The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-08-17
ORDINANCE NO. 6.
An Ordinance for the PreSerna.
tiOn of Public Health:

An Ordinance for the PreserHa-
ti0n of Public Health:
The Village Council of the Village OF Nc
kinley, St. Louis County and State of Mimi
esOta. do ordain as follows:
Section l. 1t shall be unlawful for any
person or persons to dump or deposit in any
place within the limits Of the Village of Me-
kinley, any manure, garbage, offal, Stops or
the contents Of any privy or privy vault, or
any vegetable or animal matter or any nau-
seous substance whatever detrimental to the
public health.
Section 2. No person or persons shall
maintain, or suffer to be maintained, upon
any premises owned, occupied or controlled
by them, within the limits of said village,
any privy, unless such privy be provided
with suita BILE box to receive the deposits
made in such privy. which box shall be made
water tight, or in lieu of such box an earth
excavation under such priYy, at least five ~
feet below the surface of the earth, nor shall
any person or persons allow any privy exca-
walton on any premises owned, occupied or
controlled by them within the limits OF said
village to become filled to within less than
two Ca) feet Of the surface Of the earth
Section 5. No person or persons shall
permit or suffer any offensive trade or busi-
ness or any trade or business dangerous to
the public health to be carried on upon any
premises owned occupied or controlled by
them within the limits of said village, and no
person or persons shall suffer or permit any
manure garbage, offal, Stops, or any offen-
sive privy or offensive vegetable or animal
matter, any nauseous substance, stagnant
water, rubbish or any substance or thing
whatever detrimental to the public health,
to be or remain upon any premises owned,
occupied or controlled by them within the
limits of said village
Section d. No person or persons shall re-
move the contents Of any privy vault exca-
walton or box within said village, between
the hours of Six () o'clock in the forenoon
and Ten Q0) o'clock in the afternoon of any
day.
Section 5. The doing OF any act, and the
existence of anything which is forbidden or
made unlawful by the terms of this Ordin-
ance, is hereby declared to be nuisance 1t
is hereby made the duty of the health board
of said Village to notify the owner, occupant
or agent OF any premises within the limits of
said Village Of the existence OF anything up
on any such premises. which is hereby de-
clared to be nuisance and to notify such
person or persons to remove and abate such
nuisance forthwith. The Board OF Health
or any member thereof is hereby given au-
thority to enter. at any reasonable time, up-
on any premises within said Village for the
purpose of ascertaining whether any such
nuisance herein defined exists upon any such
premises. Any person receiving any notice
provided for by the terms of this Section
shall. within twenty -four Cs4) hours after re-
ceiving such notice, remove such nuisance
and cause the same to be abated.
Section 6. Any person or persons violat-
ing any of the provisions Of this Ordinance
shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined in
any sum not less than One (D Dollar or more
than twenty-five (25) Dollars, and the costs of
prosecution, and in default of payment
thereof shall be committed to the county Jail
of St. Louis County aud State of MINES ota.
until payment Of such fine be made, not to
exceed Thirty 90) days.
Section 7. This Ordinance. shall take ef-
feet, and be in full force, from and after it's
passage and publication.