HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD NO 341 ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE A~'~NDING ORDINANCE NO. 318 OF THE
CITY OF BAKERSFIELD, ENTITLED "AN ORDINA~IOE REGULAT-
ING THE COLLECTION, REMOVAL AND DISPOSITION OF G.AR-
BAGE, RUBBISH AND WASTE MATTER AND STABLE ~ANURE. .
DEFINING SAME AND PRESCRIBING A PENALTY FOR THE VIO
LATION OF SAID ORDINANCE AND REPEALING ORDINANCE NO.
27~" BY AMENDING SECTION 3 THER$OF AND ADDING A NEW
SECTION TO BE KNOWN AS SECTION ~.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAKERSFIELD, as
fol 1 ows:
SECTION 1. Section 3 of Ordinance No. 318 of the City of Bakersfield
entitled "AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE COLLECTION, P~MOVAL AND DIS-
POSITION OF GARBAGE, RUBBISH AND WASTE MATTER AND STABLE MANURE:
DEFINING SANE AI~D PRESCRIBING A PENALTY FOR THE VIOLATION OF SAID
ORDINANCE AND REPEALING ORDINANCE NO. 278" is hereby amended to
read as follows:
SECTION 3. It shall be the duty of every owner, manager
or person in possession, charge or control of any boarding house,
restaurant, hotel, apartment house, eating house, and the owner,
agent or manager of every dwelling house or flat building within
the City of Bakersfield, whether occupied by one or more families,
to provide or to cause to be provided, and at all times to keep
or to cause to be kept, as in this Ordinance prescribed, portable
vessels, tanks or receptacles for holding garbage; each such vessel
tank or re,~eptacle shall be constructed of metal and shall be water
tight, and shall be so constructed as to contain not less than
three or more than sixteen gallons, and Shall be provided with a
handle or i~mndles on the outside thereof and with a tight-fitting
metal cover. The City Health Officer shall be the judge of the
sufficiency of said vessel, tank or receptacle~ Such cover shall
not be removed except when necessary to place garbage therein or
to take garbage therefrom. Each vessel, tank or receptacle shall
be kept or placed in the manner following:
Where there i~ an alley other than a blind alley in the
rear of the premises, such vessel, tank or receptacle shall, be
placed on the premises within five feet of the rear property line.
~nere there is no alley other than a blind alley in the
rear of the premises and there is a side entrance to the rear of
said premises, each such vessel, tank or receptacle shall be
placed on the premises at an accessible point not less than fifty
(50) feet nor more than seventy-five~ (75) feet from the front
property line.
Where there is no alley other than a blind alley nor such
side entrance, each such vessel, tank or receptacle shall be
placed on the curb in front of the premises during the hours fixed
for the collection of garbage therefrom. Each such vessel, tank
or receptacle shall be accessible to the garbage collector'when
called for.
SECTION 2. A new Section is hereby added to said Ordinance No. 318
to be kno~ as Section 8½ and to read as follows:
SEOTION 8~. No rubbish shall be removed and carried on
and along the streets and alleys of said City of Bakersfield, ex-
cept the same be carried, conveyed or hauled in wagons made dust
proof to the extent that it is impossible for any of the contents
of such wagons to sift through or fall out upon said streets and
alleys. The contents of such wagons must be further protected so
as to prevent same being blown or scattered upon the streets,
alleys and adjacent lands.
I hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance was passed
by the Council of the City of Bakersfield on the 6th day of August,
1917, by the following vote:
NAYS:
City clerk ~ii~ ex-offi~,~o Clerk' of ~h~ '
Comcil of [~ ~ty o~ersfield.
~PRO~D t~s 6th d~y of A~ust, 1917~ -