The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-12-24
AN ORDINANCE.

Establish General Sanitary Regulations,
and TO Define the Duties of the Health
Omcer and Sanitary Inspectors.
Be it ordained by the City Council Of the
City of San Antonioi
SECTION 1. The following acts and things
are hereby declared to be nuisances: Filth,
the contents Of cess-pools, offal, foul water,
refuse from manufactures, ordure, urine,
animal matter (decaying) or other substances
detrimental to health. thrown, placed. or
allowed to remain in or upon any street,
avenue, alley, sidewalk, gutter, public reser
va ton or lot in the Cit.
SIC. 2. The carrying and transporting of
ones, hides, fish, oifal, or other animal or
vegetable substance in a decomposing or
offensive condition, in any other than covered
and inclosed vehicles, through any street,
alley, avenue, or public place within this city.
SIC. 8. The filling, leveling, or raising The
surface Of any street, ground or lot within the
city, with animal or vegetable substances, filth
gathered in cleaning yards or streets, Except
mud accumulated during bad weather, which
shall not be considered as filth, or waste
material from mills or factories, or the removal
Of any ground or lot within said city filed with
such offensive matter or substances.
SEC. 4. Any privy in this city, the inside of
which is not at least three feet distant from the
from any street, lane, square or public place,
and at least 10 feet from any ditch, river or
public water stream; or any privy dscharging
It's contents into any lane, bitches, streams, or
street, or any privy so constructed that il can
not be conveniently approached and cleaned.
SIC. s. Fecal matter, not thoroughly
deodorized and disinfected every two weeks,
in any privy in this city; and the Board OF
Health shall, upon receipt of complaint, cause
any privy to be inspected, and, II necessary,
clean'd and disinlected; and 1t shall be the
duty OF any person or persons occupying
premises on which any such privy is situated,
to permit the same to be inspected, cleaned or
disinltcled at the times designated by the
Health Officer or the Board of Health.
SEc The cleaning or emptying OF any
privy in this city, without first disinfecling the
same in the manner prescribed by the Health
beard. The deposit of contents Of any priyy
in any place other than such as may be
approved by the Board Of Health.
Sac 7. fhe removal Of night.soil, cleaning
privies, priyy boxes or barrels, vaults, sinks
and cesspools within this city by buckets or
other process agitating or exposing the con-
tents thereof in open air, and transporting
said contents in carts or other vehicles not
air-hght, through the streets, alleys and other
public places within said city.
SIC. s. The keeping of a hog or hogs in a
pen within the mile and half limits on the
north, south and east sides and within a mile
limit on the ives, side; and the Sanitary In
spector Of the Board OF Health shall compel
the owners OF all hogs found within the above
limits to remove them beyond the above limits
within IS days from the adoption OF this or
dinance.
SEC. e.-Filthy and unwholesome stables,
sheds, pens or places where cows, horses,
mules or other animals are kept.
SIC. 10. The keeping Of any grocery, soap,
tallow or chandler establishment, and black
smiths shop, tannery, stable, slaughter house,
disullery, brewery sewer, pryy or other
place in an unclean condition.
SEC. II. Stagnant water upon any lot or
ground within this city and any low or marshy
lot or land, the same being made such by de-
fective drainage or otherwise.
SEC. IL. The sale or offer TO sell in this city
of any animal or part Of animal that may be
sickly, diseased or unwholesome, or which
may have died from disease or accident, or
any fish or vegetables or fruit not fresh,
sound and fit for food. Upon the knowledge
of violation Of this section by the Market
Master any inspector of this Board or any
member OF the police force of this city, said
officer or officers shall report the same to the
Health Officer, who shall cause such nuisance
to be abated, and the party dealt with as pre-
scribed by law.
SEC. 10. Any store, stall. room or stand
where meats or fish or vegetables or fruit are
sold for food, which is kept in an uncleanly
condition, or which shall emit noisome odors
disgusting to the citizens residing near such
store, stall, room or she'd; aAd upon COM
plant being rendered the Health Officer shall
order the place to be kept clean and free from
noisome odors, and il the owner thereof re-
fuse or neglect to obey the orders of the Health
officer, the latter shall cause the same TO be
vacated, and the person so offending to be
presented to the Recorders court for punish
ment, as prescribed by law.
SEC. ID. The Health Officer shall be the
executive officer OF the Board of Health.
SEC. IS. 1t shall be the duty of the Health
Officer to carry out all orders OF the Board of
Health and the laws OF the State and ordi-
nances OF the city regarding sanitary regula-
tons OF the city, to cause all nuisances to be
abated with all reasonable promptness. And
for the purpose Of carrying out the foregoing
requirements he shall be permitted at all
times, in the discharge of his duty, to enter
any house. store, stable or other building and
TO cause the floors to be raised, if he shall
deem necessary, in order to a thorough exam
nation OF cellars, vaults, sinks or drains; to
enter upon all lots or grounds and to cause
all stagnant waters to be drained off the
pools, sinks, vaults, drains or low grounds to
be cleansed, filled up or otherwise improved
or amended; to cause all privies to be cleansed
| and kept in good condition, and to cause all
dead animals or other noxious and unwhole-
some substances to be buried or moved be-
yond the limits Of the city.
SEC. 10. In order to the carrying out of
the provisions OF the foregoing section ii shall
be the duty of the Health Officer to serve a
notice in writing upon the owner, occupant or
agent of any lot building or premises in or
upon which any nuisances may be found, or
who may be the owner or cause of any such
nuisance requiring him to abate the same in
such manner as he shall prescribe within
reasonable time. Provided, that it shall not
be necessary 10 any case for the Health OFF,
Ger to specify in his notice the manner in
which any nuisance shall be abated unless he
shall deem it advisable SO to do; and such
notice may be given or served by any officer
who may be directed or deputed to give or
make the same, and # such owner, occupant
or agent shall neglect or refuse to comply
with the requirements of such order within the