People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1896 — Ordinance No. 17. [ARTICLE]

Ordinance No. 17.

Protection of Streets, Etc. An Ordinance Regulating, and protecting streets, alleys, sidewalks, gutters, shade trees, etc. [Ordained and established June 22, 1896.] Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Rensselaer: That any person convicted of having obstructed or hindered free passage on any public street, lane, alley, sidewalk or crossing in said city, by placing thereon any vehicle to be repaired, or animals to be shod, or any box, barrel, furniture, or other material whatever or by hitching or tieing any animal on a sidewalk, shall be fined therefor in the sum of not more than Ten ($10.00) dollars, nor less than One [sl.oo] Dollar. Provided: That nothing herein contained shall prohibit the loading or unloading of any goods, wares, merchandise or other thing without needless delay. And Provided, further: That the occupant of any premises who shall suffer or permit any coop, box, barrel, furniture bale or other goods, wares or merchandise to be and remain upon any public street, lane, alley or sidewalk, immediately opposite the premises of such occupant, for a period of time exceeding twenty-four hours although he may not have placed the same at such place, shall be fined in any sum not less than One [sl.oo] nor more than Ten [slo.oo] dollars, and in like sum for each day, or part of a day the same may remain thereafter. Provided: That no occupant shall be liable for any such obstruction when placed at a greater distance than half the width of the street or alley from the premises of such occupant. .S*A. Sec. 2. Any person or persons convicted of having thrown or deposited, or caused any person in his her or their employ to throw or deposit any vegetable matter, meat filth, carcass of dead animals, straw, shavings of wood clippings pf leather, tin or iron, waste paper, slops, pieces of glass, glass bottles, or queensware, or crockeryware manure, offal, or of having caused or suffered the flow or stagnation of any filthy or noisome liquid on any public square park, common, uninclosed ground, street,' lane, sidewalk gutter or alley of said City, shall be fined herefor in any sum not less than One [sl.oo] Dollar nor more than Ten Tslo 00] dollars for every such offence'. L Sec. 3. Any person convicted of having hitched or tied any horse or other animal to Other animal to any shade tree situated adjacent to any side walk* in said city, or so near any shade tree to allow such animal to bite or rub against the same, shall be fined in any sum not less than One r*l 001 Dollar not more than Ten [slo. 00] dollars. L ' J Sec. 4. Any person convicted of having deposited-manure or ashes of any kind, and permitting thesam© toretsainmore t^ n twenty;• four hpnta, on any. street, pr alley /of „aaid .City, for a longer period than twenty days, shall be fined in the