Ordinance 0005ORDINANCE NO. 5.
An ordinance enumerating and providing for the punishment and
abatement of nuisances.
Be it ordained by the council of the town of Edmonds.
SECTION 1: Whoever shall kill or slaughter within the limits
of the town of Edmonds any animal or animals, the flesh of which is
intended to be sold or offered for sale or whoever shall keep in
any yard, pen, corral or enclosure, within the limits of said town,
any beeves, sheep, swine or other animals, for sale or to be
slaughtered for a longer period than three days, shall be deemed �
guilty of a nuisance, and on conviction, shall be punished by a
fine in any sun not less than five dollars, nor more than twenty-
five dollars for each offense; provided, however, that the owners
of all slaughter houses now in existance, and operation within the
said town shall have sixty days within which to remove the same
therefrom.
SECTION 2: Whoever shall expose for sale or offer for sale Sa-�
or sell within the town limits any spoiled or tainted meat, fish,
fruits or vegetables, or the flesh of any calf, less than four
weeks old when slaughtered, shall be deemed guilty of a nuisance
and on conviction be punished by a fine of not less than five
dollars nor more than fifty dollars, or by imprisonment not exceed-
ing thirty days or by both.
!'SECTION 3 y Whoever shall cast or keep in or adjoining any t14 C_
street, lane, alley, square or public place or in any yard, lot, �_
block or premises within the town or in the waters of Puget Sound_
within the town limits, any bones, putrid, unsound, unwholesame
or refuse beef or meat of animal whether salted or otherwise, or
any hides or skins of any kind or the whole or any part of any
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dead animal or fish, or any unsound, putrid or unwholesame sub-
stance or the offal, garbage or any offensive part of any animal,
shall be deemed guilty of a nuisance, and on conviction be pun-
ished by a fine of not less than twenty dollars or more than fib
dollars, or by imprisonment for not exceeding thirty days or by
both.
J0 SECTION 4: Whoever shall suffer or permit any cellar, vault, drain,
surer, yard, grounds or premises belonging to or controlled by him
�r�1s,7iJ to become, from any cause, nauseous, foul offensive or injurious
to the public health, or offensive and disagreeable to adjacent
residents or persons, shall be deemed guilty ofa nuisance, and on
conviction shall be punished by a fine not less/than ten dollars
or more than fifty dollars.
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� C taA SECTION 5: Whoever shall cause or:permit
p any nauseous, foul
_ 1'0i,tbud- putrid liquid or substance or any liquid or substance Likely to
become nauseous, foul, offensive or putrid, to be discharged, plac-
ed or to flow from or out of any premises into or upon any adjac-
ent premises or any public street or alley, shall be deemed
guilty of a nuisance and, on conviction, shall be punished by a
fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars.
SEOTSOV 6: All obstructions to streets, alleys, crossings or
tv sidewalks of the town, and all excavations in or under the same,
which are by ordinance prohibited, or which may be made without
lawful permission, are hereby declared to be nuisances, and the
persons erecting, keeping or -maintaining any shall, in addition tJ
any penalties specifically denounced, against the same, be subject
to the provisions of this ordinance in relation to the abatement
of nuisances.
(UPUAW Cl SECTION 7: All awning posts herein erected upon any street
-r in said town shall be placed at the extreme outer edge of the
sidewalk and shall stand in a perpendicular position, and all ova -
ers or persons having the control of premises in front of which
there is now standing, upon any street in said town, any awning
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post or posts which do not stand at the outer extreme edge of the
sidewalk, shall, within thirty days after the taking effect of
this ordinance, either remove such awning posts or cause the same
to be in accordance with the direction of this section. Each
and every person who shall violate any of the provisions of this
section shall be deemed guilty of a nuisance, and on conviction
shall be punished by a fine of not less than five dollars nor
more than fifty dollars.
����SECTIO 8: Any person who shall deposit or burn, or cause
� o be deposited or burned, in any street or alley of the town
which is open to travel, and any hay, straw, paper, wood, boards,
boxes, manure, or other rubbish or material without a special per-
mit from the mayor, council, shall be deemed guilty of a nuisance,
and, on conviction shall be fined in any sum not exceeding fifty
dollars.
r�l0 - SECTION 9: Whoever shall keep, use or maintain within the
town any pens, stable, lots, place or premises in which any hogs,
I� cattle or 2OU,18 may be confined or keep in such manner as to be
nauseous, foul or offensive, or as from any cause become annoyame
to any person, family or community, shall be deemed to be a nuis-
ance and on conviction shall be fined not less than five dollars
nor more than fifty dollars.
�!a y SECTION 10: When judgment shall be rendered against any per-
son or persons for keeping, creating and maintaining any nuisance,
it shall be the duty of the court before whom conviction is had,
to order the defendant or defendants in such action to forthwith
abate and remove such nuisance, and if the same is not done by
such offender within twenty-four hours, the same shall be abated
or removed by the authority of the town marshal. Said order shall
be entered upon the docket of the court and shall be made a part
of the judgment in the action.
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SECTION 11: Any person having been found guilty of creating
keeping or maintaining any nuisance who shall neglect or fail to
abate or remove such nuisance within twenty-four hours, next
after his conviction therefor, shall for each twenty-four hours
thereafter in which such nuisance is continued, be subject to a
like penalty as that originally incurred.
SECTION 12: When any nuisance is of such a character and is^
so situated that the same can be abated without the invasion ory?U�
destruction of private Vroperty and the further continuance there-
of is likely to result in expense to the town or injury to any
person, it shall be the duty of the town marhhall to abate and re-
move the same summarily without waiting for the conviction of the
author thereof.
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SECTION 14: Every person guilty of any nuisance shall be U-
able for all costs and expenses of abating the same which when
such nuisances have been removed by any town officer, the said
costs and expenses shall be taxed as a part of the costs of any
prosecution against the party liable and be recovered as otl;er
costs are recovered after the same shall have been ascertained
when done by the town under the authority of the town marshal;
provided that in such cases the town shall be liable in the first
instance to the person who is to pay the same: and in all cases
where the town marshal or other officer shall abate any such nuis-
ance he shall keep an account of all expenses attending such abate -
ment and in addition to other powers herein given to collect such
costs and expenses, may forthwith bring suit for the same in any
court of competent jurisdiction in the name of the town of Edmonds
against the person creating or keeping or maintaining the nuisance
so abated, and upon the collec'tionof the same by such suit he
shall pay the same to the town Treasurer.
SECTION 15: That this ordinance shall take effect and be
force from and after its passage, approval and publication.
gassed by the Council of the Town of Edmonds this 20th day of
October 1890.
Approved by me this 20th day of October 1890.
George Brackett, 214yor.
Attest:
Frank Ashcraft, clerk of the town of Edmonds.
Published this 25th day of October 1890.
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