The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-05-28
CITY ORDINANCES.
[ORDINANCE No. SO.
CITY SCAVEN0ER.

OF City ScaVonR6r, anO fOr the Hro-
servation of the Health of the Peo-
pie of the city of Ardmore.
Be it Ordained by the City Council
of the City of Ardmore:
SECTION 1. That section LOG of or
.dinance No. 81, is hereby repealed;
and hereafter no license shall be is
sued to anyone to do scavenger work
within this city, and no one shall be
allowed to do scavenger work with
II the city except the city scavenger:
Provided, however, that nothing in
this ordinance shall prevent a person
from doing his individual scavenger
work. But anyone doing his indi-
vidual scavenger work, shall be sub
ject to all the laws, regulations and
penalties as provided for the city
scavenger.
Sec. 3. That all ordinances here
.tofore passed. defining the duties of
special scavenger, and fixing COM
pensation therefor, shall hereafter
apply to the city scavenger; and all
such ordinances relative to scaven-
ger work, that are not in conflict
with this ordinance and are not in
applicable, are continued in full force
and effect by this ordinance.
Sec. g. 1t shall be the duty of the
city scavenger to inspect all closets
and outhouses, and the premises of
all hotels. boarding houses, restau-
rants, wagon yards, lau1dries, wash
rooms and other public places in this
city at least once month; and the
city scavenger is empowered under
this ordinance to declare any place
that he sees is being kept or permit
ted to exist in violation of ordinance
No. a nuisance, and he shall notify
the party maintaining such nuisance
to abate the same at once; and if
said party so notified shall fail to
comply with said notice within "a
hours thereafter, it shall be the duty
of the city scavenger to notify the
police judge, who shall issue war
rant for such person, and have him
arrested for violating said ordinance
No. 4, and shall proceed against him
and fine him under said ordinance;
and it shall be the duty of the police
Judge to notify the chief of police of
the existence of such nuisance;
whereupon, the chief of police or his
deputy shall forthwith abate said
nuisance, by removing the same from
the city limits.
Sec. 1 The city scavenger and
the chief of police are hereby given
the authority to lock up, temporarily
or permanently. any closet or out
house in the city of Ardmore that is
being kept IN violation of any ordin-
ance of this city, and to forbid the use
thereof to any person whomsoever;
any person using any such closet or
privy, after the same has been de-
~clared a nuisance by the chief of po-
lice or the city scavenger, shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanOr;
and, upon conviction, fined in any
sum not to exceed S25; and each day
that he uses same shall be deemed a
separate offepse.
it is hereby made the duty
of the city scavenger to see that all
streets and alleys in the town al g
kept clean, and to report to the pc
lice Judge any person failing or re-
fusing to keep the alley or street ad-
Joined to their premises clean, and
the police iudge shall issue warrant
for such offending party, have him
arrested, and upon conviction, he
shall be fined in any sum not to eX-
ceed $50; and each day he shall keep
such street CT alley in an unclean
condition, after being notified to
clean the same, shall be deemed a
separate otfense. 1t shall be the
duty of all persons in this city to
keep the street or alley adjacent to
their premises as clean under this or
dinance, to the center of same meas
uring from the property of such per-
son lying adjacent thereto.
Sec. s. 1t shall hereafter be the
duty OF the city scavenger and his
employees to impound all stock they
may find running at large in this city
in violation. of existing ordinances.
But nothing in this section shah be
construed to relieve the chief of po-
lice and his deputies of the duty of
impounding any stock which they
NAV find running at large in viola
ton os said ordinances.
Sec 6. When any resident of this
city shall request the city scavenger
to clean the closet of such resident,
or to remove any offal or other mat
ter from the premises of such resi-
dent, it shall be his duty when his
fees therefor have been paid or ten
dered to forthwith have the same re-
moved from said city; and in the
event the said city scavenger shall
fail or refuse to perform his duties,
when so requested, within five days
thereafter, the said scavenger shall
be deemed guilty of misdemeanor,
and, upon eonvictlonl fined in any
sum not to exceed S25.
sec. 1. II tu0 Sdlu CIIy ScdNSHSSr
shall fail or refuse to faithfully and
impartially discharge all of his duties
as such city scavenger, he shall be
subject to removal by a majority
vote of the city council.
Sec s. This ordinance to take ef
feet from and after its passage and
publication.
w. T. GARDNER, Mayor.
DAVE BEST, City Clerk.