People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1896 — Ordinance No. 16. [ARTICLE]

Ordinance No. 16.

Cellar Doors and Gates. An Ordinance regulating the closing of cellar doors and the hanging or maintaining of gates. [Ordained and Established June 22, 1896.] Sec. 1. Be it Ordained by the Common Council of the City of Rensselaer: That any person owning, occupying or controlling any cellar, the door or window of which may be in or on any sidewalk, street, lane or public, alley of said city, and who shall cause or permit the same to remain open between the twilight of any given evening and daylight of the ensuing morning, shall on conviction of such offense be fined therefor in any sum not exceeding Ten [slo.oo] dollars. Sec. 2. i hat it shall be unlawful for the owner of any property within the City of Rensselaer, abutting upon any alley or sidewalk to build or maintain any gate, except that the same be made to swing inward. And any person violating this ordinance shall upon conviction thereof be fined in any sum not exceeding Ten [slo.oo] Dollars. Sec. 3. This Ordinance shail be in force two weeks from and after its passage and publication in the Ordinances of the City of Rensselaer.