Imperial Valley press., 1923-01-26

such line shall be one millmeter in
width and such lines shall be so
placed that white spaces nine MILL
meters square shall remain between
such lines. When u test is being
made such card shall be placed ut
Il distance of not more than fifty
five feet and not less than forty
five feet from the observer and as
nearly in line as possible between
the eyes of the observer and the
smoke concerning which the test is
being made
| SECTION RI. 1t shall be unlaw-
full for any person, firm or corpora
ton to cause, permit or allow any
smoke of a greater degree of dark
ness than the card described i'm
Section / hereof when such card is
placed at the said distance from
the persons observing such smoke,
to issue or to be discharged from
any flue, chimney or smokestack,
or from any other structure or APP
pliance used for the discharge of
smoke, or from any works, plant or
factory, for a period longer than or
for periods aggregating more than
five minutes in any one hour of the
day or night.
For the purpose Of this section
a works, plant or factory shall be
deemed to include all buildings and
appliances, and all flues, chimneys
and smokestacks connected there
with, and all structures and appli-
ances from which smoke is dis.
charged, located upon any parcel of
land which is held, used or occu-
pied in one body, whether the same
contains one or more lots or tracts
of land, if such building, structures,
and appliances and such flues, chin.
neys and smokestacks are owned or
used, or are intended to be used by
the same person, firm or corpora.
ton in or about the conduct Of any
, business or occupation.
SECTION III. 1t shall be I'M.
lawful for any person, firm or cor
poration to cause, permit or allow
SCOT, ashes or einders to issue or to
be discharged from any flue, chin.
ney or smokestack, or from any
other structure or appliance.
SECTION w. If any flue, chin
ney, smokestack or other structure
or appliance shall become so filled
with SCOT as to become a menace
to adjacent property, it shall be the
duty Of the person, firm or corpora
ton owning or using such flue,
chimney, smokestack or other struc-
ture or appliance, to cause the same
to be thoroughly cleaned, and it
shall be unlawful for any such per-
son, firm or corporation to fail, re-
fuse or neglect so to do. Each such
person, firm or corporation shall be
deemed guilty Of a separate offense
for every day during which such
failure, refusal or neglect continues
and shall be punishable therefor as
provided by this ordinance.
SECTION V. It shall be unlaw.
full for any person, firm or corpo-
ration to erect, construct or me-
tain, or to cause or permit to be
erected, constructed or maintained
any flue, chimney or smokestack,
within fifty feet Of any window or
any adjacent building unless the
top of such flue, chimney or smoke.
stack shall be higher than every
portion of such window; provided,
however, that the provisions Of this
section shall not apply in any case
where the owner Of such adjacent
building shall refuse to grant per.
mission to brace such flue, Gimme.
or smokestack by means Of wires
attached to such building.
SECTION VI. The officers and
inspectors of the Health Depart