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ORDINANCE DECLARING IT A MISDEMEANOR TO KEEP ANYTHING IN SUCH A WAY THAT IT WILL ATTRACT MOSQUITOES
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No person, persons, firm or corporation, or their agents or employees owning, using or in any way controlling any lot, block or parcel of ground in the City of Jonesboro, shall allow thereon any unused well, cistern, tub, trough, bucket or barrel, or anything, or any place of any character in which there is standing any water that is or may become filthy or polluted or that may be the breeding place of mosquitoes.
All unused cisterns, well or other places shall be filled up or covered with cement, mortar or other substance so as to prevent the ingress or egress of the mosquito. All other wells, cisterns or places of water supply, shall be kept in a sanitary condition, and free from the breeding of mosquitoes.
All barrels, tubs, troughs, boxes, buckets, and things of like nature or places where mosquitoes are breeding or may be likely to breed, shall be destroyed or emptied and cleaned up, and kept in a sanitary condition, and free from the breeding or harboring of mosquitoes.
Any person, persons or corporations, their agents or employees violating any of the provisions of this Ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined in any sum not less than Five Dollars nor more than Twenty-five Dollars for each offense, and each day of such violation shall constitute a separate offense.
Passed and approved this 8th day of August, 1905