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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 8 06/05/1917 r"''' " " ,,", ,__H ______'____~.. ...... .... .., o. Ordinanoe No. 8 An Ordinanoe conoerning oontagious dis- eases and health of the Village. SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the President and Board of Trustees of the Village of Mount Prospeot, that it is hereby declared the duty of every practioing physician who shall have a patient within the territorial jurisdiction of said Village, sick or affected, or supposed to be affe~ted with a oontagious, infectious, cr pestilential disease, to forth- with make report thereof, in writing, to the President of the Village or Village clerk, desoribing the locarity of suoh patient, so that he or Ahe may be readily found; and the President of the Village or the Village Olerk shall i~mediate- I)" cause a suitable notice, with the name of the disease printed or written in large letters thereon, to be posted up in the most conspicuous plaoe, on or near the building or dwelling in which such contagious disease exists and re- quire the oocupants thereof to maintain and so keep up suoh notice until, in the opinion of a competent physician suoh notice may be safely discontinued; and any physician failing to make report as aforesaid, and any person failing or refus- ing to maintain or keep up the notice aforesaid, shall be ~bjeot to a penalty of not less than five dollars or more than fifty dollars. . SECTION 2. Any person having, or raving had th,e small- pox, soarlet fever, or other like malignant or infectious disease, who shall go about in any public place, while in danger of giving such disease to others, shall be subjeot to a penalty of not less than twenty nor more than one hundred doll.ars.PROVIDED, t.hat this shall not apply to cases where such persons shall have first consulted Borne respectable physician, and obtained frcm him a written statement that SUCh person is in no danger of givtng the disease to others. Any person attending or being about any other person having the sinalh..pox, or other infectioue disease, who shall not ohange, or purify his or her wearing apparel, before going into anypublio place, or shall otherwise conduot himself or herself as to endanger the spreading of the disease, or giv- ing it to others, shall be subject to a penalty of not less than twenty~five nor more than one hundred dollars for eaoh offense. SEC~JON 3. Whoever shall keep, sell or deliver any poison usually known or used as deadly poison, without legi- bly marking the name thereof, and the word "Poisonftupon the phial, wra.pper, box or other enclosure containing the-'same; or whoever shall sell or deliver any arsenio, strychnine, prussic aeid, or ether poison usually known or used as deadl~ poieon, to any person without registering the name of suoh person and the kind and quantity of poison $0 Bold or deliv- ered, and the purpose for which the same was obtained, shall be subjeot to a penalty of not less than five nor more than twenty-five dollars for each and every Offense. SECTION 4. The storage within the corporate limits 9f said Village, of gunpowder; t.a.r, pitch, rasin, coal ofl, - '. ,ii" --024' - ben~ine, turpentine, hemp, ,cotton, hay~ straw, nitro-glycerine, petroleum, or any of the products thereCf, and other combusti- ble or explosive material, in any ca~, or upon any premises, bY,..l1n, person in Auch quantity, or bUlk, as to endanger serious- ly the lifo or property of any person, shall subject the offender (after reasonable notice by some official of said village to abate the Bame) to a penalty of not loss than ten dollars or more than one hundred dollars. SECTION 5. It shall be unlawful ~for any druggist or other person to sell or give away any cocaine, hydrochlorate, or any salts of or any compound thereof, excepting upon the written prescription of a licensed phys~cian or dentist, licensed under the laws of the State, which prescription shall only be filled once, and must have written plainly upon it the name and address of the patient;" also, whoever shall retail or sell any cocaine, hydrochlorate, or salta or compounds there- of, or any preparation containing cocaine, Cr salts or compounds thereof, to any person, in violation of this act, and any druggist or other person who shall presoribe any cocaine, hydro- chlorate, or salts or compound thereof, to any person addicted to the habitual use of cocaine, or any compound or preparation thereOf, in any form, shall for the first offense re fined the sum of not less than fifty dollars nor more than two hundred "dollars and for each subsequent offense not less than two hundred nor more than one thousand dollars, and if the person so offending shall be a licensed physician, dentist' or pharmacist, such license shall be revoked. SEOTION 6. the President of the Village shall annually during the month of May, cause printed notices t~e posted up commanding all persons in said village, within fifteen days from the date of said notices, to thoroughly cleanse and purify their yarde, barn lots, pig styes, cellars, privies and the alley 8 and stree~, adjacent, of all trash, filth, manure, and other noisome substances likely to occasion disease, or prove offen- sive to the health of any person in said village, under penal- ty oft'ailure eo to do, or rigid pros~cution under the ordinan- ces ot said village; and it is hereby declared the duty of the vill~e ~ar.hal and village superintendent of streets, to in- spect the yards, barn lots, pig styes, cellars and priVies . of every person"in said village (using no force however tor that purpose~, as well as all the streets and~lleys of said I village, andehall make complaint and cause to be prosecuted every person who fails to ccmply with such notices: PROVIDED, that the notices aforesaid shall not be construed as acondi- tion'precedent to fixing the liability of any person for the violation of any ordinance of said village, but simply aa a warningtoalJipersons as their duties and liabilities under sai4 ordinanQ~S. ' ~~TIOR 7. This ordinance shall be in force and effect after it passage, approval and publication. c , :... . .~.---. _.~..." -=".~; ,,- "'''''' -.-" 021"' Passed June 5th, 1917. Approved June 5th, 1917. Published June 'th, 1917. Att.est : )/J" f) rIJ~J , ~<-ta~~ ~ Preeldent A/~#i~~ Posted at the rollow1ng places, to wit: Busse's Hardware Store Post Office Depot .r:~~, , l t [:" (1'1 Ij"f! '.>\\ / ,#' j',,"' r; " :",.,~ II ,,'( , illi-.' '" \:" , .... . " "":AI", ,,',; .....:0 (l r;"'I;"';' ." .'~I ..,0,1. J~: ,,;/ '..;;;.m, , .:( ..', >c' ""f~"". ~. " , . V,)" ,y ,~, " ;::; ; '-) r,' '7't"fJ;:'. ~,,', ~' I '11",1, .~~ I ;: : - - .t ,1 C~('f:, ~H . .....~.. 'i,>- " '. ~(_#: , - , ~ /) " r;)/ !l~:<:\~. ..' :: 'J ".H-;' '~ f< O',/U:&~'i"~J~ ~ LAQ. I,. ,h.~~.. "', 'J, C ,,':,,", " , "" 1Jf!1~' \C~..". -j '. '.---:~:.~~~~~ , ~"""