Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1916-03-08
o RDINAN No. 2.
An Ordinance to Preserve the Health
and Cleanliness of the Town Of
Walhallu

Walhalln.
Be 1t Ordained by the Mayor and
Aldermen Of the Town of Walhalla,
IN Council assembled, and by author
ity Of the same:
soil, water, air or food impure or
unwholesome, is declared to be
nuisance and illegal, and every per-
son aiding in creating or contribut-
ing TO the same. or who may support,
continue or permit any Of them, shall
De deemed guilty OF a misdemeanor
Section 2. No refuse from houses,
stores, Factories or any buildings
which is deleteriOus or injurious to
health shall be accumulated, thrown
or emptied or in anywise deposited
upon any OF the public streets or va
cant lots within the corporate limits
OF the Town OF Walhalla, unless the
same shall be properly removed from
public street or vacant lots, and said
place and contiguous surface properly
dlslniected once in every "a hours.
Section 3. No offal. garbage, dead
animals, deeaying vegetable matter,
or organic waste substance Of any
kind shall be thrown upon any
street, road or public place or vacant
lots within corporate limits Of the
Town of Walhalla. But same must
be collected and kept in a covered re-
ceptacle. and once In every "a hours
removed to some point without the
town limits, designated by the proper
authorities.
Section 4. No putrid or decaying
animal or vegetable matter, no filth
nor rubbish Of any kind shall be ac-
cumulated or kept in any house. cell
lar or adjoining outbuilding, or any
premises within the corporate limits
OF the Town Of Walhalla, for more
than "a hours.
Section 5. No abandoned we'll,
cellar or storm pit shall be allowed
within the corporate limits OF the
Town OF WalhaRla, but same shall be
promptly filled with earth.
Section 6. No fish, fowl, fruit,
milk, vegetables or anything for ,hu-
man food or drink, not then being
fresh or properly preserved, sound,
wholesome and safe for such use; no
flesh Of any animal which died Of
disease, or was at the time of it's be-
ing killed IN a sickly or unhealthy
or unwholesome condition; nor the
meat of amy calf or lamb which was
at the time Of its death less than
eight weeks old; or of any pig which
was at the time of death less than
five weeks old, shall be sold or Of
fered for sale as food in the Town Of
Walhalla.
Section 7. The owner Of every
dwelling house in the Town OF Wal
}halla shall provide the person occu-
pying the same with a convenient.
suitable privy, either surface Or
sewer. No surface privy shall be
xtt;fi II, TO- Nr Il, S1i, ,,,if Il Ns,,
fifteen feet OF Il street, or within
twenty-five feet of we'll or spring Of
water. All privies. public and pri-
vate, shall be so protected from view
as not to offend the public eye.
Section S. No person shall bury
any privy deposit or any other offon-
sive matter on his premises, nor per-
nit 1t to be done
Section 8. The Town Marshal
shall have all surface privies cleaned
out and lined every week from
June 1st to October 1st, and once in
every two weeks from October st to
June 1st; and he shall personally
inspect such work as often as posi-
Bile, and at once upon lodging OF com
plant in his hands of failure to clean
properly and as required.
Section ga. That any person hin
OCrlNS, ODSIruclnS or interfering
with the Town Marshal in the dis
charge OF the duties required Of him
by and under the provisions Of this
Ordinance shall be deemed guilty OF
misdemeanor, and upon conviction
shall be punished by fine or impris-
omment. at the discretion OF the
Mayor, or Aldermen, within the linz
its OF his or their authority.
Section 10. All persons occupying
the premises shall pay the Clerk as
sanitary dues the sum OF twenty-five
cents per privy per month, payable
quarterly on the first day Of January
April, July and October.
Section II. Every householder Or
head OF a family in house wherein
amy case Of infectious disease may
occur, shah report the same to the
Board Of Health within twelve hours
OF his first knowledge Of the nature
Of such diseases, and until instruE-
tions are received from the said
Board OF Health, shall not permit any
clothing or amy article which may
have been exposed to infection, to be
removed from the house. Nor shall
amy occupant OF any such infected
house leave his abode or residence
without the consent OF the said
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