The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-04-09

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tary inspector shall receive not TO
exceed $4,000 per month and shall be
appointed by the mayor and shall hold
office at the will of the mayor; said
appointment shall be approved by the
Board of Commissioners, and he shall
execute a good and sufficient bond in
| by the Board of Commissioners.
Section II.
Weeds Declared a Nusance.-Any
| lot, yard sidewalk or parkway, or
space abutting thereon, which shall
become covered or overgrown with
weeds or other accumulation so as
to become offensive to view or detri-
mental to the general health and
| beauty of the city, is hereby deemed
and declared a nuisance. No person
| in the City of Ardmore shall permit
any lot, yard, parkway, sidewalk, or
the space abutting thereon, to the
center Of the street, or to the center
of the alley, owned, occupied or con-
/ troled by him, or for which he is
agent or who has charge thereof for
the owner, to become covered or over
grown with weeds or other objection
able or injurious growth or accumu-
| lation.
Section 19.
Upon complaint, the Board OF
Health of said City of Ardmore, shall
serve written or printed notice upon
the owner or owners, occupant or
occupants, or any person, firm or cor
poration having the care Of any such
lot or premises set forth in the pre-
ceding section to remove or cause TO
be removed, within five days from the
date of such notice, therefrom, all
such offensive and noxious weeds,
vines, grass and other Objectionable
accumulations.
! Section 10.
All surface or unsewered closets
located on premises lying alongside
or abutting upon any street or alley
of the City of Ardmore, on which
there is a main or lateral Of the sani-
tary sewer system of said city, are
hereby declared a public nuisance
and shall, within sixty days after the
passage, approval and publication of
this ordinance be removed, unless
otherwise permitted by the Board of
Health; and upon failure to do go,
the same shall be torn down, or closed
by the sanitary inspector.
Section 20.
Fly Traps equired.-Owners or
occupants of all business houses with
in the business district of the City OF
! Ardmore, and all others within the
corporate limits of said city when
so required by the Board of Health,
shall provide and maintain from
March l TO November ! of each year,
good and sufficient fly trap or
trans. same to be placed and kept IN
or adjacent to the place of business
occupied by said owner or occupants.
All flies caught in or by such traps
to be disposed of as may be directed
by the Board of Health.
Failure to comply with the provis-
ions of this section shall constitute
an offense punishable as herein pro-
yided.
Section Fl.
ANY person violating any OF the
provisions OF this ordinance, shall
upon conviction thereof be fined in
any sum not exceeding $4,000 for
each offense. Each day shall constl-
tute a separate offense.
For the immediate preservation OF
the public peace, health and safety
an emergency is hereby declared, by
virtue Of which this ordinance shall
take effect Immediately upon its pass
age. approval and publication.
Passed this the 14th day of March,
1916 VAL MULLEN,
Attest. Mayor.
C. H. BRUCE, City Clerk.
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