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ORDINANCE SETTING THE PROCESS FOR CLEANING HOMES WHERE SMALLPOX CASES EXISTED AND SETTING REGULATIONS FOR FUTURE RENTING
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It is hereby made the duty of the Board of Health of the City of Jonesboro to station a yellow flag upon all houses where smallpox cases have existed, and to keep same in a public place until such time as the houses have been thoroughly fumigated and disinfected and until in judgment of the Board of Health said houses and premises are fit and suitable for persons, not having come in contact with smallpox, to reside in without danger of contracting the disease themselves or communicating it to others.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of this Ordinance for any person, persons or corporation to rent to anyone a house where persons have had smallpox until same has been thoroughly fumigated an disinfected and pronounced by the Board of Health to be in a safe condition for occupancy without danger of the occupants contracting the disease or communicating it to others.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of this Ordinance for any person or persons to move into a house where smallpox has existed until said house has been thoroughly fumigated and disinfected and pronounced by the Board of Health to be safe for occupancy.
If any person, persons, or corporation their agents or servants, shall rent, lease or demise any house or tenement where persons have had smallpox, to any person, without first procuring a certificate from the Board of Health at their own expense, that the said house has been thoroughly fumigated and disinfected and is free from danger to occupants, they shall be fined in a sum not less than Fifty ($50.00) Dollars nor more than One Hundred ($100.00) Dollars.
Hereafter it shall be unlawful and a violation of this Ordinance for any person or persons to rent, lease, occupy, or enter into for the purpose of occupying it, any house where smallpox has existed, without first ascertaining that same has been thoroughly fumig...
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