HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance No. 38 (f) The act of depositing filth or any foul, offensive,
nauseous or injurious substance upon any sidewalk, street, alley,
public thoroughfare or other public place.
(g) The act of sweeping or depositing any trash, paper
or rubbish into any street, alley, public thoroughfare or other
public place and allowing the same to remain in such place longer
than six hours.
(h) The act of burning any hair, leather, rags, or any
other substances of any kind which may cause or produce an
offensive smell, smoke or odor capable of annoying persons living
in the vicinity or persons passing along the streets, alleys, or
public thoroughfares.
(i ) The act of defecating or urinating upon the streets,
alleys or public grounds, or in any place that may been seen
from a private residence or by persons passing along the streets
alleys or public thoroughfare.
(k) The act by any person of permitting or allowing any
Tweeds, filth or rubbish of any kind to remain on any sidewalk )
in front of or at the side of any premises owned by such persons,
or in the street, to the middle of, in front or at the side oflany
premises owned or controlled by such person, or upon any alley,
that may be at the rear or side of any lots owned or controlled
by such person.
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(1) The act of expectorating or spitting of mucous, or
saliva, or saliva mixed with tobacco, or secretions from the
nose or air passages, or the remains of any chewed or partly
chewed tobacco or snuff, or the remnant of any partially chewed
or smoked cigar or cigarette upon any sidewalk, public building,
street car, or public vechicle, place or building or public
resort within the corporate limits of the city.
(m) The act of hauling, carrying or transporting any meat
or slaughtered or dead animals or fish through the streets of ,
the city without having the same entirely covered, screened
and protected from dust and public view.
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(n) The act of scattering or distributing any advertise-
ments, circulars, handbills, printed or written announcements;
or paper of the like character, or any medicines, upon the streets,
sidewalks, alleys or within public buildings or grounds within
the limits of the city.
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(o) The act of the owner or possessor of any animal which
may die within the corporate limits of the city failing to have
the carcass of the aame removed
within eighteen hours after death of said animal.
(p) The act of throwing from any opening in, or carrying
from, any dwelling or place of abode, any night soil, feces, urine
or filthy or unclean water into or upon any alley, street or side-
walk or into or upon adjacent property not owned by the principal.
(q) The act of conducting or; causing to be conducted into
any alley or gutter of waste water from any sink or tank or any
source of grater supply which may produce any pool or pools of
stagnant water in said alley or gutter.
(r) The act of dumping upon and removing from the sidewalk,
street or alley any coal or like material inaa dry ptate, in such
a manner that annoying or offensive dust is generated from such
material, or the act of leaving any coal dust or like material
upon any sidewalk, street, or alley at or near the place where
such coal or material was deposited or from which it was removed.
(s ) Any article or substancelplaced upon any street, -side-
walk, alley, gutter, drain or public ground except such articles
as re permitted by ordinance of this city, in such a manner
as to obstruct such passageway or drainage,
(t) The act of throwing any glass, tin, plastic ware, crock-
ery, or rubbish into or upon the sidewalks, streets, alleys,
public thoroughfares, commons, drains or gutters.
(u) Any unwholesome food, liquor or adult®rated medicine,
and all cattle, horse or hog pens, 'stables or enclosed areas in
which any cattle, horses or hogs may be kept or confined, which
may from use have become offensive.,
(v ) The act of allowing any 'privy to become dilapidated
or out of repair so that any person within or the contents thereof
may be exposed to view; the act of constructing or keeping onithe
premises any privy, or the contents thereof are exposed to view,
or can be seen from any street or public places; the act of dis-
charged or causing to be discharged into any street, alley, public
thoroughfare, or other places or upon the premises belonging to
any other person the contents of such privy.
(w) Any granaries, barns, elevators, or other premises
where rats are bred or harbored.
(x) Any nauseous, foul or putrid liquids, or substances
likely to be nauseous, foul, offensive or putrid, discharged, ';
placed, thrown or conducted into or upon any street, alley,
public ground or common.
(y) The act of wrongfully casting, throwing or depositing
any filth, substance or thing into -any private or public well
or cistern.
(z ) The act of erecting or maintaining buildings or
structures with roofs or eaves projecting beyond the property
line or shedding water upon any property line or shedding water
uponany property other than that belonging to the owner of such
erection or building.
SECTION 111.
ANY OTHER.
Any other act or thing done or duffered within the city limits,
which may cause interference with the enjoyment by any member
or members of the community, or any person or persons, who_may
thereby be deprived of his or their right to be free fromi,,offensive
or unpleasant odors or vapors, and to breathe fresh air and to
be free from the sounds or noises which generally disturb a
member or members of the community:
SECTION 1V.
CITY MAY MAKE IMPROVEMENTS AND CHARGE TO OWNER,
In the event such owner shall fail or refuse to comply with any
of the provisions of this ordinance within ten days after notice
to do so, the city may do such work or cause the same to be done,
and pay therefor, and sharle the expenses in doing or having
such work done, or improvements made, to the owners of the prop-
erty, whereupon such sharge shall be a personal liability of
such owner of the city. Said notice may be in writing served
upon such owner in person by an officer or employee of the
city, or may be by letter addressed to such owner at his post
office address be not known, then notice may be given by publish-
ing a brief summary of said order as many as two times within
ten consecutive days some newspaper of general circulation in' the
City addressed "Sanitary Improvements", "To Whom It May Concern",
and such publication shall be deemed sufficient,
SECTION V
PENALTY
Any person, firm, corporation or agent violating any of the pro-
visions of this ordinance, shall, upon conviction thereof, be deem-
ed guilty of misdemeanor and shall be fined any sum not in excess
of two hundreA ($200,00) dollars.
THERE IS HEREBY declared to be an emergency within the limits
of the City of Friendswood, and, the requiremetits for reading
this ordinance on three separate days having been waived by a
majority vote of the City Council, the same is passed, approved
and adopted, on this day, 25th of May, 1964, and shall become ef-
fective immediately upon publication as presented by law.
seal M yo - Har y D. Wagner
Secretary-'A G nnis
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COUNTY OF GALVESTON )
STATE iOF TEXAS.
Dorothy L. Swollen
BEFORE ME
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a Notary Public in and for said County,
State of Texas, this day personally ca ie
and appeared William law
to me well known,
and who, after being duly sworn,
did depose and say that he is ntvner
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- and publisher
Notice: Ordinance #38 was
enacted by the City Council of of the, Galveston County Press, a news-
the City of Friendswood, Gal- 1
veston County,Texas"pertaining paper 'of general circulation, which has
to the following:
Be it ordained by the;City been continuously and regularly published
Council .ofthe City of Friends-
wood, Texas: an ordinance de- for a period of not less than One Year in
1 fining a 'nuisance: describing
specific nuisances: providing the County of Galveston and, that the
S for the abatement thereof; and Ordinance # 38 City of Friendswood
1 provicflng.a penalty, J11-1tF _ I
Ili Texas.
a copy .of which is hereto attached was
published in said newspaper on the follow-
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ing dates, to-wit: June llth, 1961+.
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Sworn to and subscribed before " me.;
Witness my hand and seal of office, i
Dickinson, this the 8th
day of July , 196�
Notary Public for Galveston County, Texas.
Jbr commisiion expires June 1y 1965
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