The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1867-05-16


An ORDINANCE to prevent and abate
nuisances.
Be it ordained by the President and the
Board of Trustees of the Village of
Manitowoc.
Sec. l. 1t shall be the duty of the Vii
LACE Marshal to remove or cause to be re-
moved, from any street, lane, alley,
thoroughfare, public place or vacant lot
in this Village, any bodies of dead ami
mails, or any other offensive matter what
soever, or any matter injurious to the
health of the citizens of the Village, and
for such removal he shall receive such
compensation, as may be allowed to him
by the Board of Trustees.
Sec 2. 1t shall be the duty of the VII
lage Marshal, if he is called upon to re-
move such nuisance, to enquire by what
person such nuisance may have been
brought, to any such street OF place, and
if he shall be able to find out, who is
guilty thereof than he shall forthwith
prosecute such person, before the Presi-
dent of this Village, or Justice of the
Peace OF the town of Manitowoc, and if
he neglects to fulfil the duties imposed
upon him by the provisions of this act,
his claims for the removal of such nui-
Sdnce shall be dISalIOWod.
Sec. g. It shall be unlawful for any
person to throw upon any streets, alley,
lane, thoroughfare, public place, vacant
lot, or any other place in this Village, or
into Manltowoc River and it's tributaries,
or in any creek or run of water in this
Village. or in Lake Michigan, as far as
it borders on the limits of this Viliage,
any bodies OR parts of bodies Of dead ami
mails, or any matter which will render the
air in the vicinity of such places water
unhealthy, offensive or Sinking, and any
person offending against the provisions
of this act shall be brought before the
President or Justice of the Peace of the
town of Manitowoc, and shall be fined
with fine not less than one dollar, nor
onment of not less than one day nor more
than twenty-five days, or both in the
discretion of the court, and shall besides
pay all the costs of prosecution and the
costs of removing such nuisance.
of, or permit to be discharged out Of or
flow from his or her dwelling house,
privy vault, stables, shops, stores, pack
nauseous or sinking liquids or substances
grounds, occupied by any other person
or upon any street, alley, lane or public
or private ground in this Village and any
persons, violating, the provisions of this
section shall be liable to punishment as
Sec. 5. No person shall keep on his or
her grounds, or in his. or her buildings or
structures whatsoever. any stale, putrid
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to the Inconvenience OF any citizen of this
Village, or permit any matter whatsoever
on his or her grounds, or in his or her
buildings, to become stale, putrid. stink
ing. offensive, or injurious to the health
lation of this ordinanceshall be punish
able in Sec 5 of this Ordinance proyid-
ed
Sec. 6. The owner of any dead animal
shall not permit the carcass Of the same
it may be or become injurious to the
health or convenience of any citizen, but
shall remove and bury the same at such
place and to such depth, that it shall not
become offensive, and any person who
shall not so remove and bury such carcass
of any animal which died while in his or
her possession, after having received in
formation thereof, shall be liable to pun
ishment as in Sec. provided.
| Sec. I. Whenever there shall be on
| any lot, lots or part of lot siagnant water,
the evaporations of which NAV be often
sive or injurious to the health or comfort
of the citizens of this Village, such pools
of water may be declared by the Board
| of trustees to be a nuisance. and the
| Marshal shall than give written notice to
| the owner Of such lot or his, her or their
agent if such owner, owners or agent
| shall be known and be resident OF the
Village of Manitowoc. to abate such
| nuisance within reasonable time, work
| for such abatement to be commenced with
| in three days after such notice shall have
| been served, and in case the owner Or
agent shall not be known, or not live in
said Village, than written notice shall
| be placed on such grounds, and If such
notice as heretofore prescribed, shall not
be complied with, than the Board of
| Trustees shall order a Street Commission
| er Of such word to::remove such nuisance
| and such Street Commissioner shall re-
| port In the same way as provided for in
| the improvement OF streets, and the eX-
penseS of such abating of nuisances shall
be advanced by such Village, aud charg-
| ed to the lot or lots, or part of lot on
which such nuisance shall have been
| abated, to be collected with the next tax
in the same way as street taxes.
Sec. 8. The ordinance entitled San or
dinance for the prevention and abatement
of nuisance adopted May 18th, 1866, is
hereby repealed.
Sec. 9. This ordinance shall be in force
from aud after its adoption and publca-
ton.
Adapted May Is, 1867.
HENRY BAETz, President.
Countersigned, Eugene Alter, Clerk.