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CHAPTER 23 - PUBLIC HEALTH, REFUSE
Council:
Jan.
7, 1935
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Minister: Jan. 17, 1935
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1.
·No owner, occupier or tenant, shall permit filth, garbage, refuse,
vegetable or animal matter, stagnant, or impure water or other matter or thing·
offensive or dangerous to the public health to accumulate upon the premises of
which he is such owner, occupant or tenant, as the case may be; but shall keep and
preserve the premises so occupied or owned by him as aforesa·id in a cleanly and
wholesome state.
2.
All house offal, whether consisting of vegetable or animal substances,
shall be placed in suitable vessels, kept in some convenient and retired place,
and shall be disposed of from time to time, so that the same shall not become
offensive or dangerous to the public health in such manner as a sanitary inspector
of the Town shall approve.
3.
No person shall throw into or leave in, or upon any street, public
enclosure, vacant lot or pond or other body of water within the Town, any dead
animal, dirt, sweepings, sawdust, soot, or ashes, cinders, shavings, hair, shred,
manure, oysters, clams or lobster shells, waste matter, rubbish or filth of any
kind, or any refuse animal or vegetable matter whatever, provided that nothing in
this Section contained shall restrict the right of the Town Council to locate any
place in the Tadn where the Town garbage and refuse may be deposited.
4.
All dirt, sawdust, soot, ashes, cinders, shavings, hai r, shreds, manure,
oysters, clams or lobster shells, waste water and al 1 animal or vegetable sub-.
stances, rubbish or filth of any kind, in any house or warehouse or other building,
cellar, yard, unaccepted street, alley or other place which the Board of Health
may deem injurious to the health of the Town, shall be removed by the owner or
occupant of such house or other buildings, cellar, yard, unacceptable street,
all eyway or other place .where the same
0may be found within tϽ1enty-four hours or
such other time as the Board may deem reasonable after notice in \eriting to that
effect served personally upon the owner or occupant, or upon his authorized agent,
by a person competent. to serve a notice in civil suit, or left at the owner's or
agent's last or usual place of abode if the same be known, or such removal shall
be made under the direction of the Board of Hea 1th, an·d the expense thereof borne
by the owner or occupant.
No person removing any of the substances named in this
Section shall suffer it to leak, escape or drop from any vehicle by him owned or
driven, into or upon any street, court, square, land or alley within the 1 imits
of the Town.
5.
No person shall keep any pig sty in front of any street or bordering
thereon, nor shall any person keep swine in any place in the Town, near any
street, dwelling house, shop or other building whatsoever so as to be a nuisance.
6.
All fetid or decaying animal or vegetable matter must be removed from all
cellars, bui ]dings, outbuildings and yards, on or before the b1entieth day of
May in ·each year.
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.Every householder and .every hotel .or restaurant keeper or other person
shall dispose of all fetid or decaying matter and all garbage for the disposal of
whicQ he is responsible, either by burning the same, or in such other manner as a
Sanitary Inspector of the Town shall direct or approve.
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26.
Any person who violates any of the by-laws in this Chapter shall, unless
a penalty is otherwise specially provided under Chapter 157 Revised Statutes
of Nova Scotia for 1923 and the amending Acts thereto, be liable for every
such violation to a fine not exceeding forty dollars.