The De Soto County news. [volume] (Arcadia, Fla.) 1898-1924, 1905-08-18
NEW HEALTH LAW
LAW APPROVED JUNE I, 1905,
PUTTING INSTRUCTIONS
HEALTH NUISAHCES.
The Following Law win BE strictly En-
forced by our Municipality. Read
Carefully sud PROFIT Thereby

furious to health, and to provide for
the removal thereof and punishment
therefor.
Be it enacted boy the Legislature OF
the State OF Florida
Section 1. A sanitary nuisance is
hereby declared to be the commisson
of any act, by an individual, mpnici-
patty, organization or corporation or
the keeping, maintaining, propagation
existance or permission of any thing,
by an individual, municipality, organ
ization or corporation, by which the
health or lives Of individuals, may be
threatened or impaired, or by which,
or through which, directly or Indirect
4 ly, disease may be caused.
Sec ,. That filth, the contents of
cesspools, offal, garbage, foul waste
refused from MANUFACTURERS, urine,
stable manure, decayed animal or veg
etable matter or other offensive sub
4 stance detrimental to health, thrown,
/ placed or allowed to remain in or up
4 on any private premises, street, avenue
alley, sidewalk, gutter, public reser-
ervation or open lot Within any incor-
porated city or unincorporated town
or village of the State of Florida, are
I hereby declared nuisances injurious to
health; and any person who shall
commit, maintain the aforesaid nui-
sances, or either of them, shall upon
conidetion be fined not less than five
nor more than twenty-five dollars for
every such offense.
Sec. 8. That the filling, levellng or
raising the surface of any ground or
lot within any incorporated town,
city or village of the State of Florida,
with animal or vegetable substances,
filth gathered in cleaning yards or
waste material from mills or factories,
or the removal OF the surface of any
ground or lot within said cities, towns
or villages, filed with such offensive
matter or substance, in such manner
as to cause noisome odors or noxious
gases to arise, are hereby declared
nuisances Injurious to health, and any
person who shall cause, commit create
or maintain such nuisances shall upor
conviction, be fined not less than five
or more than twenty dollars for each
such ofense.
Sec. A. That all waterclosets or
privies connected with any house,
building or premises within any in
corporated city or nnincorporated
town or village Of the State OF Florida
inor upon which people live or where
they congregate or assemble, or airy
kind Of business is done, kept in a
filthy and offensive condition, or from
which noisome odors and noxious gases
arise, and all waterclosets located
within and being part OF any such
houses or building, not provided with
--agoper sewer traps so as to prevent the
urn and escape Of noxious gases
aid offensive odors from any public
or private sewer connected Herewith,
are hereby declared nusances injour-
Gus to health and any person creating,
keeping or maintaining such nuisance
shall upon conviction be fined not less
than FIVE or more than twenty-five
dollars.
Sec. .. That focal matter not
thoroughly deodorized and disinfected
remaining in privies in any incorpor-
ated city or unincorporated town or
village Of the State OF Florida, is here
by declared f nuisance injurious to
health, and the State Health Officer
shall, upon receipt OF complaint in
writing. cause any privey TO be In
spected, and il necessary, cleansed (;
and any person owning or occupying
premises on which any priyey is stu
ated, who shall refuse TO permit the
same to be inspected and eleansed at
the time designated by the State
Health officer, or when necessary,
shall upon convictions be fined not less
than five or more than twenty dollars
for every such offense.
Sec 9. That it shall be unlawful
for any person to deposit the contents
OF any privey in any other place than
such as may be approved by the State
Health officer, the health authorities
or a1y incorporated city, or by the in
spector OF the State Board of Health
II IN an unincorporated town in the
State Of Florida, and any person 50
offending shall upon conviction be
lined not less than five or more than
fifty dollars for every such ofense.
Scot. That the kheplne, nerding
land feeding Of hogs, Ia pens OF other