be scattered or left upon the s.treets , alleys or public thoroughfares ,_ and when necessary to prevent the escape of offensive odors , such box shall be tightly covered. Any scavenger or other person engaged in hauling off, dung, offal , or other offensive matter or material , who shall use in the business any vehicle not of the construction herein specified or who shall scatter, leave or deposit any dung, filth , offal i or offensive matter, or material, upon any street , alley , or thoroughfare or common witi,in t'_e Cit—, shall be fined the. sum of Ten Dollars. SECTION NINE: In all cases arising under this ordinance whenever it shall appear to the Court trying C aid cause, that the nuisance continues at the time of conviction, the court shall order and adjudge the removal, abatement or destruction of said nuisance as the case may require and shall issue axt separate warrant therefor, and the court shall inquire into the probable cause of such removal , abatement or destruction and shall tax the costs thereof a�ainst the defendant , with the provision that the same be remitted if the defendant obey the command of said warrant without delay , withput the interference of the Ylarshall or any polideman, in the same manner that the costs are collected. SECTION TEN: Whenever any nuisance as defined in the first section and fourth section of this ordinance is found in any place in this city for the removal , abatement and. destruction of which, no one can be held liable und::r the provisi, ons of this ordinance it shall be the duty of the Marshall to remove , abate or destroy the same at the expense of the city. SECTION Eleven: That this ordinance take effect and be in. force from and after its publication as rega iced by law. PASSED, 14:arch I3th, 1893 r;FIROVED 1.1arch 12),. 1693 . Attest: 1 _D a`nderson, City Sec'y. J � 1 orrison, L,ayor.