Douglas Island news., 1902-04-30
ORDINANCE No. |.
To Provide for Public Health and Prevent ant
 Remove Nulsances.

To Provide for Public Health and PreVenI ana
 Remove Nulsances.
 The City of Douglas does ordain asfollows:
 NUIsANCES.
 SECTION 1. Any person who shall do any act, or cause suffer or create anything with in the corporate limits of this city which shall be injurious to public health, or which prevents or obstructs the free and comforta- ble enjoyment of life and property or IS dan. gerouS to surrounding property, IS guilty or 0 nuisance and misdemeanor. In addition to the penalty provided by law against the per son guilty of nuisance, and whether the penalty is enforced or not, such nuisance may be abated by the City Marshal or other Executive Officer of this City at the expense of the person maintaining the same. pEPosITING AND REMOVING FILTH AND RUBBISH.
 SEC. 2. It shall be unlawful for any person to throw into or deposit upon any Public Street, Highway or Grounds, or III any Gut or anywhere except to deposit upon the Tide lands of GaStineauX channel at the point or low tide any glass, broken ware, dirt, rub, bish, garbage, or filth that may be deemed prejudicial to public health, nor shall any such rubbish, garbage or filth be allowed to remain upon any private premises. All dlrt, rubbish, soot, ashes clnders, or Iii1n od .h any place which the City Marshal shall deem nec- essary for the health of the City to be re- moved, shall be carried away theretrom py and at the expense of the owner or occupant of such house or place where the same may be found and removed and deposited at the point on GnstineauX Channel above desiS- mated.
 pRPosITING FILTHY WATER. SEC. B. It shall be unlawful for any own er occupant or lessee of any building, lot or ground, to throw, empty or deposit, or cause, or permit, or allow the same to be done by any .employe, lessee, or occupant or other person, at any time, in any gutter or ditch, or near any inhabited place, the studs or filthy water, resulting from the washing ot clothing, Slops from kitchens, or other foul water to stand on his own premises or run or seep into the premises adjoining them.
 CUTTERS TO BE KEPT CLEAN.
 SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of every owner, occupant or lessee of any property in this City, to keep the gutter in front ot such property, at all times, clean and free rom all Instructions to the free passage of water and to remove or cause to be removed all dirt, filth, garbage, or rubbish that may have accumulated on the street or alley in front of and adjoining said property, to the middle of the street or alley.
 RECEPTACLE FOR SLOTS. SEC.5. Each and every owner, occupant or lessee of any house, store, restaurant. or other building in this City shall provide a re- ceptacle for all slops, offal, garbage, or other store, restaurant, or other building and re- move the same, or cause the same to be re- moved and deposited at the point on Gastin: eaux Channel provided for in section 2, ot ter being placed in said receptacle and be- | fore it shall have become offensive to others ! FOUL AND OFFENSIVE DRAINS, ETC. SEC. G. No person shall permit or suffer any premises belonging to or occupied by him, or any cellar, pool, sewer, Privy or wat on or appertaining thereto to become nau- seous, foul or offensive and prejudicial to the public health or comfort.
 OFFICER TO NOTIFY. 1 SEc :. It shall be the duty of the City Marshal or other Executive officer upon re- l ceiving notice of any violation of the forego- ] ing sections of this ordinance to immediate | ly notify the offender to abate and remove ! the same within such time as he may deem ! proper, not to exceed twenty-four hours. 1 And if such nuisance shall not be removed or ! abated within the time specified in such no tice the City Marshal or other Executive Of, l ficer shall cause the same to be removed and l he shall be and hereby is authorized to re- move any obstruction that may be necessary | to remove in order to reach and remove or abate such nuisance. The expense of the re- moval of any nuisance by the City Marshal or other Executive Officer shall be paid by the City in the first instance, but the same 1 may be recovered by the City from the own er agent, or occupant notified by an action at law, or in the manner hereinafter pro- yided.
 
 SEc. s. Any person or persons violating 1 any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of miSdemeanor and shall be punished upon conviction thereof before the City Police Court by fine of not 1 less than ten dollars nor more than one hun 1 dred dollars. and be adjudged to pay the costs of abating such nuisance as provided for in section of this ordinance, or by inn prisonment in the City Jail for not more than twenty days, or by both fine and inn prisonment. Provided, That no person 1 shall be prosecuted for violation of this or dinance unless such violation shall continue after the time limited in the notice, he or l they have received from the City Marshal or other Executive Officer, as provided in sec ! tion of this ordinance.
 TIME OF TAKING EFFECT.
 SEo.9. This ordinance shall be published in the Douglas Island News, weekly paper | lowing dates: April 30, 1902, May !, 1902, and three copies of the same shall be posted Tn three public places in the City and shall take effect and be enforced from and after ten (l0) days from the date of the first of said publi- cations and posting.
 Passed and approved the 18th day of April, A.D. 1902.
 Attest; JOHN HENSON, Clerk.
 | I, John Henson, Clerk of the City of Doug las, do hereby certify that the foregoing is of the City of Douglas, at q meeting of said Council held on the 26th day of April, A. D 1902.
 In witness whereof have hereunto set my hand and caused the corporate seal Of sald City to be attached this 18th day of April, A N~ JOHN HENSON.
 }sEAL Clerk of the City of Douglas @@ D;oroor,dr Tou,eIry