HomeMy WebLinkAboutNo 13 Relating to the Preservation of Health, Defining Certain Powers and Duties of the Board of Health with Respect to Sanitation and Sanitation Facilities, Defining and Prohibiting Nuisances and Providing for the Abatement Thereof..ORDINANCE # A
AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO THE PRESERVATION
OF HEALTH, DEFINING CERTAIN POWERS AND
DUTIES OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH '�= RESPECT
TO SANITATION AND SANITATION FACILITIES,
DEFINING AND PROHIBITING NUISANCES AND PRO-
VIDING FOR THE ABATETViENT THEREOF, AND PRO-
VIDING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATION.
THE TOWN BOARD OF THE TO!,LrN OF NEW CANADA DOES ORDAIN:
Section 1. No person shall permit any condition, which is deemed
by the town board of health to be a public or private nuisance, on
any premises owned or occupied by him tr,iitnin the Town of New Canada.
Whenever any cellar, vault, private drain, cesspool, privy, or sewer
becomes offensive, nauseous, or injurious to health, such condition
shall constitute a nuisance Teitnin the meaning of this section.
Sec. 2. Where public sewer is accessible in a street or alley
to a building or premises abutting thereon, liquid wastes from any
plumbing system in said building shall be discharged into the public
sewer, unless otherwise prohibited by ordinance or regulations. If
water closets or other plumbing fixtures exist in any building located
where there is no public sewer within a reasonable distance, suitable
provision shall be made for disposing of the sewage originating in
such building by any method of disposal which meets requirements and
standards recommended or established by the Minnesota Board of Health.
Sewage from buildings other than residences shall be disposed
of as required or recommended by regulations, recommendations and
published instructions of the Minnesota Department of Health.
All septic tanks and Imhoff tanks shall be operated in accordance
with Minnesota. State Board of Health regulations and recommendations.
In areas where municipal sewers are not available and where, in
the opinion of the Town Board of Health, it is not practical to in-
stall private i%rater carrying sewage disposal systems, a privy is
necessary for disposal of human wastes. Any such privy shall be con-
structed in accordance with regulations, plans and recommendations
published by the Yinnesote Department of Health and shall be main-
tained in accordance with such published recommendations. No facility
for the disposal of sanitary sewage, such as septic tank, Imhoff tank,
privy, sewer line or leaching field, shall be constructed within
fifty feet (50 ft.) of a. well or other source of water supply.
It shall be unlawful to pump effluent from any facility used for
disposal of sanitary sewage to the ground surfact unless such facility
does not receive any human waste. It shall be unlawful to discharge
any effluent waste, or other discarded material into the water of
any lake, stream, ditch, pond or other body of water in the Town of
New Canada.
Sec. 3. No owner, lessee, agent, or occupant of any building or
premises in the Town of New Canada shall employ, cause, or permit any
part of the contents of any vault, privy, sink, or septic tank, dry
well or cesspool (being thereon, and of which he has control), to be
removed unless according to permit or the regulations of said board
of health.
Sec. 4. No person or corporation shall discharge out of, or per-
mit to flow from, their residence or place of business or any other
property operated or owned by such person or corporation, any foul or
odorous liquors, slops or substance whatever into any private ground,
street, lane, or public ground within the Town of New Canada, or into
any body of water, stream or ditch.
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Dec. 5. No manure, garbage, offal, or any vegetable or animal
matter or odorous substance which may be detrimental to health
shall be dumped or deposited at any place within the limits of the
Town of New Canada, except at such place or places designated and
provided for that purpose by the board of health.
Sec. 6. It shall be the duty of every contractor, scavenger,
and person, his agents and employees, who has contracted or under-
taken to remove any diseased or dead animals, offal, rubbish, gar-
bage, dirt, street sweepings, night soil, or other filthy, offensive,
or noxious substance, or is engaged about any such removal, or in
loading or unloading of any such substance, to do the same with dis-
patch, and in every particular in a manner as cleanly and little of-
fensive, and with as little danger and prejudice to life and health
as possible.
Sec. 7. All persons, firms, or corporations engaged in the busi-
ness of scavenger within the Town of New Canada, or who may be em-
ployed therein by individuals to remove garbage or other substances
which for any cause have become offensive, or have to be removed,
shall, in removing the same through, over, or along any of the streets,
highways, alleys, or public grounds of said town, or elsewhere there-
in, convey the same in close, tight, covered boxes, so as to prevent
the scattering or dropping therefrom of any such garbage or other
substances while in motion or passing along any of the streets, himh-
ways, alleys and other places above mentioned, any part or portion
of such garbage or other materials, or substances, or permit the
emission of smells therefrom.
This ordinance shall apply to and is !aereby made binding and ob-
ligatory upon all persons, firms, or corporations who a•re now en-
gaged in the business of removing garbage or other materials and
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substances which for any cause are offensive or deleterious in said
town, or have to be removed therefrom under any of the ordinances
thereof now in force therein, or that may hereafter be passed by the
board of supervisors of said totem, or which may hereafter be en—
gaged or employed to do like work pursuant to either or any of such
ordinance.
Sec. 8. No person shall obstruct, delay, or interfere with the
proper and free use, for the purpose of which they may be and should
be set apart for the use of any contractor or person engaged in re—
moving any offal, garbage, rubbish, dirt, dead animals, night soil,
or other like substances, or with the proper performance of such
contracts.
Sec. 0. Whenever the attention of the board of health is called
to the water from a. well or other source of water supply in New
Canada which is, or ma.y be, of doubtful cuality for drinking pur—
poses, the board of health shall call same to the attention of the
State Board of Health, Division of General Sanitation, with the re—
quest that they make a survey and necessary bacteriological analyses
to determine as to whether or not continued use of said water shall
be permitted. If it is found to be detrimental to health, the board
of health shall serve, or cause the local police officers to serve
upon the owner of the property, his agent, or occupant, a. notice in
writing that such water shall no longer be used for drinking purposes.
Sec. 10. It shall be the duty of any police officer to report
to the board of health the existence of any nuisance whatever in said
town, and perform such other acts relative to the same according to
the general or special regulations prescribed relating thereto.
Sec. 11. Whenever any nuisance shall be found on any premises
within the town, contrary to this ordinance, the board of health is
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hereby authorized in its discretion to cause the same to be sum—
marily abated in such manner as it may direct.
Sec. 12. In all cases where no provision is herein made de—
fining what are nuisances, and how the same may be removed, abated
or prevented, in addition to what may be declared such herein,
those offenses which are known to the common law of the land and
the statutes of Yinneeota as nuisances may, in case the same exists
within, the town limits or vithin one (1) mile thereof, be treated
as such and proceeded against as is in this ordinance provided, or
in accordance with any other law which shall give the officer try—
ing the same jurisdiction.
Sec. 13. Every agent or other person having the charge, con—
trol or management, or who collects or receives the rents of any
lands, premises or other property in the town, shall disclose the
name or names of the owner or owners of such land, premises, or
property, or the name or names of the person or persons for whom
such agent or other person is acting, upon application being made
therefor by the board of health.
Sec. 14. Any person who violates, disobeys, omits, neglects
or refuses to comply with any of the provisions of this ordinance,
or who refuses or neglects to obey any of these rules, orders or
sanitary regulations of the board of health, or omits or neglects
or refuses to comply with, or who resists any officer, or order or
special regulation of said board of health, shall upon arrest and
conviction before the justice court of the Town of New Canada. be
subject to a fine of not less than Ten Dollars (810.00) and not ex—
ceeding the sum of One Hundred Dollars 0,100.00) for each and every
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offense, and each day the violation continues shall be deemed a
separate offense.
Sec. 15. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force im—
mediately upon its passage and publication.
Passed the Town Board this day of F1 U G U ST 1954.
ATTEST:
Clerk
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Chairman of the Bopr
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----------------------------------------------------- being duly sworn, on oath says;
that he is, and during all the times herein statedthas been___________________________________________
the_____________________________a_�___-___publishegr�aof the newspaper known as Ramsey County Review,
and has full knowledge of thrQinancfer 41 t d; tllgt for more than one year prior to the publica-
tion therein of the ---------(-J----------------------------1- ------------ ---------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- hereinafter described.
said newspaper was printed and published in the Village of North St. Paul, in the County of Ramsey,
State of Minnesota, on Thursday of each week; that during all said time said newspaper has been print-
ed in the English language from its known office of publication within the Village, from which it pur-
ports to be issued as above stated and in newspaper format and in column and sheet form equivalent
in space to at least 450 running inches of single column, two inches wide; has been issued once
each week from a known office established in said place of publication and employing skilled workmen
and equipped with the necessary material for preparing and printing the same, and the presswork on that
part of the newspaper devoted to local news of interest to the community which it purports to serve has
been done in its known office of publication; that during all said time in its makeup not less than twenty-
five per cent of its news columns have been devoted to local news of interest to the community it pur-
ports to serve; that during all said time it has not wholly duplicated any other publication, and has not
been entirely made up of patents, plate matter and advertisements; has been circulated in and near its
said place of publication to the extent of at least two hundred and forty (240) copies regularly delivered
to paying subscribers and has entry as second class matter in its local post office; and that there has
been on file in the office of the County Auditor of Ramey County, Minnesota, the affidavit of a person
having knowledge of the facts, showing the name and location of said newspaper and the existence of
the conditions constituting its qualifications as a legal newspaper.
That the______________ ordinance ------------------------ hereto attached was cut from the
columns of of said newspaper, and was printed and published therein in the English language, once each
week, for_--____-__yy_,_,____one -------- successive weeks; that it [[was first so published on Thursday
the ------------ 12th ------ day of ------- August -------- 19_5-4and thereafter on Thursday
of each week to and including the .------------------ day of --------------------- ...... ------ 19 ---- ; and
that the following is a printed copy of the lower case alphabet from A to Z, both inclusive, and is hereby
acknowledged as being the size and kind of type used in the composition and publication of said notice,
to -wit
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Subscribed and sworn to before m ____ _ _ _ ---------------===-=19--=
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Notary Public, _-------------- _------------------- County, Minn.
VERNON I PTACEK,My commission exp es_____ -------------------------------------- 19 ----
Notary Public, Ramsey County, Minn,
MY Commission Expires sept. lo, 1959.
VILLAGE OF MAPLEVOOD
Ra,ms*:-.y County
Board of Health Ordinarn-7,
ORDINkNCE NO. 1'z
As Amenvle'.', By Ordina=,,s Na. 1`
AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO THE REMERVATION OF HEALTH,
DEFINING CERTAIN POWERS AND DITTIES OF THE BOARD OF
HEALTH WITH RESPECT TO SANITATION AND SANITATION
FACILITIES, DEFINING AND PROHIBITING NUISANCES AND
PROVIDING FOR THE ABATEFM.T THEREOF, AND FROVIDING
PENA_L,TTIES FOR VIOLATION.
"SeG- 4,. No o -s-, c6rpoL,a.tion disoh-lrge out of,
or permit ',.) flow from, their rc,;siders -.s-- or place of business
or any other property operated or owned by su-3h person or
corporation, any foul or cdorous liquors, slops or substance
whatever into any private gro-L:nl, street, lane, or public ground
within the Villagc of Maplewooa, 3z lnt,-., any body of water, stream,
cr ditch."
14. Any person who violates, di.sobeye, omits, neglects or
refuses to ccmply with any of the provision & this ordinance,
or wh:, refuses or neglects to obey any of these rules, crdera
or sanitary regulations of the board ^f health, or omits or
neglects or .refuges to comply with, or who resists any officer,
or order or special regulation of said b -.-bard of health, shall
upon arrest and con-rin.tion before the justir;e court of the.
Village of Maplevnol be sub jest tV,) a fimr, of nr.t less than
Ten Sollars: ($10,oOO) P-nd not Asx r. -and ing the sum of One. Hundred
Dollars ($100*00) for each and Pvery offense, and each day
the vi:)l%ti:,n continues -h!--,Il- b�� deemad a eepaxate offense)."
"S90o 15. This 4-xd1nanoe -4ha,11 take, effeot and be in force
ir=,ediately upon ilbs pessa4;,-. and publication."
Passed by the Tcm. Board tie i:� 5 d%Y of Augastt 1954o
Wal 'Ao E. Luebben,
Chairman cf the Board*