Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-10-17
NOTICE!
Garbage Ordinance Will Be Enforced
 On and After November l, 1913.

Be It Ordained By the City Council of
 the City of Pine Bluff
 Section l. The various kinds of waste matter, for the purpose of this ordinance, shall be defined as follows:
 (a) Kitchen garbage, which is the animal and vegetable refuse from the kitchen; (b) ashes, cinders, etc., which are the refuse matter from stoves. furnaces. fireplaces, etc.; Co rubbish which consists of Wornout household articles, rags, paper, dust, stable manure. leaves, weeds, grass, sticks. etc.
 Sec. 2. The short name of this or dinance shall be ''The Garbage Ordin- ance,' and all items of waste matter
 mentioned or suggested in Section 1 of this ordinance shall, for conven- fence. be hereinafter covered by the term "Garbage.'
 Sec. 5. No person shall place or throw waste paper, trash or other
 garbage on any street, sidewalk or
 public alley in the City of Pine Bluff, at any time. day or night. Provided i that all such garbage must be placed
 in receptacle as hereinafter de-
 scTibed. on the premises at some point
 accessible to the garbage collector. Provided, that the exact location of
 all receptacles may be under the fur l ther direction and control of the City
 Sanitarian.
 Sec. f. All proprietors of hotels.
 restaurants, cafes, boarding or eating
 houses, housekeepers and occupants
 of buildings in the City of Pine Bluff
 shall provide all cans at their own eX-
 pense. and shall deposit daily their
 acGumulations of garbage in a galvan i iZed iron can, with tin or metal
 cover, such cans to have capacity of
 twenty gallons; said rceeptacles to be provided with two handles. Provided. that yard and stable manure, ashes
 and cinders, shall not be placed in the
 garbage can, but shall be kept near such can and convenient of access
 to the garbage collector; ashes and l cinders may be kept in any box or vessel that can be handled by one
 man; yard and stable manure shall be kept in any convenient box or bin so arranged that flies cannot reach the manure therein stored.
 Sec. ,. Manufacturers or merch- ants. where garbage consists of paper. excelsior or other packing material. shall provide box or other recep- tacle so that the contents may not be blown about or scattered. Said re- ceptacle shall be of such size that it may be handled by one man.
 Sec. 6. It shall be unlawful for any person, other than the garbage col lector person owning the can or other receptacle. or the servant of employe of such person, to deposit any garb- age, article or substance in any re- Ceptacle, or to- remove, injUre ,Or de stroy. uncover, or in any manner dis turb such receptacle, or any portion of it's contents, except as provided in Section of this ordinance.
 Sec. T. All garbage shall be re- moved from residences at least once month, and from hotels. restaurants, cafes at least once day, and livery stables at least once a week. Sundays excepted, unless otherwise ordered by the Board of Health or the City Sani- tartan.
 Sec. s. All garbage shall be hauled and dumped at place or places to be provided by the committee on Public Works and approved by the Board of Health, and shall be disposed of so as not to produce nuisance or unsani- tary condition; and garbage shall not be dumped or destroyed at any other place except that fixed as aforesaid, except by written permission of the committee on Public Works and the Board of Health
 Sec. g. All such garbage shall be collected and removed from the prem ises of the occupants of buildings in the City of Pine Bluff only by a regu- larly licensed scavenger, and in com pliance with the provision of Section 913 of Coleman's Digest of the City Ordinance and at the expense of the occupants or owners of premises from which the garbage is removed All garbage that is' liable to cause an un pleasant or unhealthy odor shall be removed every day; all other garbage shall be removed ill the business dis trict not less frequently than once each week. and in the residence dis trict, not less frequently than once each month, and oftener if so ordered by the Board of Health, the Health Off, ficer or Chief of Police. Provided the