dition, is a source of sickness, or which endangers the public health, is hereby declared to be a public nuisance. 720. Penalty.] Any person, firm or corporation who violates, neglects or refuses to comply with, or who resists or opposes the enforcement of any of the provisions of this chapter, where no other penalty is provided, shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than two hundred dollars for each offense, and every such person or corporation shall be deemed guilty of a separate offense for every day on which such violation, neglect or refusal shall continue; and any builder or contractor who shall construct any building in violation of any of the provisions of this chapter, and any architect designing, drawing plans for or having charge of such building, or who shall permit it to be constructed, shall be liable to the penalties provided and imposed by this section. ARTICLE XXVII PLACES OF AMUSEMENT 721. No amusement license to issue without certificate from city officials.] No license shall be issued to any person, firm or corporation to produce, present, conduct, operate or offer for gain or profit, any theatricals, shows or amusements until the commissioner of buildings, the commissioner of health, the fire marshal and the city electrician shall have certified in writing that the room or place where it is proposed to produce, present, conduct, operate or offer such theatricals, shows or amusements complies in every respect with the ordinances of the city of Chicago. 727. Penalty.] Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this article shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars for each offense, and each and every day upon which any such person, firm or corporation shall give, conduct, produce, present, offer or operate any such entertainment contrary to or in violation of any of the provisions of this article shall constitute a separate and distinct offense. REGISTRATION OF BUILDING CONTRACTORS An Ordinance providing for registration of building contractors, etc., with the department of buildings. [Passed April 26, 1916.] Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Chicago: Section 1. That every person, firm, company or corporation engaged in the business of constructing or repairing the whole or any part of buildings or the appurtenances thereto in the city of Chicago, shall before undertaking the erection, enlargement, alteration, repair or removal of any building, for which permits are required by the ordinances of the city, register the name and address of such person, firm, company or corporation in a book kept by the commissioner of buildings and used for this purpose. No permit shall be granted to any person, firm, company or corporation for the erection, enlargement, alteration, repair or removal of any building in the city for which a permit is required unless the name and address of the person, firm, company or corporation undertaking the work of construction involved in the erection, enlargement, alteration, repair or removal of such building is contained in the registration book kept by the commissioner of buildings. When application is made for a permit and the work of construction involves masonry construction only, the above provisions shall not apply to any person, firm or corporation licensed as a mason contractor or employing mason, as provided in and by an ordinance passed by the city council on January 16, 1914, as amended on March 9, 1914. Where the work of construction for which a permit is sought involves construction other than masonry construction, any mason contractor or employing mason, licensed as aforesaid, engaged in or undertaking. the work of such other construction than masonry construction, must register his, their or its name or names and comply with the other requirements of this ordinance as herein provided before a permit as required by the ordinances of the city for such work is issued. Section 2. If any person, firm, company or corporation whose name is registered in the registration book kept by the commissioner of buildings, shall fail in the execution of any work for which a permit was issued as aforesaid to comply with the ordinances of the city relative to the erection, enlargement, alteration, repair or removal of any building, either the commissioner of buildings or the commissioner of health may, according to the ordinances of the city of Chicago, bring suit and prosecute said person, firm, company or corporation for such failure or violation, and if such person, firm, company or corporation is convicted of any violation of the said ordinances of the city of Chicago, his, their or its name or names shall be stricken from the registration book kept by the commissioner of buildings and shall not be re-entered or reinstated during such time as any violation exists or any judgment femains unsatisfied with regard to said conviction. Section 3. Any person, firm, company or corporation that may have been convicted of violating any of the ordinances relating to the erection, enlargement, alteration, repair or removal of any building that may have had his, their, or its name or names stricken from the regis tration book kept by the commissioner of buildings as aforesaid, may have his, their or its name or names re-entered in said registration book for the purpose of obtaining building permits, on filing with the commissioner of buildings certificates from the city prosecutor, the commissioner of buildings and the commissioner of health to the effect that all violations upon the premises with reference to which conviction was secured, have been corrected and are non-existent and that all claims and judgments with regard to such conviction have been paid. Section 4. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and due publication. TENEMENT AND LODGING HOUSES An Act for the regulation and inspection of tenement and lodging houses, or other places of habitation. [Approved May 30, 1881.] Architect plans.] Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That it shall be the duty of any architect or architects, builder or builders of, or other person or persons interested in any projected tenement, lodging house, or other places of habitation, in any incorporated city of fifty thousand inhabitants, to submit plans and specifications of any such building or buildings to the health commissioner or commissioners of such incorporated city; that the said health commissioner or commissioners may examine the said plans and specifications, for his or their approval or rejection, as to the proposed plans for the ventilation of rooms, light and air shafts, windows, ventilation of water closets, drainage and plumbing. Duty of plumber.] Section 2. It shall be the duty of any plumber or other person or persons interested in the contract for the plumbing work of such building or buildings, to receive a written certificate of instruction from the health commissioner or commissioners before commencing work on the said building or buildings, and to proceed according to the plans, specifications and instructions, as approved by the health commissioner or commissioners of said city. Health commissioner-notice.] Section 3. It shall be the duty of any plumber or other person or persons interested in the plumbing work, after the completion of said plumbing work, and before any of the said plumbing work is covered up in any building or buildings, or on the premises connected with said building or buildings, to notify in writing the health commissioner or commissioners, that said building or buildings, or other premises, are now ready for inspection, and it shall be unlawful for any plumber or other person or persons to cover up, or in any way conceal such plumbing work in or about such building or buildings until the health commissioner or commissioners approve of the same. Architect penalty.] Section 4. If any architect or architects, builder or builders, violate the provisions of this act, he or they shall be fined in a sum not less than one hundred nor more than two hundred dollars for each offense. Penalty-plumber.] Section 5. If any plumber or other person or persons interested in the plumbing work, violate any of the provisions of this act, he or they shall be fined in the sum not less than one hundred nor more than two hundred dollars for the first offense, and the further penalty of ten dollars for each and every day such plumbers or other interested person or persons shall, after first conviction, neglect or refuse to comply with any provisions of this act, or the written instructions of the health commissioner or commissioners, and for the second offense, a like penalty and a forfeiture of his or their license to do business in said city for one year after conviction. CHAPTER XVII CIGARETTES, CIGARS AND TOBACCO ARTICLE I CIGARETTES *728. License application-fee.] Any person or corporation desiring a license to sell cigarettes or cigarette papers or wrappers in the city shall make written application for that purpose to the mayor in which shall be set forth the full name of the applicant and the location at which such sales are proposed to be made. Such application shall be accompanied by evidence that the applicant, if an individual, and the person or persons in charge of the business, if a corporation, is or are persons of good character and reputation, and if the mayor shall be satisfied that such persons are of good character and reputation and are suitable persons to be intrusted with the sale of cigarettes, he shall cause the city clerk to issue a license to such applicant upon the payment to the city collector of a license fee at the rate of one hundred dollars per annum; provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall be held to authorize the sale of cigarettes containing opium, morphine, jimpson weed, belladonna, strychnia, cocaine, or any other deleterious or poisonous drug or drugs. Such license shall authorize the person or corporation therein named to expose for sale, sell or offer for sale cigarettes and cigarette papers and wrappers at the place designated therein. 729. Inspection-analysis.] It shall be the duty of the commis. sioner of health, and he is hereby authorized and empowered, from time to time to inspect and examine all places where cigarettes are licensed to be sold within the city, with a view of ascertaining whether the laws of the state of Illinois and the ordinances of the city, in relation to the sale of cigarettes, are being complied with at such places, and it shall be his duty to cause ali such laws and ordinances to be rigorously enforced; and it shall be the duty of all persons or corporations licensed to sell cigarettes within the city, upon demand of the commissioner of health, to furnish to said commissioner for his inspection samples of all cigarettes sold or offered for sale by them, which samples of cigarettes shall be analyzed by or under the direction of said commissioner of health, and a record of such analysis shall be made and kept in his office for the inspection of the public. 730. Sale without license-penalty.] Any person who shall hereafter keep for sale or to give away, or who shall sell or give away, * As amended July 10, 1916. or offer to sell or give away any cigarettes or any cigarette papers or cigarette wrappers of any kind, at any place within the city, without having first procured the license as above provided, shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars and not exceeding two hundred dollars for the first offense, and a further penalty of twenty-five dollars for each day such person persists in such violation after a conviction for the first offense. 731. Adulteration.] No person or corporation shall expose for sale, sell, or offer for sale to any person or corporation, directly or indirectly, within the city, any cigarette or cigarettes containing opium, morphine, jimpson weed, belladonna, strychnia, cocaine or any other deleterious or poisonous drug or drugs. Any person or corporation violating any provision of this section shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars and not more than one hundred dollars for the first offense, and a further penalty of twenty-five dollars for each day such person or corporation persists in such violation after a conviction for the first offense. *732. Minors-sale to.] No person or corporation, with or without a license, shall sell or give away, or offer to sell or give away, any cigarettes, or any cigarette papers, or any cigarette wrappers of any kind to any person under the age of twenty-one (21) years. Any person or corporation who shall violate this section shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense. 733. Sale prohibited near school houses.] No person or corporation shall sell, give away, barter, exchange or otherwise deal in at any place located within six hundred feet of any school house or building used for school purposes, any cigarettes, tobacco or tobacco product of any form whatsoever used in the making of cigarettes or with which cigarette papers or wrappers are sold or given away. Any person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense. ARTICLE II CIGARS AND CIGAR AND CIGARETTE REFUSE 734. Sale of tobacco to minors under sixteen prohibited-penalty.] No person or corporation shall sell or furnish any cigars or tobacco in any form to any minor under sixteen years of age, except upon the written order of the parent or guardian of such minor. Any person or corporation violating any of the provisions of this section shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense. 735. Cigar stumps-tobacco-collecting.] It shall be unlawful for any person to pick or gather up from the public streets, alleys, or thoroughfares of the city, or in any saloon, restaurant, hotel, or any public building in said city, any cigar or cigarette butt or stump, or *As amended November 24, 1913. |