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ORDINANCE NO.F 1 .
An ordinance defining nuisances,and providing penalty for same.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF CM MISSIONERS OF THE CITY
OF FORT WORTH: -
Section 1. That the following shall constitute nuisances when
a- .4 wedl maintal.ned ur suf Cvr-d t`- *+po;•+�t.• 2 ffll
itr -?f the City of Fort worth, and ehali be punisharlo we h*T--
inafter provided:
( a) Any trade, business or occupation i"Jurious to the health or
comfort of those who reside in the vicinity.
(b) All yards, lots, ables, pens,cellars,vaults,drains,pe ,
wells,cisterns,privies,'�A �a��
`sewers,grounds, premises or buildings of
every character, thick are not kept free of dead carcasses, decay-
ing flesh,fish,fowls, vegetables,stagnant waster or other stagnant
liquids, slons,trash, rubbish or other. deposits of substance of
a,ny and every character which are likely to or do become uizwhole-
some,filthy, offensive, unhealthful or likely to create or engender
disease.
(c) Sweeping,throwing or depositing into, on,upon or along any
drain,gutter, alley,side-waof any, eet, public
laceops, or thoroughfare,
any papers trash, rubbish,
urine ftlthr o_.pt&5iant water or other liquid,dead animals,fowls,
birds z 19rg{anwholes•-)ma,unhealthlul, unsig'_:tl" Dr ^fiA''R=ve
thing or substance.
(d) Burning in the open,hair,leather,rags or other substances,
emitting an offensive, unhealthful or annoying smell,smoke or odor.
( e) Keeping, having or operating, or suffering or permitting to
exist,any slaughter-house, butcher-pen or other place where ani-
mals,fowls, or birds are slaughtered or killed for the market.
( f) FermittinS or allowing weeds,filth or rubbish to grow, be
or remain on any lots, grounds or premises, or permitting such weeds
to extend from such premises intc any, street or alley adjacent
to such lots, grounds or premisef .
J ( g) Scattering or distributing any advartiisemenlikeicharars,
cards,hand-bills, announcements or other pap
er of upon any street, side-walk, alley, park,public grounds or within
anv public building.
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animate for meat on,along or upon any
e same covered and
or public gr viewoundsandtYscreeneding from}lgerms, insects and dusts.
from pubic
( i) Kaedin6 any holy cr bogs i. l any enclosure less than five
hundred feat from the nearest residence.
( j) Keeping,breeding or raising pi g r s.,nn off' about any place
or premises in such numbers or in sucnAik� znat the same may be
or become annoying, offensive dplaceborUPremisea,, or adjacentto the which eby-
dents of or those passing by such
reason of numbers create filt}, in or about such premises or prem-
ises adjacent thereto.
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(k) Drying green hides or keeping or maintaining an establish-
ment for such purpose.
( 1) Keeping or leaving open or unclosed, any vault,hole,celle.r
or other opening on any street, side-walk_,alley or other public
thoroughfare unless the same be sufficiently protected and ,guarded
to insure safety to all passim b�' or near the same.
(m) Allowing or permitting any privy or water-closet to be
and remain in such condition as to expose to view from without
any person thcrein or contents thereof.
(n) Throwing, putting or placing Lpon the premiss c
any dung, feces, urine or other unclean or filthy sine or
liquid, trash or other r bbish of any chary- ter A delt animal,
bird or fowlcrr�r4�
( o) Throwing, hauling or dumping on or removing from any side-
walk,street, alley, or other public place any dry coal or other
substance of any character so as to cause or produce an annoying
or offensive dust to be generated or diffused therefrom.
(p) Printing, posting,sticking, or placing any advertisement,
hand-bill,placard, poster,lithograph;show bill or other printed
pictures or written matter upon any post, fence,wall or building
public or private,without the consent of the owner or person in
charge thereof.
( q) Expectorating or spitting upon any side-walk,street or in
or upon any public place or building,street car or other public
vehicle, any spittle, soiiva, secretion or other substance coming
*+»s, the •neL�th or name, or throwing or placing in or upon any such
place hereinabove mentioned arks cneweu wr yarc,-L,; chewed tuoacc%�i
or snuff or remnant of any cigar or cigarette.
(r) Defecating; or urinating upon any street, alley,park or pub-
lic grounds or upon any place visible to persons in any public
street or other public place or private residence.
( s) Sleeping upon any street,side-walk, alley or 1n any like
public place, to which the public may resort.
( t) Any act or thing not hereinbefore enumerated,which interferes
with any personas rights to be free from foul,noxious and unpleas-
ant air, odor, gases and vapors,and from the sight of foul and
offensive things and substances.
Section 2. Any person,firm,corporation or association of persons
who shall violate or cause, permlt or allow to be violated any of
the provisions of this ord4 -lance shall be deemed guilty of a misde-
eanor u►-;a ,; on confi ct�p.i i.i►a .eva P, _ ._ �e
ia:,_ .'se,-, .-=r '.&ma AgritsAas Hundred Dol1.rR,end each
day that such violation shall continue shall be deemed a �IeParate
and distinct offense and punishable as such.
Section 3. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict
herewith be and the same are hereby repealed;provided,hov7aver,that
the enumeration of nuisances as hereinbefore Set out shall not be
regarded as exclusive nor shall the repealing clause herein be con-
strued to affect other ordinances in which acts and thins not em-
braced herein are defined as nuisances and made punishable as such.
Section 4. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force
from and after its passa-e and publication as required by law.
I hereby certify that the above and foregoing ordinance ti9as pres-
ented and unanimously passed by the Roard of Commissioners of the Cit,r
of sort Worth, at a session held, i Frch 2Ath, lqO .
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