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<br />the quarantine is raised by the Health Officer or his duly author-
<br />ized representative.
<br />(7) Any persons violating provisions of this Section shall be
<br />fined not less than $5.00 nor more than $50.00 for each offense,
<br />unless otherwise provided.
<br />Sec. 370. Removal of sick.
<br />The Health Officer is hereby empowered to order the removal
<br />of all persons afflicted with any contagious disease, provided
<br />proper isolation can not be maintained at place of sickness, to
<br />some safe and proper place within the jurisdiction of the corpo-
<br />ration, when in his opinion, the public safety and health of the
<br />City requires the same; to rent a suitable place for their comfort
<br />and accommodations; to hire nurses and to provide the necessa-
<br />ries for such as are in indigent circumstances.
<br />Any person, either parent, guardian, master, mistress, or
<br />owner of the house, where such disease may be (or the diseased
<br />themselves, when responsible persons) refusing to comply with
<br />the order of the Health Officer, or other authorized agent, shall
<br />be fined $2.00 per hour during the time of such refusal to com-
<br />ply with the order aforesaid, to be recovered by warrant before
<br />the Civil and Police Justice, as other fines of the City. Provided,
<br />nothing in the foregoing shall be construed to prevent the friends
<br />and relatives of the diseased aforesaid from removing them to
<br />places prepared by themselves when such places are approved
<br />by the Health Officer, nor to authorize them to remove any sub-
<br />ject, at a period of the disease, when the life would be endan-
<br />gered thereby.
<br />Sec. 371. Smallpox vaccination.
<br />Every teacher and pupil shall, within ten days after entering
<br />the City Schools, furnish a certificate from a reputable physician
<br />certifying that such teacher or pupil has been successfully vacci-
<br />nated, or a certificate from the Health Officer that such teacher
<br />or pupil is entitled to exemption from vaccination by reason of
<br />a peculiar physical condition; but nothing in this section shall
<br />preclude a School Board from requiring immediate vaccination
<br />in the case of an epidemic of smallpox, or the annual revaccina-
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<br />tion of those who have not furnished certificates of proper vacci-
<br />nation.
<br />Sec. 372. Nuisances.
<br />(1) The Health Officer shall cause to be inspected all streets,
<br />cellars, yards, lots, privies, and other places which may be, al-
<br />leged to be, or likely to become offensive. It shall be the duty
<br />of all police officers to observe at all times the sanitary condition
<br />of their districts, and to report promptly to the Health Officer,
<br />through the Chief of Police, any nuisance or accumulated filth
<br />found to exist in any part of this City. When any such thing
<br />shall be found, which, in the opinion of the Health Officer, is or
<br />is likely to become, injurious to health, the Health Officer shall
<br />require the person causing said nuisance, or the owner or the oc-
<br />cupant of the premises on which such thing is, to correct the
<br />evil forthwith in such manner as he may deem expedient; and
<br />should such person fail to execute the order of the Health Offi-
<br />cer, the said nuisance may be removed by the City Manager at
<br />the cost of the City and such cost, with 20 per centum additional
<br />as a fine shall be collected of such persons as other fines for vi-
<br />olation of City ordinances are collected.
<br />(2) If upon any ground in this City there be found a drain
<br />or running water, the owner thereof, or abutting property own-
<br />ers, shall be required to keep the same clean, free and unob-
<br />structed from filth, garbage, or vegetation. If stagnant water,
<br />or a marshy place, shall be found upon any premises in the City,
<br />the owner thereof shall be required to drain such stagnant water,
<br />or fill such marsh forthwith upon order of the Health Officer.
<br />Upon failure to comply, the City Manager is hereby authorized
<br />to have such stagnant water drained and such marshy place filled
<br />at the expense of the City, and may collect the expense for so
<br />doing from the owner or occupant of the property with twenty
<br />per centum on such amount as a fine.
<br />(3) No discharge from any bath tub, hydrant, or other water
<br />fixture, shall be permitted to flow into the street, upon the side-
<br />walk, or upon the premises of an adjoining property owner. Un-
<br />der no circumstances shall the discharge from a water -closet,
<br />kitchen sink, or slops from a kitchen, be turned in the street.
<br />Any one violating this subsection shall be fined $2.00 for each
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<br />day the same may continue after notice from the Health Officer
<br />to abate the same.
<br />(4) If any person after being notified by the Health Officer to
<br />remove anything belonging to him, or any nuisance caused by
<br />him, or to bury or to destroy anything belonging to him, or
<br />found on premises owned or occupied by him, shall fail to do so
<br />for twenty-four hours after such notice, he shall forfeit $2.00
<br />for each hour of such failure after the expiration of said twenty-
<br />four hours; and it shall be the duty of the City Manager to have
<br />the same done at the expense of the City which expense shall be
<br />reimbursed to the City by the person through whose default the
<br />same incurred, together with twenty per centum upon the amount
<br />as a fine.
<br />Sec. 373. Providing for the proper disposal of human
<br />excreta, and prescribing construction, maintenance,
<br />scavenger, and inspection of privies, etc.
<br />(1) The owner of every building now erected, or which may
<br />hereafter be erected, remodeled or repaired, whether occupied
<br />or to be occupied for any purpose shall cause the same to be con-
<br />nected with the City sewer, provided such building or premises
<br />be on or along the line of a public sewer, unless in any case it can
<br />be shown to the satisfaction of the Health Officer that there is
<br />no necessity for such connection. It shall be unlawful for any
<br />person to have any privy on his lot or in any home on the line of
<br />the City system of sewerage that is not connected therewith.
<br />All buildings and premises, whether situated on public lanes or
<br />courts, or on such lanes or courts as have not been accepted by
<br />the Council as public when the same opens in to the street on
<br />which the City sewers are laid, shall be considered on the line of
<br />the said City system of sewerage; and the owner of building and
<br />premises on said lanes and courts, not accepted as public, shall
<br />run at his expense a laternal to connect therewith, in accordance
<br />with regulation herein contained governing sewers.
<br />The plumbing and drainage system of every building shall be
<br />separately connected with public sewer at property lines, and in
<br />a row of tenements each tenement shall be deemed a separate
<br />house. The connection of more than one building to the same
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<br />house sewer will not be allowed except by written permission of
<br />the City Manager.
<br />In cases where it is not practicable or possible to make connec-
<br />tions with City system of sewers, the use of septic tanks or cess-
<br />pools will be allowed in the discretion of the Health Officer and
<br />in all cases shall be constructed and maintained in accordance
<br />with directions of the Health Officer.
<br />(2) It shall be unlawful for any person in Charlottesville to
<br />throw out, deposit or bury within the City limits, any excreta
<br />from human bodies, solid or liquid, or to dispose of such sub-
<br />stance in any manner other than by means of a properly sewered
<br />water closet or a constructed sanitary privy.
<br />(3) All buildings or other places in said City where human
<br />beings live, are employed, or congregate, shall be provided with
<br />a sewered water closet or a sanitary privy for the catchment, or
<br />receiving of human discharge, which will properly dispose of
<br />and safeguard such matter.
<br />(4) It shall be unlawful for any property owner or his au-
<br />thorized agent or tenant to construct, maintain or permit to ex-
<br />ist on any property or properties under his control, where sewer
<br />connection has not been made, a privy unless the same be sani-
<br />tary, and constructed in accordance with the State requirements
<br />for a sanitary privy and approved by the Health Officer.
<br />(5) The Health Officer shall prescribe by regulations proper
<br />size and methods of construction of such privies, and such other
<br />details, as will render this section effective and its application
<br />uniform. All such privies must conform to such regulations.
<br />(6) All sanitary privies in said City shall be kept in a cleanly
<br />condition at all times and so used that all excreta deposited there-
<br />in shall fall into the receptacle or pit provided. Such receptacle
<br />or pit shall be used only for the purpose of a toilet, and no waste
<br />water, garbage, or other refuse matter other than human excreta
<br />shall be deposited therein.
<br />(7) No privy shall be permitted to become filled to overflow-
<br />ing. Before the pit is allowed to overflow a new pit must be pro-
<br />vided and the privy house placed thereon in accordance with di-
<br />rections of the Health Officer.
<br />(8) All privies existing or maintained in said City which do
<br />not comply with the requirements of this Section or the regula-
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