ORDINANCE 6005. C. S.

(Adopted February 2, 1892.)

RESOLVED, That it shall be unlawful for any street railroad company to run any car on the streets of this city unless the same are provided with ventilators in the top or roof thereof, affording a ventilation of at least four square feet; and between the 1st day of November and the 1st of April each of such cars will be required to have sliding or swinging doors.

That any president, superintendent or starter of any street railroad company violating the provisions of this ordinance shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $25 for each offense, and in default of the payment thereof by imprisonment not exceeding thirty days. That this ordinance shall take effect sixty days after its promulga

tion.

ORDINANCE 6080 C. S.

(Adopted February 24, 1892.)

BE IT ORDAINED, By the Council of the City of New Orleans, That it is hereby made an offense to drive, or to attempt to drive, through the streets of the city, cattle which arrive in New Orleans either by boat or railroad.

Be it further ordained, etc., That each violation of this ordinance shall be taken to be a separate offense, and that any person violating the same, on due conviction before the recorder having jurisdiction, for each separate offense, shall be subject to fine or imprisonment in the Parish Jail, or both, or to imprisonment in the Parish Jail in default of the payment of the fine, provided that the fine shall not exceed twenty-five dollars for each offense, nor the imprisonment more than thirty days.

Be it further ordained, etc., That all ordinance and parts of ordinances in conflict or inconsistent with this ordinance, be and the same are hereby repealed.

ORDINANCE 6361 C. S.

(Adopted May 26, 1892.)

Be it ordained by the Council of the City of New Orleans, That it shall be deemed, and it is hereby declared to be an offense (in districts where the city has established, under contract, boats for the carrying off of foecal or other matter, and regulated the charges to be made by the boats) for vidangeurs, or other persons engaged in the business of removing the same from privies and vaults in this city, to discharge the same into boats, other than in the following described limits in which the same is received, viz.: from the lower limits of the city to the lower side of Poydras street; from the upper side of Poydras street to lower side of Jackson street; from upper side of Jackson street to upper limits of the city.

Bt it further ordained, That any person violating the provisions of this ordinance shall, upon conviction before the recorder of the City of New Orleans, having jurisdiction, be subject to fine or imprisonment, or both, or to imprisonment in default of the payment of the fine; provided, that the fine shall not exceed twenty-five dollars for each offense nor the imprisonment more than thirty days.

ORDINANCE 6533 C. S.

Adopted July 5, 1892.)

(As amended by 6642 C., adopted August 30, 1892.)

Section 18. All rooms to be built for sleeping apartments shall have at least five hundred (500) feet cubic contents for each person therein, and must communicate with the open air by a glazed and movable opening of at least ten (10) square feet area.

Sec. 21. Whenever any wall, building, staging or other structure in this city shall be so unsafe as to be dangerous to human life or limb or property, the Commissioner of Public Work shall, with the approval of the Mayor, be authorized to instantly demolish and remove the same, after having first given the owner of such building, or his agent, notice to remove said danger within three (3) days, and on his failing to do so.

Any expense incurred in the enforcement of the foregoing section shall be borne by the party owning the said unsafe wall or structure, which sum or sums expended in such demolition or removal above provided for, together with attorney's fees, shall be recoverable before any court of competent jurisdiction, and the judgment of said court to constitute a first lien and privilege upon the property.

Sec. 22. (1) No superstructure shall be erected within the limits of the City of New Orleans until the lot is raised higher than the sidewalk, according to the lines and levels to be obtained from the City Engineer or his deputy.

(2) No person shall build upon any lot or portion of ground in the City of New Orleans without first obtaining from the City Engineer a permit showing that the lot has been filled to the grade required as established by law.

(3) The grade shall be from an established curb, sloping upward one-half (2) inch for every foot in width of banquette; front edge or portion of lot of ground to be two (2) inches higher than inner edge of banquette, and surface of lot or portion of ground gradually ascending in grade one (1) inch to every ten (10) feet to the rear.

(4) Should it be represented that it is impossible to obtain the filling for the proper grading of lot according to above section, owing to high river or other cause, a permit will be issued on filing of a bond in a sum equal to the filling required to fill lot to grade at the rate of one dollar (1) per yard, to guarantee the proper grade when filling can be obtained. When lot is properly filled the bond to be cancelled.

The portion of lot to be filed to embrace the whole area within fences.

(Amd.) The Board of Health to have authority to withhold permits on unfilled lots in cases where ponds or filth exist, where the material proposed to be used as filling is sanitarily unfit therefor, where the drainage proposed to be established is insufficient to properly drain the premises, or for any other unsanitary cause prejudicial to the public health, and to that end all existing ordinances concerning sanitation of such premises are hereby continued in full force and effect, and are not to be considered as repealed by this ordinance.

Provided, That the preceding part of this Article 4 of this Section shall also apply to this clause as amended.

(As amd. by Ordinance 6642 C., adopted August 30, 1892.)
Sec. 23.
(2)

All buildings hereafter erected within the city shall be provided with a healthy supply of water, not less than five hundre (500) gallons for each room in said building; provided, the aggregate capacity of cistern capacity shall not be less than twenty-five hundred (2500) gallons.

(3) All cisterns, the water of which is used for drinking or culinary purposes, shall be provided by the owner thereof with sutiable

Covers.

(See Ordinance 6533 C. S., s. 23, p. 2.)

Sec. 24. The chimneys of all forges and furnaces connected with steam engines, used in factories of every description and other establishments, shal! be carried up at least twenty feet above the highest peak or portion of any building within a radius of one hundred (100) feet from said factory or establishment, and all such chimneys shall have caps on them so constructed as to prevent cinders and soot from falling upon neighboring houses.

(See Ordinance 500A.)

Sec. 25. Where any debris remains in any lot or on the banquette contigious in this city, resulting from a fire or in the demolition or partial demolition of any building on such lot, it is hereby made the duty of the owner, or his agent, of the property to remove, or cause to be removed from the sidewalk and street, all such debris within six (6) days after a notice served upon him by the Commissioner of Public Works, or his assistant, and to place such debris in such manner on his lot as not to be dangerous.

Sec. 28. If the owner or owners of any lot or portion of ground whereon any building is to be constructed or erected, or of any building already erected whereon any repairs, alterations or additions are to be made, shall begin such construction or alteration, etc., without having first obtained the certificate required in Section 1 of this ordinance, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and he shall be subject to a fine of not less than five ($5) dollars or more than twenty-five ($25) dollars, and for each day he persists in such violation shall constitute a new offense, and on his failing to pay said fine he shall be imprisoned in the parish prison one (1) day for each dollar of the fine imposed.

If after obtaining permit therefor, any owner of lot or portion of ground on which a building is to be erected, or owners of any building which is to be repaired, in accordance with this ordinance, or whosoever shall violate any of the provisions of this ordinance, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and said owner shall be subject to a fine of not less than five ($5) dollars, nor more than twenty-five ($25) dollars for each and every violation of these laws, and each day's persistence in said violation shall constitute a new offense, and the owner or owners or his or their agent shall be notified by the Mayor to correct said faulty construction to conform to the provisions of this ordinance; or his or their failure to do so, in addition to the above penalties, proper action will be taken to prevent his persistence in such faulty construction, and such fault shall be repaired or the work demolished at owner's expense.

On his failing to pay said fine or fines he shall be imprisoned in the parish prison one (1) day for each dollar of the fine imposed.

ORDINANCE 6596 C. S.

(Adopted August 2, 1892.)

(As amended by Ordinance 15,549 C. S., adopted September 5, 1899.) An ordinance to define what is adulterated milk under Ordinance No. 6022, A. S., adopted June, 1879; to fix a standard of purity of milk sold in the city of New Orleans; to provide for the gratuitous furnishing of samples to Health Officers, and to provide a penalty for the violation of said Ordinance 6022 A. S., adopted June, 1879, and of the provisions of this Ordinance.

Section 1. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of New Orleans, That the standard by which the adulteration of milk shall be determined, under Ordinance No. 6022, A. S., adopted June, 1879, shall be as follows: Normal or pure milk shall be considered to be such milk as will, upon the test thereof, be found to possess a minimum specific gravity, actual density of (1.029) one thousand and twenty-nine at sixty degrees Fahrenheit (60 degrees Fahrenheit), and shall contain not less than (13) thirteen parts of total solids in one hundred parts of milk, as follows: Butter fat (32) three and one-half per centum, solids not fat (92) nine and one-half per centum, and water not more than (87) eighty-seven per centum.

Cec. 2. Be it ordained, etc., That any milk falling below the test above prescribed, or any milk from which the cream has been removed, or to which water, foreign fats, coloring matter, or any other foreign or extraneous substance has been added, shall be considered as adulterated under said ordinance.

Sec. 3. Be it ordained, etc., That every vendor or establishment or person who sells milk, shall be obliged to furnish to any sanitary officer or inspector of the Board of Health of the State for inspection and analysis, on application therefor, a sample of the milk sold by said vendor or establishment or person from the can, or other vessel from which it is sold to the public; said sample shall not exceed one-half pint, and there shall be no charge therefor.

Sec. 4. (Amd.) Whoever shall have in his possession for sale or whoever shall sell any adulterated milk as defined by this ordinance, or who shall refuse to furnish the sample as provided in preceding section, shall be fined not more than twenty-five dollars or be sentenced to not more than thirty days' imprisonment in the parish prison in default of the payment of the fine.

(As amd. by Ordinance 15,549 C., adopted September 5, 1899.)

ORDINANCE 6720, C. S.

(Adopted September 20, 1892.)

Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of New Orleans, That whenever any person shall have come to his death by violence, or whenever the cause of death of any person shall be unknown, it shall be unlawful after the death of such person to touch or remove, or in any manner to disturb or alter, the position or appearance of the dead body until the same shall have been viewed by the Coroner; provided, that any person who shall have knowledge to take it ashore, and shall find a corpse adrift, shall be authorized to take ti ashore, and shall be required to cause notice to be given to the Coroner of the Parish of Orleans.

Be it further ordained by the Common Council of the City of New Orleans, That whoever shall violate the provisions of this ordinance shall suffer imprisonment in the parish prison for a term not to exceed thirty days, or be subject to a fine of twenty-five dollars, or both, at the discretion of the Recorder having jurisdiction.

ORDINANCE 7584, C. S.

(Adopted May 16, 1893.)

AN ORDINANCE

To prevent the carrying of water by vendors of milk in the public streets and places of New Orleans.

WHEREAS, It has appeared that there is a persistent disposition on the part of certain vendors of milk upon the public streets and places of this city to dilute and adulterate the milk they sell, to the defrauding of the public and the injury of health;

Whereas, The water thus fraudulently employed for milk dilution is often impure, rendering the milk thus diluted additionally dangerous to the public health;

Whereas, Certain milk vendors carry about with them water in separate cans or vessels, wherewith milk sold may be diluted, as the same is used or in such other way as to render detection and prevention more uncertain and difficult;

Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of New Orleans, That no vendor of milk in the public streets and places shall place within, or carry, or have, in or about the vehicle in which the milk shall be carried or kept for sale, or from which it is sold, or have in any can or vessel carried by hand at the same time as milk is similarly carried for sale, any water or liquid of any description other than milk or cream.

Be it further ordained, That each and every person offending against or contravening the provisions of this ordinance, shall be arrested and fined not exceeding twenty-five dollars for each offense, and in default of payment thereof be imprisoned in the parish prison not exceeding thirty days. Said fine or imprisonment to be enforced by any court of competent jurisdiction within the corporate limits of the City of New Orleans.

ORDINANCE 7607, C. S.

(Adopted May 23, 1893.)

AN ORDINANCE

Providing for the establishment of private markets under certain conditions and regulations and providing for the punishment for violations of the same.

Section 1. Be it resolved that hereafter it shall not be lawful for anyone to set up or establish a private market for the sale of meats, fish and vegetables or other commestables except upon complying with the regulations or conditions as imposed under this ordinance.

Sec. 2. That the private market building used for such purpose shall not be less than ten by fifteen feet in superficial area, sixteen feet in height from floor to ceiling, disconnected from any other building, and separated therefrom by a distance of not less than three feet six inches; it shall be well ventilated, and the floor shall be of flagging or cement pavement. That after the hour of 12 M. of each day there shall be no sales made; that before 1 o'clock p. m. of each day the stalls and stands in said private markets are required to be washed and cleaned, so as to keep them in the highest state of cleanliness; that after the said hour of 1 P. M. the said private markets shall be subject to the inspection of the police officers of this ctiy, whose duty it is to inspect the same and report any violations of the provisions of this ordinance.