Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-09-05
AN ORDINANCE


To Create and Establish Board of Health,
and to Prescribe the Duties Thereof.
SECTION /. Be it ordained by the Common Coun-
Gil of the Incorporated Village of Napoleon, that
there be and hereby ia, within and for the said Viii
lage created and established Board of Health as
quired and prescribed bv section 21l3 of the Revised
Statutes of the State of Ohio, amended March Sd,
1885, which Board shall be created and appointed
required, and in pursuance of the requirements of
chapter of the sixth division of the municipal code
or Revised Statutes of the State Of Ohio, and the
amendments thereto.
SEo.2 Such Board shall have the power and
authority provided by law, and also power and au
thority to make such orders and regulations in ad
dion to those enumerated in this ordinance. as it
may deem necessary for the public health and the
prevention Of disease In said village.
SEC. 8. 1t shall be the duty Of said Board of
Health, 1st. To hold a regular meeting at least
once in every month between the fret day of March
Said Board shall organize within ten days after its
appointment, and at the first regular meeting there
after, shall divide said village as equally as may
be necessary with reference to the work to be
done, and assign one district to each member
appointed on said Bosrd. Sd. 1t shall be the
duty of each member Of such Board to per-
sonally inspect each street, alley and lot in the
health district SO assigned to him at least
once between each two successive regular meet
ings of the Board, and submit q report OF such
inspection to the Board at its next regular meeting
thereafter. 4th. The Board shall take immediate
action to remove abate any and all nuisances
found at any time to exist in said village and upon
information reasonable belief that an infectious
or contagious disease exists in any house or locality
in said village shall forthwith investigation
thereof to be made and take all necessary measures
| to secure and protect the public health.
sKc.4 The Board may remove to hospital OF
pest house, any person duly certified by reputable
physician to be infected with any malignant con-
tagious, infectious, or pestlential disease, when
they shall deem such removal necessary to prevent
the spread of such disease but such certificate shall
be in writing, and kept file by the said Board.
SEC 5. The Board OF Health, and ca ch member
thereof, and any officer appointed by said Board,
shall have the right for purposes OF sanitation and
to preserve and protect the public health, to enter
any house, store, shop, or other building, lot or
other place within said village, whether public or
private, at proper hours and in a proper man
ner, and there fully inspect such house, shop,
store building, lot place, or any part thereof or
thing therein; and If they find any such building
place thing in condition dangerous to the pub
lie health, the Board may require the owner or oc.
cupant of said premises to remove the nuisance or
Objectionable thing, and on his failure SO to do
after reasonable notice, the Board shall cause the
to be done at his expense, and may assess the
costs thereof against the said premises.
SEC. 6. The Board of Health shall also have the
power and it shall be its duty to do and perform all
things specified and required, of said Board by
said chapter l. the sixth division OF the munich
ments thereto.
SEC. Z. No person shall in any way resist the ex.
ecution of any order Of the Board Of Heath resist
any member, officer or appointee OF said Board in
the discharge of his or their duties.
SECS. 1t shall be unlawful for any person being
the owner, oecupier, or operator, OF any butcher
shop, meat store, to render try out, boil stew, or
try any lard, talow any oal Of meat, fat, or any
refuse of said butcher shop or meat store, within
the corporate limits of the village Of Napoleon, Ohio
| SEC 0. 1t shall be unlawful for any person to
carry on the business Of slaughtering or to kill or
butcher any animal Of the cattle, hog or sheep kind
or to render any lard taow within the limits of
| said village.
SEC. 10. 1t shall be unlawful for any person TO
place the carcass of any dead animal, or any oal,
refuse from any butcher shop or tannery, spoiled
meat, fish, any decayed putrid su bstance In the
water of the Maumee river, or canal or any basin,
dock, lock, creek or bayou, connected therewitb,
within the limits of said village. And any person
who shall offend against the provisions OF this sec
ton or any of the three preceding sections, or any
provision of this chapter for which no special pen
atty is prescribed shall be deemed guilty of an Of.
fensc, and on conviction thereof before the Mayor
shall be fined not less than ave dollars nor more
than twenty dollars, and COSTS in addition to which
shall be included any expense occasioned by abat
| ing any nuisance that may have been SO created.
SEC. II. 1t shall be the duty OF the owner or oc-
cupant of any house In which person resides Who
has the small pox or any other disease dangerous to
the public health, and the physician called to at
tend the person affected, 10, within twenty four
hours after becoming cognizant Of the fact give mo-
! tice thereof to the Board of Health.
| SEC. IL. II shah be the duty Of each physician
within said village, attending the last sickness OF
lany person dying within said village (or where 10
physician SO attended, then the Undertaken having