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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinances Book 7, Page 412, No Ordinance NumberNo. Ordinance No.._ AN ORDINANCE DEFINING AIM PROHIBITING NUISANCES AFFECTING TIl PUELIC FF.ALT3 AND VIMPARE OF THE CITIZENS OF PADIUAH, AND PROVIDING PENALTY FOR A VIOLATION HEREOF. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF C01E.ISSIOIERS OF THE CITY OF PADUCAH, MITUCKY: Section 1. A nuisance is anything viintsoever tient is dangerous to human health or whatever renders the ground: water, air or food a hazard, or injury to the health. The following specific acts, conditions and things are each and all of them hereby prohibited and made unlawful and as such are liable to be abated, and any person or persons, firm, company or corporation guilty of causing or permitting or suffering ti-Bm upon any premises or in any building occupied or controlled by him, them or it, either as owner or tenant, or in any street or alley, side- walk or gutter immediately adjacent to such mcnemises, is liable upon conviction to be _cined as hereinafter prescribed: (a) All cellars, vaults, drains, pools, cesspools, privies, severs, yards, grounds or premises which have from any cause become foul, nauseous or offensive, or injurious to the health, or unpleasant to adjacent residents or to persons passing by. (b) All carcasses, decaying flesh, fish, fowls, or vegetables, all deposits of manure or other unwholesome substances of any kind or ✓ description whatever, and all filthy or offensive crater or slops in any private yard or premises, or ,•fnen thrown or conducted into or upon any street, alloy, public ground or any inclosure so as to be unwholesome or offensive, or liable to become unwholesome or offensive. (c) All markets, cellars, stores or other buildings or places which are not kept clean and.free from filthy or unwholesome substances, that are offensive or liable to engender disease. (d) Depositing rubbish, filthy or any foul, offensive, nauseous or injurious substance upon the sidewalk, street, alley, public thoroughfare, or any other public place. (e) Sweeping or depositing any paper, trash or rubbish into any drain or gutter. (f) Sweeping or depositing any trash, paper or rubbish into any street, alley, public thoroughfares, or other public places. (g) Dry sweeping of sidewalks within the business district, between the hours of 7 A.I:i. and 7 P.Li. and on Saturdays between 7 A.M. and 10 P.M. (h) The burning of any hair, leather, rags, or any other substance of any kind which may cause or produce an offensive smell, smoice or odor, capable of annoying persons living in the vicinity or persons passing on. any public thoroughfares in said city. (i) Defecating or urinating upon ice streets, alleys or public s i No. Ordinance No -- grounds, or in any place that may be seen from a private residence or by persons passing; along the streets, alleys or public thoroughfares. . \ / (j) The throwing from any opehing in or carrying from any duelling or place of abode, any nightsoil, feces, urine, or .filthy or lmclean water upon any alley, street or sidewalk, or into any adjoining property. (k) Allowing any pTi.vy to become dilapidated or out of repair so as .V, expose to view its contents or any person within the same. Constructing or keeping on the premises any privy, the contents nhereof are exposed to view or can be seen from any street or public place. Discharging the contents of any privy into any street, alley, public thoroughfare, or other public place, or upon the premises of any other person. (1) To permit or allow any weeds, filial or rubbish of any kind to remain on any vacant lot or sidewalk in front or at the. side of any premises owned by him, or in the street to the middle thereof, in front- of ronto£ or at the side of any premises owned or controlled by any person, persons, firm, company or carrporation, or upon any alley to the middle thereof, that may be at the rear or side of any lots owned or controlled by them or it. (m) The failure of the omer or possessor of any animal which shall die, or person causing the death of any animal, within the corporate limits of trE city, to have the carcass of the same removed to the city incinerator within twelve hours after the death of such animal. (n) The conduction into any alley or gutter or the waste slater from V sink—tank, 'Fath or wash rack, or any source of water supply that produces any pools or stagnant water in said alleys, streets or gutters or upon the property of another. (o) Any article or substance placed upon any street, sidewalk, alley, gutter, drain or public ground, except such as are permitted by the ordinances o_ the city, so as to obstruct the same; the throwing of glass, tin, queensware, crockery, or other rubbish into or upon the -- sidewalks, streets, alleys, public thoroughfares, commons, drains and gutters. (p) Any nauseous, foul or putrid liquors or substances, or any liquors or substances likely to be nauseous, foul, offensive, or putrid, discharged, placed, thrown, or conducted into or upon any ,street, alley, public ground or commons; and the wrongful casting, throwing or deposit- ing of any filth, substance or thing into any private or public well or cistern. (q) Any act done or suffered within the city limits interfering with i the enjoyment of any members of the community, or any person or persons vvho may be therein, of his right to be free From foul, noxious or offensive unpleasant odors and vapors, and to breathe fresh air and to be .free from the sight of foul or offensive objects and substances. N.. -&,.' Il Ordinance No. (r) Dogs allowed to run at large or outside of inclosure, unless muzzled at all times. (s) Medicines of any cla.racter delivered as samples in any manner anatever, except when handed to so me.adult. (t) Live animals kept in any manner from which offensive odors shall arise, or kept in any place where the ground is not dry or can be adequately drained. (u) Any business of any nature whatsoever, conducted or operatofi in such a manner that offensive or nauseous odors shall arise or be given off. (v) Any hogs or swine kept in any manner whatsoever within the corporate limits of the city of Paducah. Provided however, that hogs for immediate. shipment or for immediate slaughter can be kept not to exceed 72 hours, and then only in such places as have cement floors; said floor to be :'lashed ` K: once in every twenty-four hours, and so arranged and built That the drainage from washing -floor does not stand or become stagm,nt or soak into the ground around the floor, but should be drained away in such a, manner as to keep said ground in a sanitary condition at all times. (w) Any carpets, rugs, mattresses, curtains, bedding or tapestry cleaned, shaken or beaten in such a manner as to cause the lint, dust, dirt or other substance to enter into the streets, thoroughfares, or property of others. (x) Any building or part thereof ti1nich is overcrowded- or not provided- with rovidedwith adequate means of ingress or egress, or contains ga'rbage,:ashes, refuse or rubbish of Mutsoever kind, or is no,t sufficiently ventilated, sewered, drained, lighted or cleaned. (y) The placing oi° m.intaining of any obstruction of any kind in any natural or living. watercourse of the city so as to impede the flowing of water therein. (z) The doing of any act waich. shall tend to pollute or contaminate the water,supply of the city. ' (a-1) Any room, house or dwelling occupied by any human; or tenement, boarding house, lodging house, or any building used for such purposes, or, any part thBreof, ,within the limits of the city, which shall be leased, let or .-rented, to be occupied by any persons .in which to dwell or lodge, and which room, tenenent house, boarding house, lodging house or building, or any part thereof, is not sufficiently lighted or ventilated and provided- with rovidedwith water ailcd kept in a cleanly and sanitary condition, or which any part thereof the strength; ventilation, li°ht or se �ere,ge is in any n�nner, shape or form, dangerous, insufficient or prejudicial to life or health, o-• tihich shall not be provided with adequate and properly constructed privies or water -closets. No. J- Ordinance No.- (b-1) Any yell or cistern within the limits of tine city vnionever an analysis sho= that tile water in said. well or cistern iss of an impure or unwholesome nature. Section 2. It snall be the duty o.j: the ouner or his agent, or the occupant 0:2 the lot, building or place of any kind in the city of Paducah villore any nuisance may o.%i--t, to remove, abate or destroy the same without delay. Section 341 71lonever any nuisance as herein defined is found in any place in this city, for the removal, abatement or destruction of which no Person, firm, company or corporation can be held liable under the provisions hereof, it shall be the duty of the City to remove, abate or destroy the same, or cause the same to be done, at the expense of the City. Section 4. If any section of this ordinance shall be found to be! invalid, it shall not invalidate any other section thereof. Section 5. Any person, firm, company or, corporation :•rho shall, within the limits o-1 the city of Paducah, cause, create, permit, keep or other-wis-e-anintain a nuisance,,'\ shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be lined in any sum not more than :100.00, and each day that said nTzisance shall continue shall constitute a separate o-ffense Section 6. In any cases arising under the preceding articles of this ordinance, whenever it shall appear to the court trying said cause that the nuisance continues at the time of conviction, the court shall order and adjudge -bile removal., abatement or destruction of such nuisance, as the case may require, and shall issue a separate warrant herefor, and the court shall inquire into the probable cost of such removal, abatement, or destruction, and shall tax the cost thereof- against the defendant. Section 7. This ordinance shall t,-,Ice effect from and after its passage, record and publication. Adopted by the Board of Commissioners December 9, 1918. Recorded by Henry Bailey, City Clerk, December 10, 1918. Published in official newspaper, December 10, 1918.