The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-09-14
away. either every day or such intervals of
time as the Health Officer shall direct,

away. either every day or such intervals of
time as the Health Officer shall direct,
! Section 4. That neither the owner, AGENT
tenant or occupant Of any building or prem.
Uses In the City Of Virginia, shall employ,
cause or permit any part of the contents of
any vault, privy, sink or cesspoOl Tbeinp
| thereon, and of which he has controD to he
removed, unless according to the regulations
| of the Board of Health.
Section 5. That every person shall, oh
serve and obey each and every special regu-
lation and every order of the Board OF
Health, which is or may be made for carving
into effect any ordinances of the Oity of Vir-
ginia, or any law of this State, or otherwise.
whether issued or directed by the Board of
Health or promulgated by the Health Officer
as if the same had been herein inserted at
| length.
Section6. The City Council of the Oity
of Virginia shall have power to grant licen-
ses to any person, company or corporation.
| for cleaning or removing the contents of
privy vaults, sinks. or private drains, and
every person, company or corporation en-
gagged in said business shall be deemed
night scavenger, and shall be under the d.
rection of the Health Officer.
| OONOIOu ANU pCISOl, COupduV or cor
poration shall, within the City of Virginia,
| empty, clean, or remove the contents of any
privy, vault, sink, or private drain, or in any
manner engage in the business of night
| scavenger without first having obtained a
license so to do, under penalty hereinafter
provided, provided that the owners, or az
| ents, having control of privy vaults, sinks or
private drains within the City, desiring to
| clean or remove contents thereof themselves
without aid of night scavengers, may be al
lowed to do so, only in such manner as the
Health Officer shall direct.
Section g. Every person, company or cor
poration obtaining such license shall Comply
with and obey the orders and directions and
regulations of the Board Of Health, or
Health Officer Of the City, made in pursuance
to law.
Section 8. No pr1vy vault sink or prI-
vate drain. nor contents thereof shall be dis
turbed or removed between the hours of six
(0 o'clock a. M, and ten 1W o'clock p. m. OF
any day, except when such contents arc in
frozen condition. or when odorless dsinfect-
Ing apparatus is used.
Section 10. The Health Officer is hereby
authorized, with the consent Of the Council,
to hire from time to time as many persons,
upon such terms and with such appliances or
conveyances as they may deem necessary,
for the removal Of garbage, ofal and swill
Section IL. Every person 50 engaged shall
be deemed day scavenger and shall receive
such compensation as the Council may es-
tablish, and they shall at all times be sub
jective to the rules and regulations of the
Board of Health, and ordinances Of the City
Of Virginia.
Section IL. The City Council of said City
of Virginia, and the Board of Health, shall
designate and set aside plot of ground, out
side of the limits of said City, as a nuisance,
or garbage ground, to which all manure,
garbage, offal or any vegetable or animal
matter, or nauseous substance whatsoever.
shall be taken and deposited. None of said
refuse matter shall be taken to any other
point outside OF said City limits, except to
said nuisance ground, unless by special per
NIT Of the Health Officer.
Section 10. No manure, garbage, offal or
any vegetable or animal matter, or nauseous
substance whatsoever, shall be dumped or
deposited at any place within the limits Of
the City of Virginia, except at the place or
places designated and provided for that pur-
pose by the Board of Health, and there dis
Health Officer may direct.
Section IA. No person shall deposit, or
leave. or cause to be left or deposited in any
part of the said City, any dead animal, gar
bage, offal, vegetable or excrem ent, or any
other substance whatsoever which is Often
sive, or which. by process of decomposition,
may become offensive.
Section Is. No person within the limits
"a -
permit any cellar vault, private DRAIN cess
pool. privy, water closet, garbage receptacle,
chicken COOP stable, barn, or anything con-
nected with any premises belonging to or oc-
cupied by him or her to become nauseous
offensive, or injurious TO the public health:
Section Is. No person shall erect or main
tain privy within twenty feet of any we'll
from which water is used for domestic pur-
poses; or dig a we'll for such purposes within
twenty feet OF any privy, and no privy shall
be erected, maintained or used by any person
within the limits of the said City of Virginia
unless constructed as in the next section
prescribed.
Section II. All privies must be construct
ed so that the receiving vault thereof shall
be made water-tight, so that the contents
| cannot escape therefrom, and sufficiently Sc
cured and enclosed. PrivieS must at all
times be kept in disinfected condition and
free from smells or odors prejudic1al to pub
| lie health. Every privy must be cleaned at
least twice year, and oftener if the condi-
ton of the privy demand it. The owners or
| occupants of premises must also cause their
privies TO be thoroughly cleaned and disin-
fected within twentyfour hours after being
| requested so to do by the Health Officer. The
| contents and excrement from all privies must
| be disposed of as directed by the Health o.
! ficer.
Section 10. 1t shall be the duty of each
! and every person to keep the lot or premises
! owned or occupied by him or her within the
| limits OF said City of Virginia. at all times in
| thoroughly clean condition, and free from
every nuisance or rubbish whatsoever, that
is or may be injurious to the public health.