New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-05-20
Q F. F. Z O Z A L
SANITARY ORDINANCES
Passed and Adopted by the Board of
Health, for the City of New Orleans.
OFFICE BOARD OF HEALTH, J
City Of New Orleans, I
Nav l2 1910

OFFICE BOARD OF HEALTH,
Mag ls 1910.
WHEREAS, Under section six, of an act {
the General Assembly of the State {
Louisiana, entitled "An act to amend an az
entitled an act to establish quarantine fo
the protection of the State,'" approve
March lG, 1870, power is given to the Boar
of Health of the State of Louisiana, t
pass and enforce by adequate fine, not
ordinances for and within the city of New
Orleans, and the parishes Of Orleans AM
Jefferson, on the right bank OF the Missls
sippi river which said ordinances shall o.
enforced in the name of said board by civi
suit 10 any court OF competent Jurlsdic
tion.
Therefore, the said Board of Health hav
passed and adopted the following sanitar,
ordinance, for and within the said terri
tory:
CLEANLINESS OF STREETS, ETC.
SECTION l. ANY person who shall keep
throw or deposit any offal, filth, foul Q;
offensive matter, corrupt or putrid water
or any shells, hay, straw, kitchen-stuff
paper, cloth, vegetable matter, or any sub.
stance Of any kind, that may be offensive tt
smell or injurious to health, or liable TO be-
come so, il any yard, lot, space or building
sidewalk, gutter, drain or canal, or shal
suffer or allow or permit the same to bs
done or TO remain, shall be liable TO fine
not exceeding twenty dollars for each and
every offense; provided, that ordinary re-
fuse and swt epings from stores, dwelling
houses, aud other tenements. and kitchen
otfal, shall be deposited in tubs, boxes, bar
rels, baskets, or other suitable recep-
tacles, and be placed on the outside of the
banquettes, convenient to be taken off by
the otfa caris; and that from the fifteenth
of March to the fifteenth of October of each
year, such deposits shall be made not earlier
than three O'Clock A. NJ, nor later than
seven o'clock A. NJ, and from the sixteenth
of October TO the fourteenth of March, in
elusive, such deposits shall be made not
earlier than three O'Clock A. NJ, nor later
than eight o'clock A. NJ; and the recepta.
Giles used as above shall not be left on the
banquettes after the hour of half-past nine
A NJ. during the year; and the phrase
''sny person. shall be held to include not
only the adjacent proprietor, resident. &C.
cupant, or person actually doing or who has
done any Of the things named herein, but
also any one whose duty it is by law or con-
tract to TT move, or cause to be removed or
carried away, any such matters, substances
or things as are herein set forth or in
tended.
Sec 2. No person shall impede or OBJ
struct the passage or flow of water IN any
gutter, ditch, draining pipe, or drain, or in
any manner dam the same, under a penalty
not exceeding ten dollars.
Sec. 3. Any person who shall commit
nuisance IN any public place or street,
whereby the purity of the atmosphere may
be, or be liable to be affected, shall be liable
to fine of not less than five dollars for each
offense.
SEC. 4. The Board of Health shall prevent,
at any time, the dumping or depositing OF
offal or offensive matter by the otfal carts,
or carts employed to remove such offal and
offensive matter by persons contracting to
clean the public steeets, in any place,
when and where the said board or its pro-
per officers, shall deem such dumping or
depositing detrimental, or liable to become
detrimental to health; and said contractors
and other pezsons shall be bound to obey all
orders, under this section. issuing from the
Board Of Health, under a penalty not to
exceed twenty-five dollars for each offense.
SEC. s. The Board of Health may remove
or cause TO be removed any decayed or de-
caying, or diseased vegetable matter, or
ether unhealthful or diseased matter, where
ever the same May be. to such place or
places as may by said Board be select
ed, at the expense of the owner of said
matter, or the occupant or owner of the
premises where or adjacent to which the
same may be.
SEC. 6. All slaughterhouses, dairies, sta.
kept, whether for profit, pleasure, use or
any other purpose, shall be kept clean and
wholesome by daily removal of all ordure,
urine manure, and any other offensive mat
ter; any person liable for neglect under this
section shall suffer a fine not exceeding if
teen dollars.
FILLING UP LOTS.
SEC. Z. Any person who shall in part or
wholly fill up any lot of ground with street
e.,
lent matters, shall be liable to a fine not to
exceed twenty five dollars. And if, upon
the order of court, such person do not forth
with remove such foul or feculent matters,
he shall be liable to be fined again, and such
the shall be repeated until the evil COM
planned of is wholly abated.
PRIvIEs.
SEC. 8 Any privy hereafter construct.
ed shall be not to exceed three feet below
the surface of the ground, and be walled
with brick or stone, laid in cement its whole
depth, with water-tight bottom, and said
wall shall be raised, at least, one foot above
constructed as not to have any issue or |
opening on any street, way, yard, or place, |
nor shalfi it be within three feet of any |
street or way, and shall. if built adjacent to |
any wall, whether party wall or other |
wise, be separated theretrom by solid |
masonry of not less than two feet in thick
ness, laid in cement, and thoroughly water
proof. and shall have fue or
ventilator. sufficient for ventilation,
extending above the surrounding win
dows, or communicating with a chimney.
ANY person building, or causing any privy
TO be built in contravention of this section,
or any part of it, shall be liable to fine
not to exceed twenty dollars. And the
court before which suit may be brought for
violation of this section, or any part Of it,
shall, in rendering its judgment, order such
privy to be reconstructed in accordance with
.he provisions of this section within |
time, and, in default of compli- I
ance with such order, the party so failing TO |
comply shall be subject to like penalty and |
punished as in the first instance: and the |
Board of Health may cause such order to be !
with at the expense OF the person |
ordered as aforesaid; said expense to be |
in any court of competent juris- |
Jiction at the suit of said board.
SEC. 8. Wherever any privy shall be filed |
20 within one foot OF the surface of said |
vault, or whenever the Board of Health |
shall, through its proper officers so order, |
such privy shall be emptied by the owner or |
enant of the premises, within forty eight
hours; and the emptying Of such vault, or
IF any vault, shall take place between the |
hours of eleven o'clock p. NJ, and four
o'clock A. NJ, and at least twenty-four
hours before the removal of the contents of
any vault, it shall be thoroughly deodorized
with copperas. carbolc acid or some other !
gent, as directed by the Board of
Health. Any violation of this section or any
art thereof, shall subject the offender,
whether owner or tenant or person making
uch removal, to g fine not exceeding twenty.
i've dollars.
NUISANCE CARTS, ETC.
SEC. 10. Contractors for cleaning public
t-nats and riacas shall ramOve all mattera |