The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-04-28

PRESERVATION OF THE PUBLIC
HEALTH.
The City Council of the City OF
Ely do ordain:
SEC. 1. No manure, garbage,
offal or any vegetable or animal
matter, or nauseous substance
whatsoever, shall be dumped or de-
posted at any place within the
limits of the City of Ely, except at
the place or places designated and
provided for that purpose by the
Board of Health, and there dis
posed of by burning or otherwise
as the health officer may direct.
SEC. 2. No person shall deposit
or leave or cause to be left or de-
posted in any part of said city,
any dead animal, garbage, offal or
any animal or substance whatso-
ever, which is offensive. or which,
by process of decomposition, may
become offensive.
SEC. 3. No person within the
limits of said City shall suffer or
permit any cellar, vault, private
drain, cesspool, privy, water closet,
garbage receptacle, chicken coop,
stable, barn, or anything connected
with any premises belonging to or
occupied by him or her to become
nauseous, offensive or injurious to
the public health.
SEC. 4. No person shall erect
or maintain a privy within twenty
feet of any we'll from which water
is used for domestic purposes, and
no privy shall be erected, main
tanned or used by any person with
in the limits of said city, unless
constructed as in the next section
provided.
Sec. S. All privies must be
constructed so that the receiving
vault thereof shall be wholly above
the surface of the ground. Such
vault must be made water tight SC
that the contents cannot escape
therefrom, and, sufficiently secured
and enclosed. Priyies must at all
times be kept in disinfected con-
ditition and free from smells OF
odors prejudicial to the public
health. Every privy must be
cleaned at least twice year, and
oftener if the condition of the privy
demands it. The owners or occu.
pants of premises must also cause
their privies to be thoroughly clean.
ed and disinfected within twenty
four hours after being requested tc
do so by the health officer. The
contents and excrement from al
privies must be disposed of as
directed by the health officer.
SEC. E. 1t shall be the duty Of
each and every person to keep the
lot or premises owned or occupied
by him or her within the limits Of
said City, at all times in a thor.
oughly clean condition and free
from every nuisance whatsoever,
that is or may be injurious to the
public health.
SEC. 7. No person shall keeI
or pen any pigs or swine within
the limits of said City, without g
written permit from the health
officer, and then only upon the ex-
press conditions stated in the per-
NIT.
SEC. 8. All manure piles at
tached to stables must be taken
away and removed as often as once
in two weeks. or oftener if the
health officer requires it. In nc
case shall such manure piles be per-
mitted to become nuisance.
SEC. 9. The Board of Health
shall exercise general supervision
over the health of the city, with
full power to take ali steps and use
all measures necessary to promote
the cleanliness and salubrity there
of; to prevent the introduction and
spread of contagious diseases, and
generally to adopt such regula-
tons, restrictions and measures for
the maintenance of the public
health as they may deem advisable.
The health officer shall at all times
have and exercise a general super
vision over the sanitary condition
of the city.
SEC. 10. Any person who
violates, disobeys, omits, neglects
or refuses to comply with the
provisions of this ordinance, or who
refuses or neg1ectsto obey any of the
rules, orders or sanitary regulations
of the Board of Health or of the
health officer shall, upon convic-
ton thereof before the municipal
court of said City of Ely, be pun
ished by fine of not more than
one hundred dollars, or imprison-
ment in the city prison or county