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District Regulations on Trash
And Rubbish Disposal Listed
Policemen Are Ordered to Pay
Strict Attention to Violations

Every policeman in the city has
been ordered by the District Com
missioners to pay strict attention
to violations of police regulations
concerning the disposal of trash and
rubbish.
Arrests are being made and will
continue to be made. In order that
no one will suffer through ignorance
of the regulations, they are printed
here.
Section 1, Article III:
No person shall throw, cast, drop,
scatter, or leave. or cause to be
thrown, cast, laid, deposited, scat
tered, or left. in or upon any street,
avenue, alley, highway. footway,
sidewalk, parking. or other public
space in the District of Columbia,
any coal, dirt, mud, ashes, gravel,
sawdust. shavings, hay, straw, offal,
vegetable matter, garbage, trees.
cinders, paper, or refuse matter of
any kind, or any dead animal or
putrescible matter of any sort, or
kindle or set on fire any combustible
upon any paved sidewalk or road
way. Provided, that earth and rub
dish from excavations or building
debris or material used in the con-
struction of buildings may be placed
or permitted to lie in the places
aforesaid, as now authorized by the
Building Regulations of the District
OF Columbia or as may be authorized
by permit previously obtained from
the inspector of buildings. Provided:
Further, that coal may be deposited
in such places for removal to abut-
ting premises, such removal to be
made within one hour of deposit
in the case of bituminous or soft"
coal, and in the case of anthracite
or hard" coal within the time set
out in Section 13 of this Article.
Coal so deposited must be placed
in such manner as to leave clear
passageway for vehicles at all times,
and bituminous or soft" coal must
be made sufficiently wet before and
Immediately after being deposited
to prevent any part of it being
blown about. Licensed vendors SELL
ing from stands or from push carts
or other vehicles upon the streets
or other public places shall attach
to such stands or vehicles a box or
other receptacle to contain refuse
matter incident to their business,
said receptacles to have prominently
HiC0Jo ifc
place fruit skins and papers here"
and be of such form and material
and to be placed in such position
as the Superintendent of Street
Cleaning may prescribe, and the
contents of each such receptacle
shall be daily removed by the person
in charge of the stand or vehicle to
which it is attached. -"
Section 2, Article III:
No person shall throw or deposit,
or cause to be thrown, or deposited,
in or upon any vacant lot or open
space in the District OF Columbia,
any sawdust, shavings, vegetable
matter, paper, rubbish, litter or any
dead animal, offal, garbage, putres-
crible matter of any sort, or any
other matter or thing injurious to
public health, and the owner or
owners of any lot, lots, or square of
ground in the District of Columbia,
or their agents, who shall let
such lot, lots, or square for any cir
Gus or other exhibitions, shall, with
in "a hours after the exhibition
shall have left, clear and remove, to
the satisfaction of the superin-
tendent of street cleaning, from any
such lot, lots, or squares, waste
paper and deposits of all kinds:
Provided, That this section shall not
apply to deposits of substances not
injurious to health or any place
designated by the Commissioners of
the District of Columbia as a pub
lie dump, where permission to make
such deposits is granted by the said
Commissioners.
Section 9, Article III:
No paper handbills, dodgers,
cards, circulars, or advertising mat
ter or any kind Of samples of mer-
chandise shall be thrown, pushed,
cast, deposited, dropped, scattered,
distributed, or left in or upon any
Of the places designated In section
/ Of this article, or in or upon or
from any vehicle in any such places.
Nor shall any such be thrown,
pushed, cast, deposited, dropped,
scattered, distributed, or left in or
upon the parking or doorsteps of
any premises in the District of Co.
lumbia, or within the building line,
vestibule, or yard of any premises,
if likely to be taken up by the wind
and scattered in the streets, or in
or upon any of the places mentioned
in said section /: Provided, That
this regulation shall not prevent the
delivery of newspapers and ad-
dressed envelopes within the build
ing line OF any premises within the
said District.