Imperial Valley press., 1908-05-16

The Board of Trustees of the City of El Centro do ordain as follows:
 Sec. 1. Every person being the owner or having the control or possession of any dead animal or part thereof which is not fit for human food shall cause the same to be removed from the limits of the City of El Centro and burned or oth- erwise destroyed within six hours after the death of the same, and no person shall bury any dead animal within the limits of the City of El Centro.
 Sec. 2. No person or persons engaged in the laundry business within the city of Fl Centro shall permit any person suf- fering from any infectious or contagious disease to lodge, sleep or remain within or upon the premises used by him or them for the purpose of conducting public laundry
 Sec. B. No person shall deposit upon any lot or ground any animal or vegetable ubstance, manure, rubbish, muck or any material which may become decayed or putrid; no pile or deposit of any manure offal, garbage, or accumulation of any of- fensive nauseous substance shall be made within the imits of the city of Et Centro nor shall any person or corpora ton unload or discharge or put upon or along the line of any railroad, street. highway vacant lot or public place with in said city any animal, offal, garbage or other offensive or nauseous substance.
 Sec. 4. No person shall throw, deposit or conduct any dead animal or part, thereof, garbage, offal, fish vegetables, manure or any filth, liquid or substance upon any lot, ground or place within said city
 Sec. 5. No person shall throw, deposit or conduct, or cause or permit to be thrown, deposited or conducted into any irrigating ditch or canal, or into any canal or reservoir from which water is taken for domestic purposes. any dead animal, or part thereor, offal, garbage, sewage night soil, manure, rubbish, swill, kitchen refuse, or any decaying, putrd matter or substance.
 Sec. 6. No person, shall throw or allow to run or pass into any irrigating ditch, canal, reservoir, acqueduct or stream connected herewith any animal vegeta- ble or mineral matter, or substance, nor shall any person do or permit to be done any act or thing that may impair or im-, peril the purity or wholesomness of any water designed for household or domestic use; nor shall any person bathe or put in part of his or her person, horse, mule or other animal into such water. Sec. z. Every person shall keep the sidewalk in front of his or her house, place of business, or premises in a clean and wholesome condition, and no person shall dust, sweep or beat any carpet, rug or other light material on the street or i sidewalk.
 Sec. 8. Every owner, lessee, agent or occupant shalk keep his or her yard or premises in a clean and wholesome con- dition, and no owner, lessee agent ten ant or occupant shall allow or permit any accumulation of manure, garbage, offal, rubbish, stagnant water or filth of any kind ito be or remain upon his or her yard, lot or premises
 Sec. g. Any violation of this ordinance shall be punished by fine of not more than three hundred dollars or by impris- onment in the city jail or the county jail for not more than ninety days or by both such fine and Imprisonment
 Sec. 10. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its adop- tion and publication and the Clerk is hereby instructed to certify to the pas- sage of this ordinance and to cause same to be published once in the Imperial Val ley Press, a newspaper of general circu- lation printed and published in the City of El Centro.
 Adopted this 7th day of May, 1908. H. B. PEARSON,
 President of the Board of Trustees.
 Attest:
 F. G. RAVENS, City Clerk.
 hereby certify that the foregoing ordi- nance was passed. approved and adopted and ordered published by the Board of Trustees of the City of El Centro. this 7th daX of May 1908. F. c. RAVENS. City Clerk.