Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-21
LEGAL NOTICES
NOTICE

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AN ORDINANCE ... --,
Defining garbage and dead animals,
providing rules and regulations for
the collection and disposal thereof
and penalties for the violation of
the same. and repeating Common
Council Ordinance No. 81. Session of
1907, entitled. "An ordinance pro-
viding rules and regulations for the
collection and removal OF garbage,
dead animals. miscellaneous refuse
and ashes. and also authorizing the
Sanitary Committee or Board of
| Health to adopt and promulgate ad-
ditional rules and regulations. and
providing penalties for the viola
tion of the same" and all other or
dinances, or parts of ordinances. in
conflict herewith.
| Section 1. Be 1t ordained by the
Council of The City of Harrisburg. and
| IT Is hereby ordained by authority of
the same. That the term Garbage"
| wherever used in this ordinace means
| the refuse from animal and vegetable
matter after 1t has been used or pre-
pared as food for man (night soil ex-
cepted(.. and all refuse animal and
vegetable matter after 1t has been
used as food for man. including all
| kitchen and table wastes of animal or
| vegetable nature such as vegetables,
meats, fish, bones, fat and other ordi-
1
| the preparation of foods. The term
| garbage" does not include house and
| store rubbish, ashes or floor sweep
ings, nor ashes from wood or coal, nor
| miscellaneous refuse, viz: broken
| glass and china-ware, paper. grass
vine or tree trimmings, straw, keel
| sior, rags, bottles. tin cans. shoes and
other like refuse or waste matter. The
term dead animals" means all dead
animals and parts thereof not intend
ed to be used as food for man.
Section 2. The occupants of dwell.
ing houses. apartments, tenements and
all other private houses, and the pro-
prietors of boarding houses, hotels,
restaurants, and the occupants of all
other places where garbage is accu-
mulated. shall provide or cause to be
provided. and keep or cause to be
Kept, at all times, for the use of such
premises, n sufficient number of re-
ceptacles to contain all garbage which
may accumulate on said premises
during the usual interval between the
collections of garbage therefrom. and
shall keep such receptacles at all
times water tight. free from freezing
and in good repair. Each receptacle
and be provided with one or more
handles. No person. firm or corpora
tion shall use for the reception of
garbage any receptacle having a ca
pacity of less than three go or more
than ten G0) gallons.
Each person, firm or corporation
aforesaid shall cause all garbage from
his. her. their or its premises to be
deposited in the receptacles provided
for that purpose. and no substance
: other than garbage, as herein defined
shall be deposited in any garbage re-
: ceptacle. No more water shall be al
J lowed or permitted in garbage than
naturally accumulates from table re-
} fuse.
Each person. firm or corporation
aforesaid shall cause such receptacles
} be placed and remain, between the
hours of 6 o'clock A. NJ. and 9 o'clock
p. NJ, of each day, or while the col
} lection is made from his, her, their
or its premises. in such position upon
. the street level as to be easily ac-
cessible to the garbage collector.
No garbage receptacle shall be
! kept or placed at any time upon or in
fire escapes, Easements. subways, cell
. lars, streets. alleys, sidewalks or other
public places.
All private alleys and passageways
| necessary for the collection OF gar
bage must be kept free from obstruc-
tion, viz: cans. ice, snow. ETC., and all
L. other accumulatlons, by the owners OF
, users thereof.
The contractor shall be required to
. furnish to the bureau of garbage and
ash inspection, or the Superintendent
of Public Safety, immediate notice up
on a regular adopted forrl of the fail
ure of the occupant of any premises
/, to have garbage ready for collection
on the day set for such collection, oi
: the placing by such occupant in the
/. garbage receptacle of any substance
except garbage as herein defined.
If these rules are not observed by
the occupants of premises, as afore.
said, the contractor during the period
} of such non-observance shall be re.
lieved from making the collection ano
shall report the matter in writing te
the Bureau of Garbage and Ash In.
=. | ananfinu the Gnnprinfandark N -
Public Safety. upon the prescribed
complaint cards.
Section 8. All dealers in vegetables
fish, oysters and fruits, and the pro,
prietors of slaughterhuses ano
butcher shops shall deliver or cause
: to be delivered at the garbage dis
[ posal plant all decayed vegetables
fish, fruit and offal in water-tight
: lids. and such delivery shall be made
{ before such refuse or offal become:
J in anywise noXious or offensive.
Section 4. The owners, proprietors
, agents or servants of any public mar.
ket or market place shall collect the
garbage of each market or market
: place on every day the same is open
Immediately after the closing of the
Same. and shall put such garbage In
an accessible place to be collected by
: the garbage collectors.
, Section 3. No person, firm or cor
poration, except the one who has the
contract with the City of Harrisburg
l therefor shall be permitted to carry
, convey or transport through the
streets, alleys or public places of the
city of Harrisburg any such garbage
or dead animals, without being sub
lect to the penalties hereinafter pro-
=, vided, except such dealers in vege-
tables. fish. oysters and fruit, and the
} proprietors of slaughterhouses anC
butcher shops, who convey the same
TO the garbage disposal plant.
= Section & Tho ton, oP .Io or
must be made every sixth day (Sun-
day eXcepted), during the months oi
November, December, January, Febru.
ary March and April, and every thirC
: DAY Sundays excepted. during tht
remaining months of the year. In case
: or hotels. restaurants and such other
places as the City Bureau of Garbage
! and Ash Inspection, or the Superinten-
dent Of Public, Safety. may consider
necessary, garbage collections shall
= be made daily Sundays excepted)
: Throughout the year.
Section T.. The contractor. before
: beginning the collection of garbage
+ shall determine. with the approval oi
the City Bureau of Garbage and Ash
3 Inspection, or of the Superintendent
OF Public Safety. upon what days oi
the week said collection1 will be
{ made in various localities, and shall
= furnish said Bureau or Superinten-
dent with map upon which the dis
r tricts collected from on different days
shall be clearly defined. II during
2 the progress of the work the contrac-
r tor shall wish to change the days up.
on which collections are made in any
, district, or change the form or ex-
tent of any district, he may be al
: lowed, with the approval of said bu.
reau or superintendent, to make such
5 changes, after having filed with the
3 said bureau or superintendent ar
amended map of the district upor
which all of the districts. are desig.