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ROLL CALL
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VOTING AY NAY
Salt Lake City,Utah, June 4, 192.1....
Barnes
Burton
Crabbe - I move that the ordinance be passed.
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Mr. Chairman �—
Result _ AN ORDINANCE
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTIONS 103, 104, 105, 106, 107,
110), 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 119 and 120, Revised Ordinances
of Salt Lake City, 1920, relating to sanitary inspection.
Be it ordained by the Board of Commissioners of Salt
Lake City, Utah:
SECTION I. That Sections 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 110,
111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 119 and 120, Revised Ordinances of
Salt Lake City, 1920, relating to sanitary inspection, be, and
the same is hereby amended to read as follows:
SECTION 103. DEFINITIONS. the term "garbage" as used
in this chapter shall be held to include and mean swill and
all animal, vegetable and food refuse from kitchens of resi-
dences, hotels, cafes, restaurants and places where food is
prepared for human consumption.
The term "market waste" as used in this chapter, shall
include condemned or decayed or unsound vegetables, meat,
fish and fruit, and all waste and offal thereof from markets,
stores and factories, and all vegetable waste and refuse
from such markets, stores and factories.
The term "stove ashes, as used in this chapter, shall
include the residue of material burned in stoves and in fur-
naces in private residences, but not the residue from fur-
naces in apartment houses, hotels, business houses, heating
or manufacturing plants. An apartment house is defined to
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be a building comprising four or more suites designed for
separate housekeeping tenements with heat furnished in
common.
Zhe term "trade waste" as used in this article shall
include all discarded wooden boxes, barrels, broken lumber
card board boxes, cartons, waste paper, leather, rubber,
excelsior, cuttings, sweepings, rags and other inflammable
waste materials and all discarded trade or manufacturing
refuse from stores, factories or other places of business
which are not included within the definitions of garbage,
stove ashes and market waste.
SECTION 104. RESIDENCES AND BUSINESS DISTRICTS. The
Board of Commissioners may provide for the gathering, col-
lecting and disposing of garbage, stove ashes and other
refuse from the residences in the residence section of
Salt Lake City at the expense of the City. The residence
section shall include all that part of the city otitside of
the business district, which business district is describe.
as follows: Commencing at the southwest corner of the in-
tersection of North Temple and State Streets; thence west
along the south side of North temple Street to the west
side of West Temple Street; thence south along the west
side of West Temple Street to a point 10 rods north of
the north side of South Temple Street; thence west to the
east side of Third West Street; thence south to a point
165 feet south of the south line of South Temple Street;
thence east to a point 165 feet west of the west line of
West temple Street; thence south to a point 165 feet north
of First. South Street; thence west to the east side of
First West Street; thence south to a point 165 feet north
of Second South Street; thence west to the east side of
Fifth West Street; thence south to a point 165 feet south
of the south side of Second South Street; thence east to
the east side of R14 Grande Avenue; thence south to a
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point 165 feet south of Third South Street; thence east
to a point 165 feet west from the west side of Pest Temple
Street; thence south to the south side of Fifth South
Street; thence east to the west side of Second East Street;
thence north to the north side of South Temple Street;
thence west to the west side of State street; thence north
to the point of beginning.
SECTION 105. LICEI SH AND PEILIIT. It shall be unlawf 1
for any person to collect, carry, transport or haul or to
engage in the business of collecting, carrying, transport-
ing or hauling garbage, manure, market waste, trade waste,
night soil, dead animals, or other refuse without fist
obtaining a permit from the Board of Health and a license
from the License Assessor and Collector, and then only in
such sanitary vehicles or receptacles as shall be strong,
tight and covered so as to be inoffensive, and so construc,-
ed that such materials may be transported without falling,
leaking or spilling• All such vehicles or receptacles
must have the approval of the Board of Health before permit
and license are issued.
It shall be unlawful for any person other than a per-
son day licensed to collect, haul, convey or transport an
of the waste materials herein mentioned, or to interfere
in any manner with any receptacle containing any such
waste materials, or to remove any such receptacle from the
location where placed by the owner thereof, or to remove
any of the contents of such receptacles.
SECTION 106. TIME OF COLLECTION. It shall be unlawfu
for any person to make collections of or haul or transport
garbage, or market waste in or from any part of the busi-
ness district of Salt Lake City as defined in this chapter
except between the hours of eleven o'clock P.M. and six
o'clock A. M. of the next day.
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It shall be unlawful for any person to make colleetio
of or to haul or transport any trade waste in or from any
part of the business district of Salt Lake City, as define.
in this chapter, rortroproliespd,r4vAim except between the hours
of eleven o'clock P. H. and eight o'clock A. K. of the next
day; provided, however, that such collection of trade waste
may be made from alleys in the business district not later
than ten o'clock A. H. of any day.
SECTION 107. DISPOSITION OP GARBAGE AND WASTE. It
I shall be unlawful for any person to deposit or cause or
permit to be deposited any garbage, market waste, stove
ashes, trade waste, or any other similar refuse in or upon
any street or alley, or upon any premises din Salt Lake Cit
without express permission from the Board of Health. The
Board of Health may give permit for the feeding of garbage
or swill upon premises properly equipped and maintained so
as to prevent the creation of a nuisance, or for the de-
positing of ashes and other dry material for filling pur-
poses, or for the burning of paper and other dry waste,
at such places as the Boa rd of Health may designate and
under such restriction as said Board may impose, or for the
assorting, baling and marketing of trade waste upon pre-
mises properly equipped and maintained.
SECTION 110. ACCULMULATIONS OP WASTE PMATERIALS. It
shall be unlawful for any person to allow garbage, ashes,
market waste, trade waste, manure, night soil or other re-
fuse to accumulate upon premises under his control, or to
fail to remove same within twenty-four hours after notifi-
cation from the Board of Health so to do.
All garbage, ashes, market waste, trade. waste, manur-,
night soil, and other refuse not collected and hauled away
by the City in its regular garbage and refuse collections
must be regularly hauled away and disposed of by licensed
collectors at the expense of the owners or occupants of th-
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`premises whereon such waste materials are produced.
SECTION 111. GARBAGE REC]f?TACL. . Every owner, lease.
or occupant of any building, premises or place of business,
shall provide or cause to be provided, and at all times
keep, at such place as the health commissioner may direct,
suitable and sufficient metallic receptacles for receiving
and holding garbage, market waste and other refuse that ma
accumulate from said building, place of business or upon
said premises or the portion thereof under the control of
such person. No receptacles shall be filled to exceed one
hundred pounds in weight, including weight of receptacle.
Each receptacle shall be provided with handles for the
convenient lifting of the same.
All garbage and market waste must be placed in rain-
proof and fly-proof metallic receptacles with proper
covers, and shall at all times be kept securely closed, an.
shall be kept in such place and in such manner as to pre-
vent offense.
Receptacles containing garbage and other waste matter
to be collected and hauled by the city or licensed collect-
or, shall be set out for collection at the places and at
such times as may be designated by order of the board of
health. Such receptacles must not be set out upon the
street for collection prior to the day of collection; and
must be set out on the day of collection before the hour of
collection designated by the board of health. All empty
receptacles must be removed from the street as soon as
practicable after being emptied, and in every case must
be removed from the street the same day they are emptied.
No such receptacle shall be permitted to remain on any
street longer than may be necessary for the removal of
the contents thereof. No such receptacle shall be permitt=d
to remain on any street in the business district between t.e
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hours or 8 o'clock A. 1.1. and 11 o'clock P. LT. Of any day.
SECTION 112. SEGREGATION OP REFUSE. It shall be un-
lawful for any person to deposit garbage or market waste
in the same receptacle with ashes, cans, bottles, trade
waste, or other similar refuse. Garbage and market waste
may be deposited in one receptacle. Stove ashes, cans,
bottles, lawn clippings and similar refuse may be deposite'
in one receptacle.
It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit garbag,
or other wet refuse to wooden boxes, barrels, or paste
board cartons. All such receptacles when used as contain-
ers for garbage or wet refuse, shall be considered refuse
and removed by the garbage collector.
It shall be unlawful for any person to place or cause
to be placed upon any street or alley for the purpose of
collection or otherwise any loose paper, excelsior or simi
ler trade waste. All such trade Ila.ste must be baled or
placed in sacks securely tied before collection is made.
SECTION 113. BEFOULING GUTTERS AND DITCHES. It shall
be unlawful for any person to sweep into or deposit any
paper or other rubbish in any gutter or ditch within the
city limits, or to empty in any gutter or ditch any swill,
house slops, contents of spittons, or other filthy refuse.
It shall be unlawful for any person to throw or de-
posit any dead animal or fowl, or any live animal or fowl
for purpose of drowning, in any reservoir, pool, canal,
creek, or other stream or body of water within the city.
SECTION 114. CARE OP RECEPTACLES. All licensed
collectors of garbage or other refuse and city employes
engaged in garbage and refuse collection shall immediate)
upon emptying receptacles replace the cover thereon and
set such receptacles in upright position. All garbage
collectors shall exercise reasonable care in the handling
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of garbage and other refuse and the receptacles containing
the same.
It shall be unlawful for any person to wilfully break,
' deface, or injure any receptacle used to contain garbage
or other refuse, or to do or permit anything to be done
in connection with such reoepEaoles or the contents thereof,
which shall be offensive or filthy in relation to any per-
son, place, building, premises or highway.
SECTION 115. NIGHT SOIL. It shall be unlawful for
any person to deposit, burn or bury any night soil in or
on any premises within the city limits. All night soil
shall be disposed of at the flushing station under directi•+s
of the Board of Health.
SECTION 116. BURNING OF REFUSE. It shall be unlawful
for any person to burn garbage, market waste, or other of-
fensive refuse in the open air, or in any furnace or stove
within the city limits; provided, however, that trade waste
and other similar refuse may be burned at the city inciner-
ating plant, or other place designated by the Board of
Health.
All trade waste not salvaged by the collector shall
be incinerated at the city incinerating plant or other
place designated by the Board of Health, at the expense of
such collector.
COLLECTOR TO REPORT.
SECTION 119./ Every licensed collector of garbage,
trade waste or market waste must report to the Health De-
partment the names and addresses of all places of business
or individuals from which collection of any such materials
is made by such licensed collector. Report must be made as
required by the Health Commissioner.
SECTION 120. PER,,IIT NIMMT ON VEHICLE. It shall be
unlawful for any person removing or engaged in the business
of removing garbage, trade waste, market waste, manure,
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,night soil or other refuse to fail to secure a permit
from the Board of Health for that purpose or to fail to
have the word "scavenger" and the number of his permit in
large white letters on a black background, plainly printed
or attached to both sides of the vehicle body; Vehicles
used by the city in making its collection shall have there
on the words, 'Tpermit No. (giving number), Board of
Health;" the words 7T oard of Health" being in large letter.
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SECTION .2aE Any person violating any provision of this
ordinance ah%11 be punisrie . as provided in Section 7, Revised
Ordinances et Sal' ,Lake City, 1920.
SEOTION3. In the opinion [of the Board of Commission-
ers, it is necessary to the peace, health and safety of the in-
habitants of said city that this ordinance become effective im-
mediately.
SECTION 4. This ordinance shall take effect upon
publication.
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Passed by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City, Utah,
this 8th day of June , A.U. 1921. /�
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