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ORDINANCE CREATING THE CITY SCAVENGER POSITION AND SETTING REGULATIONS AND DUTIES
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The City scavenger shall clean all closets and privies at least once each four weeks during all the months of the except April, May, June, July, August, September, during which months he shall clean all closets once every two weeks; provided, any person desiring to do his own work in cleaning his water closet shall notify the scavenger of his intention to clean his own closet at such times as the ordinances require, and in such case the scavenger shall make a memorandum of the name of the person from whom he receives such notice and the location of such closet.
In case the scavenger shall receive such notice, it shall be his duty to make frequent observations of all such closets to determine whether or not the same shall have been cleaned and cared for according to the requirements of the ordinances, and in case the scavenger shall find any violations of any of the ordinances regarding the accumulation of filth, burial of offal, or other violations of like nature, he shall report the same under oath to the Police Judge for the trial of all parties so violating any such ordinances.
The scavenger shall receive Twenty-five Cents for his services in cleaning any closet for each time, provided that in all cases where more than one family shall use any one closet, the scavenger may charge the sum of Twenty-five Cents for each family, the said sum to be paid by any person owning, using or controlling the said closet. For cleaning and removing the filth from closets used by business houses or stores, the scavenger shall receive compensation at the rate of Twenty-five Cents for each business houses or store using any such closet, the same to be paid by the person, firm or corporation owning, using or controlling such closet; and for the purposes of this act each department in department stores and each warehouse, shall be taken and construed as a separate business house. For all boarding houses and hotels the scavenger shall receive not less than fifty cents nor more than one dollar, unless a different price shall be agreed upon. For all closets at mills and factories not less than Fifty Center nor more than One Dollars, unless a different price be agreed upon.
It shall be unlawful for any person owning, using or controlling any water closet or privy, to dig, construct or maintain any vault for the purpose of holding or containing any filth of any kind, offal from any such closet, or other filth accumulated on the premises. Its hall be the duty of all persons, owning, using or controlling any water closet or privy, having any pit under or near any such closet, or used for days after the passage of this ordinance. Any person so owning, using or controlling any such water closet who shall permit to remain open or unfilled any such pit or vault after this ordinance shall have been in effect for the period of ten days, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
All persons owning, using or controlling any water closet or privy which can be placed upon an alley, shall place said closet or privy on such alley, or remove the same thereto; and said closets shall be so made that they can be reached from such alleys without any opening or gate thereto.
Any person refusing, neglecting or failing to pay for the services of any scavenger, or otherwise violating any of the provisions of Sections 517 to 521 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not exceeding Twenty-five Dollars for each and every offense.
Passed and approved this 28th day of September, 1903