The Virginia enterprise., 1900-09-07

ment, or lodging house, and every private
residence in the City of Virginia, shall pro-
vide proper and suitable conveniences and
receptacles for receiving garbage, Stops and |
other re fuse matter. These receptacles may |
consist Of boxes, barrels, or kegs; they shall |
be water tight and kept in a place accessible |
and convenient for the scavenger to take
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.
ises in the City Of Virginia, shall employ,
cause or permit any part of the contents of
any vault, privy, sink or cess-pool, [being
thereon, and of which he has controD to be
removed, unless according to the regulations
of the Board of Health.
Section 5. That every person shall OBJ
serve and obey each and every special regu-
Health, which is or may be made for carrying
into effect any ordinances of the City of Vir-
gini;l, or any law Of this State, or otherwise,
whether issued or directed by the Board of
Health or promulgated by the II Health Officer,
as if the same had been herein inserted at
length.
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.
| Section 7. No person, COMPANY 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 8. 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 g. No privy vault, sink or pri-
vate drain. nor contents thereof shall be dis
turbed or removed between the hours Of six
(6) o'clock a. m,, and ten QO o'clock p. M of
| any day, except when such contents are in
frozen condition, or when odorless dlsinfect-
| ing apparatus is US: d.
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, offal and swill
Section II. Every person so engaged shall
be deemed day scavenger and shall receive
such compensation as the Council may es-
tablsh, and they shall at all times be sub
jcctive to the rules and regulations of the
Board of Health, and ordinances Of the City
Of Virginia..
Section 12. The City Council of said City
of Virginia, and the Board of Health, shall
ldesignate 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 13. 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
posed of by burning, or otherwise, as the
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 offen-
sive, or which, by process of decomposition,
may become offensive.
Section IS. No person within the limits
Of the said City of Virginia shall suffer or
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 we'll for such purposes within
| C"euCy lceC VI duy pflVy, duu uO pflVy Snail
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 prives 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 disnfected condition and
free from smells or odors prejudiclal to pub
lie health. Every privy must be cleaned at
least twice year, and oftener if the condi-
tion 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 Of
| f1ctr
Section 18. It 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