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Penalties.

§ 64. The penalties prescribed in sections 58, 59 and 63 of this ordinance, shall be imposed on the offender in like manner as is provided in section 56 of this ordinance in respect to the penalty therein prescribed; and in default of the payment, the offender shall be subject to the like punishment by imprisonment as in the said section. prescribed.

CHAPTER VII.

OF THE CITY INSPECTOR'S DEPARTMENT.

ARTICLE I.-OF THE CITY INSPECTOR'S DEPARTMENT AND
ITS BUREAUX GENERALLY.

II. OF THE CITY INSPECTOR AND HIS CLERKS AND
MESSENGERS.

III.-OF THE BUREAU OF SANITARY INSPECTION AND
STREET CLEANING.

IV. OF THE BUREAU OF MARKETS.

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V. OF THE BUREAU OF RECORDS AND STATISTICS.
IV. OF THE BUREAU OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.

ARTICLE I.

OF THE CITY INSPECTOR'S DEPARTMENT AND ITS BUREAUX

GENERALLY.

nizance of the

81. The City Inspector's department shall have cogni- General cogzance of all matters affecting the public health pursuant Department. to the ordinances of the Common Council and the lawful requirements of the Commissioners of Health, and of the Board of Health; of cleaning the public streets; of the superintending, inspection, regulation and management of the public markets; of the inspection and sealing of weights and measures; and of the location and control of the public pounds.

§ 2. There shall be four bureaux in the City Inspector's Bureaux. Department, as follows:

1. The bureau of Sanitary Inspection and Street Clean

ing.

2. The bureau of Records and Statistics.

3. The bureau of Markets.

4. The bureau of Weights and Measures.

ARTICLE II.

City Inspector.

Bond.

Salary of City
Inspector.

Duties of City
Inspector

Ibid.

Ibid.

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OF THE CITY INSPECTOR AND HIS CLERKS AND MESSENGERS.

§3. The chief officer of the City Inspector's Department shall be denominated the City Inspector.

§ 4. The City Inspector, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall execute a bond to the Corporation with at least two sureties, to be approved by the Mayor and filed in the office of the Comptroller, in the penal sum of ten thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of his office.

$5. The City Inspector shall receive an annual salary of five thousand dollars.

§ 6. The City Inspector shall take all necessary measures to ascertain every nuisance which may exist in the city of New York, and to cause it to be forthwith removed.

§7. He shall cause all putrid and unsound beef, pork, fish, hides or skins, all dead animals, and every putrid, offensive, unsound or unwholesome substance found in any street or other place in the city, to be forthwith removed and disposed of by removal beyond the limits of the city · or otherwise, so as most effectually to secure the public health.

§ 8. He shall inspect or cause to be inspected all privies, sinks and cesspools in the city of New York, and see that the same are built according to law.

89. He shall license such persons as may be proper, to act as night-scavengers, all or any of whom he may at any time displace and appoint others in their stead, and he shall make such rules and regulations for their government as he may deem proper.

§ 10. He shall keep a register in which he shall enter the situation of all such sinks and privies as he shall au

thorize to be emptied, and the days on which the emptying thereof shall be required.

Inspector.

§ 11. He shall cause all such boarding and lodging Duties of City houses as the Board of Health shall direct, to be examined, and shall report to that Board the number of each house, and the name of the street on which it is situated; the name of the tenant or occupant, the number of lodgers or boarders therein, with their names and occupations, the number of apartments therein and the apartments used as lodging rooms.

§ 12. He shall inspect or cause to be inspected all houses Ibid. reported as mentioned in the last section, as often as he shall deem necessary, and at least once in each week between the first day of May and the first day of November in each year.

§ 13. He shall obey all orders and instructions given by Ibid. the Board of Health, pertaining to the performance of all or any of his duties.

14. He shall receive and file in his office all reports Ibid. directed to be made to him by measurers, weighmasters and inspectors, and shall make an aggregate report thereof to the Common Council during the month of January in each year.

§ 15. He shall, from time to time, report to the Common Ibid. Council respecting all lots, yards, buildings, cellars, alleys, sinks, vaults, cesspools, privies, public and private docks and slips, and common sewers which shall require cleaning, altering or repairing, in order to preserve the health of the city.

§ 16. He shall report to the Common Council and to the Ibid Board of Health all circumstances which shall come to his knowledge, endangering the health of the city or prejudicial thereto.

Duties of City
Inspecter.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Ibid.

§ 17. He shall report to the Common Council suitable ordinances for the correction and removal of nuisances, and when the same shall be passed shall record them in his office, and cause copies thereof to be served on the persons whose duty it shall be to correct, abate or remove such nuisances.

§ 18. He shall keep a register of the names of all persons returned as dead, which shall be open at all convenient times to public inspection.

$ 19. He shall publish on Tuesday of each week, in the Corporation papers, a list of the deaths occurring in the preceding week, specifying the number of deaths in each ward, with the sexes, ages and diseases of the persons so dying; and during the month of January in each year he shall report to the Common Council and publish in like manner the whole number of deaths in the city during the preceding year, with the sexes, ages and diseases of the persons so dying.

$20. All moneys payable by the Corporation for the performance of contracts or for work done under or by direction of this department, shall be paid by the Comptroller in pursuance of the provisions of the charter; and the City Inspector shall, on the first Thursday of each month, render to the Comptroller a full statement, under oath, of the receipts and expenditures of his department, and all the accounts, vouchers and certificates relating thereto shall be kept and filed in the office of the City Inspector; and he shall superintend the enforcement of all ordinances relating to his department, and have power to employ all necessary assistance for that purpose, and shall report to the Common Council all delinquencies therein, and shall, from time to time, suggest to the Common Council such alterations or improvements in the ordinances con

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