Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1907-05-25
BILL, NO. l.
ORDINANCE NO.


BOARD OF HEALTH OF THE CITY OF
YERINGTON. DEFINING THE DUTIES
AND POWERS OF THE MEMBERS
THEREOF AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
THEREIN MENTIONED.
SEC. /. The City Council of the City of Yer
ington do ordain
That the Board of Health shall consist of the
Mayor, Members of the Council and Secretary
to be appointed by the Mayor with the advice
and approval of the Council who shall be denon-
mated the chief health officer.
SEC. 2. 1t shall be the duty of any member of
the Board of Health, the health officer or any
public officer, when necessary to secure the pub
lie health to enter upon the premises or into the
house or other place of any person within the
City of Yerington, to ascertain any nuisance that
may exist therein.
To inspect drains, vaults, cellars, cess pools,
water closets, privies or sewers or the Yards of
such premises to examine into their condition
and when satisfied that apartments used for
lodging or other purposes are improperly con-
structed, or liable from overcrowding or filth to
become dangerous to the public health or to dis
semin tie contagious or infectious disease,
not properly provided with prives, water closets,
or with sewers, drains. or cess pools properly
trapped, they, or any Of them. shall serve
written notice upon the owner or other person in
charge of such premises to remove the nuisance
therein named and if such owner or other per-
sons in charge neglects or refuses to obey such
notice. the chief health officer, or the Board of
Health, may put the same in proper order at the
expense OF the owner, or other persons in charge
thereof; such expenditure shall be 1ein upon
the property and may be enforced in any court
OF competent jurisdiction.
Sec. 3. any person shall maintain suffer
10 exist any such nuisance mentioned in Sec.
2 after having been duly notified therein pro-
vided such person shall be deemed guilty of
inisdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be
fined i'll any sum not exceeding one hundred
$4,000 dollars or imprisoned in the city Jail for
any time not exceeding thirty t3o) days. or by
both such fine and imprisonment.
SIC. II shall be the duty of every house
holder in the City Of Yerington to report in writ
ing to the health officer, to the Board of
Health, Immediately the name of every person
boarding at his or her own house who he or she
shall have reason to believe to be sick with Scar
let Fever, Diphtheria or any other dangerous,
contagious or infectious disease, and any deaths
occurring at his or her house from such disease.
failure or neglect to report as herein required
shall be deemed misdetneanor and on convic-
ton thereof the offender shall be fiued in any
SUN not exceeding twenty five $4,000 dollars or
imprisoned for any time not exceeding thirty (3o)
days or by both such fine and imprisonment.
SEC s. Whenever case of Scarlet Fever or
any other contagious infectious disease shall
exist in any house or tenement, and 1t shall be
deemed inexpedient to remove the person per-
affected to hospital or other place, it
shall be the duty of the health officer any
member of the Board of Health to require all
such persons to be kept closely confined in their
respective dwellings places of abode, and
shall Immediately cause to be erected flag
other suitab notice setting forth the fact and
it shall be unlawful for the occupants thereof
any other persons to remove such flag notice,
long as in the opinion of the health officer, or
the Board OF Health, the same ought to remain
on the premises.
SEC. 9. No privy vault, privy cess pool or
water closet shall be allowed by the owner or
other person in charge of the premises upon
which the same may be situated to become foul
or offensive; and when in the opinion of the
health officer, or the Board of Health, any such
privy, vault closet or cess pool shall need clean
ing or disinfecting, it shall be their duty to
notify such owner or other person having such
control to abate the same by disinfecting or
cleaning as i'll the Judgment of the Board may
be prudent
No butchers offal or garbage any dead ami
NAL or any putrid offensive animal or vegetable
matter shall be allowed to remain upon the
premises of any person or be deposited upon any
street, alley or vacant lot or into any standing
water or excavation. and any violation hereof
shall be deemed a misdeneanOr, and OH convic-
ton thereof the offender shall be fined i'll any
sum not exceeding one hundred ($too) dollars
imprisoned i'll the city Jail for any time not ex-
ceeding sixty 1907 days or by both such fine and
imprisonment
SEC. 7. The health officer of the city shall have
full power such over all matters pertaining to
health, sanitation and sanitary matters and the
Board of Health and the health officer are here
by empowered, among other things. to inspect all
meats, poultry, fish, game, bread, butter, cheese,
milk, lard, eggs, vegetables, flour, fruits meal
and all other food products offered for sale in the
city and to have any such products
sound, spoiled, unwholesome adulturated'
summariiy destroyed.
The foregoing Ordinance properly intro
duced and read aloud, and at the next subse-
quent regular meeting of the City Council hold
en- in the z2d day of May, 1907. was put upon its
passage adopted and approved by the Mayor and
attested by the City Clerk. Upon call of the
roll of the members of the City Council the vote
stood as follows:
Yeas-councilmen Ross, Some, Gallagher and
Snyder.
Nays-None.
JUDSON G. r. SMITH, Mayor
Attest: WILL POWERS, Clerk.
Thy ]. G. R. 81