The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-12-19
LAW IN THE CASE
Statutes for the Board of
Health.
Fun Text Of the Enactments the
Guardians Of the Public eaith
Are Supposed to Obey.

| SS17. The Board OF Health and its
| agents Shall examine into all nuisances
sources Of filth and causes Of sickness
on shore, Or in any vessel, and shall
cause the same 10 be destroyed. re-
moved Or prevented, as the case may
require.
1878. Whenever any such nuisance
source Of filth, or cause OF sickness
shall be found on private property, the
] Board OF Health or any health agent
shall order the owner or occupant
thereof, at his own expense, % remove
the same within forty-eight hours, and
II t44e owner or occupant shall neglect
50 10 do, he shall be fined in sum not
exceeding one hundred dollars
1919. If the owner or occupant shall
not comply with such order of the
Board OF Health, the Board or any OF
its agents may cause such nuisance.
source of filth or cause of sick ness to
be removed; and all expenses incurred
thereby shall be paid by the said owner
or occupant, or by such other person as
shall have caused or permitted the
same.
$3.50 When any person shall be con-
Vlcted for common nuisance, that
may be injurious TO the public health.
the Court may. in its discretion, order
il TO be removed or destroyed, at the
expense of the defendant, under the
direction OF the Board of Health. or
otherwise, as it may deem proper
1881. The Supreme Court and the
several Circuit Courts shall have juris-
dictlon concurrently with the District
Courts, OF all cases of common nui-
sances.
1882. Whenever any person shall be
convicted in the Supreme Court or any
Circuit Court, Of maintaining a COM
mon nuisance, the Court shall order
that said nuisance be abated. Such
order shall not operate to suspend or
vacate the sentence imposed but shall
be wholly cumulative remedy. In
case the order shall not have been
made at the time of imposing the sem
tence, it may be made at any regular
term of the same Court, or of the
Supreme Court, holden within two
years thereafter, upon motion by the
acknowledgement, and reasonable no.
tice to the defendant. Upon the hear
ing OF such motion, the Judgment pre-
viously rendered shall be conclusive
evidence of the maintenance of the
nuisance
1888 All orders for the abatement
of nuisance shall direct, under a
penalty, that the same be abated, with
in time TO be limited in such order,
and that, il the same .lbe not abated
within such time, that. the proper exc
cutiVe officer of the law do forthwith
aDate the same at the cost of the de-
PENDANT, who shall also be liable to the
full amount of the penalty specified in
such order, for which, as we'll as for
all costs and expenses arising in such
case, execution shall duly issue.
1884. Whenever any member of the
Board of Health, or its agent shall
think it necessary for the preservation
of Ithe lives or health of the inhabi-
tants, to enter any land, building or
vessel, for the purpose Of examining
into and destroying, removing, or pre-
venting any nuisance, source of filth or
cause of sickness, and shall be refused
such entry. such member or
agent may make complaint to
any District Magistrate, who may
thereupon issue a warrant directed to
any Sheriff, Deputy Sheriff, or Consta-
BILE, commanding him to take sufficient
aid, and, being accompanied by such
member of the Board of Health, or
agent, between the hours of sunrise and
to repair to the place where
such nuisance, source of filth, or cause
Of sickness complained of may be, and
the same to destroy, remove, or pre-
vent, under the directions of such mem
Der or agent.
$685.. No slaughter house shall be
in any part of this Repub-
lie, in any place where the Board of
Health shall now Or hereafter forbid
the maintenance of the same