New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-16

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be in condition such as to require the same to be
disipfected or deOdoTized, he or they khal cause
notice thereof to be given to the owner or tenant
of the premises where such privy or privy vaults
may be, to dt OdOdOrize or dlsnfect such privy or
priyy vaults within DELAY of thirty-sx hours and
for any refusal or neglect to obey such notice,
within said time sue offender shall be liable to
fine not exceeding the sum of ten dollars.
An ordinance relative to the opening of tombs.
graves and vaults.
SECTION l. No tomb, grave OF vault containing
any dead body, shall be opened without perm is
sion first had from the proper officer Of the Board
of Health. ANY person violating this ordinance
shall be liable to tine of twenty dollars.
An ordinance amending section eight of ordinance
of the Board of Health of the State of Louis
lana, adopted May 10, 1870.
SECTION l. Section eight of the ordinance of the
Board of Health, adopted May 10, 1870, Is hereby
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows
PRIvIBs.
SEC 8. Any privy hereafter constructed shall be
not 10 exceed two feet below the surface of the
ground, and be walled with brick or stone, laid Ia
cement its whole depth with water-tight bottom,
and said wall shall be raised, at least, one + OF
above the surface of the ground, and shall
be so constructed not to have any issue or
opening on any street, way, yard or place, nor
shall it be within three feet of any street or way,
and shall it built adjacent to any wall, whether
party wall or otherwise, be separated JherefrOm
by solid masOnarY of not less than two feet IN
thickness laid in cement, and thoroughly water
proof, and shall have tiue or ventlatOr, sufncient
for ventilation, extending above the surrounding
windows, communicating with a chin
neY. Any person building, or causing any prlVy
to be built in cOntraventiOn of this section, any
part of it. shall be liable to a fine not to exceed
twenty dollars. And the court before which suit
may be brought for violation Of this section OF any
part Of it, SHALL in rendering its Judgment, order
such prVy to be reconstructed in accordance with
the provisions of this section within reasonable
time, and. in default of compliance with such Or
der the party failing to comply shall be subject
to like penalty and punished as in the first in
stance; and the Board of Health may cause such
order to be complied with at the expense of the
person ordered aforesaid; said expense to be re-
covered in any court of competent jurisdiction at
the sui, Of said Board.
An ordinance amending sections twenty.three and
thirty-one of ordinances of the Board of Health
of the State of Louisiana, adopted May 10, 1870
SECTION l. Section twenty three of the ordinances
of the Board of HEALTH adopted May ID, 1870 is
hereby amended and reenacted so as to read as
REMOVAL OF BODIES.
SEC %. Any persons who shall disintsr or olsen
tomb any human body, or the remains thereof
within the district under the control of the Board
of Health. without authority first had from the
proper officers of said board. or shall remove be-
yond the limits of said district, introduce there
in, or inter any human body OF the remains thereof
without leave first had from the proper officers Of
said board, shall be liable to a fine not to exceed
SIC 2. Section thirty-One of said ordinances is
hereby a-ended and re enacted so as to read as
follows;
Sections REPORTS.
SEC 81. Every sexton or other person having the
care or charge of any cemetery, graveyard, or
burying ground, shall. on Monday Of each week
before the hour OF A. NJ. make written report
aud hand the same into the office of the Board of
Health, which said report shall contain the full
name Of each and every peIs son buried or entombed
in such cemetery, yard or ground, during the
seven days next preceding P. n. Of the last Sun
day before making such report together with
statement Of the color age, nativl r. the cause
Of death of such person, occupation place of DEATH
condition, birth place Of parents, and such other
information as the board may from time to time
require, and for failing to make such report within
the time, in the manner herein set forth, such
sexton or other person shall be liable to fine not
to exceed twenty-five dollars
G. B. WHITE, N. D..
President Board of Health, State of Louisiana.
s. c. RUSSELL, NJ. D., Secretary Of the Board.
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