The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-08-07

| Oftener II necessary, and all the
lots, blocks, streets and alleys
within said City, and If a bad
| sanitary condition exists anywhere
upon the property or in front of the
person, he shall give notice of the
same to the party occupying the pre-
misses, Or the user or owner thereof
or his agent in the event the same
is unoccupied, of such condition and
require the occupant Or owner OF ag-
ent, as the case may be, to remove
such condition within "a hours, and
if not so removed, he shall file a
complaint under the provisions of
this ordinance in the proper court ag-
maintaining a nuisance, and such per-
son shall be liable to the penalties OF
this ordinance for such offense, and
a like duty as here imposed upon the
Sanitary Policeman is also imposed
upon the City Marshal and all City
Policemen of the City of Roswell,
whenever they shall observe or their
attention is called to a condition ex-
listing described in this section, and
if such condition has not been remov-
ed within the time specified, then the
Scavenger, himself, shall clean such
premises and file his bill with the
City Council for such cleaning, which
sum shall in no event exceed the
sum of five dollars, and it is hereby
made the duty of the said City Coun-
Gil to pay said bill when so filed and
found to be correct.
Section g. 1t shall be unlawful
for any person or persons to main
tain any slaughter house or other
place for the slaughter or killing of
animals, or any pig pens, within the
limits of the City, and such slaugh-
ter house shall not be maintained
within two miles of the City limits
and a pig pen not within the City
limits
rails, cow stables or like houses where
any filth or excrement of any kind
Or character may accumulate, shall
be kept clean and disinfected and
such cleaning and disinfecting shall
be done every thirty days, or oftener
if in the judgment of the Sanitary
Policeman the same shall be neces-
sary, and all barnyards must be pro-
perly drained.
Section S:-Any stable, shed or
ioh
is allowed to accumulate, so as to
generate Or cause an offensive smell
Or odor, except where said manure
is spread upon the ground for culti-
waiting purposes, shall come within
the provisions of this ordinance.
Section 9:-It shall be unlawful
for any person or persons to maintain
any unhealthy or unclean water in
wells or cisterns, any carcass of any
dead animal, or any sick animal upon
any public highways or streets of the
City, or vend, sell or to offer to sell
any impure milk or adulterated or
impure food of any description, or to
burn vegetables, trash or old clothes,
on any of the public streets or high
ways of the City, which will pollute
the atmosphere wirnin the limits OF
said City, or to throw any glass, bot
ties, trash, paper, peeling or skins
of fruit upon the streets or alleys or
sidewalks of the City of Roswell
Section 1O:- ALI bitches. cutters
and drains used for conducting water
within the City limits shall be so used
and controlled as to prevent any over
flow or flood upon the streets, public
or alleys, and such bitches,
drains Or cutters used for water shall
using the same, the ditch kept clean
and a proper outlet for the water
running through the same.
Section lit shall be unlawful
for any person or persons within the
City limits or within one mile there
of. to keep. cure dry or expose
any green hides except by the
use of proper disinfectant COM
pounds and the proper observ-
ance of all sanitary conditions;
and all caroasses of dead animals
which shall die within the limits OF
said City shall be. by the owner or
owners thereof, removed at least one
mile from the limits of the City, and
buried not less than three ca feet
below the grourA; and the same shall
be done within IL hours after the
death OF said animal.
Section 12:- 1t shall be unlawful
for any person to commit an act or
permit any condition prejudicial to
the public health or safety Of any.