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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance - 471-1930 - Unlawful To Use, Maintain Dry Closte Or Privy Without License - 08/14/1930., oe .... 1 4 -1 s 3o ORDINANCE NO. 4 J )_ ~-2e -tq3o AN ORDINANCE MAKING IT UNLAWFUL TO USE, MAIN- t . TAIN OR PERMIT DRY CLOSET OR PRIVY WITHOUT LICENSE; FIXING LICENSE FEES AND TIME OF PAYMENT AND PENALTY FOR DELINQUENT PAYMENTS; REQUIRING PROPERTY WITHIN 100 FEET OF PUBLIC SE~mR~ TO BE CONNECTED; PROVIDING FOR SANITARY REGULATIONS, SCREEN- ING, INSPECTING, REPAIRING, AND PROHIBITING INTERFERENCE; --p~t,._..~.--..el. ~) V1 .X~{.. 1-tC....... ~L-t--.,..\.. ,(.. c..\.., .... l -I FIX I NG PENALTY; AND DECLARING EMERGENCY. ) > BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF TEE CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS: SECTION 1: It is unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to use, maintain or permit the use of any dry closet or privy on premises owned or controlled by them within the corporate limits of the City of Lubbock, Texas, without first obtaining a license therefor from the City Secretary of said city. SECTION 2: The license fees are to be paid at the office of the City Secretary yearly or quarterly _in ad- vance. If paid yearly in advance a discount of ten per cent will be allowed. A license fee of six dollars per year or one dollar and a half per quarter will be charged for each dry closet at residences and this shall be the minimum fee for any closet whether described or specified in this ordi- nance or not. A license fee of twelve dollars per year or three dollars per quarter will be collected for each dry closet for boarding houses, rooming houses, or stores or other buildings, industrial~ commercial, religious or social. It is understood that the above fees are to be paid for each dry closet or privy maintained, and that if more than one is maintained upon the premises the additional fee or license will be collected for each and every additional dry closet r~ 10 or privy maintained. No deduction for license fee will be made for non-use of closets or privies maintained. All li- cense fees are to be paid on or before the lOth day of the first month in the quarter due. When payment is not made as above provided but paid on or before the 20th of said due date a penalty of 25t will be added and if paid after the 20th a penalty of 50t will be added. These provisions are not to be taken in any manner with the provision ot section 7. SECTION 3: It shall be unlawful for any person~ firm or corporation to permit a privy or dry closet of any kind or description for the reception of huma excreta, to be maintained, used or to exist upon any property in the City of Lubbock, Texas, or in the area of police jurisdic- tion thereof• where any of said property is within 100 teet of the public sewer system of said city, and provided con- nection is physically possible. SECTION 4: All dry closets or privies shall be properly screened and made tight so that flies cannot enter the container of fecal matter, nor the contents of the con- tainer leak out. Closets shall be located, when practical, near alleys, and shall be easily accessible to the scaven- ger for cleaning. Closets that are inaccessible to the scavenger may be required to be placed in an accessible lo- cation, and closets that are obnoxious or unsanitary may be required to be rebuilt to conform to specifications of the City of Lubbock. All new closets or closets that are re- built must be as per plans approved by the City of Lubbock. No dry closet or privy shall be built or maintained within six feet of any drain or ditch. SECTION 5: That the cleaning of all dry closets or privies within the City of Lubbock shall be done exclus- ively by the sanitary department of said city of Lubbock, and that it shall be unlawful for any private citizen, firm or corporation to do such work unless empowered by the City Commission of the City of Lubbock. It shall be unlaw- ful for any person, fir.m or corporation to bury or have buried within the city limits of the City of Lubbock any sewerage or fecal matter of human excrement. It shall be unlawful to put rags, cobs, ashes or any other substance except paper in the part of the dry closet or privy used as a container or receptacle of fecal matter. All rubbish that cannot be burned shall be placed in boxes near ~he closet easily accessible to the scavenger. Unsanitary condition or lack of attention to dry closets and privies must be reported to the City Health Department, by the owner or user thereof. No charges of cleaning closets will be made by the sanitary department of the City of Lubbock and same will be cleaned as often as necessary~ No closet will be cleaned upon which the license fee has not been paid. The license payments are due and must be paid on or before January 1st, April 1st, July 1st, and October lst, provided, however, that new closets coming under this regulation for the first time, and at the organization of the system, the unexpired quarter must be paid for at the proportionate rate, and at the time the right to use it is acquired, or the new closet built. SECTION 6: The Sanitary Officer and scavengers, or other officers and employees of the City of Lubbock, who may be designated fro.m time to time by the City Manager, City Health Officer, City Health Department, or the City Commis- sion, shall have access to the premises on which dry closets and privies are located for the purpose of cleaning and in- specting or summarily abating srune, or for sanitary pur- poses of any kind. Any one who shall hinder or attempt to interfere with the above employees in the discharge of their duties shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punished as hereinafter provided. SECTION 7: Any person using or permitting the use of any dry closet or privy contrary to the provisions of this ordinance without obtaining a license and paying a fee for the same, or any person or persons refusing to con- struct a dry closet or privy, or change or modify an exist- ing dry closet or privy, in accordance with these provisions and the instructions of the officers of the City of Lubbock, or any person refusing to give access to his premises to the sanitary officer or employees of the City of Lubbock, con- trary to the provisions of this ordinance, or any person ' . who shall injure or destroy any receptacle or other property of the City used in this department, or use same 1n a man- ner or for a purpose contrary to the provisions of this ordi- nance, or any other person failing o~ refusing to comply with any of the provisions of this ordinance, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof in the corporation court, shall be fined in any sum not less than one dollar nor more than ten dollars, and each day''s viola- tion shall be deemed a separate offense and punishable as such. SECTION B: This ordinance shall not be construed as repealing any ordinance requiring connection with sanitary sewer line, or making it a penalty for failure to do so. SECTION 9: The fact that there are many unsan- itary conditions in the town of Lubbock, creating a danger to the public health, makes it imperative that this ordinance take effect from and after its passage, and it is so ordered. Passed and approved by unanimous vote or the entire Commission this /f£Ay of August, 1930. , p~~~~ ~.Udt?Jo-~...J, ;fi.D .. 7 ATTEST: ~~ Mayor