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AN ORDINANCE CREATING A HEALTH DEPART
MENT, GRANTING POVlER TO APPOINT A HEALTH
OFFICER AND HEALTH INSPECTOR, SETTING FORTH
THE DUTIES OF THE HEALTH OFFICER, REQUIRING
REPORTING OF CONTAGIOUS DISEASE, MAKING IT
UNLAÇ<lFUL TO SELL Um-ffiOLESOME FOOD, MAKING IT
UNLAWFUL FOR PREMISES TO BE KEPT IN AN UN-
CLEAN OR UNSANITARY CONDITION, FORBIDDING
OBSTRUCTION OF A SOURCE OF WATER SUPPLY FOR
THE CITY, DECLARING STAGNATE WATER A NUISANCE,
MAKING IT UNLAWFUL TO Dm~ UNCOVERED RUBBISH,
MAKING IT UNLAWFUL TO ESTABLISH A CEMETARY
í\TITHIN THE CITY LIMITS OR \nTHIN A MILE THERE-
OF, MAKING IT UNLAWFUL TO MAINTAIN COMMON
DRI~~ING CUPS, REQUIRING UTENSILS FOR USE IN
PUBLIC PLACES TO BE STERILIZED, FORBIDDING
THE MAINTENANCE OF A NUISANCE, MMZING IT UN-
LAHFUL TO SPIT ON A SIDEHALK OR ANY PUBLIC
PLACE, PRESCRIBING THE PENALTY THEREFOR.
I
There is hereby created a Health Department for the City
of North Richland Hills, and there is further appointed a Health
Officer and as many Health Inspectors as may be deemed necessary
by the City Council.
II
It shall be the duty of the Health Officer to enforce
all provisions of this Health Ordinance, as well as any State,
Federal or County regulations pertaining to health.
III
The Health Officer is hereby authorized to enter into
all houses and other places, private or public, at all times in
the discharge of his duties, having first asked permission of the
owners or occupants.
IV
The owner, driver, conductor or person in charge of any
stage, railroad car or public conveyance which shall enter the City,
knowingly having on board any person sick of a malignant fever, or
pestilential, contagious or infectious disease, unless such person
become sick on the way and could not be left, shall, within three
hours after the arrival of such sick person, report in writing the
facts, with the name of such person and the house where he was put
down in the City, to the Health Officero
V
Every keeper of a hotel, boarding or lodging house in the
City, in which any inmate thereof shall be sick with any infectious
or pestilential disease, shall upon such fact coming to his know-
ledge, forthwith report the same to the Health Officero Every
physician in the City shall report, under his hand, to the officer
above named, the name, residence and disease of every patient whom
he shall have sick of any infectious or pestilential disease, within
six hours after he shall have visited such patient.
VI
It shall be unlawful to sell or offer for sale any
unwholesome or polluted food or drink of any kind in the City.
VII
All premises used in the sale or storage of food or drink
intended for human consumption shall be kept in a clean and sanitary
condition. It shall be unlawful to permit any person who is afflicted
with a contagious disease to handle any food or drink intended for
human sale. Premises shall be kept free from flies and vérmin of
all kinds.
VIII
It shall be unlawful and a nuisance for any person, firm
or corporation to obstruct or pollute any watercourse or source of
water supply in the City.
IX
Any stagnant pool of water in the City is hereby declared
to be a nuisance. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or
corporation to permit any such nuisance to remain or exist on any
property under his or its control.
X
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation
to deposit anywhere in the City any uncovered piles of refuse, gar-
bage, offal or carcasses of dead animals. Such refuse must be
buried at least two feet below the surface of the ground or burned
in properly constructed incinerators or otherwise properly dis-
posed of. Any uncovered pile of refuse is hereby declared to be a
nuisance.
XI
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation
to establish a cemetery or to bury any person within the City limits,
or within a mile thereof except in an established cemetery.
XII
It shall be unlawful to permit any building, structure or
place, to remain in such a condition as to be dangerous to the
public health in any way. Any such structure, building or place,
is hereby declared to be a nuisance.
XIII
It shall be unlawful to commit or do any act which
endangers the public health or results in annoyance or discomfort
to the public.
XIV
It shall be unlawful to maintain any common drinking cup,
or cups, dipper or other similar utensil, for the use of more than
one person in any public hall, theater, store or other place fre-
quented by the public.
1.'V
Utensils for personal use in all places serving food or
drink to the public shall be thoroughly cleaned and sterilized
after each such usage.
XVI
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation
to permit or maintain the existence of any nuisance on any property
under his, her, or its control. The Chief of Police and the Health
Officer are each hereby authorized to abate any such nuisance exist-
ing in the City, whether such nuisance is specifically recognized by
ordinance or not.
XVII
It shall be unlawful to spit or expectorate on any public
sidewalk or other public place, or on the floor or walls of any
store, theater, hall, public vehicle, or other place frequented by
the public or to which the public is invited.
XVIII
Any person, firm or corporation violating any provision
of this article shall be fined not less than ONE DOLLAR ($1.00) nor
more than TllO HUNDRED DOLLARS ($200.00) for each offense; and a
separate offense shall be deemed committed on each and every day
during or on which a violation occurs or is permitted to continue.
PASSED AND APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
NORTH RICHL~ND HILLS, TEXAS, this the /¿?t~ day of September, 1962.
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