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ORDINANCE TO RESTRICT CESSPOOLS AND ARTIFICIAL PONDS AND SETTING FINES
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That hereafter it shall be unlawful for any person, persons or corporations, their agents, servants, or employees, to allow water to accumulate upon any lot or block of ground within the City, or to maintain any artificial pond or cesspool within the limits of the City.
That it shall be the duty of the Chief of Police, City Scavenger and Street Commissioner, and by them or any of them employed, upon the discovery of any artificial pool of water, or cesspool within the City limits upon the premises of any person, persons or corporation, to promptly notify said parties to drain or fill the same, and upon their failure to do so within three days thereafter, it shall be the duty of the Street Commissioner to drain and fill said pool of water or cesspool into the natural channel, and thereafter prevent same from accumulating from any dam or excavation.
Any person, persons, or corporation who shall after the approval and publication of this Ordinance permit any pond of water or cesspool to accumulate upon their premises, and remain there for more than twenty-four hours, shall be guilty of violating this Ordinance, and shall be fined a sum not more than Twenty-five Dollars, and not less than Five Dollars, and the Police Judge shall assess an additional fine against anyone guilty of violating this Ordinance the exact amount of cost expended or used by the City in filling or draining any cesspool or pond of water upon said premises.
Passed and approved this 9th day of May, 1900