The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-05-29
ORDINANCE.
may % Os' At

AN ORDINANCE, to repeal and re-enact
with amendments. section % and Section
81 of Ordinance No 8. entitled Health
and Nuisances, passed and approved by
| the Mayor and Aldermen of Frederick Oh
the 1st day of February, A. D. 1901
Section l. Be it enacted and ordained by
the Mayor and Aldermen of Frederick.
That section % and Section 81 of Ordinance
No s. entitled Health and Nuisances, u
passed and approved by the Mayor and
Aldermen of Frederick on the LIST day OF
February, A. d. 1901, be and the same are
hereby repealed and re-enacted with amend
ments, so as to read as follows:
Section D. Be in enacted and ordained
That it is hereby declared to be nuisance
and to endanger the health of the city. to
bring into it any person afflicted witch chol-
era, or with any infectious or contagious
disease. But any person afflicted with any
infectious or contagious disease NAV be
brought into the City of Frederick for the
purpose of being treated in any hospital in
said City, provided the disease with which
the person is affected is of kind and char
acter which according to the rules and reg
ulations of such hospital is allowed to he
treated therein. And provided further that
no person so afflicted shall be brought into
said City unless he or she be taken imme-
diately to such hospital.
Any person who shall aid or assist in
bringing into the City, except as herein
provided, any person thus afflicted, SHALL
ON conviction be subject to the fines and
penalties provided for i'll the Second Sec
ton of this Ordinance. And if any person
thus afflicted should be brought into the
City aforesaid. except for the purpose afore-
said, it shall be the duty of the Health
Officer forthwith to cause said person to be
removed beyond the limits of the Corpora
ton, and the City Constables are hereby
strictly enjoined ia enforce snch removal.
Section %. Be it enacted and ordained
That no person shall carry or remove from
one building or habitation to another.
within the limits of this City, any person
affected with any communicable disease.
dangerous to the public health, unless he
or she shall first make application for and
receive permit from the City Health Off
Ger. But it shall not be necessary to obtain
permit to remove to any hospital whether
situated within or without the corporate
limits of Frederick City, any person 90 af.
iCCNCu3 NuCA tuC Oiccdcc Will which the
person is afflicted is of kind and character
which according to the rules and regula-
tions of such hospital is allowed to he
treated therein. and provided further that
no person suffering from any such disease
shall be removed or carried from any build
ing or habitation within the limits of the
City unless he or she shall be taken imme-
diately to such hospital or beyond the CITY
limits. Nor shall any person by exposure
of any individual so affected, or of the
body of such individual, or of any article
capable of conveying contagion or infection.
or by any negligent act connected with the
care or custody thereof, or by any needless
exposure of himself or herself, cause or
contribute to the spread of disease from any
such individual or dead body.
Section j. Be it enacted and ordained by
the authority aforesaid, That any and every
person, firm or corporation, violating any
of the provisions of this Ordinance, shall
ON conviction forfeit and pay fine of not
more than one hundred dollars, nor less
than one dollar, and upon failure or refusal
of the party convicted thereof to pay such
fine and costs, he shall be committed to the
Jail of Frederick County for period not
exceeding ninety days, unless the person
convicted shall pay such fine and costs be-
fore the day limited in the commitment, in
which case he shall be released.
Section 4. Be it enacted and ordained by