The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1910-09-09
PROCEEDINGS Of
THE CITY COUNCIL
Important Ordinances Pass
ed and Reports of City
Officials Filed.


or Clay and full Board of Council, ex.
cept Councilman McEachern.
Reading of minutes of previous
meeting. Read and approved.
Reports of treasurer, clerk, marshal
and sexton read and approved.
On motion, all accounts, as ap-
proved, be passed up and vouchers
issued for same Carried
On motion of G. A Griffin and sec
onded by J. j. Black, the mayor was
authorized to borrow $1,000 to meet
current expenses. (Adopted)
On motion of j. J. Black and sec
onded by ]. N. CAN'T, the following
ordinance be passed. (Carried.):
Be it enacted by the mayor and City
Council of the city of Marietta, and it
is hereby enacted by authority of the
same, That Section $50 of the ordi-
nances of the city of Marietta be, and
the same is hereby, amended as fol
lows: By adding after the word
erect" in the first line of the second
paragraph of said section the follow
ing words, to-wit: Build, alter, repair,
or in any manner change, and by add
ing after the word erected" in the
fifth line of the second paragraph of
said section the following words, to-
wit; Built, altered, repaired or
changed, so that said section of said
ordinances, when so amended, shall
read as follows:
Sec. $50. The mayor shall appoint
a committee known as the Building
committee as other standing commit
tees are appointed, and it shall be the
duty of said Building Committee to re-
celve, consider and pass upon all
building applications made to the COM
mittee under the provisions of this or.
dinance, and grant or refuse the same
as they may deem just and proper
under the provisions of this ordinance.
All applications shall state the amount
10 be expended. The committee shall
carefully consider the character of the
building to be erected, the use for
which 1t is intended, and grant no ap-
plication for anything that will be
detrimental to any community of this
city, or not in keeping with the other
improvements in that part of the city.
or which in its usages may be
nuisance to the citizens of that com
munity of the city.
NO person, persons or corporation
snail erect, build, alter, repair or in
any manner change any building in
said city without first making a writ
ten application to said Building Com
mittee and securing their permission
so TO do. The application shall give
the location of the lot, distance of the
houses, size of the lot, how house is
TO be located, size and ARRANGEMENT of
the house, for what purpose it is to be
used, by whom, and any other infor
nation the committee may require.
All such applications, when granted or
refused, shall be filed with the clerk
OF Council by said committee, and
there kept. All persons who shall
violate this ordinance shall, on convic-
ton therefor, be fined not exceeding
one hundred dollars or Imprisonment
in the calaboose or labor on the
streets of said city not exceeding fifty
days for each day such work on said
building shall be prosecuted. 1t shall
not be necessary for the completion
OF such house, but cases can be made
at any time after the erection of the
sanA has begun for each day that
work thereon is prosecuted without
the permission of said committee.
In addition to said penalties, the
mayor and Council may order any
such house to be removed, and issue
execution against the owner for the
expense of removing said house. 1t
shall be incumbent on all contractors
building houses in said city to see
that the proper permission to build
has been secured from said commit.
tee; otherwise such contractor will be
responsible under this ordinance as
the owner of the property. All ordi-
nances in conflict with this ordinance
are hereby repealed"
BE it further enacted by the au-
thority aforesaid, That any and all
sections of the ordinances in conflict
with this section be, and the same are
hereby, repealed"
Passed and adopted by the City
Council this -- day of September,
1910.
On motion of G. A. Griffin and sec
onded by c. w. Carter, that the fol
lowing ordinance be passed. Gar
ried):
All persons shall keep their prem
ises clean and sanitary within the cor
porate limits of said city, and any per-
son failing to keep their premises
clean and sanitary shall be given five
days notice by the city marshal, and
on their failure to place their prem
lses In clean and sanitary condition
after the expiration of said five days
notice, shall, on conviction, be fined
not exceeding $4,000 or be impris-
oned or confined at labor on the
streets not exceeding fifty days"
On motion, the petition for light on
cherokee and Lemon streets was re-
ierred to the Light Committee, with