The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-07-20
ORDINANCE NO. 255.

An Ordinance Providing for the
Cleaning Of Unsewered Privies, Pro-
viding the Time and Manner Of Clean
ing Same; Providing for the Removal
and Burying Of Dead Animals in the
City Of Chickasha.
Be it ordained by the City Council
of the City Of Chickasha:
Section THAT the occupant or
occupants or owners Of premises upon
which is situated a privy unconnected
with the sewers of the City, shall keep
said privy in a sanitary condition so
as to prevent the escape Of any Of
fensive or unhealthy affIuvia there
from, and it shall be his or her duty
to have the accumulations and deposits
from said privy or privies removed
by the City Scavenger at least once
every thirty days, and oftener if It
shall be ordered by the Chief of Po-
lice Of said City, and to pay to the
said City Scavenger in advance when
demanded the charge fixed in this or
dinance for such work
Sec. II-If the occupant or occu-
pants or owner Of such premises with
an unsewered privy thereon shall fail
or refuse to have the accumulations
and deposits removed as provided in
the previous section, at least every 80
days as above provided or shall fail
or refuse to have such accumulations
and deposits promptly removed when
ordered so to do by the Chief Of Police
he or they shall be guilty Of a misde-
meanor and fined in any sum not less
than one dollar nor more than five
dollars: Provided 1t shall be no de-
fense to a prosecution under the pro-
visions Of this ordinance that such
occupant or owner notified the City
Scavenger to remove such accumula-
tions or deposits unless such owner
or occupant tlndered in advance to
such City Seayenger the charge fix
ed in this ordinance for such work.
Sec. III-It shall be the duty Of the
City Scavenger when the occupant or
owner Of the premises upon which
is situated an unsewered privy shall
fail or refuse to have the accumula-
tons and deposits therefrom removed
as in this ordinance provided, to do
the same at the expense Of the city
and the city shall have the right to
reimburse itself for such expenditure
out Of any funds in the City Treas
ury accruing from fines collected un-
der the provisions of this ordinance.
Sec. IV.-All accumulations and de-
posits of privies including any offal,
refuse, house dirt, night soil or filth
of any kind therein, shall be removed
BY the City Scayeneger between the
dark and daylight; and shall be con-
veyed in an air tight metallic lined
box wagon and the same shall be de-
posted and buried at such place as
the City Council may establish for
that purpose.
Sec. VT shall be unlawful for
any person other than the ity Scaven-
ger his agents or employees to remove
or convey through any Of the streets
or alleys Of the City Of Chickasha
any such aecumulations or deposits Of
|privies. And it shall be unlawful for
any person 70 remove or convey the
aecumulations or deposits of privies
in any other manner or at any other
time than as provided in this ordin-
anee, And any person violating any Of
the provisions Of this section shall be
deemed guilty Of misdemeanor and
upon conviction shall be fined IN any
sum not to exceed twenty-five dollars.
Sec VI.-Every dead horse. COW.
mule or other animal lying upon any
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