ORDINANCE NO. 18.

AN ORDINANCE IN RELATION TO NUISANCES

Be it ordained by the Board of Aldermen of the City of Browning,Missouri, as follows:

SECTION 1. That no person shall permit any dead carcass, standing pool of water, or any animal or vegetable substance, the decomposition of which would cause or have a tendency to cause, an unhealthy or offensive smell or influence, or any filth or other nuisance of any kind, to remain on his or her premises more than twenty-four hours after being notified by the Marshal to remove the same.

SECTION 2. No person shall throw or cause to be thrown into any creek, pool, ditch or stream whatever, within this City, any dead animal, filth, unclean water, substance or thing whatever.

SECTION 3. The person in possession, or control of any animal dying within the City shall, within twenty-four hours thereafter, remove the same one-half mile beyond the corporate limits, and if such animal be not in the possession or under the control of any person, at the time of its death, and be not removed within twenty-four hours thereafter, the smae shall be removed and buried by the Marshal at the expense of the City.

SECTION 4. No person shall erect, keep up or maintain any slaughter house, or carry on any offensive business or occupation in this city, the stench of which shall be offensive or injurious to the health of any of the citizens of the city; and every owner or person in charge, or control of such slaughter house or offensive business, who shall fail or refuse to cleanse, purify or abate the same, within three days after notice from the City Marshal, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.

SECTION 5. Every person who shall violate any of the provisions of this ordinance, shall on conviction, thereof, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor.

SECTION 6. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval.

Passed and approved this 12th day of May, 1892.

E. B. Fields, Mayor.

Attest:
R. M. Tunnell, City Clerk.