The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-03-21

. puTSult, OF InInR, OF sewerage, or drainage
or ventilation thereof In said district shall, La
r the opinion OF said board, whether as whole
8 or in any particular, be in condition, or In
!, effect, dangerous to life or health, said board
| shall file among it's records what 1t shall re-
gard as sufficient proof to authorize its
a declaration that the same to the extent II
r may specify, is a public nuisance or danger.
: GUS to life and health; said board may there
5 upon enter on it's records the same as NUS
ance, and order the same to be removed
Y abated suspended, altered or otherwise i'm
proved or purified, as said orders shall specify
and shall cause said order, before its execll-
ton, to be served on the owner, occupant or
| tenant thereof, or to some of them who may
appear most directly interested in it's execli-
: tion prouided said parties are in said dis
3 trct, or can be found and said service can
conveniently be made; and + any party so
menced, or within three days after
, such service, or attempted service, APP
ply to said board or to the president thereof,
to have said order or it's execution stayed or
modified, it shall then be the duty of said
/ board to temporarily suspend or modify said
= order, save in cases of imminent danger of
pestilence, when said board may exercise ex-
, traordnary power; and to give such parties,
as he case in the opinion of the board may re-
quire, reasonable opportunity to be heard
before said board, and to present facts and
proofs, according to the rules of said board,
against said declaration and the execution of
said order or notification according to the
on its minutes such facts and proofs as it may
receive and thereafter may rescind and mod
lily, or reatfrm its said declaration and re-
d1ire execution of said original or of q new or
modified order, to be made in such form and
effect as it may finally determine.
SEQ 6. BE 1t further enacted, ETC., Said board
may order or cause any excavation, erection,
vehicle or water craft, building, place. passage
premises, regarded by said board as ia a condi-
ton dangerous or detrimental to life or health,
to be purified. cleaned, disinfected, altered or
improved, and may also order any substance,
matter or thing being or left in any street,
alley, excavation, building erection place
Or grounds, whether such place may be pub
lie or private, and which said board may re-
gard as dangerous or detrimental to life or
health to be speedily removed to some proper
Council to execute, through its police, any
orders referred to in this act, and said board
shall have power to enforce any and all the
provisions of this act by mandamus and in
judicial district and in which the city is To-
Gated. The judges in said district shall upon
application OF said board, issue writs of man
| damus and Injunction to enforce any Of the
| provisions of this act.
SEC. 7. Be 1t further enacted, etc. That for
the purpose Of the provisions of this act no.
tice may be served upon one or more part
owners occupants, tenants or lessees Of the
subject matter to which, any order of the
board relates; and if said order is not COM
| piled with, or as far complied with as the
board may deem reasonable within five days
OF such service or attempted service, or with
in any, shorter time which in case Of pesti-
lence the board may have designated, or is not
thereafter speedily and fully executed, then
any such order may be- executed as anv
other order of the board, through the City
Council or any Of the courts of the judicial
district; and if personal service cannot
be made by reason Of the absence from the
city, or inability to find such persons therein,
then service may be made through the
mai, a or by copy left f at the residence
place ia ss OF business mes Of the party sought
| ing the execution of any and all orders of
the board under this act. shall be several
| and Joint personal charge against each of the
owners and part owners, and each of the
place, property, matter or thing to which
said order relates, and in respect of which
said expenses were incurred and also against
every person or body who was bound by law
ness place, street. alley, matter or thing or
property, which said order requires. And
said expenses shall also be privilege on all
property and rent and compensation due or
building, premises, matter or thing to which
said order relates; and also privilege on all
rent and compensation due or to grow due,
Tor the cleaning, dlsnfecting or removing any
premises the failure to do which by the party |
bound so to do, or the doing of the same. in |
whole or in part, by order Of said board was |
the cause or occasion OF any such order or ex-
penSe.
SEC. 8. Be 1t further enacted, etc., That said |
board or the party who has under it's orders,
or that of the City Council acting there
under, incurred said expense or has rendered
service for which payment is due, as the
rules OF said board may provide may nsti-
tute and maintain suit against any one
herein declared liable for expenses, as afore-
said, or against any person, firm or corpora
ton owing, or who may owe such rent or
compensation for the expenses so incurred
under any order aforesaid. And only one or
more such parties liable or interested may be
made parties to such action as the board may
elect But the parties made responsible, as
aforesaid, for such expenses shall be liable to
contribute or make payment as between
themselves in respect OF such expenses, ac-
cording to the legal or equitable obligation
between them.
SEC. g. Be 1t further enacted. etc., Said
board may enact such bylaws, rules and reg
ulations as it may deem advisable in har-
mony with the provisions and purposes of this
act, and not inconsistent with the constitution
or laws OF the State. And upon complaint of
violation OF any rule, sanitary regulation,
ordinance or order made to any magistrate
or iud ge having jurisdiction, such magistrate
or judge shall order the arrest of any person
in any otherscase of violation of city ordi-
nance, and may after such arrest proceed to
try such person for such alleged offence. If
such person shall upon such trial be found
guilty, he or she may be fined in any amount
not exceeding twenty five dollars 1925, and the
payment may be enforced in the same man
ner as is usual in other cases where fines are
imposed
SEC. 10. Be 1t further enacted, etc., Said
board shall cause to be kept a general com
plant book, in which may be entered, by any
person in good faith, any complaints of a
sanitary nature which such person thinks
may be useful, with the name and residence
Of complainant, and may give the name of
the person or persons complained of and the
date Of the entry Of the complaint; and the
board shall cause the facts in regard to such
complaints to be investigated and the appro-
pirate remedy to be applied
SEC H. Be 1t further enacted etc, That it
shall be especially the duty Of SAID board to
vaccination in the cities of Shreveport and