Valdez daily prospector., 1908-07-18
ORDINANCE NO. 56.

An Ordinance Defining the Business of Public Scayenger and Providing a License Therefor and Fixing Penal ty for the Violation Thereof.
 Be it Ordained by the City Council of the City of Valdez as follows;
 Sec. 1. Any person or persons en- gagged in the business of removing garbage, contents of toilets, water closets or privies, rubbish of any kind or filth from private premises for hire, shall be known and designated as a Public Scavenger, and before any per son or persons engage in such busi- ness, he or they shall be required to file with the City Council an applica- tion for license so to do.
 Sec. ?. A license fee of Twenty Five Dollars, (S25) per annum shall be charged any person or persons ap- plying for public Scavenger license.
 Sec. 3. The person or persons wish ing to engage in the scavenger busi- ness when notified by the Chief of Po- cense so to do has been granted by the City Council, shall deposit with the City Treasurer the amount of the license fee prescribed in Section 2 and take his receipt therefor; and upon depositing said receipt with the City Clerk, the said Clerk shall issue a Pub lie Scavenger License for one year and provide free of cost to the li- censee a metallic tag bearing the in- scriptiOn P. s. No. - and the number of said tag shall correspond with the number of the license issued. All li- censes SO issued shall bear numbers running from number one up consecu- lively. If for any good and sufficient cause the City Council should refuse to grant an application for license for Public Scayenger business, the person or persons so applying shall not be allowed to conduct such busi- ness.
 Sec. f. All such persons so engaged shall be subject to such rules and reg ulations as the Public Health Depart ment may prescribe from time to time, as to the removal of garbage, contents of toilets, water closets, priv ies, rubbish of any kind or filth, and for any violation of the rules of the Public Health Department so pres cribed shall be guilty of a misdemean- or and subject to a fine of Twenty Five ($25) Dollars, for each and every ! offense.
 Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of the | Chief of Police to see that all persons engaged in scavenger work for hire have applied to the City Council for a license so to do and have paid the necessary license fee, and any person or persons SO engaged that have not compiled with the provisions of the ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be subject to fine in an amount equal to the amount of the license fee prescribed and the payment of the license fee when an application for license has been grant ed. Provided however that the li- cense fee prescribed in Section 9 shall not be construed as applying to any person or persons engaged in the transfer business or drayage business who have paid license fee to the 1 Clerk of the District Court for Trans | fer Business.
 Sec. 6. The City Council shall call for bids for doing the general public | scavangering and the successful bid der shall be the Official City Scaven- ger, whenever it is deemed necessary; make rates for charges for the remov- | al of garbage, contents of toilets, water closets, privies, rubbish of any kind or filth. All occupied premises | shall have toilet cleaned out and con- tents removed at least once & month. Sec. 7. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after it's passage, approval and publication. Approved and adopted the 9th day of July, 1908.
 F. M. BROWN, Mayor.
 W. H. Crary, Clerk.