People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1896 — Ordinance No. 19. [ARTICLE]

Ordinance No. 19.

An ordinance to prohibit the piling of Garbage and Waste material of any kind on the streets and alleys of the City of Rensselaer, and providing a penalty for the violation of the same. Sac. 1. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Rensselaer, Indiana; That it shall be unlawful for the owners or occupants of any improved property, or the agent or owner of any unimproved or vacant lot or other property to place or pile or permit to be placed or piled, or to burn or to accumulate any garbage, slops, bones, ashes, glass, broken crockery, stones, wood, manure or Other offal, barrels, boxes, rubbish and other waste material upon any of the streets and alleys of said City; Provided, That the portion of this ordinance that relates to burning garbage shall be held to apply only to the streets and alleys in Blocks 3,4 and 9 of the original Plat of said City. Sec. 2. That knowingly permitting or allowing any accumulations prohibited by Section 1 of this Ordinance by any property owner or agent or occupant of any property or the placing by any person of any obstruction of any kind that in any way interferes with the free use by the public* upon any of the streets or alleys of said City and allowing the same to remain for more than three days, except necessary buildings, material used in making repairs, or in the erection of new buildings, or without first obtaining a permit from the Common Council of said City, shall be deemed a violation of this Ordinance. Sec. 3. That each and every day that any of the obstructions defined in Section 1, except as modified in Section 2, are allowed to remain upon the streets and alleys of said City after three days or after notice, shall constitute a Separate breach or violation of the provisions of this Ordinance. 4. That any person found guilty of a violation of Sections One or Two of this Ordinance, shall, upon cohvictf» thereof, be fined in a sum not less than One Dollar nor more than Ten Ddliars for each offense. a > > | ?vT Sec. 5. Whereas ; an emergency exists, this ordinance shall be in force two weeks from and after its passage and publication, in the Ordinances of the City of Rensselaer.