The weekly true Democrat., 1905-08-18
NEW STATE
HEALTH LAW
Defining and Furnishing Nuisances
Injurious to Health.

An act to define and declare what shall
be deemed nuisances injurious to
health, and to provide for the re-
mOval thereof and punishment there
for.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the
State of Florida:
Section l. A sanitary nuisance is
hereby declared to be the commission
of any act, by an individual, municipal
ity, organization or corporation; or the
keeping, maintaining, propagation, ex-
istence or permission of anything, by
an individual, municipality, organiza-
tion or corporation, by which the health
or life of an individual, or the health or
lives of individuals, may be threatened
or impaired, or by which or through
which, directly or indirectly, disease
may be caused.
Sec. 2. That filth, the conterts of
cesspools, offal, garbage, foul water,
refuse from manufactures, urine, stable
manure, decayed animal or vegetable
matter or other offensive substance det-
rimental to health, thrown, placed or
allowed to remain in or upon any pri-
vate premises, street, avenue, alley,
sidewalk, gutter, public reservation or
open lot within any Incorporated city or
unincorporated town or village of the
State of Florida, are hereby declared
nuisances injurious to health; and any
person who shall commit, create or
maintain the aforesaid nuisances, or
either of them, shall, upon conviction,
be fined not less than five nor more
than twenty-five dollars for every such
offense.
Sec. 8. That the filling, leveling or
raising the surface of any ground or lot
within any Incorporated city or unin-
corporated town or village of the State
of Florida, with animal or vegetable
substances, filth gathered in cleaning
yards or streets, or waste material
from mills or factories. or the removal
of the surface of any ground or lot
within said cities, town or villages,
filled with such offensive matter or sub
stance, in such matter as to cause moi
some 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, upon conviction, be
fined not less than five nor more than
twenty dollars for each such offense,
Sec. a. That all waterclosets or priv
les connected with any house, building
or premises within any Incorporated
city or unincorporated town or village
Of the State Of Florida in or upon which
people live, or where they cOngregate
or assemble, or any kind Of business is
done, kept in filthy and offensive con-
dition, or from which noisome odors and
noxious gases arise, and all water-clos-
cts located within and being part of
any such houses or building, not pro-
vided with proper sewer traps so as to
prevent the return and escape of nox-
.ous gases and offensive odors from any
public or private sewer connected there
with, are hereby declared nuisances in
furious TO health, and any person Gre
ating, keeping or maintaining such nui-
sance shall. upon conviction, be fined
not less than five nor more than twenty
five dollars.
Sec. 5. That fecal matter not thor
oughly deodorized and disinfected re-
naming in privies in any Incorporated
city or unincOrpOrated town or village
in the State of Florida, is hereby de-
clared nuisance injurious to health,
and the State health officer shall, upon
receipt of complaint in writing, cause
any privy te be inspected, and, If nec-
essary, cleansed; and if any person
owning or occupying premises on which
any privy is situated, who shall refuse
TO hermit the same TO be inspected and
cleansed at the times designated by the
said State health officer, or whenever
necessary. shall, upon conviction, be
fined not less than five nor more than
twenty dollars for every such offense.
Sec. 6. That it shall be unlawful for
any person TO deposit the contents of
any privy in any other place than such
AS may be approved by the State
Vealth Officer, the health authorities
of any Incorporated city, or by the in
spector of the State Board Of Health If
in an unincOrporated town in the State
of Florida, and any person so offending
shall upon conviction be fined not less
tnan five nor more than fifty dollars for
every such Ofense.
Sec. Z. That the keeping. herding
and feeding of hogs, in pens or other
wise. within any Incorporated city or
unincorporated town of the State Of
FLORIDA of over two thousand (2,0O0)
inhabitants. is hereby declared a nuis-
ance injurious to health and any person
creating or maintaining such nuisance
Who shall fail. after due notice from
the State State Health Officer, to abate
the same, shall upon conviction be fined
not less than FIVE nor more than
twenty-five dollars for every such Of
Sec. 8. That any animal afflicted
With Rlanders, or other contagious or