People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1896 — Ordinance No. 21. [ARTICLE]

Ordinance No. 21.

Protection of City Property. An Ordinance for the protection of property of the City of Rensselaer. (Ordained and established June 22, 1896). Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Rensselaer: That whoever shall remove from its proper place, carry away or in any wise interfere with an axe, hook, ladder, or any other article of property belonging, or in any wise appertaining to the fire department of the City of Rensselaer, without the express permission of the chief of the fire department of said City unless in time of fire, and whoever shall carry away or remove from its proper place, or interfere with any property of any kind . whatever (other than that belonging to the fire department) belonging to said City, without the express consent of direction of the Common Council, shall, upon conviction therefor, be fined in any sum not less than Five ($5.00) Dollars nor more than Fifty ($50.00)' dollars. 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.