People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1896 — Ordinance No. 9. [ARTICLE]

Ordinance No. 9.

Bulletin Boards. An Ordinance to regulate bulletin boards in the City of Rennselaer. (Ordained and Established June 22th, 1896.) Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the common council of the City of Rensselaer: That any person or persons owning or controlling any dead wall, frame or board, within the corporate limits of the City of Rensselaer, used for the purpose of displaying advertisements thereon, or any person or persons who shall hereafter erect any such dead wall, frame or board, shall so brace the same so as to render them secure from falling over or being blown down, by fastening the same to posts securely set in the ground to the depth of not less than three feet and not more than twelve or fourteen feet apart, and of the height above the ground of said wall, board or frame: and from the top of each post so set there shall be extended a good and sufficient brace to a stake set opposite to the said post and to the rear of, and at right angles with said wall and securely fastened in the ground by being driven or planted not less than three feet into the ground, at a distance from said post of not less than six inches for every foot in height of said wall, the said brace to be securely fastened to the top Of the post and to said stake, not more than six inches from the ground. * And it shall be the duty of the Marshal to see that all such dead walls, frames and boards, which are now or shall hereafter be erected shall conform in all things to the requirements of this ordinance, and that the same are kept in good repair; and any person or persons owning or controlling any dead wall, board or frame as herein set forth, who upon due notice from the Marshal that the same is out of repair, shall fail, refuse or neglect to put tne same in repair, or who shall violate any of the provisions of this ordinance, shall upon conviction thereof, be fined in any sum not less than One ($1.00)' dollar nor more than Twenty-five ($25.00) dollars, which fine, if for allowing such structure to remain out of repair, may be repeated for each and every day offense. 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.