People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1896 — Ordinance No. 40. [ARTICLE]

Ordinance No. 40.

An Ordinanse regulating the height of smokestacks within the corporate limits of Rensselaer, and providing a penalty for violation thereof. Sec. 1. Be it ordained by s he Common Council of the City of Rensselaer, Indiana; That it shall be unlawful for the owner of any stationary boiler or engine of fifteen horse power or over, to operate the same within the corporate limits of the City of Rensselaer without first providing a smoke stack or flue at least fifty in height from the top of sujh boiler and that every such stack or flue shall stand in a perpendicular position in relation to such boiler. Sec. 2. Any person guilty of a violation of section lof this ordinance shall upon conviction thereof be fined in a sura not less than Five ($5.00) Dollars nor more than Twenty five ($26.00) Dollars for each and everv offence. gee. 3. Whereas: an emergsnc.y exists, this ordinance shall be in force from snd after its publication according to law.