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AN ORDINANCE PROIIIBITING THE DEPOSITING OR PLACING OF
CERTAIN WASTE AND WASTE PRODUCTS IPI ANY PORTION OF THE SET.JERAGE
SYSTEM OF THE CITY OF PADUCAH, KENTUCKY, AND PROVIDING PENALTIES
FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF MM,1ISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF
PADUCAH, KENTUCKY:
SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or
corporation_ to deposit any of the hereinafter named waste and waste
products in or through any portion of the sewerage system of the
City of Paducah, Kentucky.
1. Petroleum, coal, tar, vegetable and mineral oils and
products, and their derivatives and wastes.
2. Greases, oils and sludges from service stations, garages,
repair shops, machine shops, cleaning establishments or
other industries or establishments.
3. Explosive or inflammable liquids and gases.
4. Acids, alkalies or other corrosive liquids, gases or
substances of sufficient strength to damage sewers, man-
holes, pumping stations or treatment plant units, i
5. Paints or waste products from paint manufacture.
6. Substances which will form deposits or obstructions in
sewers or which when mixed with sewage will precipitate
material and thus form deposits in sewers.
7. Ashes, cinders, sand earth, coal, rubbish or metals of
any kind.
8. Live steam, exhaust steam or water having a temperature
above 1400 F.
9. Ground or unground fruit peelings and cores from
canneries or packing plants.
10. Cull fruits and vegetables.
11. Fruit and vegetable pits and seeds such as those from
peaches, apricots, cherries, prunes, pumpkins and squash.
12. Paunch, stable and barn manure.
13. Cull walnuts and filberts.
14. Offal from slaughterhouses.
15. Dead animals
16. Sulphite or sulphate liquor and "white" water from pulp
and paper mills.
17. Waste from septic tanks.
SECTIO! 2. Any person, firm or corporation violating any
of the provisions of this ordinance shall be fined not less than
.10.00 nor more than ;1100.00 for each offense, and a separate
offense s hall be deemed committed on each day during or on which
a violation occurs or continues.
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SECTION 3. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict
herewith are, to the extent of such conflict, hereby repealed.
SECTIOH 4. If any section, paragraph or provision of this
ordinance shall be found to be inoperative, ineffective or invalid
for any cause, the deficiency or invalidity of such section, paragraph
or provision shall not affect any other section, paragraph or pro-
vision hereof, it being the purpose and intent of this ordinance to
make each and every section, paragraph and provision hereof
separable from all other sections, paragraphs and provisions.
SECTION 5. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect
from and after its adoption and publication.
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Passed by the Board of Commissioners October 5, 1957
Recorded by Sarah Thurman, City Clerk, October 5, 1957.