13-436. Health and sanitation; election, when.
13-436
13-436. Health and sanitation; election, when.
To make regulations to secure the general health of the city; to prevent
and remove nuisances; to regulate or prohibit the construction of privy
vaults and cesspools, and to regulate or suppress those already
constructed; to compel and regulate the connection of all property with
sewers; to suppress hogpens; to regulate or suppress slaughterhouses and
stockyards, and prescribe and enforce regulations for cleaning and keeping
the same in order; and the cleaning and keeping in order of warehouses,
stables, alleys, yards, private ways and grounds, outhouses, and other
places where offensive matter is kept or allowed to accumulate, and to
compel and regulate the removal of garbage and filth beyond the city
limits; and also to provide for taxing and to tax the cost of abating or
removing any nuisance against any lot or tract of ground upon which the
same is located and maintained, and to levy, certify and collect the same
as a special assessment, in the same manner as for repairing and building
sidewalks, in all cases where the owner, occupant or agent of said property
shall fail, refuse or neglect to abate or remove said nuisance, after
receiving notice to do so and being given a reasonable time in which to
remove or abate the same, where said city has been compelled to abate or
remove said nuisance.
The city may, when authorized by a majority of the votes cast at an
election held for the purpose of voting funds to pay for the same, also
establish and construct or cause to be established and constructed
crematories, desiccating or reduction works, within or without the city,
for the purpose of destroying dead animals, night soil, and garbage, and
make all rules necessary for the operation of the same.
History: L. 1903, ch. 122, § 56; L. 1905, ch. 109, § 1; March 21; R.S. 1923,
§ 13-436.