People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1896 — Ordinance No. 13. [ARTICLE]

Ordinance No. 13.

Prevention of Fires. An Ordinance Providing for the Prevention of Fires. [Ordained and Established June 22nd, 1896.] Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Rensselaer: That any person convicted of having.placed permitted or deposited in any unused room, or upon any lot or premises owned or occupied by him, any rags, bushes, leaves, straw, hay. or other combustible material, so as to endanger any building or structure, or who shall suffer and permit any such combustible material to be or remain upon such premises as aforesaid, shall be fined in any sum not less than Two [s2.oo] dollars nor more than Twenty-five [525.00] dollars, and in like sum for each day or part ”of a day the same may remain thereafter. Sec. 2. This ordinance shall be in force two weeks from and after its passage and publication in the Ordinances of the City of Rensselaer.