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 City of Columbus, 
 
 1914 . 
 
 INCLUDING THE CHARTER AS AMENDED, 
 RULES OF COUNCIL, AND LAWS AND 
 ORDINANCES TO JULY 1, 
 
 1914 . 
 
 REVISED AND COMPILED BY 
 G. H. HOWARD, Attorney at Law, 
 COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. 
 
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 M. M. Moore, 
 
 Clerk. 
 
 John S. Matthews, 
 Treasurer. 
 
 George J. Burrus, 
 Marshal. 
 
 W. C. Campbell, 
 Superintendent of Public Works. 
 
 H. K. Puckett, 
 
 Sanitary Inspector. 
 
 J. Tom Moore, 
 
 Chief of Police. 
 
 Frank D. Foley, 
 Recorder. 
 
 I. F. Pearce, 
 
 Chief of Fire Department. 
 
 J. T. Moncrieff, 
 
 Health Officer. 
 
 T. T. Miller, 
 
 City Attorney. 
 
 Dr. M. H. Blandford, 
 
 City Physician. 
 
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CONTENTS 
 
 ARTICLE I. Page. 
 
 Charter, Embracing Amendments — Chapter 1 7-65 
 
 ARTICLE II. 
 
 City Officials — Their Powers and Duties — Police District 
 
 — Chapters 2 to 24, inclusive 69-104 
 
 ARTICLE III. 
 
 Elections — Rules Governing — Chapters 25 to 28, in- 
 clusive 107-113 
 
 ARTICLE IV. 
 
 The Public Revenue — Taxation — Special Taxes — The 
 
 Public Debt — Chapters 29 to 35, inclusive 117-148 
 
 ARTICLE V. 
 
 The Public Safety — Buildings — Fire Regulations — Chap- 
 ters 36 to 40, inclusive 151-189 
 
 ARTICLE VI. 
 
 The Public Health — Chapters 41 to 50, inclusive 193-230 
 
 ARTICLE VII. 
 
 Streets and Sidewalks — Chapters 51 to 59, inclusive 233-252 
 
 ARTICLE VIII. 
 
 Public Institutions — Public Property — Cemeteries — Pub- 
 lic Schools — Chapters 60 to 63, inclusive 255-261 
 
 ARTICLE IX. 
 
 Private Property — Public Regulations — Chapters 64 to 69, 
 
 inclusive 265-280 
 
ARTICLE X. Page. 
 
 Recorder’s Court — Jurisdiction and Powers — Chapters 70 
 
 to 71, inclusive 283-286 
 
 ARTICLE XI. 
 
 The Criminal Code — Chapters 72 to 77, inclusive 289-348 
 
 ARTICLE XII. 
 
 Rules of Council — Enactment of Laws — Chapters 78 to 
 
 79, inclusive 251-253 
 
 ARTICLE XIII. 
 
 Adopting Ordinance 357 
 
 ARTICLE XIV. 
 
 Laws Relating to the Commons — Chapter 80 361-370 
 
 ARTICLE XV. 
 
 General Index 
 
 371-449 
 
ARTICLE I 
 
 CHARTER OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS AND 
 AMENDMENTS THERETO. 
 
 CHAPTER 1. 
 
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 AN ACT 
 
 To create a New Charter for the City of Columbus, and to 
 consolidate and declare the rights and powers of said corpora- 
 tion, and for other purposes. 
 
 SECTION 1. — Corporate Name. General Powers. Restric- 
 tions. (Acts of 1890-’91, p. 489.) — Be it enacted by the General 
 Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by 
 authority of the same , That the City of Columbus (heretofore 
 made a body politic and corporate, by the Acts of the General 
 Assembly of Georgia under the name of the Mayor and Council 
 of the City of Columbus) shall from and after the passage of this 
 Act, have and be known by the corporate name of "The City of 
 Columbus;” that by such corporate name, it may sue and be 
 sued; have and use a corporate seal; make and enact, through the 
 Mayor and Board of Aldermen, Ordinances, Resolutions, Rules 
 and Regulations for the transaction of its business, and the 
 proper government of the city, which shall be consistent with 
 the laws of Georgia and of the United States; the said corpora- 
 tion, through its Mayor and Board of Aldermen, shall have 
 special powers in its corporate capacity to make all contracts 
 which they may deem necessary for the welfare of the city, or 
 its citizens; to assess values of property; levy and collect taxes 
 thereon; to remove nuisances; they shall have full control and 
 power over the streets, lanes and alleys of the city, and to 
 remove obstructions therefrom, as is generally exercised by 
 
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 and granted to municipal corporations, and shall in general have 
 all the powers incident to corporations under the laws of this 
 state, and in addition thereto, all other powers which are 
 necessary and proper to make, regulate, maintain and preserve 
 a proper and legal government for said city; but the Mayor and 
 Council shall have no right or authority to alter the plan of said 
 city; nor to shut up streets, nor to permit any building to be 
 erected in said streets, nor any obstruction to be placed therein 
 except as provided by the laws of the state, nor shall the said 
 city become a stockholder in any company, corporation or 
 association, or appropriate money for, or loan its credit to any 
 corporation, company, association, institution or individual, 
 except for purely charitable purposes and for public schools. 
 
 SEC. 2. — Corporate Limits. How Extended. Election to 
 Extend. How Held . — Be it further enacted by the authority 
 aforesaid , That the corporate limits of the “City of Columbus” 
 shall embrace all the territory set forth and described in the 
 following Acts and as set forth and for the purposes therein 
 named. An Act, entitled an Act to lay out a trading town and 
 to dispose of all the lands reserved for the use of the State 
 near the Coweta Falls, on the Chattahoochee river, and to name 
 the same, assented to December 24, 1827, and marked on the 
 general plan of the town made by Commissioners of the State 
 of Georgia in pursuance of said Act. (This act provides in 
 substance, that the Commissioners appointed for that purpose 
 shall lay out a square or an oblong square fronting the Chatta- 
 hoochee river of 1,200 acres, as a reservation for the common 
 and town of Columbus, within which square they shall lay out 
 not less than 500 building lots of half an acre each, with an 
 appropriate number of streets, alleys and a suitable number of 
 reserved squares for public buildings, etc.; secondly, one square 
 within the town and common reserve of ten acres shall be laid 
 out and appropriated to and for the use of the county of 
 Muscogee, as a site for their public buildings, with the privilege 
 of selling so much of the said ten acres as the Commissioners of 
 the court house and jail of said county may deem proper to aid 
 them in building a court house and jail.) (Acts of December 24, 
 1827.) 
 
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 An Act entitled an Act amendatory of an Act entitled an Act 
 to incorporate the town of Columbus in the County of Muscogee 
 and to provide for the election of Intendant and Commissioners 
 of the same, and for other purposes therein contained, assented 
 to December 24, 1836. (This act provided for the extension of 
 the corporate limits to the boundary line dividing the States of 
 Georgia and Alabama on the western bank of the Chattahoochee 
 river and provided that the Mayor and Council of the city should 
 thereafter exercise jurisdiction to the full extent of said bound- 
 ary line, and enforce all ordinances passed in obedience to its 
 corporate powers, and punish all offenders for violation thereof.) 
 (Act of December 24, 1836). 
 
 An Act entitled an Act to provide for the extension of the 
 corporate limits of the City of Columbus, in the County of 
 Muscogee, approved September 2, 1887. 
 
 This Act provided for the extension of the corporate limits, 
 if ratified by an election (which was duly held and carried) 
 so as to include the territory adjoining the city on the north, 
 lying within the following boundaries: Beginning at the north- 
 
 west corner of the then limits where the northern boundary 
 of the city intersected the state line on the west bank of the 
 Chattahoochee river, then running due east along the northern 
 boundary to the northeast corner of the (then) city limits, 
 thence still due east one mile from the original starting point, 
 thence due north one mile, thence due west to the west bank 
 of the Chattahoochee river to a point on the state line, thence 
 south along said west state line to the starting point. (Act of 
 September 2, 1887.) 
 
 An Act entitled an Act to extend the corporate limits of the 
 City of Columbus, in the County of Muscogee, and for other 
 purposes. Approved November 14, 1888. By this Act, the cor- 
 porate limits of the city were extended for police purposes only. 
 (See Act of November 14, 1888.) By the later Act (See Act of 
 November 11, 1889) this same territory was included in the 
 extension in the corporate limits for all purposes, the last 
 mentioned Act providing as follows: 
 
 Whereas, The General Assembly of the State of Georgia did 
 pass an Act entitled an Act to extend the corporate limits of the 
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 City of Columbus, in the County of Muscogee, and for other 
 purposes, approved November 14, 1888, and by the first section of 
 said Act the corporate limits of the City of Columbus were 
 extended for police purposes so as to include the following 
 territory within the following limits, to-wit: “Commencing on 
 
 the eastern side of the present city limits so that the north line 
 of the Coweta Reserve shall be the north line of said extension, 
 and the east line of lot No. 74 in said Coweta Reserve shall be 
 the east line of said extension, and the south line of said exten- 
 sion shall be the road known as the Middle Road, which runs 
 west from the old Female Academy to the present city Cemetery, 
 and the west line of said extension shall be the present east line 
 of said City of Columbus; and 
 
 Whereas, said extension of said city limits has nearly all of 
 the benefits of the City of Columbus and none of its burdens; 
 therefore, be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State 
 of Georgia , and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the 
 same , That section first of the above recited Act be amended by 
 adding to the end thereof the following proviso: Provided , 
 nevertheless , that full power and authority is hereby con- 
 ferred on the Mayor and Council of the City of Columbus 
 from time to time, as they may see fit, to declare by 
 resolution that so much of the territory named in the aforesaid 
 first section of said Act as they may deem proper shall be a 
 part of said City of Columbus for all purposes and subject to 
 municipal taxation by said City of Columbus. 
 
 Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid , That said 
 resolution or resolutions shall become of full force and effect 
 one year after the passage of the same by the City Council of 
 Columbus, and so much of said territory above described as 
 shall be included in said resolution or resolutions aforesaid, 
 shall then become a part of said City of Columbus not only for 
 police purposes, but for all purposes whatsoever, and subject 
 to municipal taxation by said City of Columbus; Provided , 
 however, that previous to passage of said resolution or resolu- 
 tions the same shall be published in full, once a week for five 
 weeks, in one or more daily newspapers published in the City 
 of Columbus; and , provided further , that upon the passage of 
 
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 said resolution or resolutions a majority of all members elected 
 to said City Council shall have voted in its favor. 
 
 An Act entitled an Act to define the boundaries of that part 
 of the City of Columbus commonly known as Rose Hill Annex; 
 which provides that said boundaries shall be fixed and estab- 
 lished as follows: The present north line of said Annex, which 
 
 is the north line of the City of Columbus, shall extend due 
 east until it intersects a line which shall be the prolongation of 
 what is now known as the east side of Twelfth Avenue, which 
 said east side of Twelfth Avenue shall be the east line of said 
 Annex of said City of Columbus and the south line of said Annex 
 shall be the original north line of said City of Columbus, and 
 what is known as Cemetery Street, to a point where said 
 Cemetery Street intersects said Twelfth Avenue. (Approved 
 July 26, 1889.) 
 
 An Act entitled an Act to extend the corporate limits of the 
 City of Columbus, in the County of Muscogee so as to embrace 
 and include all that tract or parcel of land recently purchased 
 by the Mayor and Council of the City of Columbus from Andrew 
 H. and Albert W. Shepherd containing one hundred and fifty 
 acres, more or less, and for other purposes. (Approved Novem- 
 ber 13, 1889). Said extension is included within the following 
 boundaries: “Beginning at the northwest corner of the tract of 
 
 land owned by Mary Freeman, on the East boundary line of 
 Tenth Avenue, thence north two degrees and forty-five minutes, 
 west twelve hundred and fifty-five feet along and with the east 
 boundary line of said Tenth Avenue, thence north eighty-eight 
 degrees and thirty minutes, east sixteen hundred feet to a lane 
 thirty feet wide, thence south two degrees and forty-five minutes, 
 east six hundred and ninety-two feet, thence north eighty-seven 
 degrees and fifteen minutes, east with the south boundary line 
 of said lane twenty-one hundred feet, to within thirty feet of 
 what is known as the city drain or creek, thence south fifteen 
 degrees and thirty minutes, west twenty-seven hundred and 
 ninety feet more or less to the Chattahoochee river, thence in a 
 northwesterly direction with the meanderings of said river, 
 sixteen hundred and fifty-four feet, to Mary Freeman’s southeast 
 boundary line, thence north fifty-eight degrees and twenty 
 
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 minutes, west ninety hundred and four feet along the north 
 boundary line of Mary Freeman’s land to the place of beginning 
 and containing one hundred and fifty acres of land, more or less; 
 that the same be, and is hereby made a part of the City of Colum- 
 bus for all purposes.” (Approved November 13, 1889.) 
 
 When at any time it is desired that territory now lying outside 
 of the present corporate limits of the City of Columbus, be 
 incorporated within and become a part of the City of Columbus, 
 then on a petition of twenty-five persons residing within the 
 territory desired to be annexed, addressed to the Mayor and 
 Aldermen, and clearly defining and marking the limits and 
 boundaries of the territory proposed to be added, and stating 
 the desire that said territory should become a part of the city, 
 the same shall be considered by said Mayor and Board of Aider- 
 men and if in the judgment of said Mayor and Aldermen it is 
 not expedient to add such territory, then they may declare the 
 same, but if in the judgment of said Mayor and Board of Alder- 
 Aldermen, or a majority of them, the addition is one which is 
 expedient to be made, then the Mayor and Board of Aldermen 
 shall order an election to be held at some convenient place 
 within the territory so desired to be annexed, at which all 
 persons residing within the limits of the territory so desired to 
 be annexed, who are qualified to vote for members of the 
 General Assembly, may vote either “For Annexation” or “Against 
 Annexation,” and said Mayor and Board of Aldermen shall at 
 the same time also order an election to be held in said city on the 
 question of annexation of said territory, at which all the quali- 
 fied voters of said city shall be entitled to vote either for 
 annexation or against annexation, and if a majority both in the 
 city and proposed territory vote “For Annexation” then the 
 territory described in said petition shall be and become a part 
 of the City of Columbus, and under the jurisdiction of all laws 
 and ordinances governing the City of Columbus. This section 
 shall be held as cumulative only of the manner of extending 
 the corporate limits of the city. 
 
 SEC. 3. — Police District Defined. Liquor Licenses in Police 
 District. (Acts of 1902, p. 377.) — An Act to amend the charter of 
 Columbus, approved December 2, 1902, provides that: The 
 
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 municipal government of the City of Columbus shall have and 
 exercise a limited power and authority for police purposes, over 
 all that territory which lies within the State of Georgia and 
 within three miles in a straight line from the present corporate 
 limits of said City of Columbus, and said territory shall here- 
 after be known as the police district of the City of Columbus. 
 
 The Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the City of Columbus in 
 the exercise of the power and authority in this act conferred, 
 shall have the sole and exclusive right to regulate the sale of 
 spirituous, vinous and malt liquors within said police district 
 and to grant or refuse a license therefor and they may put 
 such terms, restrictions and conditions on the sale of such liquor 
 as they may deem proper, but in no case shall a license 
 be granted within said district for a less term than one year, 
 and if any license is granted within said district the 
 fees thereof shall never be less than the amount of the license 
 fee within the corporate limits proper of the City of Columbus. 
 All such fees shall be collected in the same manner as similar 
 fees are collected in the City of Columbus and paid into the City 
 Treasury. 
 
 SEC. 4. — Jurisdiction in Police District. — That all laws and 
 ordinances in force in said City of Columbus in reference to 
 crimes and misdemeanors against the persons of citizens or 
 individuals, against the public peace and tranquility, against the 
 public morality and health, and offenses committed by cheats 
 and swindlers, and offenses against public trade, against 
 fraudulent or malicious mischief, shall be in force within the 
 territory comprising the said police district in the same manner 
 and to the same extent as they are in force within the corporate 
 limits of said city; and for. the purpose of preventing the com- 
 mission of any and all of said offenses, and suppressing the 
 same, and in order to apprehend violators of said laws, juris- 
 diction is hereby given to the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of 
 said City of Columbus over the entire territory embraced in 
 said police district, and they shall have the power and authority 
 to enforce said laws and ordinances by the marshal and police 
 force of said City of Columbus, in the same manner and to the 
 
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 same extent as if the violation of said laws and ordinances had 
 occurred within the corporate limits of the City of Columbus. 
 
 SEC. 5. — Recorder’s Jurisdiction in Police District. Fines 
 from Police District. — That the Mayor’s or Recorder’s Court of 
 the City of Columbus shall have jurisdiction over, and the power 
 and authority to try and punish all persons charged with a 
 violation of any and all laws and ordinances, which by the terms 
 of this Act are conferred upon the Mayor and Board of Aldermen 
 of the City of Columbus, in and over the territory comprising 
 said police district, in the same manner and to the same extent 
 as if such violation occurred within the corporate limits of 
 said City of Columbus; and in case of a conviction in said 
 Mayor’s or Recorder’s Court for a violation of any of said laws 
 and ordinances in said police district, such Mayor or other 
 person legally presiding over said court shall impose upon the 
 person or persons convicted, such fine or imprisonment as could 
 be imposed had such offense been committed within the cor- 
 porate limits of the City of Columbus; and all fines that shall 
 be imposed and collected on account of any violation of any such 
 laws or ordinances in force in said police district shall go to the 
 Treasurer of the City of Columbus, and for the use of said city. 
 
 SEC. 6. — Police System in Police District. — Be it further 
 enacted by the authority aforesaid, That this Act shall not be so 
 construed as to create any obligation upon the City of Columbus 
 to establish and maintain in said territory comprising said 
 police district any police system, but said City of Columbus 
 shall have the right and power to do so, which right said city 
 may exercise or not, as in the judgment of the municipal authori- 
 ties the best interest of the City of Columbus may require. 
 
 SEC. 7. — Part of City Only as Police District. — Be it further 
 enacted by the authority aforesaid ,. That for the purpose set 
 forth in this act only shall such police district be held or deemed 
 to be a part of the City of Columbus, nor shall said city 
 exercise in and over said police district and any power or 
 authority other than as herein expressly conferred. 
 
 (The above supersedes similar provisions in Charter of 1890-1 
 and amendment contained in Act approved November 14, 1888, 
 which see.) 
 
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 SEC. 8. — City Wards Defined. May Change Lines. New 
 Territory May be Added to Old Wards or New Wards Created. — 
 Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid , That the City 
 of Columbus shall be laid off and divided into wards, as follows: 
 
 The First Ward — Shall embrace all that part of said City of 
 Columbus (including the north commons) lying north of Four- 
 teenth Street and south of Seventeenth Street. 
 
 The Second Ward — Shall include all that part of said 
 city and commons lying south of Fourteenth Street and north of 
 Twelfth Street. 
 
 The Third Ward — Shall include all that part of said city 
 and commons lying south of Twelfth Street and north of 
 Eleventh Street. 
 
 The Fourth Ward — Shall embrace all that part of said city 
 and commons lying south of Eleventh Street and north of 
 Ninth Street. 
 
 The Fifth Ward — Shall include all that part of said city 
 of Columbus and the commons thereof lying south of Ninth 
 Street and north of Eighth Street. 
 
 The Sixth Ward — Shall include all that portion of said 
 City of Columbus and commons thereof lying south of Seventh 
 Street. 
 
 The Seventh Ward — All of the land and territory annexes 
 to and now constituting a part of the City of Columbus lying 
 north of Seventeenth Street, extending from the center of what 
 is known as the Hamilton and Columbus public road, to the 
 west boundary of said annexed territory, shall be known and 
 defined as the Seventh Ward. 
 
 The Eighth Ward — And all of said territory extending 
 from the center of said road to the east boundary of said annexed 
 territory which is a line, which is a prolongation of what is now 
 known as the east side of Twelfth Avenue, and which lies north 
 of the old City Cemetery and Linwood Drive, formerly known as 
 Cemetery Street, shall be known and defined as the Eighth Ward 
 of the City of Columbus, but the Mayor and Aldermen of the 
 City of Columbus shall have the right and power by Ordinance 
 to make new divisions of the territory of the city into wards, 
 and change those established by this Act,* and increase number of 
 
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 same. And when any new territory shall be added to said city, 
 the same shall, as early as practicable, be constituted a new 
 ward or wards, or may be added to and become parts of old 
 wards. 
 
 SEC. 9. — Mayor and Aldermen. Terms. Qualifications. Salaries. 
 (Act of 1907, p. 523 .) — Be it further enacted by the authority 
 aforesaid , That the municipal government of said City of Colum- 
 bus, shall be vested in a Mayor and Board of Aldermen, consist- 
 ing of two members from each ward in said city and the term of 
 office of each, the said Mayor and Aldermen, shall be two years, 
 and until his (or their) successors shall have been chosen and 
 qualified, and the term of the Aldermen shall be so arranged 
 that one Alderman from each ward shall be chosen annually. 
 Any person shall be eligible to the office of Mayor who shall 
 have resided in the City of Columbus for two years immediately 
 preceding his election, and shall be qualified to vote for mem- 
 bers of the General Assembly under the laws of this state, and 
 for Aldermen of the City of Columbus as prescribed in this Act. 
 Any person shall be eligible to the office of Alderman who shall 
 have resided in the City of Columbus for one year immediately 
 preceding his election, shall be a bona fide resident of the ward 
 from which he is chosen, and shall be qualified to vote for mem- 
 bers of the General Assembly under the laws of this State and 
 for Aldermen in said city. The office of any Alderman shall 
 become vacant upon the removal or change of residence of any 
 Alderman from the ward from which he was chosen. The 
 Mayor shall have an adequate salary per annum, to be fixed by 
 the Board of Aldermen, which shall not be increased nor dimin- 
 ished during his term of office. After the 15th day of December, 
 1907, the Aldermen of the said city shall be paid a salary to be 
 fixed by the Mayor and the Board of Aldermen at the same time 
 the salary of the Mayor is fixed, but the amount of salary to be 
 paid each Alderman shall not exceed the sum of one hundred 
 and fifty dollars per annum. 
 
 SEC. 10. — Elections. Voters. Qualifications . — Be it further 
 enacted by the authority aforesaid , That the election of said 
 “Mayor and Board of Aldermen” shall be by a general ticket 
 system, in which every qualified voter residing in any ward 
 
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 shall be entitled to vote for the Mayor and Aldermen for each 
 and every ward, and all persons shall be qualified to vote at 
 elections for Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Columbus, and 
 for the Aldermen, and on any question to be determined by the 
 citizens of said city, and for any other officers to be elected for 
 said city, who are, 
 
 First — Male citizens of the United States, and, 
 
 Second — Who have resided in the State of Georgia twelve 
 months, and in the County of Muscogee six months, and in the 
 City of Columbus thirty days immediately preceding the day of 
 election, and who are of the age of twenty-one or more years, 
 and. 
 
 Third — Who shall have paid all city taxes required of him 
 including city taxes since the adoption of the present Consti- 
 tution of this State, and which he has had an opportunity of 
 paying, agreeably to law, except for the year of the election and, 
 
 Fourth — Who shall have been registered according to the 
 provisions of this Act. No person shall be a legal voter to any 
 election for Mayor, Aldermen or other office of said city, nor 
 at any election to be hereafter held for any city matter or 
 purpose, unless he shall be qualified, as prescribed by this 
 section. 
 
 SEC. 11. — Elections. Time of Holding. How Determined. 
 Where Held . — Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid y 
 That the regular election for Mayor and Aldermen shall be held 
 on the second Saturday in December; that the first election 
 under this Act shall be on that day, in the year 1890, to fill full 
 terms of two years of the Aldermen — one from each ward whose 
 terms expire at that time under the laws now existing for said 
 city. The next election shall be on the second Saturday of 
 December, 1891, for Mayor and Aldermen — one from each ward 
 — for full terms of two years, in the place of the present Mayor 
 and Aldermen, whose terms will expire on that day. And also 
 an election shall be held on said day in each year to elect succes- 
 sors to the Mayor and one Alderman from each ward, when a 
 Mayor is to be elected. And if no Mayor is then to be elected, 
 then one Alderman from each ward as their respective terms 
 of office shall expire, the Mayor being chosen once in every two 
 
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 years. In every such election, the name of the person voted for 
 as Alderman must appear, and also the number of the ward 
 which it is desired that he represent, and in which he shall 
 reside, and the person duly qualified who receives the highest 
 number of votes at such election for Mayor shall be elected, and 
 the person duly qualified to serve who receives the highest 
 number of votes as Alderman, for a particular ward, shall be 
 elected Alderman for that ward and be so declared. All elec- 
 tions for Mayor and Aldermen and elections on any question 
 submitted to the voters of the city shall be held at the Court 
 House and at such places as are now, or may hereafter be 
 established by law, or the ordinances or resolutions of such 
 city. The Mayor and Aldermen shall have full power and 
 authority to establish as many polling places as they may 
 deem necessary. 
 
 SEC. 12. — Mayor Must Qualify. When. Oath of. Oath of 
 Aldermen . — Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid , 
 That within three days after his election, unless providentially 
 hindered, the Mayor shall before the retiring Mayor, or before 
 some officer of the State or County who is authorized to admin- 
 ister an oath, take and subscribe to the following oath, or he 
 may affirm thereto: “I (name) do solemnly swear (or affirm) 
 
 that I am duly qualified under the laws of this state to serve 
 as Mayor of the City of Columbus; that I verily believe myself to 
 have been elected to said office; that to the best of my ability 
 I will promote and protect the interest of said city, observe and 
 execute the laws of the State and the ordinances of the City of 
 Columbus, so help me God.” And each Alderman, before enter- 
 ing upon the discharge of his duties shall also take and subscribe 
 to the following oath: “I (name) do solemnly swear that as 
 
 Alderman of the City of Columbus I will impartially and to the 
 best of my ability, promote the interest and prosperity of said 
 city and all the inhabitants thereof, without fear, favor or 
 affection, so help me God,” which oath shall be taken before 
 and in the presence of the Mayor, and in case of his absence or 
 disability, before any officer authorized to administer an oath. 
 
 SEC. 13. — Additional Officers. Elections. Time of Holding. 
 Salaries. Authority to Fix. Vacancies. May be Removed. 
 
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 Consolidation. (Acts 1905, p. 758. Supersedes Act 1904-447 
 which see.) — “That additional officers of the government of 
 said city shall be a Clerk of Council, City Attorney, City Treas- 
 urer, Clerk of Market, Marshal, Chief of Police, City Sexton, 
 Sanitary Inspector, Superintendent of Public Works, City 
 Engineer, and such other officers, agents and employees as may 
 be provided in this act, or as said Mayor and Board of Aldermen 
 may deem necessary, and the said Mayor and Aldermen shall 
 prescribe the duties and fix the salaries of all such officers, but 
 none of such officers shall have or receive any fees, perquisites 
 or costs; the compensation of each shall be by fixed salaries. 
 All of said officers named, as well as all other officers of the city 
 government (except the Chief of Police, who shall be elected by 
 the Board of Police Commissioners, as now provided by law), 
 shall be elected by the Mayor and Aldermen of said city, each of 
 said Aldermen having one vote, and a majority of the whole 
 Board shall be required to elect, the Mayor having a vote only in 
 case of a tie. The terms of all and each of said officers shall 
 be two years, and they shall take such an oath and give such 
 bonds for the faithful performance of their respective duties 
 as may be prescribed by said Mayor and Board of Aldermen. 
 The first election of all such officers shall be held at the first 
 regular meeting of the Mayor and Aldermen in July, 1904; and 
 after such first election all subsequent elections for the officers 
 named or referred to in this section shall be held at the regular 
 meeting in July every two years thereafter, and they shall each 
 enter upon the discharge of their respective duties immediately 
 upon the adjournment of the first meeting of the Mayor and Board 
 of Aldermen held after the second Saturday in December after 
 their election, or at such other time or times as may hereafter be 
 prescribed by ordinances of the Mayor and Board of Aldermen, 
 but the salary of no officer of the city government shall be in- 
 creased or diminished after the election of such officer and during 
 the term for which he shall have been elected, and all such offi- 
 cers shall hold their said offices respectively until their successors 
 are duly elected and qualified unless sooner removed by the 
 Mayor and Board of Aldermen; and in case of a vacancy in any 
 of said offices, except Chief of Police, the same shall be filled by 
 
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 the Mayor and Board of Aldermen at any regular or called meet- 
 ing. And said Mayor and Aldermen shall have power at any 
 time to consolidate any two or more of said offices into one.” 
 SEC. 14. — Police Commission. Election of Commissioners. 
 How and When. Qualifications. (Act 1905, p. 763. Supersedes 
 Act of 1893.) (Act of 1905, p. 764. Supersedes Act of 1893.) 
 — “Said Mayor and Board of Aldermen shall elect a Board of 
 Police Commissioners for said city, and fill all vacancies which 
 may occur in said Board; that said Commission shall consist of 
 five persons, who shall be free holders and citizens of the City of 
 Columbus entitled by law to vote for Mayor and Aldermen of 
 said city; that the term of office of each member of said Board 
 after the first election, shall be five years; that said Board shall 
 have an exclusive power to appoint the members of the police 
 force of said city and elect the Chief of Police and Lieutenants, 
 and for cause to remove the same from office, and shall require 
 of said officers a strict compliance with all the laws, ordinances 
 and regulations for the government of the police of said city, 
 and shall be in general charge of said city, their employment, 
 and the supervision and direction of said force, and shall from 
 time to time recommend to the Mayor and Aldermen of said 
 city the number of the police force, but said Mayor and Aider- 
 men shall have the exclusive power to designate the number of 
 police. The Commissioners shall keep a record of their appoint- 
 ments and removals of officers, and the causes for the latter, 
 subject to the inspection at all times of the Mayor and Aldermen. 
 The first election of members of the Board of Police Commis- 
 sioners shall take place at the regular meeting of the Mayor and 
 Board of Aldermen of said city in January, 1894, at which time 
 five members constituting said Board shall be elected, their 
 term of office to begin January, 1894; one to serve until the first 
 of January, 1895; another to serve until the first of January, 
 1896; another to serve until the first of January, 1897; another 
 to serve until the first of January, 1898; and another to serve 
 until the first of January, 1899, and as these respective terms of 
 office shall expire a new election shall be held at the regular 
 meeting in July of each year to fill the term of five years from 
 the date of the expiration of such term, so that one Commis- 
 
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 sioner shall be elected in July of each year, and no Commis- 
 sioner shall serve more than two consecutive terms. No officer 
 of the city government nor employees of the city shall be 
 eligible to hold the office of Police Commissioner. Said Com- 
 missioners shall have power to elect a Chairman of the Police 
 Commission; provided, that nothing in this Act shall interfere 
 with Marshal and Lieutenant elected for the year 1894. 
 
 SEC. 15. — Chief of Police. Election of. (Act of 1905, p. 764.) 
 — Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid , That the first 
 election to fill the office of Chief of Police hereby created shall 
 be at the first regular meeting of the Board of the Police Commis- 
 sioners held after the passage of this Act, and the person elected 
 shall enter immediately upon the discharge of the duties of said 
 office and the term of office for said first election shall expire 
 immediately upon the adjournment of the first meeting of the 
 Mayor and Board of Aldermen held after the second Saturday in 
 December, 1906; that the second election for such Chief of Police 
 shall be held at the regular meeting of the Board of Police 
 Commissioners in July, 1906, and all subsequent elections to fill 
 said office shall be at the regular meeting of said Board of Police 
 Commissioners in July every two years thereafter, as prescribed 
 in section 9 of the new charter of the said City of Columbus, as 
 amended and set forth in Section 13 of this Code. 
 
 SEC. 16. — Registration of Voters. List of Registered Voters. 
 Must be Published. Amendment of November 15, 1895. Special 
 Registration Bond Elections. — Be it further enacted by the 
 authority aforesaid , That the Clerk of Council or anyone 
 appointed in his place by the Mayor and Aldermen for that 
 purpose, shall open a list for the registration of voters three 
 months prior to the annual election for Mayor and Aldermen, or 
 Aldermen as the case may be, which list shall be kept open at the 
 Clerk’s office until twenty days before said election in each 
 year, when the same shall be closed finally and absolutely; 
 provided , however , that if any person within said twenty days, 
 who is otherwise entitled to vote shall make an affidavit before 
 the Clerk that he was absent from said city upon lawful business 
 during the time within which he is required by this Act to 
 register his name, he shall be entitled to register his name and 
 
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 vote at said election. That it shall be the duty of such Clerk 
 or other person or officer, upon the application in person (and 
 not by proxy) of any person entitled to vote as aforesaid, within 
 the time prescribed for the list to be kept open, to register the 
 name of such person, expressing in said registry, his name, age, 
 occupation and color, and the ward in which he resides in said 
 city, which shall be entered by the Clerk or officer on said list 
 opposite the name of each applicant, with such other description 
 as may hereafter be prescribed by the Mayor and Aldermen; but 
 no person shall be entitled to registry who has not continued 
 to reside within the state for twelve months and in the County 
 of Muscogee six months, and within the corporate limits of the 
 City of Columbus thirty days immediately preceding the election. 
 The Clerk or other officer may in any case administer an oath 
 to the applicant, touching his right to be registered. That it 
 shall be the duty of the Clerk or other officer immediately after 
 the closing of the list of registered voters, to arrange an alpha- 
 betical list of said registered voters, designating the ward in 
 which they reside at the time of their registry, and shall within 
 five days after said list is closed, publish in the newspaper in 
 which the proceedings of the Council are published for the 
 current year, or in hand-bill form, as may be ordered by the 
 Mayor and Aldermen, a full and complete list of the registered 
 names, designating the number of the ward in which each 
 person who has registered resides, which shall be distributed in 
 said city as may be directed by the Mayor and Aldermen. 
 “Provided, nevertheless, that said Mayor and Board of Aldermen 
 shall have the power to order a special registration of the 
 voters of said city for any special election to be held for the 
 purpose of passing upon any proposed issue of bonds; said 
 registration to be held under the same rules and regulations that 
 govern annual registrations and at wihch special election no 
 person shall be allowed to vote unless he shall have registered 
 under said special registration.” 
 
 SEC. 17. — Managers of Elections Must be Furnished with List 
 of Registered Voters. Oath of Voter. False Swearing. How 
 Punished. Illegal Voting. — Be it further enacted .by the 
 authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the Clerk of 
 
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 Council to furnish to the managers presiding at the election of 
 Mayor and Aldermen, or Aldermen, and at every election ordered 
 by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Columbus, at or before 
 the opening of the polls or places of voting in said city, to be 
 referred to by them in ascertaining the eligibility of voters, a 
 complete list of all the names, arranged in alphabetical order, 
 which shall have been registered according to provisions of this 
 Act, together with the age, occupation or business, color and 
 other such description as shall have been required, and the 
 number of the ward of their residence in said city at the time 
 of registration, of every person whose name is so registered 
 (being a copy of last registry) certified under the hand of said 
 Clerk and the corporate seal of the City of Columbus, which 
 list shall be kept before said managers in the several places of 
 voting during such election, and when said election is over it 
 shall be deposited in the office of said Clerk of Council to be 
 kept safely by him. That the presiding managers of said 
 election in the several places of voting in said city shall be 
 authorized to administer an oath as follows, to any person 
 attempting to vote: “You do solemnly swear that you are a 
 
 citizen of the United States; that you have resided in the State* 
 of Georgia for twelve months immediately preceding this elec- 
 tion, and six months in the County of Muscogee, and within the 
 corporate limits of the City of Columbus for thirty days immedi- 
 ately preceding the election, and that you do in good faith hold 
 and claim your residence and home in said state and county and 
 city for the time aforesaid; that you have paid all taxes due by 
 you to the City of Columbus since the adoption of the present 
 Constitution of this state and which you have had an opportunity 
 of paying agreeably to law, except for the year of this election; 
 that you have been duly registered within the time prescribed 
 by law and are entitled to vote at this election, and that you 
 have not voted in this election; so help you God.” The tempo- 
 rary absence from home of the voter, during either of the terms 
 specified, shall not be construed in any way to exclude such vote. 
 Any person who shall claim the right to vote at a special election, 
 whose name is not registered and who may have become entitled 
 to vote since said registry was made, shall be required to swear ' 
 
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 to the oath hereinbefore prescribed as to his qualification to 
 vote, omitting that part of said oath in reference to said 
 registry. Any person who shall take either of the oaths afore- 
 said, before any manager at any of said elections for the purpose 
 of voting at said election, and who is not entitled to vote accord- 
 ing to law, and the terms of said oath, shall be subject to be 
 indicted in the Superior Court of Muscogee County for false 
 swearing, and if found guilty, shall be subject to punishment 
 prescribed in the Code of Georgia for said offense. Any person 
 or persons who shall or may vote for Mayor and Aldermen, or 
 Aldermen, or on any question submitted to the voters of said city 
 at any of the polling places in said city, without being entitled to 
 vote for the same, or who shall vote for any of said officers or on 
 such questions, more than once at the same election, or cast any 
 vote which is contrary to the provisions of this Act, at any 
 general or special election held in said city, shall be subject to 
 all the pains and penalties of the laws of the state against illegal 
 voting and shall and may be prosecuted for said offense, or 
 either of them, before the Superior Court of said Muscogee 
 County. 
 
 SEC. 18. — Charter as Amended. Managers. Consolidation of 
 Vote. (Acts 1897, p. 174 .) — Be it further enacted by the 
 authority aforesaid. That in all elections, as provided for in this 
 act, a separate poll, or polls, for white and colored voters, shall 
 be opened at such place of election, and shall be held under 
 the superintendence of managers to be appointed by the Mayor 
 and Aldermen, at any regular or called meeting who shall be 
 either citizens who are regular voters, or Justices of the Peace, 
 and not candidates in the election held. If the managers 
 appointed, or any of them, decline to serve, the Mayor shall 
 appoint others to fill the vacancies. The polls shall be open for 
 such a length of time at each polling place as may be directed 
 by the Mayor and Aldermen; and after the polls shall be closed 
 the said managers of the elections shall meet at the court house, 
 in the City of Columbus, and consolidate the votes and make 
 returns thereof to the Mayor and Aldermen, and the person 
 receiving the highest number of votes shall be declared duly 
 elected. 
 
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 SEC. 19. — Mayor. Duties of. Vacancy. How Filled. Veto 
 Power. (Acts 1897, p. 174.) — The Mayor shall be the chief 
 executive officer of the city, and besides the powers and duties 
 imposed by Mayor and Aldermen, he shall exercise general 
 supervision over the affairs of the city. He shall preside over 
 all meetings of the Mayor and Board of Aldermen, and in case 
 the office of Mayor of said city shall become vacant from any 
 cause, the Board of Aldermen of said city, at either a regular or 
 called meeting shall order an election for Mayor to fill such 
 vacancy, which said election shall be advertised in a public 
 gazette of said City of Columbus not less than five days, and the 
 person elected shall hold his office until the next regular election 
 for Mayor and until his successor has been elected and qualified, 
 and in case any vacancy should happen by death, resignation, 
 removal or otherwise of any Aldermen for any or either said 
 wards, the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of said city may order 
 an election to fill such vacancy by advertising the same at least 
 five days previous to holding said election, and the person so 
 elected shall have and exercise jurisdiction in all cases of con- 
 tested elections for Mayor and Aldermen, under such rules as 
 they may prescribe, and finally determine all contests which 
 may be made. The Mayor shall have the power to veto, in 
 writing, any ordinance or resolution passed by the Mayor and 
 Board of Aldermen; provided , that in all cases where such veto 
 power shall have been exercised, the Mayor and Board of Aider- 
 men shall have the power and authority to repass any ordinance 
 or resolution that may have been vetoed over such veto by three- 
 fourths (f) of the whole Board of Aldermen at the same meeting 
 at which such ordinance or resolution was passed, or at the next 
 subsequent meeting thereto of the Mayor and Board of Aldermen, 
 to be taken by a nay and yea vote; provided, further, that the 
 veto power shall be exercised at or before the next ensuing 
 regular meeting of the Mayor and Board of Aldermen following 
 the passage of any ordinance or resolution; provided, further, 
 that any ordinance or resolution of the Mayor and Board of 
 Aldermen so vetoed and not approved by the Mayor, and which 
 shall not thereafter be passed over such veto as hereinafter 
 provided for, shall be null and void and of no effect; provided, 
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 further , that such veto power of the Mayor shall not apply to 
 elections by the Mayor and Board of Aldermen. 
 
 SEC. 20 — Subordinate Officers. Bond of. Amenable to Mayor 
 and Aldermen. Removal. — Be it further enacted by the authority 
 aforesaid, That said Mayor and Board of Aldermen may require 
 of the Marshal, Treasurer, Clerk of Council, and other officers 
 elected by them, a bond, in such amount as they may prescribe 
 with good and sufficient security, to be approved by the Mayor 
 and Aldermen, for the faithful performance of the duties of their 
 respective offices, and the officers selected by them shall, after 
 their election and qualification, be under the exclusive control 
 of the Mayor and Board of Aldermen, subject to be removed in 
 their discretion, at any time, by a vote of a majority of all mem- 
 bers elected at any regular meeting, and no officer so dismissed 
 shall be eligible to any office during the time for which he was 
 elected, and his salary shall cease with such removal. 
 
 SEC. 21. — Mayor Pro Tern. Powers and Duties of. — Be it 
 further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Mayor and 
 Board of Aldermen, or a majority of them shall have the right, at 
 any regular meeting, to elect one of their body as Mayor pro tem., 
 who shall, in case of any vacancy in the office of Mayor, and dur- 
 ing the absence from the city or disability of the Mayor, exercise 
 all the powers and discharge all the duties of Mayor, until such 
 vacancy has been regularly filled, or until the return of the 
 Mayor or the removal of his disability; and at any regular or 
 called meeting, when neither the Mayor nor the Mayor pro tem., 
 are present, or when both of said officers are absent from the 
 city at the same time, the Board of Aldermen shall designate one 
 of their number to preside over their meetings, and discharge 
 the duties of Mayor until the return to the city of one of said 
 officers. 
 
 SEC. 22. — Particular Powers of Mayor and Aldermen. May 
 Raise Revenue for Sewers, Water Supply, Streets, Bridges, 
 Light, Salaries, Fire Department, Buildings, Law and Order, 
 Debts, Education, Cemetery, Charitable Institutions, Parks, 
 Quarantine, Places of Punishment, Material Improvements. 
 May Levy and Collect. A Capitation Tax. Tax Upon Business, 
 Trades, Etc. Tax Upon Professions. Corporations. Fine for 
 
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 Non-Compliance. Fines, How Collected . — Be it further enacted 
 by the authority aforesaid, That the Mayor and Board of Aider- 
 men shall have the right and power in order to raise the necessary 
 revenue to properly carry on the government of said city, to build 
 sewers, procure water supply, to make, open, grade and keep in 
 order, the streets and bridges of said city; to light the same; to pay 
 the salaries, costs and expenses of the city officers and employees; 
 to establish and maintain a proper fire department; to erect 
 and maintain suitable buildings and offices, and to maintain and 
 furnish all things needful and appertaining to the protection of 
 life, liberty and property, the suppression of crime, the main- 
 tenance of law and order, the payment of the debts of the city, 
 for educational purposes, for cemetery purposes, for hospitals, 
 and charitable institutions, for the care of the poor, for estab- 
 lishing necessary squares and parks, for quarantine purposes, 
 for caring for prisoners, and providing means and places for 
 their punishment, and for all other purposes as will tend in 
 their discretion to add to the comfort, safety, convenience, bene- 
 fit, health and advantage of said city, and of the citizens thereof, 
 and for the material improvement of said city as may be 
 demanded in their discretion, and for all other purposes, in 
 order to properly carry on a city government as herein indi- 
 cated, and not forbidden by law; to levy and collect a street or 
 capitation tax on all male residents of the city, and also a tax on 
 all the property within the corporate limits of said city, which is 
 subject to state tax under the Constitution and Laws of this 
 state, and upon all trades, businesses, callings, professions, 
 sales, labor, pursuits, which are legal subjects of taxation as 
 they may deem expedient, and may enforce payment of the 
 same by license or direct tax, in such manner as they may 
 determine to be best and most advantageous. They may also 
 impose, assess, levy and collect taxes on capital invested in said 
 city, on stocks of corporation, choses in action, and on such 
 incomes and commissions derived from the pursuit of any pro- 
 fession, faculty, trade or calling, banks, insurance, express and 
 other corporations, associations and agencies, and all other 
 property and sources of profit as are not expressly prohibited 
 or exempt by the laws of this state or of the United States; but 
 
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 all taxation on property shall be uniform on the same class of 
 subjects, and advalorem on all property subject to be taxed in 
 said city. 
 
 Each and every itinerant trader, irregular or occasional dealer, 
 his or their agents or consignees (save and except licensed 
 auctioneers and commission merchants) who shall neglect or 
 refuse to render in the amount of goods, wares and merchandise 
 sold by him, of them, which is subject to be taxed by the ordi- 
 nances of the city, immediately after the sale of the same, and 
 to pay the tax thereon, shall forfeit and pay a sum at the dis- 
 cretion of said Mayor and Aldermen, not exceeding one hundred 
 dollars; for which execution may issue, directed to and author- 
 izing and commanding the Marshal of said city to levy upon 
 the property and effects of said itinerant trader, irregular or 
 occasional dealer, his or their agents, or consignees, so in default, 
 which shall be levied, and by sale of said property by said 
 Marshal in the manner in which sales of city taxes are made, the 
 tax due, with all costs, shall be satisfied; all other persons 
 subject to taxation who shall neglect or refuse to render in his, 
 her or their property, or pay the tax on the same when required 
 by the ordinance of said Mayor and Aldermen, may be pro- 
 ceeded against by execution, in the same manner and according 
 to such rules and ordinances as may be adopted by said Mayor 
 and Aldermen to enforce the collection of the taxes aforesaid. 
 
 SEC. 23. — Jurisdiction as to Wharfage. Control of Shops, Bar- 
 rooms, Drays, Hacks, Etc., Vested in Mayor and Aldermen. Tax 
 on Drovers . — Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, 
 That the Mayor and Aldermen are hereby vested with exclusive 
 jurisdiction to charge such rates or wharfage upon goods deliv- 
 ered at the city wharf, or upon the river banks within the 
 corporate limits of said city, and port dues upon steamboats, 
 barges and boxes for carrying freight, arriving or leaving said 
 city, as said corporate authorities may deem expedient for the 
 safety, benefit, convenience and advantage of said city, and may 
 enforce the payment of such assessments, duties and tolls in 
 such manner as said Mayor and Aldermen may prescribe. The 
 said Mayor and Aldermen shall have the control and regulation 
 of all shops, taverns, stores, barrooms and pawn-brokers and 
 
CITY OF COLUMBUS. 
 
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 also of all omnibuses, hacks, drays, express wagons and other 
 vehicles within the corporate limits of said city; and may pass 
 such ordinances and enforce the same by such penalties as 
 they may prescribe; and also the power to regulate the conduct 
 of peddlers and itinerant traders within the same limits by 
 taxation or otherwise. That said Mayor and Aldermen of the 
 City of Columbus shall have power to impose a tax not to exceed 
 one per cent, on all sales made in said city, by drovers of mules 
 and horses in said city. 
 
 SEC. 24 — May Construct, Pave or Otherwise Improve Side- 
 walks, and Assess Costs on Owner of Real Estate Abutting 
 Thereon . — Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid , 
 That the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of said city shall have 
 full power and authority, in their discretion, to construct side- 
 walks in said city, of such widths as they may see fit, and pave 
 the same, to pave sidewalks already constructed, to put down 
 curbing, and otherwise improve or widen sidewalks now con- 
 structed, or hereafter constructed in said city. 
 
 That in order to carry into effect the power delegated in the 
 preceding paragraph, said Mayor and Aldermen shall have full 
 power and authority to assess the cost of constructing, paving 
 and otherwise improving sidewalks, including all necessary 
 curbing, on the real estate abutting on the sidewalk constructed, 
 paved or otherwise improved. The material to be used in con- 
 structing, paving or otherwise improving sidewalks, and curbing 
 the same, the character of the improvement, and all other 
 similar questions shall be within the discretion of said Mayor 
 and Aldermen, and nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to 
 require all sidewalks to be made of the same material or im- 
 proved in the same manner. 
 
 SEC. 25. — Power Over Streets. Paving. (1900, p. 267.) — The 
 Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the City of Columbus shall 
 have full power and authority in their discretion, to grade, pave, 
 macadamize or otherwise improve, for travel and drainage, the 
 streets and public lanes and alleys of said city, and to construct 
 sidewalks and pave the same; to put down curbing, material 
 for all such work, and doing the same at such time and in such 
 manner, as in their discretion, they may deem best. 
 
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 SEC. 26. — Assessments. Paving Between Railroad Tracks. 
 Assessments Against Railroads. (Act 1900, p. 267.) — That in 
 order to fully carry into effect the authority above delegated, 
 said Mayor and Board of Aldermen shall also have full power and 
 authority to assess the cost of paving and otherwise improving 
 the sidewalks, in said city, including all necessary curbing for 
 the same, on the real estate abutting on the street, and on the 
 side of the street on which the sidewalk is so improved. “That 
 said Mayor and Board of Aldermen shall also have full power 
 and authority to assess one-third of the cost of grading, paving, 
 macadamizing, constructing side drains, cross drains, crossings, 
 or otherwise improving the roadway or street proper, or such 
 width of the same as they may decide to grade, pave, macadamize 
 or otherwise improve on the real estate abutting on each side of 
 such street so paved, macadamized or otherwise improved; that 
 any railroad Company now having or that may hereafter have, 
 tracks running through or across the streets of said city, shall be 
 required to macadamize or otherwise pave, as said Mayor and 
 Board of Aldermen may direct, the width of such track, and for 
 a space of two feet on each side of every line of track now in 
 use, or that may hereafter be constructed by such company, so 
 as to conform to the general character of such improvement 
 being done contiguous to such track; and said railroad, or street 
 railroad company shall upon direction of said Mayor and Board 
 of Aldermen, cause the grade of such track to be raised or 
 lowered, so as to conform to the grade of the proposed improve- 
 ment that the Mayor and Board of Aldermen are hereby author- 
 ized, in their discretion, to pave or contract directly for the 
 paving of the whole surface of the street determined upon; and 
 to require any railroad company having or using tracks in such 
 street or portion of such street, to pay for the paving of the 
 space therein, which such company or companies may be 
 required to pave under this Act; the object of this provision 
 being to allow the city to pave or contract for the paving of the 
 whole surface of the street, without giving such railroad com- 
 pany or street railroad company the option of paving the space 
 to be paved by it, by itself or by a contractor, at its instance; 
 provided , that this Act shall not become a law until the same 
 
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 shall have been approved by a two-thirds vote of the Mayor 
 and Board of Aldermen of the City of Columbus; provided, 
 farther, that this Act shall not become operative until October 
 1, 1905.” (Approved August 15, 1904.) 
 
 SEC. 27. — Assessments. How Apportioned. (Acts 1900, p. 
 269.) — Said Mayor and Board of Aldermen shall have full power 
 and authority to adopt by ordinance such a system of equalizing 
 assessments on real estate for the above purpose as may be just 
 and proper, estimating the total cost of each improvement made 
 and prorating the cost thereof on the real estate according to its 
 frontage on the street or portion of a street so improved, and 
 also according to the special benefit accruing to said property 
 by reason of such improvement; provided, that in no event shall 
 such assessment be greater than 25 per cent, of the assessed 
 valuation for taxation of such real estate after such improve- 
 ments have been made; provided, further, that the cost of such 
 paving or improvement for such portion of such street so im- 
 proved as shall front on cross or intersecting streets to the one 
 being improved shall be assessed to and paid by the city at large. 
 
 SEC. 28. — Assessments. How Enforced. — That whenever any 
 such assessments shall have been made, it shall be considered 
 and construed to have been made according to the said special 
 benefits accruing to said property, as well as according to the 
 frontage; and the amount of assessment on each piece of real 
 estate shall be a lien on said real estate from the date of the 
 passage of the ordinance providing for such work and making 
 the assessment. The Mayor and Board of Aldermen of said city 
 shall have authority to enforce the collection of any assessment 
 so made for such improvement either upon the streets or side- 
 walks by execution to be issued by the Clerk of Council against 
 the real estate so assessed and against the owner thereof at the 
 date of the ordinance making the assessment and against any 
 railroad company or street railroad company, which execution 
 may be levied by the Marshal of said city on such real estate, 
 and after advertisement and other proceedings, as in cases of 
 sales for city taxes, the same may be sold at public outcry to the 
 highest bidder, and such sale shall vest an absolute title in the 
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 which such assessment may have been made, who may wish to 
 contest the fact of special benefit, shall have the right to file an 
 affidavit and bond with the levying officer denying such special 
 benefit, or that the whole or any part of the amount for which 
 the execution issued is due, and stating what amount he admits 
 to be due; the amount so admitted to be due shall be paid to the 
 Marshal before the affidavit is received and the affidavit and 
 bond received for the balance and all such affidavits so received 
 shall be returned to the Superior Court of Muscogee County and 
 there tried and the issue determined as in cases of illegality, 
 subject to all the pains and penalties provided by law in cases of 
 illegality for delay. The bond provided for in this section shall 
 be conditioned the same as bonds in illegality proceedings. 
 
 SEC. 29. — Execution Sales. (Acts of 1900, p. 270.) — That deeds 
 by the City of Columbus, or its Mayor or the Marshal, pursuant to 
 sales under execution issued for the collection of local assess- 
 ments as herein provided, and tax sales, shall be admissible in 
 evidence on the same terms as deeds made pursuant to sales for 
 taxes due the state and county; provided that it shall be com- 
 petent for parties denying the validity of such assessment deeds 
 or such tax deeds to put in evidence the proceedings preliminary 
 to the execution of such deeds; the purpose of this section 
 being to give the city assessment deeds and tax deeds the same 
 prima facial force and validity which is accorded to tax deeds 
 made by the officers of the state and county. 
 
 SEC. 30. — Work. How Done. — All work done in accordance 
 with this Act shall be done under the direction of the Street 
 Committee of Council, and the Superintendent of Public Works; 
 said Superintendent of Public Works shall prepare and furnish 
 surveys, grades, plans, profiles, and other like work, whether 
 the work is to be done by contract or directly by the city. 
 
 SEC. 31. — May Change Parks and Driveways. — The Mayor and 
 Aldermen of the said City of Columbus, Georgia, are hereby 
 authorized and empowered in their discretion, to restrict or 
 narrow the original width or the present width of the sidewalks, 
 streets or avenues of said city, either by making a center drive- 
 way with portions of such streets or avenues, parked on either 
 side of such center driveway, or by parking the center of such 
 
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 streets and avenues and providing a driveway on either side 
 thereof, in such manner and paving the driveways and the 
 parked portions of the streets or avenues of such width, and 
 extending for such length, and using such material and providing 
 such curbing or barriers, as in their discretion may seem best, 
 and to widen and change the location of sidewalks in their 
 discretion. 
 
 SEC. 32. — Streets. — Be it further enacted by the authority 
 aforesaid , That said Mayor and Board of Aldermen shall have 
 the power and authority to change the width of any such street 
 or avenue, or the parked portion thereof, after it shall have 
 been so parked or otherwise. 
 
 SEC. 33. — Obstruction. (Acts of 1901, p. 355.) — Be it further 
 enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in carrying out the 
 provisions of this Act the said Mayor and Board of Aider- 
 men shall have full power and authority to move or cause to be 
 moved any or all trees, posts, poles, car tracks, hydrants, or other 
 obstruction in such sidewalks, streets or avenues. 
 
 SEC. 34. — Width of Driveways. — Be it further enacted by the 
 authority aforesaid, That said Mayor and Board of Aldermen 
 are hereby authorized to designate such portion of the width of 
 any of its sidewalks, streets or avenues that is to be used as 
 the traveled highway, and kept in repair by said authorities. 
 
 SEC. 35. — Changing Width. (Acts of 1901, p.356.) — Be it further 
 enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the action of said 
 Mayor and Board of Aldermen in heretofore changing the width 
 of any of the sidewalks, streets or avenues of said city by park- 
 ing, as by this Act provided, is hereby ratified and confirmed as 
 fully as though such work had been done subsequently to the 
 passage of this Act. 
 
 SEC. 36. — Grading. — Be it further enacted by the authority 
 aforesaid, That said Mayor and Board of Aldermen are hereby 
 authorized and empowered to establish the grade of its side- 
 walks, streets or avenues, and to change the same in their 
 discretion, and in their discretion to change the width, number 
 and location of sidewalks. 
 
 SEC. 37. — Assessments for Repairs. — The said Mayor and 
 Aldermen shall have full power and authority to assess the cost 
 
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 of keeping in repair, and in a condition suitable for travel, any 
 of the sidewalks of said city now laid out, and hereafter to be 
 laid out, on the real estate abutting on sidewalks. 
 
 SEC. 38. — Expense of Improving Shall be a Lien on Abutting 
 Property. — The amount of expense of constructing, paving or 
 otherwise improving sidewalks under this Act, shall be a lien 
 on the real estate abutting on the sidewalks constructed, paved 
 or otherwise improved, from the date of the passage of the 
 ordinance providing for the work. 
 
 SEC. 39. — May Require Property Owners to Keep Sidewalks 
 in Good Repair. — The amount of each assessment for the repair 
 or work on sidewalks under the foregoing paragraph of this 
 section shall be a lien on the real estate assessed, from the time 
 the repairs are made or work is done. And the Mayor and 
 Aldermen may make assessments under the foregoing paragraph 
 by general ordinance, requiring all property owners to keep 
 their sidewalks in repair, and in a condition suitable for travel, 
 authorizing the work to be done by the officers of the city, 
 specified in such general ordinance. 
 
 SEC. 40. — Lien. How Enforced. Proviso. — The said Mayor 
 and Aldermen shall have authority to enforce the collection of 
 the amount of any assessment under this Act, by execution to 
 be issued by the Clerk of Council of said city in the name of the 
 City of Columbus against the real estate so assessed and against 
 the owner thereof at the date of the ordinance making the 
 assessment except in the case of assessments under Section 37, 
 when the execution shall be issued against the real estate 
 assessed and the owner thereof at the time of repairing, 
 or work was done, which execution may be levied by the 
 Marshal, Chief of Police or any policeman of said city on such 
 real estate, and after advertising and other proceedings 
 as in case of sales for taxes due said city, the same may be 
 sold at public outcry to the highest bidder and such sales shall 
 be conducted in the same manner as sales for taxes by municipal 
 corporations in this state, and shall be subject to the right of 
 redemption and purchase by the municipal city in the same 
 manner set forth in an Act, entitled an “Act to provide for the 
 manner of tax sales by the municipal corporation, in this state.’’ 
 
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 (Approved February 27, 1877.) Provided, that the defendant 
 shall have the right to file an affidavit, denying the whole or 
 any part of the amount for which execution issued is due, and 
 stating what amount he admits to be due, which amount so 
 admitted to be due shall be paid or collected before the affidavit 
 is received and the affidavit received for the balance; and all 
 such affidavits so received shall be returned to the City Court of 
 Columbus, and shall there be tried, and the issue determined as 
 in cases of illegality and subject to all the pains and penalties 
 provided in cases of illegalities for delay. The deeds made to the 
 purchasers by the proper officers under the provisions of this 
 Act shall be just as valid to purchasers as if made under the 
 ordinary process of law, issuing from the Superior Court of this 
 state. 
 
 SEC. 41. — Power to Establish Fire Limits. Regulate Con- 
 struction of Sheds and Awnings. Regulations to Prevent 
 Conflagration. Sanitary Precautions. Proviso. Fire Escapes. 
 Punishment for Failure to Put in When Required . — Be it further 
 enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Mayor and Aider- 
 men are hereby vested with power to establish fire limits in said 
 city, and to prohibit the erection of any wooden building or 
 structure in such part of the City of Columbus as they may 
 designate as the fire limits, and may change and enlarge said 
 fire limits when deemed necessary, and may exercise such super- 
 visions and control over the construction of houses and material 
 used therein, and the erection of awnings and sheds, of stove 
 pipes, chimney flues, and other means of heating as may be 
 necessary and proper to guard against conflagration; and may 
 require building permits to be issued before the erection or 
 repair of any building, which permit shall specify the material 
 to be used, and the manner of use in such erection or repair of 
 buildings. The said Mayor and Board of Aldermen shall have 
 supervision and control of all wharves and warehouses, cotton 
 compresses, cotton and lumber yards, and naval store yards, and 
 other places in said city where materials of an inflammable 
 nature are stored and may prohibit smoking on or near the same, 
 or the use of fire about cotton compresses, cotton warehouses, 
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 inflammable material is kept and also about naval stores, 
 or places where they are stored or kept or may be placed. 
 The said Mayor and Board of Aldermen shall have power 
 and authority to remove any forge, smith shop or other 
 structure within the city, whenever in their opinion, it shall 
 be necessary for protection against fire and shall have power 
 to cause any stove pipe or any other thing or matter that 
 will endanger the city as to fire, to be removed or remedied as 
 their prudence shall dictate, and they may summarily declare 
 such to be dangerous without notice to any one, and remove the 
 same instanter; and whenever it shall appear to them that any 
 decayed house, building or structure of any sort, is dangerous to 
 pedestrians or persons passing, or is endangering the public 
 health of said city, or any portion of the inhabitants thereof, or 
 any locality therein, or is likely to produce disease, they may 
 summarily condemn it by resolution or ordinance, and cause 
 it to be torn down by the Marshal or police. And whenever 
 in their opinion it is necessary to burn any property, clothing or 
 whatever else, to prevent the introduction of infectious or 
 contagious disease, they may, with the advice and counsel of the 
 health officer and the majority of the Board of Health, do so 
 instanter. And the Marshal or other officer directed, shall obey 
 such order, and in all cases they, or any officer assisting in or 
 encouraging the performance of such an order or resolution, 
 shall not be liable to answer therefor in any court having juris- 
 diction, except for gross neglect and extreme want of care, 
 coupled with malice, and without any probable cause to suspect 
 such actions were for the pubilc good, and every presumption 
 shall be in favor of such act having been lawfully done when 
 done; provided, that whenever any property shall have been 
 destroyed under the provisions of this section, the City of 
 Columbus, in its corporate capacity, shall be liable to the owner 
 thereof for the actual cash value thereof, and shall not be liable 
 for any speculative damages, or prospective profits or punitive 
 damages in connection therewith. The Mayor and Aldermen of 
 said city are hereby authorized and empowered, whenever in 
 their judgment the same is necessary for the safety and protec- 
 tion of human life, to require of the owner, agent, lessee or 
 
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 tenant in possession of any building in said city, to place therein 
 fire escapes of such character and material as may be by said 
 Mayor and Aldermen deemed requisite. After notice to place 
 fire escapes on any building in said city, and failure within the 
 time specified to place the same thereon, the owner, agent, lessee 
 or tenant in possession who shall have been served with such 
 notice shall be subject to fine or imprisonment, or both, as 
 provided by this charter of said city, and ordinances as may 
 be passed in pursuance thereof. Said Mayor and Aldermen shall 
 have power to prescribe by ordinance for the regulation of the 
 placing of fire escapes on buildings in said city. 
 
 SEC. 42. — Quarantine Regulations. Property Condemned for 
 Quarantine Purposes. Garbage, Etc., to be Removed. How 
 Enforced. Health Officer. Qualifications of and Term of Office. 
 Duty and Compensation. Board of Health. Oath. Functions. 
 Quarantine Against Smallpox. Vaccination May be Compulsory. 
 Paupers Vaccinated by Health Officer Free. Quarantine Against 
 Animal Diseases. Lewd and Disorderly Houses . — Be it further 
 enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Mayor and 
 Board of Aldermen shall have full power and authority to 
 establish such system of quarantines and to make such sanitary 
 regulations within the limits of said city as may in their judg- 
 ment be necessary to prevent the spreading or introduction of 
 contagious or infectious diseases within said city, and in order 
 the more fully to exercise this authority and use this power, said 
 Mayor and Board of Aldermen are hereby given quarantine 
 jurisdiction over all the area embraced within the jurisdictional 
 limits of the County of Muscogee in this state; and anywhere 
 within these limits either in said city or county, may locate, 
 establish and change at pleasure, either permanent or temporary 
 quarantine grounds, houses or pest houses and may condemn and 
 take lands and buildings and personal property of any sort, 
 anywhere within said limits for quarantine grounds, or quaran- 
 tine purposes, either permanent or temporary; and such condem- 
 nation proceedings shall be had and done in the same manner 
 and by the same rules as provided in Section 28 of this Act (See 
 Section 51 of this charter) for condemning land for streets, 
 ways, etc. And may by order, ordinance or resolution, put any 
 
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 part or all of said area under quarantine; and may arrest, detain, 
 quarantine and if need be, confine any person from or suspected 
 to be from any infected port or place, or port or place suspected 
 to be infected, and detain and confine such person or persons 
 from day to day as they by ordinance shall see fit to declare 
 and prescribe, and shall have power to stop, delay and board all 
 such trains, cars, steamboats, boats, vehicles and conveyances 
 of every sort, public or private in said limits, whenever in the 
 judgment of said Mayor and Aldermen it may seem best; and may 
 absolutely prohibit any such vessel, train or carriage from 
 entering said limits, or person from coming within the same or 
 any such from leaving the same; but such rigid quarantine shall 
 not be laid and established except by the consent of the Mayor 
 and Board of Aldermen, and Board of Health. And no State 
 Board of Health that is now or hereafter shall be established, 
 shall ever have power to molest, lessen, or otherwise interfere 
 with said authorities in matters of quarantine in said limits, 
 saving only to see to it that they maintain in said area a quaran- 
 tine not less strict than such State Board of Health may think 
 best. And said Mayor and Aldermen shall have full power and 
 authority to punish any violations of the quarantine rules and 
 regulations of said city as committed anywhere within said 
 area. And said Mayor and Board of Aldermen may by resolution 
 adopt any regulation recommended by said Board of Health, 
 which shall upon being published one time in any newspaper 
 in said city, and within twelve hours after its publication, 
 become a binding ordinance upon all persons within said city, 
 and within said entire area, when it shall so recite. The Mayor 
 and Board of Aldermen of the City of Columbus shall have full 
 power, upon the recommendation of the City Board of Health, to 
 adopt and enforce such ordinances as they may deem necessary 
 to secure the removal of all garbage, rubbish, filth, dead animals, 
 weeds, undergrowth, and all other offensive matter and material 
 from any and all occupied lots within the limits of said city, at 
 the expense of the owner or owners of such lots; and any owner 
 of such lots, who shall fail or refuse after written notice from 
 the authorities aforesaid, to comply with the terms of such ordi- 
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 be subject to such penalties as may be lawfully prescribed for 
 the same, and said authorities upon the refusal or failure of 
 such owner to do such work, may cause same to be done, and 
 issue execution as they may by ordinance direct and prescribe 
 against the property of such owner for the amount pf such 
 expense and cost, and the person returning such lot for city taxes 
 shall be taken and deemed to be the owner and said execution 
 shall proceed in the same manner, and shall be liable to the 
 same defense as is prescribed in this Act where executions are 
 issued by said city for constructing, paving or otherwise improv- 
 ing sidewalks of said city. The Mayor and Board of Aldermen 
 shall have power and authority to elect a Health Officer, who 
 shall be a physician of at least five years practice; whose term of 
 office shall be two years and whose duty and compensation they 
 shall prescribe and regulate, but when once fixed it shall not be 
 increased or diminished during the term of an incumbent. And 
 said Mayor and Board of Aldermen shall at any regular meeting 
 elect a Board of Health, to consist of such number of members 
 and for such term of office as they may prescribe. The mem- 
 bers of said Board of Health shall be each over 25 years of age, 
 five years a resident and citizen of said city, and shall take the 
 followingoath before an officer authorized to administer an oath: 
 “I do solemnly swear that I will well and truly discharge all 
 the duties required of- me as a member of the Board of Health 
 of the City of Columbus. So help me God.” Said Board of 
 Health shall exercise the functions of their office over said entire 
 quarantine area defined in this section. Said Mayor and Board 
 of Aldermen shall define by ordinance the duties and powers of 
 said Board of Health, not inconsistent with the laws of the 
 State of Georgia. The Mayor and Board of Aldermen shall have 
 the power to control the removal to the smallpox hospital of 
 any person or persons who shall have smallpox in said city or 
 in said County of Muscogee, and who do not provide their 
 premises with sufficient guards to completely quarantine them, 
 but even when the premises on which said person may be, who 
 shall have the smallpox, shall be sufficiently guarded, it shall 
 still be in the power of the Mayor and Board of Aldermen under 
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 said person having the smallpox to the smallpox hospital. The 
 Mayor and Board of Aldermen of said city shall have the power 
 and authority to declare by resolution that vaccination shall be 
 compulsory upon all persons living within the County of Mus- 
 cogee or any part thereof. And shall provide in said resolution 
 the time within which all persons living in said county or any 
 part thereof shall be vaccinated, and any person failing to be 
 vaccinated within the time required in said resolution, shall 
 upon conviction for the first offense be punished by a fine of not 
 more than one hundred dollars or imprisonment in the county 
 jail for not longer than thirty days; and for each subsequent 
 offense shall be punished as prescribed in Section 4310 of the 
 Code of Georgia of 1882. It shall be the duty of every physician 
 or other person living in said County of Muscogee who knows 
 or has reason to believe that any one has not been vaccinated 
 after the passage of a resolution by the said Mayor and Board 
 of Aldermen as prescribed in the preceding paragraph to report 
 the fact to the Mayor of the City of Columbus, and for failure to 
 do this, such physician or other persons upon conviction shall 
 be punished as prescribed in the preceding paragraph. It is 
 hereby made the duty of the Health Officer of the City of 
 Columbus to vaccinate free of charge any person or persons 
 residing in said County of Muscogee, who, in the judgment of the 
 Mayor of said city, are unable to pay the expenses of vaccination, 
 from poverty. The Mayor and Board of Aldermen shall have 
 full power and authority to quarantine any animal having 
 glanders or other infectious or contagious disease in said County 
 of Muscogee. And said Mayor and Board of Aldermen may in 
 order to prevent the spread of such disease have such animals 
 killed, and shall only be liable to the owner thereof for the 
 actual cash value of said animals at the time of said killing. 
 The Mayor, or Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the City of 
 Columbus may in the discretion of either said Mayor or Mayor 
 and Board of Aldermen, remove the occupants or inmates of 
 lewd or disorderly houses in the City of Columbus and in the 
 police district. 
 
 SEC. 43. — Regulation of Sale of Intoxicating Liquors. Punish- 
 ment for Violations. Revocation of Licenses. Bond and Oath. 
 
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 — Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the 
 Mayor and Board of Aldermen shall have the right and power 
 to grant or refuse to grant a license for the sale of spirituous, 
 vinous and malt liquors within the corporate limits of the City of 
 Columbus, and in the police district of said city as defined by 
 this Act, and to prescribe conditions on which a license may be 
 granted, and to fix the license fee therefor, and to collect the 
 same, which license fee shall at no time be less than five 
 hundred dollars; they shall also have the right and power to 
 declare and define certain districts in said city and police district 
 in which no license to sell any spirituous, vinous, malt or other 
 intoxicating liquors shall be granted, which districts may be 
 enlarged, increased or changed by the Mayor and Board of Aider- 
 men. The said Mayor and Board of Aldermen shall also have 
 the right by ordinance or resolution to regulate the hours of the 
 day and night (except Sundays) when the places where any 
 spirituous, vinous, malt or intoxicating liquors are sold, may be 
 kept open and sales of such liquors made, and all sales made 
 not within the hours prescribed in said resolution or ordinance, 
 shall be a sale of liquor without a license, and all and every 
 person guilty of making such sale or in any way connected 
 therein may be indicted in the Superior Court of Muscogee 
 County, or in the City Court of Columbus for a misdemeanor, 
 and punished as prescribed in Section 4310 of the Code of 
 Georgia, 1882. They shall also have the right and power by 
 ordinance to prevent minors from entering barrooms, or places 
 where spirituous, vinous or malt liquors are sold, and prescribe 
 punishment for a violation of said ordinance. The Mayor and 
 Board of Aldermen of the City of Columbus shall also have the 
 right and power to prescribe by resolution or ordinance that any 
 license to retail spirituous, vinous or malt liquors shall be can- 
 celled or revoked on conviction in the Mayor’s Court of any law 
 of the state, or ordinance of the city, touching or relating to any 
 illegal sale or gift of spirituous or malt liquors, and touching or 
 relating to the offense of keeping open a tippling house on 
 Sunday, and of any law of the state or of the City of Columbus 
 in any way regulating or controlling either the places 
 where spirituous liquors are sold or the sale of the same, 
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 and in the event of the cancellation or revocation of any 
 license, the Mayor and Board of Aldermen nor neither of 
 them, shall have any power to refund or return any 
 amount before that time paid for or on account of said license, 
 but all amounts so paid shall be forfeited to the city for viola- 
 tion of the resolution or ordinance of said city. No license to 
 sell liquor shall be granted for a period less than one year, and 
 the applicant shall give such bond and take such oath as may 
 be prescribed by the Mayor and Board of Aldermen, and if none 
 shall be so prescribed, then the bond and oath as prescribed by 
 the Code of Georgia for such license to sell at such places other 
 than incorporated towns and cities. 
 
 SEC. 44. — Mayor’s Court. Jurisdiction. Fines and Imprison- 
 ment. Fines; How Collected. Recorder. Power and Duties. 
 Term of Office. (Act of 1904, p. 449, Making Term Two Years.) 
 All Licenses Revocable . — Be it further enacted by the authority 
 aforesaid, That the Mayor of said city shall have power and 
 authority to hold a court at such time and place in said city 
 as he may appoint for the trial of offenses committed against 
 the by-laws, ordinances, rules and regulations of said City 
 Council which offenses do not amount to a violation of the 
 penal laws of the state and have power and authority to enforce 
 the penalties prescribed. The Mayor’s Court of said city shall 
 have jurisdiction over, and the power and authority to try all 
 persons charged with retailing spirituous liquors* within the 
 corporate limits of said city, and in the police district herein 
 created, without a license first had and obtained from the said city 
 authorities as prescribed by law and by this Act. Also jurisdic- 
 tion over, and power to try any and all persons charged with 
 the commission of the following offenses within the corporate 
 limits of the city and in the police district, to-wit: for fighting, 
 
 malicious mischief, keeping a disorderly house, the keeping, 
 permitting or maintaining a nuisance to the annoyance of his, 
 her or their neighbors, and for the petty offenses against health, 
 peace and good order, and for a violation of any of the ordi- 
 nances of said city, and also for contempt and disobedience to the 
 lawful orders of said court, and upon a hearing and conviction 
 by said Mayor for any of said offenses, he shall impose upon 
 
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 the offender such fine for the same as may be prescribed by the 
 ordinance of said city, and upon the failure of the parties to pay 
 said fines and costs as the same shall be ordered and adjudged by 
 said Mayor to be paid, then said delinquent may by order in 
 writing of said Mayor be punished by fine or imprisonment in 
 the common jail of Muscogee County, or in the guard house of 
 said city, or by hard labor upon the public works in said city, 
 or within the County of Muscogee, provided , that no fine or 
 forfeiture for one individual offense shall exceed one hundred 
 dollars, and no imprisonment or time of labor shall be for 
 more than sixty days, which, either one or both, or any lesser 
 time, or amount, in the discretion of the Mayor, may be imposed 
 for a violation of any of the ordinances of said city. Fines, 
 penalties and forfeitures imposed by the Mayor may be levied 
 and collected by the Marshal by execution and sale of the 
 offender’s goods and chattels under the same rules as given 
 Constables’ sales where the amount is under one hundred dollars 
 and of Sheriff’s sales when the amount is over that sum. When- 
 ever any fine shall be imposed by the Mayor on the account of any 
 offense committed against the ordinance or by-laws of said city, 
 the offender shall remain in custody until the- same is paid, and 
 when it shall go to the Treasurer for the use of said city. 
 The Mayor and Board of Aldermen may in their discretion at any 
 time elect a Recorder whose duty it shall be, when so elected, to 
 preside at the court known as the Mayor’s Court, with as full and 
 ample authority to try and dispose of all cases within the juris- 
 diction of the Mayor’s Court as the Mayor has under the pro- 
 visions of this Charter. The said Recorder shall be ex-officio 
 Justice of the Peace. He shall hold his office for the term of two 
 years, and until his successor is elected and qualified. But the 
 Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the City of Columbus may at any 
 time by a resolution, declare said office vacant before the expira- 
 tion of two years and may allow said office to remain vacant until, 
 in their discretion, they may consider it to be to the best interest 
 of the City of Columbus to elect a new Recorder. Any person 
 accepting the office of Recorder shall take it subject to the 
 reserved right of the Mayor and Board of Aldermen to remove 
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 for services beyond the time he actually serves the city as such. 
 All licenses granted by the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of 
 the City of Columbus shall be taken and accepted by the party 
 to whom said license is granted subject to the will of said 
 Mayor and Board of Aldermen who shall have the reserved right 
 to revoke the same at pleasure, and the action of the Mayor and 
 Board of Aldermen in revoking said license shall be final and 
 conclusive. 
 
 SEC. 45. — Executions. Form of. Proceedings Under. Re- 
 demption. City May Buy at Execution Sales. Execution Docket. 
 Affidavits of Illegality. Priority of Liens . — Be it further enacted 
 by the authority aforesaid, That all executions issued by the 
 Clerk of Council of the City of Columbus shall be directed 
 to the Marshal of said city, and issued in the name of “The 
 City of Columbus” and be signed by said clerk and shall state 
 for what issued, and be made returnable to the clerk aforesaid 
 ninety days after the issuing of the same, and it shall be the 
 duty of the Marshal of said city to advertise the sale of such real 
 or personal property as may have been levied on by him to 
 satisfy said execution in the same manner as advertisements 
 of Sheriff’s sales of real or personal property is by law required 
 to be made. All of said sales to be made at the place and within 
 the usual hours of Sheriff’s sales and to be made under the same 
 rules and regulations as govern Sheriff’s sales of similar 
 property. 
 
 That the time, place and manner of the sale of property, both, 
 real and personal for taxes due shall be the same as that pro- 
 vided by law for Sheriff’s sales for state and county taxes. 
 Whenever any land is sold, the owner thereof shall have the 
 privilege of redeeming it within one year by paying the pur- 
 chaser the amount paid therefor, with ten per cent, premium 
 thereon. 
 
 Whenever at any such sale for taxes due, no one present shall 
 bid for the property put up to be sold as much as the amount of 
 such tax execution and all costs, and after such property shall 
 have been cried a reasonable time, then any duly appointed 
 officer or agent of the City of Columbus may bid off such prop- 
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 sale shall make to the City of Columbus a deed to the property 
 so sold and deliver the same, and the title thus acquired by the 
 city shall be perfect and valid after the period provided for 
 redemption by the owner shall have elapsed, and the Marshal 
 or officer making the sale shall put the city in possession. And 
 the Mayor and Board of Aldermen shall have no power to divert 
 or alienate the title of the city to any property so purchased 
 except by a public sale to the highest bidder in such manner 
 as may be prescribed by the ordinances of the city. The Clerk 
 of Council shall keep an execution docket on which shall be 
 entered the date thereof, time and to whom delivered, and the 
 proceedings had thereunder. Such execution shall also be 
 returned to the office of the clerk after satisfaction of same. 
 Where affidavits of illegality or claims are interposed, then all 
 the papers shall by the clerk be transmitted to the Clerk of 
 the Superior Court of Muscogee County, where such illegality 
 or claim shall be tried. When affidavits of illegality are filed 
 to executions so issued, the person making the affidavit shall at 
 the same time deliver to the Marshal a bond with good security, 
 conditioned to deliver the property at the time and place of 
 sale, if the issue of illegality shall be adjudged against him. 
 In all cases, however, a levy shall be made before an affidavit 
 of illegality can be received. The lien of tax executions in favor 
 of the City of Columbus shall have priority within the corporate 
 limits of the city over all other judgments and executions 
 except those due to the state or county, and by order of the 
 Mayor and Board of Aldermen shall be transferred to any person 
 who will pay the full amount and costs of the same, and the 
 transferree shall be subregated to all the rights of the city 
 as to the enforcement of such execution which shall retain all its 
 prior liens. 
 
 SEC. 46. — Aldermen May Act as Recorder. Chief of Police; 
 Power. Mayor and Aldermen Ex-Officio Justices of the Peace. 
 Policemen; Powers and Duties. Warrants; form of. Com- 
 mitments to Superior Court and City Court. Police May Raid 
 Gambling Houses. (Act of 1905, p. 760.) (Act of 1905, p. 761.) — 
 The Mayor and each Alderman shall be ex-officio Justices of the 
 Peace, so far as to enable each of them to issue warrants for 
 
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 offenses committed within the limits of the city and the police 
 district created by this Act, and may admit to bail, or commit 
 offenders for trial before any court held in said county having 
 jurisdiction. The Chief of Police and members of the police 
 force of the City of Columbus shall be ex-officio Constables of 
 the County of Muscogee, and shall be subject to the call of the 
 Sheriff of Muscogee County as such. And said Chief of Police 
 shall have power and authority to pursue and arrest or summon 
 before the Mayor’s Court, any person who shall have violated 
 any of the ordinances of said city or of the laws of Georgia over 
 and beyond the city limits to any point within the County of 
 Muscogee. And said arrest so made in said County of Muscogee 
 shall be just as lawful as if made within the corporate limits of 
 the City of Columbus. The police force of said city in the pur- 
 suit of any offender against the laws of said city or against the 
 laws of the State of Georgia, may enter any building, either 
 public or private, and where admission is refused it shall be 
 lawful for said police force to break and enter said building for 
 the purpose of making said arrest. The Chief of Police and 
 members of the police force shall have full power and authority 
 to examine all places in said city and police district where he 
 or they suspect a violation of any of the penal laws of this 
 state to be carried on, and for this purpose he or they shall have 
 full power and authority to call to his or their aid any and all 
 of the male citizens of said city or police district capable of 
 bearing arms; and shall make a report of all offenders against 
 the penal laws of this state to the Mayor. And said Chief of 
 Police and members of the police force, shall in each case 
 where he has a reason to suspect a violation as aforesaid, make 
 an affidavit to the best of his knowledge and belief charging the 
 offenders or offender with said offense, and the form of said 
 affidavit should be substantially as follows: 
 
 “Georgia, 
 
 Muscogee County. 
 
 Personally came A. B., who on oath says that to the best 
 of his knowledge and belief C. D. did, on the day of 
 
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 in the year in the county aforesaid, 
 
 commit the offense of and this deponent make 
 
 this affidavit that a warrant may issue for his arrest. 
 
 Sworn to and subscribed before me this day of 
 
 (Signed A. B.) of the City of Columbus.” 
 When said affidavit shall have been made before the Mayor, 
 Recorder or any Alderman of said city, said Mayor, Recorder 
 or any Alderman shall issue a warrant substantially as follows: 
 
 ‘‘Georgia, 
 
 Muscogee County. 
 
 To any Sheriff, Deputy Sheriff, Coroner, Constable, Chief of 
 Police of this State, or Policeman of the City of Columbus, 
 Greeting: 
 
 A. B. makes affidavit before me that on the day 
 
 of in the year in the county 
 
 aforesaid C. D. did commit the offense of 
 
 You are hereby commanded to arrest the body of said C. D. and 
 bring him before me or some other judicial officer of this state 
 to be dealt with as the law directs. You will also levy on a 
 sufficiency of the property of said C. D. to pay the costs in the 
 event of his conviction. Herein fail not.” 
 
 Which said warrant shall be signed by said Mayor, Recorder 
 or Alderman as the case may be, and it shall be the duty of 
 any officer to whom said warrant of arrest is directed to arrest 
 said offender and carry him without delay before the Mayor, 
 Recorder or Alderman of said city, and if there is probable cause 
 to suspect that an offense has been committed by such person 
 so charged, it shall be the duty of the officer before whom said 
 charge is investigated to commit said person so charged to the 
 common jail of the County of Muscogee, and if said offense is 
 bailable under the laws of this state, and is less than a felony, 
 said person so charged shall be bound over to appear at the 
 next term of the City Court of Columbus, or other court having 
 jurisdiction, to answer for said offense so alleged to have been 
 committed; and if the said offense is of the grade of felony, said 
 person so charged shall be bound over to appear at the next 
 term of the Superior Court of Muscogee County, and it shall be 
 
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 the duty of the Chief of Police or officer making the affidavit on 
 which said arrest was based to appear before the proper court as 
 a prosecutor in said case. And where said case is returnable to 
 the City Court of Columbus it shall be the duty of said officer to 
 make the necessary affidavit, on which an accusation shall be 
 based in said court. 
 
 The following form or one in substance the same, shall be 
 signed by the officer by whom any offender may be committed, 
 as prescribed in the foregoing paragraph, and shall be deemed 
 a sufficient commitment: 
 
 “Georgia, 1 
 
 Muscogee County, f 
 
 A. B. having been arrested on a warrant for the offense 
 
 of and brought before me, after hearing 
 
 the evidence it is ordered that he be committed for trial to 
 
 for the offense of and the jailer of said 
 
 county is required to receive and safely keep him until dis- 
 charged by due process of law. 
 
 Witness my hand and seal this day of ” 
 
 The Chief of Police or any policeman of said city who shall 
 fail to make the affidavit as aforesaid, as herein provided, shall 
 be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof before 
 any court in Muscogee County, having jurisdiction of the same, 
 shall be punished as prescribed in Section 4310 of the Code of 
 Georgia of 1882. And the effect of said conviction shall be that 
 said Chief of Police or policeman shall be disqualified from 
 holding any office under the charter of the City of Columbus; 
 and it shall be the duty of the Mayor of the City of Columbus 
 to see that this paragraph is carried into effect. It shall be the 
 duty of the Chief of Police of said city or any policeman of said 
 city to break and enter any gambling house located in said City 
 of Columbus and police district where gambling is actually 
 going on at the time of said breaking and entering, and said 
 Chief of Police and policeman, as the case may be, shall seize any 
 evidence of guilt in the shape of tables, cards, dice or other 
 implements of gaming and shall hold the same to be used in 
 evidence on the trial of any cases that may be made against 
 
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 said offenders; and each and every person who is present shall 
 be arrested and brought before the Mayor, Recorder or Alder- 
 man of said city, as the case may be, to answer to such charge as 
 may be brought against them. Any of the officers of said cor- 
 poration sued for an act done in his or their official character 
 shall justify under this Act. 
 
 SEC. 47. — Markets. May Regulate the Sale of Marketable 
 Goods. — Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid , That 
 the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the City of Columbus shall 
 have the power to establish and keep up one or more public 
 markets in said city; and shall govern the same by such rules 
 and regulations as said Mayor and Board of Aldermen may 
 deem necessary and proper; and may prescribe and enforce 
 penalties for violation of market laws and regulations; provided, 
 however, that said Mayor and Board of Aldermen may grant 
 private license for the sale of marketable articles or any of them, 
 at a place or places in said city other than the public market 
 upon such terms, regulations and control as the said Mayor and 
 Board of Aldermen may adopt. 
 
 That in order to enable the Mayor and Board of Aldermen to 
 maintain a public market in said city, the said Mayor and Board 
 of Aldermen are hereby authorized and empowered to prohibit 
 the sale by retail of such fresh meat and vegetables as are 
 usually sold in a public market at any other place in said city 
 except at the market house during certain hours to be fixed, and 
 to impose such penalties upon offenders as are provided for 
 violation of other ordinances of said city. 
 
 The Mayor and Board of Aldermen shall have full power and 
 authority to prevent the sale in said city and police district of 
 all articles of food which are injurious to health, or which may 
 have been adulterated, and to condemn and destroy the same, 
 and punish persons who shall sell or offer such articles of food 
 for sale, and to this end may pass laws for the inspection of 
 articles of food and milk offered for sale and fix the penalties 
 not exceeding a fine of $100 and imprisonment not exceeding 
 sixty days. 
 
 SEC. 48. — Nuisances. Power to Abate. (Act of 1905, p. 763.) 
 — That the said Mayor and Board of Aldermen shall have power, 
 
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 by ordinances, resolution or order of Council, to cause to be 
 abated, within the jurisdictional limits of said city and police 
 district, any nuisance which may tend to the immediate annoy- 
 ance of the citizens in general, which may be manifestly 
 injurious to the public health or safety, or tend greatly to corrupt 
 the manners and morals of the people, or any considerable part 
 thereof, whether the nuisance be such by the common law or 
 by statute of this state, or by ordinance of said city, passed 
 in conformity with law, and to enforce the order for abatement 
 and removal of such nuisance by the Chief of Police and other 
 civil force of said city. The Mayor of said city shall have the 
 power and authority to try all persons charged with keeping, per- 
 mitting or maintaining a nuisance to the annoyance of his, her or 
 their neighbors, and on conviction he shall be fined or imprisoned, 
 in the discretion of the Mayor, not exceeding the limit made in 
 this Act for the punishment for violation of any city ordinance 
 and the nuisance shall be abated. No horse, mule, cattle, sheep, 
 goat, hog or other animal shall ever be allowed to run at large 
 in any part of said City of Columbus, and the Mayor and Board 
 of Aldermen shall enforce this section by proper ordinances, 
 and provide punishment for any person owning such animals 
 willfully violating this section, by fine not to exceed one hundred 
 dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding sixty days, either or both, 
 in the discretion of the Mayor’s Court, or as provided in 
 Section 21 of this Act. 
 
 SEC. 49. — Public Schools. Tax for Maintenance of Public 
 Schools. Interest on School Fund. Separate Schools for White 
 and Colored Pupils. Additional Tax. Apportionment of Funds. 
 Report of Trustees . — Be it further enacted by the authority 
 aforesaid, That for the purpose of enabling the Mayor and Board 
 of Aldermen of the City of Columbus to establish and maintain 
 Public Schools in said city, the Mayor and Board of Aldermen 
 are hereby invested with the exclusive control and manage- 
 ment of the buildings used and erected for Public Schools, 
 together with the lots on which the same are situated. That of 
 all funds set apart or appropriated by the state or by the County 
 of Muscogee for school or educational purposes, the propor- 
 tionate amount to which the children resident in the city or the 
 
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 schools of said city may be entitled, shall be paid over to the 
 Treasurer of said city, to be used by said Mayor and Board of 
 Aldermen only in the maintenance of such Public Schools, but 
 schools for white and colored pupils shall always be kept sepa- 
 rate and distinct from each other. The said Mayor and Board of 
 Aldermen shall be and they are hereby given full authority to 
 set apart and appropriate the poll tax which may be collected 
 in said city under any law authorizing said Mayor and Board of 
 Aldermen to levy and collect tax for the maintenance of said 
 Public Schools, and said Mayor and Board of Aldermen are 
 hereby authorized to levy and collect a tax upon all taxable 
 property in said city, which added to all other revenue may 
 be sufficient for the proper maintenance of said Public Schools, 
 and the erection of necessary buildings for such schools. 
 
 It shall be the duty of the Comptroller-General to ascertain 
 the proportions of the interest upon the school fund, now on 
 hand or which may hereafter be collected or appropriated to 
 which the City of Columbus would be entitled according to 
 population, and such proportion when determined shall be paid 
 over to the Treasurer of said city, to be used only for school 
 purposes under the direction and management of the Trustees 
 of the Public Schools in said city. That it shall be the duty of 
 the said Trustees with said portion of school fund so paid to 
 said Treasurer to establish separate schools in said city for the 
 children of white and colored persons, and to use for such 
 purposes such portion of said fund for the colored children as 
 in their opinion is necessary to maintain proper and suitable 
 schools. 
 
 If the proportion to which said colored children may be thus 
 allowed, shall not be sufficient to keep and maintain schools for 
 their benefit as much as three months in each year, it shall be 
 the duty of the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of said city to 
 levy and collect annually, by taxation, a sufficient amount to 
 enable such Board of Trustees to keep up said schools at least 
 three months in the year. The said Board of Trustees shall in the 
 management of said schools as nearly as practicable conform 
 to the school laws of this state now in existence or which may 
 hereafter be adopted. The State School Commissioner shall so 
 
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 apportion the fund raised for the payment of the debt due the 
 teachers, and also any other fund which may be on hand or may 
 hereafter be realized from any source, as that the amount which 
 would be due upon the basis if the number of children of school 
 age in the city of Columbus shall be ascertained and submit to 
 the Governor his estimates, who shall, from time to time draw 
 his warrant upon the State Treasurer in favor of the City Treas- 
 urer of said city for the amount of said estimate. The said 
 Board of Trustees shall annually, on or before the first day of 
 August in each and every year, make a report to said Mayor and 
 Board of Aldermen of the condition of said institutions, showing 
 who the teachers are, and the number of pupils taught during the 
 preceding year, with suggestions as they may deem proper for the 
 interest of education in said institutions; and upon a failure 
 to make such report the defaulting Board of Trustees shall be 
 considered dissolved and the said Mayor and Board of Aldermen 
 at their first meeting after such default shall proceed to elect 
 a new Board of Trustees. 
 
 SEC. 50. — River Bridges. — Be it further enacted by the 
 authority aforesaid, That the bridges across the Chattahoochee 
 RiVer erected by said city shall be under the exclusive 
 management and control of the Mayor and Board of Aldermen 
 of said city. They may appoint keepers of the same at will, 
 and make said bridges free to vehicles and passengers or may 
 charge tolls for either or both; and no bridge shall be erected 
 over said river within the limits of said city without the consent 
 of the Mayor and Board of Aldermen. 
 
 SEC. 51. — Power of Mayor and Board of Aldermen as to Public 
 Improvements. Appointment of Assessors. Arbitration. Award 
 of Assessors. Appeals. Award; How Enforced. Collections by 
 Ordinary for Persons Under Disability. — Be it further enacted 
 by the authority aforesaid, That the City of Columbus shall have 
 the power, right, privilege and authority within the County of 
 Muscogee to lease, purchase or condemn, receive donations, 
 grants, easements or other uses of lands for the purpose of con- 
 structing, operating, carrying on and building sewers, streets, 
 drains, waterways, waste-ways, traps, ditches, embankments, 
 culverts, bridges, sidewalks and alleys or any other and all kinds 
 
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 of public works, quarantine stations, smallpox hospitals or any 
 other kind, market houses, engine houses, police stations, 
 morgues, barracks, and any and all public buildings that may at 
 any time in the future be needed for the use of said city. In the 
 event that the said City of Columbus does not procure from the 
 owner or owners thereof by donations, contract, lease or pur- 
 chase, the title to the lands or rights of way necessary or proper 
 for any of the uses or purposes mentioned as aforesaid, when the 
 parties cannot and do not agree upon the damage done or to 
 be done for any of the purposes aforesaid to the owner or 
 owners of the lands which the City of Columbus may seek to 
 appropriate as rights of way, or for its other purposes, the City 
 of Columbus, by its Mayor and Board of Aldermen shall appoint 
 one person as its assessor, and the person or persons owning the 
 land sought to be taken for rights of way or for building purposes 
 or other purposes, necessary or proper for the construction of 
 any of the objects aforesaid, shall choose his, her or their or its 
 assessor, and in case the person owning the land sought to be con- 
 demned shall fail or refuse to make such choice or select some 
 one to represent his, her or their interests, or should be an insane 
 person, lunatic, idiot or minor or laboring under any disability 
 from any other cause whatever, and shall have no legal repre- 
 sentative, then it shall be the duty of the Ordinary of the County 
 of Muscogee to make such selection for such owner or owners 
 so failing or refusing or unable to make the same as aforesaid, 
 provided, that said City of Columbus by its Mayor and Board of 
 Aldermen shall give notice to said Ordinary that such owner or 
 owners fail or refuse to act as aforesaid, or is an insane person, 
 lunatic, idiot or minor or is under disability from any other 
 cause whatever and has no legal representative, and the two 
 Assessors thus selected shall choose a third Assessor and the 
 three Assessors thus selected shall be sworn to do justice be- 
 tween the parties; and after hearing such evidence as may be 
 offered as to the damage done the owner or owners of such 
 rights of way or other property sought to be condemned for 
 the purposes aforesaid, as the case may be, they or a majority 
 of them shall assess the damage and the value of the property 
 so sought to be condemned; and in assessing said damage the 
 
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 said Assessors shall take into consideration the increased valua- 
 tion of said property, if any, by reason of the construction and 
 building of any of the public works as aforesaid, and shall say in 
 writing what sum said City of Columbus shall pay for the rights 
 of way and for other property sought to be condemned by it; 
 and they shall file their award within ten days after it is 
 made in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Muscogee 
 County, and said Clerk shall record the same, such award shall 
 have all the force and effect of a judgment or decree rendered 
 by the Superior Court of said county. Said award shall be 
 made in writing, shall specify the amount to be paid, and desig- 
 nate the right of way or property condemned. Either party 
 dissatisfied with the award shall have the right to appeal to the 
 Superior Court by giving written notice to the other party 
 within ten days after the award has been filed, and entering an 
 appeal in writing to the Superior Court. In case the owner of 
 the land is under a disability as provided in this section, and 
 without legal representative the Ordinary of Muscogee County 
 may give the notice for such disabled person, and in the same 
 manner service in a similar case may be given to the Ordinary 
 when the City of Columbus may enter an appeal, and the issue 
 shall be made on such appeal and tried in the Superior Court" 
 as cases at common law, with the right of either party to carry 
 the same before the Supreme Court. The entering of an appeal 
 shall in no case hinder or delay the construction and building 
 of any of the public works aforesaid, and the same may proceed 
 from the time the award in such condemnation is fded in the 
 office of the Clerk of the Superior Court, but before the com- 
 mencement of said work tender shall be made of the amount of 
 such award. 
 
 In the event the City of Columbus is not dissatisfied with 
 said award, said City of Columbus shall pay to the Clerk of the 
 Superior Court the sum so found to be due by said Assessors. 
 If the City of Columbus is dissatisfied and the appeal is entered 
 by the said City of Columbus, it shall give bond with security 
 for the payment of the amount adjudged to be due by it on the 
 final hearing of said case. Should no appeal be entered within 
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 the amount of the award, and should proceed with the work 
 or in occupying the land sought to be condemned as aforesaid, 
 then the Clerk upon application of the owner or Ordinary, where 
 he is authorized to act, issue execution on said award, and pro- 
 ceedings shall be had thereon as in cases of judgments and 
 executions in the Superior Court of Muscogee County. But the 
 City of Columbus shall have the right after said award is filed 
 to abandon said right of way or property so sought to be con- 
 demned in the event the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of said 
 city should consider that the sum found to be due would in their 
 judgment make said right of way or land sought to be condemned 
 too expensive to said city. But in such event the City of Colum- 
 bus shall pay all costs of said award. All sums collected by the 
 Ordinary of Muscogee County for persons unrepresented and 
 laboring under any of the disabilities contemplated as aforesaid, 
 shall be held by him for the use of such persons, and he shall 
 cause proper legal representatives of such persons to be made; 
 and the amount received shall be held and treated as a part of the 
 estate of such disabled person or persons. And in all cases 
 the right of way or title to the property condemned shall rest 
 and remain in the City of Columbus according to the terms of 
 the award unless said city should decline to accept the same. 
 
 SEC. 52. — Columbus Waterworks. — Be it enacted by the Gen- 
 eral Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted 
 by the authority of the same , That the charter of the City of 
 Columbus, in Muscogee County, be and the same is, hereby 
 amended as follows: That said City of Columbus is hereby 
 authorized and empowered to construct, build, maintain, own 
 and operate a system of waterworks, in any manner and to any 
 extent that may be needful for the present and future use and 
 requirements of said City of Columbus; that said city shall have 
 the power to acquire and hold property, both real and personal, 
 that may be necessary or appropriate for affording a complete 
 and sufficient supply of reasonably pure water for its own use 
 and the use of the inhabitants thereof, whether the same be 
 located within the limits of said city or elsewhere, including 
 the ownership of, and the dominion over, in whole or part, of the 
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 gathered, however large the tract of land may be that is requisite 
 for that purpose. 
 
 SEC. 53. — Water Supply. — Be it enacted by the authority afore- 
 said, That the said city shall have power and authority to make 
 or cause to be made such examinations and surveys for the 
 proposed system of waterworks contemplated by this Act as shall 
 be necessary or proper to the selection of the most advantageous 
 location or locations, site or sites, watershed or watersheds, 
 right or rights, way or ways, for the location of said works and 
 the necessary apparatus, appliances and equipment therefor, and 
 for bringing the water from the source of supply to and 
 distributing it in said city. 
 
 SEC. 54. — Waterworks. Construction of. (Acts of 1902, p. 
 370.) (Amended Acts of 1905, p. 727.) — Be it further enacted, 
 That said City of Columbus shall have the power and authority 
 to construct its works, and build such dams, canals, raceways 
 and reservoirs as may be necessary for conveying and con- 
 taining its water, and the laying of such pipes, conduits and 
 mains into and through said city as may be necessary and appro- 
 priate for the distribution of said water for private and public 
 use; shall have the power to use and employ for the purpose 
 of said system of waterworks any stream or streams of water, 
 watercourse or watercourses, or any part of such water or 
 waters which shall be deemed necessary and appropriate; and to 
 use such water or waters by employing the same for power to 
 run or move the necessary machinery or for pumping through 
 the pipes and mains and making distribution thereof over said 
 city, and generally to do and perform all acts and things neces- 
 sary for the construction, equipment, maintenance and operation 
 of said system of waterworks, and the distribution of its water 
 as may be requisite and proper to carry into effect the object, 
 scope and purposes of this Act. 
 
 SEC. 55. — Pipes and Mains. — Be it enacted by the authority 
 aforesaid, That said City of Columbus shall have the power in 
 the construction of said system of waterworks and in making 
 distribution of its water, to lay its pipes and mains under and 
 along any street or streets of said city, or under and along any 
 road or highway of this state; and should it be necessary, to 
 
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 cross, occupy and appropriate with its works, pipes and mains 
 such streets and highways, or any part thereof, and shall have 
 the right to use the ground or soil under any road, railroad, 
 highway, street, lane, alley or court within this state for the 
 purpose of laying its pipes, conduits and mains, and constructing, 
 enlarging and improving any of the work contemplated by 
 virtue of this Act, provided, however, that said city shall not per- 
 manently injure any such railroad, highway, street, lane, alley or 
 court and the same be restored to its original condition and all 
 damages thereto to be repaired; that said City of Columbus shall 
 have the power to lease, buy, take and condemn any property, 
 real or personal, in this state, as may be necessary for the 
 location, construction, operation and security of said works; 
 said city first making and paying just and adequate compensation 
 therefor, as by law provided, when private property is taken 
 for public use. 
 
 SEC. 56. — Rights and Remedies. — Be it further enacted by the 
 authority aforesaid, That the rights and remedies of said city and 
 all persons, firms, or corporations whose property, franchises, 
 easements or rights said city may seek to condemn or appro- 
 priate for the purpose herein contemplated, shall be in accord- 
 ance with, and subject to the provisions set forth and embodied 
 in. Sections 4657 to 4686, inclusive, of the Code of Georgia for 
 1895, and the several acts of the General Assembly amendatory 
 thereof. 
 
 SEC. 57. — Water Rates. — Be it enacted by the authority 
 aforesaid, That said City of Columbus shall have the right and 
 power to supply and furnish its water to private consumers, 
 either for motive power or for drinking, sanitary and domestic 
 purposes, charging such rates therefor as in the judgment of 
 the corporate authorities is reasonable and just. 
 
 SEC. 58. — Waterworks Bonds. — Be it enacted by the authority 
 aforesaid, That for the purpose of carrying into effect the 
 objects of this Act, the said City of Columbus shall have the 
 power to make any contract or contracts or incur any obligation 
 or obligations upon the means and resources of said city not 
 repugnant to the Constitution of this state, and shall have 
 the right to issue and sell its bonds when so authorized in the 
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 manner provided by law for the purpose of raising and supply- 
 ing the necessary means to accomplish the aims and objects of 
 this Act. 
 
 SEC. 59. — Board of Water Commissioners. — Be it enacted 
 by the authority aforesaid, That before the said City of 
 Columbus shall commence the construction of said system of 
 waterworks, and before the issue and sale of any of its bonds 
 for that purpose, the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of said city 
 at any regular meeting thereof, shall elect in the same manner 
 as other officers of said city are elected, a Board of Commis- 
 sioners, to be known as the “Board of Water Commissioners,” 
 who shall have the supervision and control of the building, con- 
 struction, operation and management of said waterworks system. 
 The Mayor and Board of Aldermen of said city shall fill all 
 vacancies that may occur in said Board at any regular meeting 
 of Council after such vacancy may exist, and that said Board of 
 Water Commissioners shall consist of five persons, one of whom 
 shall be the Mayor of said city, who shall be an ex-officio 
 member, and four other persons all of whom shall be free- 
 holders and citizens of the City of Columbus and qualified by law 
 to vote at elections for the selection of Mayor and Board of 
 Aldermen of said city. 
 
 SEC. 60. — Election and Official Term of Commissioners. — Be it 
 enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the term of office of 
 each member of said Board of Water Commissioners shall be 
 four years, except the members of the first Board to serve; that 
 the first election for members of said Board shall be held at any 
 regular meeting of Council after the qualified voters of said 
 City of Columbus have legally authorized at an election held 
 for that purpose an issuance of the bonds of said city for the 
 purpose of building and constructing a system of waterworks, 
 at which meeting of Council the four persons to constitute the 
 first Board shall be elected, one of whom shall be elected to serve 
 until the first day of January following said election, one to serve 
 until the first day of January thence next following, one to serve 
 until the first day of January thence next following, one to serve 
 until the first day of January thence next following, so that tlie 
 term of office of only one member will expire each year; and as 
 
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 the respective terms of office of each member of said Board of 
 Water Commissioners expire, the said Mayor and Board of 
 Aldermen of said City of Columbus, at the regular meeting of 
 Council to be held in July of each year prior to the expiration 
 of the term of office of each member, shall elect a successor to 
 the member of said Board whose term expires in January follow- 
 ing thereafter, who shall be elected for the full term of four 
 years, so that one member of said Board shall be elected in July 
 of each year. 
 
 SEC. 61. — Chairman of Board. Oath of Commissioners. — Be 
 it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Board of Water 
 Commissioners shall choose from their number annually one to 
 serve and act as Chairman of said Board. The members of said 
 Board of Water Commissioners shall each, before entering into 
 the discharge of his duties, take and subscribe to the following 
 oath: “I do solemnly swear that I am duly qualified to serve 
 
 as a member of the Board of Water Commissioners of the City 
 of Columbus; that I will, to the best of my ability, faithfully 
 discharge all of the duties and obligations devolving upon me 
 as a member of said Board without fear, favor and affection, and 
 as will subserve the best interests of the City of Columbus, so 
 help me God,” which oath shall be taken before any officer 
 authorized by law to administer oaths. 
 
 SEC. 62. — Powers of Board. — Be it enacted by the authority 
 aforesaid, That a majority of said Board of Water Commissioners 
 shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and 
 all contracts, engagements, acts and doings of said Board within 
 the scope of their duty or authority, shall be obligatory upon and 
 be considered in law as if done by the Mayor and Board of 
 Aldermen of said City of Columbus. Said Board shall have the 
 power and authority to make rules and regulations for the con- 
 duct of its affairs, and shall keep a record in books to be pur- 
 chased and kept for that purpose of all acts and doings of said 
 Board, which said books shall be subject to examination at 
 any time by persons authorized to do so by the Mayor and 
 Board of Aldermen of said city; and said Board shall make 
 reports to the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of said City of 
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 accordance with any ordinance or resolution that may be passed 
 by said Mayor and Board of Aldermen with reference to same. 
 
 SEC. 63. — Engineer and Secretary. Contracts . — Be it further 
 enacted , That said Board of Water Commissioners shall have the 
 power to appoint a competent engineer for the construction of 
 said waterworks system, and to fix his compensation while so 
 employed; also the power to appoint a secretary for said Board, 
 and employ such managers, clerks and laborers as may from time 
 to time to be found needful in building and constructing said 
 system and in the operation thereof when completed, and to fix 
 their salaries and compensation; that said Board may purchase 
 from time to time such material, machinery, apparatus and appli- 
 ances as may be needed in the building, constructing, maintenance 
 and operation of said works; that all contracts made by said 
 Board for material or for construction of said works, or any part 
 thereof, which shall involve an expenditure of over two hundred 
 dollars, shall be made in writing, and of each contract two copies 
 shall be made, one of which shall be deposited with the Clerk 
 for the benefit of the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of said 
 city, and one to be retained by said Board, and said Board 
 shall have the authority to require from any person or 
 persons, firm or corporation with whom they contract, 
 satisfactory security for the faithful performance of said, con- 
 tract according to its terms, and no member of said Board shall 
 be interested directly, indirectly or remotely in any contract 
 relating to the construction or operation of said works. 
 
 SEC. 64. — Use and Price of Water . — Be it further enacted, That 
 said Board of Commissioners shall regulate the distribution and 
 use of the water in all places and for all purposes whenever 
 the same may be required, and shall fix the price for use thereof 
 and the terms of payment therefor; they shall erect such 
 number of public hydrants and in such places as the Mayor and 
 Board of Aldermen of said city may designate, for the purpose of 
 extinguishing fires, watering the streets and such other public 
 uses as said Mayor and Board of Aldermen may direct, and shall 
 make all necessary connection with pipes and mains into all 
 buildings used by said City of Columbus and as said Mayor and 
 Board of Aldermen may require. That said Board of Water 
 
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 Commissioners shall have full power and authority to require 
 payment in advance for the use of water furnished by them in 
 or upon any building, place or premises; and in case prompt 
 payment shall not be made they may shut off the water from 
 such building, place or premises, and shall not be compelled to 
 again supply said building, place or premises with water until 
 all arrears, with interest thereon, shall be fully paid. That said 
 Board shall have the power to make rules and regulations 
 respecting the introduction of water into or upon any premises 
 and may regulate the use thereof in such manner as to them 
 shall seem necessary and proper; and the members of said 
 Board and all engineers, superintendents or inspectors in their 
 service and employ are hereby authorized and empowered to 
 enter at all seasonable hours any building or other place, where 
 said water is taken and used, and when unnecessary waste 
 thereof is known or suspected, and examine and inquire into 
 the cause thereof. They shall have full power to examine all 
 service pipes, stop-cocks and other apparatus connected with 
 said works, for the purpose of ascertaining whether the same are 
 of the character and dimensions, and fixed in the manner 
 required by the rules and regulations of said Board, and if 
 necessary the supply of water may be shut off until the required 
 examination is made and any alterations and repairs necessary 
 are completed. 
 
 SEC. 65. — Disbursements by Board . — Be it further enacted, 
 That whatever sum or sums of money that may be provided by 
 the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the City of Columbus, 
 either from the sale of bonds or otherwise, for the purpose of 
 building and constructing a system of waterworks as herein 
 provided for, shall be paid over to said Board of Water Com- 
 missioners, and by them used and paid out for that purpose only, 
 and should any sufplus be left thereof after final completion of 
 said system it shall be turned over to the Treasurer of said City 
 of Columbus, and by him used only for the payment of principal 
 and interest on any bonds that may have been issued and sold 
 for that purpose. 
 
 SEC. 66. — Receipts of Board. Board Subordinate to Mayor 
 and Board of Aldermen . — Be it further enacted, That all money 
 
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 coming into the hands of said Board of Water Commissioners 
 from water rents and the sale of any apparatus and appliances 
 or other property, or from any other source, after paying for 
 any necessary extensions, repairs and expenses of operation, 
 shall be paid to the Treasurer of the City of Columbus semi- 
 annually and at least fifteen days prior to the time of the pay- 
 ment of any principal or interest that may become due on any 
 bonds that may have been issued for the purpose of building 
 and constructing any system of waterworks as is herein provided 
 for, and the same shall be used by said City Treasurer only for 
 the purpose of paying any principal and interest then to become 
 due; but if the revenue and receipts of money derived from 
 the operation of said waterworks for any year be more than is 
 sufficient to discharge the interest and principal on said bonds 
 maturing in that year, then such surplus may be used and 
 appropriated by the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of said city 
 for any other public improvement in said city as to them may 
 seem proper. Be it further enacted, That said Board of Water 
 Commissioners shall be considered a subordinate branch of the 
 City Government of Columbus, and shall conform in their actings 
 and doings to all ordinances that may be passed by the Mayor 
 and Board of Aldermen of said City of Columbus; and the 
 Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the City of Columbus may 
 at any time remove any member which they may have elected 
 to said Board, if it shall satisfactorily appear, after reasonable 
 notice to the parties, and hearing of the causes of complaint and 
 answers thereto, if any should be offered, that the member 
 whose removal is sought has been guilty of maladministration or 
 neglect of the duties of this office, that his removal will be right 
 and proper, and two-thirds of the Board of Aldermen of said city 
 shall concur in such removal. 
 
 SEC. 67. — Compensation of Commissioners . — Be it further 
 enacted, That the members of said Board shall not receive any 
 compensation for their services, but shall be paid and refunded 
 all reasonable expense which they may incur in the perform- 
 ance of their duties; that the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of 
 said city shall be authorized, by and through a committee of 
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 at their pleasure, the state and condition of the works, and 
 property thereto belonging, and also all books and accounts per- 
 taining to the affairs conditioned by them, and the said Board 
 shall give and furnish them any reasonable facility and assist- 
 ance in making such inspections. 
 
 SEC. 68. — Malicious Injury to Works. — Be it further enacted, 
 That any person or persons who shall maliciously or willfully 
 divert the water, or any portion thereof, from the works contem- 
 plated by this Act, or shall corrupt or in any manner render the 
 same impure, or shall destroy or injure any canal, aqueduct, 
 pipe, conduit, main, machinery or other property used or 
 required for procuring or distributing the water, such person or 
 persons, and their aiders and abettors, shall forfeit to said Board, 
 to be recovered in an action of trespass, treble the amount of 
 damages besides cost of suit which shall appear on the trial to 
 have been sustained, and all such acts are hereby declared to 
 be misdemeanors under the laws of this state, and the person 
 or persons charged therewith, if found guilty, shall be punished 
 as for a misdemeanor, as provided by law. 
 
 SEC. 69. — Added by Amendment. (Acts 1905, p. 757-758.) — That 
 the rights, powers and privileges by this Act shall not be so con- 
 strued as to deny to the corporative authorities of the City of 
 Columbus any rights and powers they may now or did possess 
 before the passage of the same, to contract for a water supply 
 for its use and the use of its citizens, under the general laws of 
 this state. 
 
 SEC. 70. — (Acts of 1912, p. 766.) — Be it further enacted by the 
 authority aforesaid, That the City of Columbus be and is hereby 
 vested with the power and authority to paypensions to policemen 
 and firemen who have been in the continuous service of the 
 City of Columbus for a period of not less than twenty years and 
 who have become physically and permanently disabled while 
 in the service of said city; provided, that the amount of pension 
 paid to policemen shall not exceed one-half of the regular pay 
 of policemen, and to firemen one-half of the regular pay to 
 firemen, who are employed in the regular and active service 
 respectively for said city. 
 
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 SEC. 71. — Be it further enacted , That the power and authority 
 herein conferred shall be exercised only by resolution adopted 
 by the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of said city at a regular 
 meeting, and a separate resolution shall be adopted for each 
 and every pension paid, which said resolution shall state the 
 name of the policeman or fireman who shall receive said pension, 
 the amount thereof and when the same is to be paid; and in no 
 case shall any pension be paid to policemen by said Mayor and 
 Board of Aldermen except upon recommendation of the Police 
 Commission of the City of Columbus, nor shall any pension be 
 paid to any firemen except upon recommendation of the Chief 
 of the Fire Department and approved by the Standing Committee 
 of Council on Fire Department. 
 
 SEC. 72. — Be it further enacted, That the power and authority 
 herein conferred upon the City of Columbus is entirely discre- 
 tionary and said power and authority may or may not be 
 exercised as the Mayor and Board of Aldermen may deem 
 expedient and proper in each particular case; and any pension 
 which may be paid by the terms of this Act, or in pursuance 
 of any resolution adopted by the Mayor and Board of Aldermen, 
 may be revoked and withdrawn by the Mayor and Board of 
 Aldermen of said city at any time; and when so revoked and 
 withdrawn there shall be no obligation upon the part of the City 
 of Columbus to make any future payments of any pension there- 
 tofore granted or paid to any policeman or fireman of said city. 
 
 SEC. 73. — Debt. How Increased. Proviso. — Be it further 
 enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the debt of the City 
 of Columbus shall not exceed seven per cent, of the assessed 
 value of all taxable property in said city, and it shall not incur 
 any new debt except for a temporary loan or loans to supply 
 casual deficiences of revenue, which shall not exceed one-fifth 
 of one per cent, of the assessed value of the taxable property 
 in said city, without the assent of two-thirds of the qualified 
 voters of said city. And the City of Columbus is hereby author- 
 ized and empowered to increase its debt and make issue and sell 
 its bonds to an amount equal to the difference between the 
 amount of the whole debt (bonded and floating) of said city, 
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 value of all taxable property in said city at the time of the 
 issue of said bonds; provided, that the assent of two-thirds of 
 the qualified voters of said city shall first be given thereto at 
 an election or elections to be held; and, provided further, that 
 before or at the time such bonds shall be issued, provision shall 
 be made by the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of said city for 
 the payment of the principal and interest of said bonds within 
 thirty years from their date. 
 
 SEC. 74. — Ordinances. Proviso. — Be it further enacted by the 
 authority aforesaid, That all ordinances of the City of Columbus 
 contained in the Code of the City of Columbus and adopted by 
 the Mayor and Council of the City of Columbus in the year 
 1888, and all ordinances passed subsequent to the adoption of 
 said Code not in conflict with this Act shall remain in full force 
 and effect. Provided, That said Mayor and Board of Aldermen 
 of the City of Columbus may at any time repeal any ordinances 
 contained in said Code or any ordinances passed by said 
 Mayor and Council since the adoption of said Code; or they may 
 alter or amend the same, or they may by an ordinance repeal 
 all ordinances heretofore passed. 
 
 SEC. 75. — Acts of the General Assembly. Conflicting Laws 
 Repealed. — Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, 
 That all Acts of the General Assembly heretofore passed con- 
 ferring any powers on the Mayor and Council of the City of 
 Columbus, other than those contained in this Act, are not 
 repealed as to such grant of powers, but the same shall be 
 extended to the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of said city; 
 but limitations and restrictions of powers contained in said 
 Acts as are at variance with the terms of this Act are hereby 
 expressly repealed, and all laws and parts of laws in conflict 
 with this Act are hereby repealed. 
 
 WM. A. HARRIS, Secretary of the Senate. 
 
 M. A. HARDIN, Clerk of House of Representatives. 
 
 ROB’T. G. MITCHELL, President of the Senate. 
 
 CLARK HOWELL, Speaker of House of Representatives. 
 
 W. J. NORTHEN, Governor. 
 
 Approved November 29, 1890. 
 
ARTICLE II. 
 
 CITY OFFICIALS; THEIR POWERS AND DUTIES. 
 POLICE DISTRICT. 
 
ARTICLE II. 
 
 CHAPTER 2. 
 
 MAYOR ANI) MAYOR PRO TEM. 
 
 SECTION 76. — General Duties. — The Mayor shall preside at all 
 meetings of Council, and give the casting vote upon all questions 
 and in the election of officers only in cases of a tie. It shall 
 be his duty to see that all laws, ordinances, resolutions and 
 rules of Council are observed and enforced and that all officers 
 of the city shall faithfully discharge all the duties required of 
 them. 
 
 SEC. 77. — Mayor Protem. Election and Duties. — Council shall, 
 either at the first meeting after the election of each new Board 
 or at any time elect from their body a Mayor pro tempore, 
 who shall during the illness or absence from any cause of the 
 Mayor, act in his stead, and be clothed with all rights, privileges 
 and duties of the Mayor. 
 
 SEC. 78. — Mayor Pro Tem. Oath and Compensation. — The 
 Mayor Protem shall take the same oath prescribed for the Mayor, 
 before entering upon his duties as such, but shall receive no 
 salary or other compensation unless specially appropriated by 
 Council. 
 
 CHAPTER 3. 
 
 OFFICERS ELECTED BY COUNCIL.— GENERAL PROVISIONS. 
 
 SECTION 79. — All officers elected by the Mayor and Council, 
 shall be elected at the time provided for in the new Charter of 
 the City of Columbus or as soon thereafter as practicable. 
 
 SEC. 80. — Election and Qualifications. — The election shall, in 
 all cases, be by ballot, and a majority of the whole Board neces- 
 sary to elect, and no person shall be eligible to any such office 
 except a resident citizen of this city. 
 
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 SEC. 81. — Salaries. — The salaries of officers shall always be 
 fixed before the election takes place, and shall not be increased 
 or diminished during the term of office. 
 
 SEC. 82. — To Give Bonds. — Each officer of Council, whether 
 elected by the people or by Council, shall before entering upon 
 the discharge of his duties, enter into such bond as Council may 
 require, to be approved of by Council, and no member of Council 
 shall ever be taken as such surety. Additional sureties or a 
 new bond for a larger amount may be required of any officer 
 whenever Council may deem it necessary; and any officer failing 
 or refusing to give such additional sureties or new bond when 
 required may be dismissed from office by the vote of a majority 
 of Council. 
 
 SEC. 83. — May be Discharged for Cause. — For malpractice in 
 office, non performance of duty, or habitual intoxication any 
 officer may be either fined or discharged from office by Council. 
 The charges against any such officer may be preferred either by 
 a member of Council or any citizen and shall be in writing, and 
 plainly set forth the offense and specifications, a copy of which 
 shall be served upon him at least three days previous to the trial. 
 
 CHAPTER 4. 
 
 COMMITTEES OF COUNCIL.— STANDING. 
 
 SECTION 84. — It shall be the duty of the Mayor as soon as 
 practicable after the election of each new Board of Aldermen, 
 to appoint seventeen Standing Committees in the following 
 order, do-wit: 
 
 1. Committee on Accounts and Contracts. 
 
 2. Committee on Bridges and Wharf. 
 
 3. Committee on Cemeteries. 
 
 4. Committee on City Improvements. 
 
 5. Committee on Cisterns and Fire Department. 
 
 6. Committee on Finance. 
 
 7. Committee on Gas and Street Lights. 
 
 8. Committee on Hospital. 
 
 9. Committee on Market and Magazine. 
 
 10. Committee on Ordinances. 
 
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 11. Committee on Parks and Commons. 
 
 12. Committee on Police. 
 
 13. Committee on Public Schools. 
 
 14. Committee on Sanitation. 
 
 15. Committee on Streets and Sewers. 
 
 16. Committee on Waterworks. 
 
 17. Committee on Insurance. 
 
 SEC. 85. — The Standing Committees shall consist of three 
 members each. The Mayor and Council may, at any time, alter 
 the committees, and make such changes as the interests of the 
 city require. 
 
 SEC. 86. — Matters Referred to. How and When. — Any business 
 which may come before Council concerning the subject matter 
 of which any standing committee has jurisdiction, may be 
 referred by Council to such committee for investigation and 
 report. It shall be the duty of each standing committee when- 
 ever required by Council, or by the Mayor, or any member of 
 Council, to examine any matter referred to such committee and 
 to make a written report thereof at the next regular meeting 
 of Council. They shall also examine into the condition of the 
 matters within their jurisdiction and make such reports and 
 recommendations from time to time as may be necessary. 
 
 SEC. 87. — Special Powers. — Each standing committee may 
 order necessary and urgent repairs or work to any extent not 
 exceeding twenty-five dollars and the same shall be reported to 
 Council at its next regular meeting. 
 
 SEC. 88. — Mayor Ex-Officio Member All Committees. — The 
 Mayor shall be ex-officio Chairman of all standing committees 
 and may call them together at any time, whenever the public 
 interest requires it. 
 
 CHAPTER 5. 
 
 CLERK OF COUNCIL. 
 
 SECTION 89. — General Duties. — It shall be the duty of the 
 Clerk of Council to attend all meetings of Council; to record 
 regularly and fairly all proceedings of the same in a book to be 
 kept by him for that purpose; and to keep the same properly 
 
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 indexed. He shall also keep a book to be called the Ordinance 
 Book, in which he shall record all alterations and amendments to 
 the city ordinances, and shall keep the same properly indexed. 
 
 SEC. 90. — Executions. Licenses. Deeds, Etc. — He shall also 
 keep an Execution Docket, in which he shall enter all executions 
 issued by him and to whom delivered and when; and when 
 the executions are returned to office, he shall enter the returns 
 made upon them. He shall issue all summonses, processes and 
 subpoena to witnesses that may be necessary in the enforcement 
 of the rules, regulations and ordinances of Council. All deeds, 
 leases and other instruments executed by Council shall be 
 attested by him. He shall be the keeper of the public seal of the 
 city and of the records of Council. 
 
 SEC. 91. — Office and Hours of. — He shall keep his office at the 
 Council chamber, unless specially authorized to remove the 
 same to some other place, and shall be in his office every day 
 (Sundays and holidays excepted) from 9 to 12 A. M., and from 
 3 to 5 P. M. 
 
 CHAPTER 6. 
 
 CITY TREASURER. 
 
 SECTION 92. — General Duties. — It shall be the duty of the 
 Treasurer to receive all moneys collected by other officers of 
 Council on account of the corporation, and to collect all taxes 
 due to the city within the time prescribed by Council. As soon 
 as the tax digest is turned over to him, he shall give notice of 
 the fact in the city papers and attend in his office daily (Sundays 
 and holidays excepted) from 9 A. M. to 2 P. M., to collect the 
 taxes due. At the expiration of the time prescribed by Council 
 for the payment of taxes, he shall furnish a list of defaulters 
 to the Clerk, and see that execution is issued against them and 
 placed in the hands of the Marshal and shall report the amount 
 of tax due by such defaulters to Council. 
 
 SEC. 93. — Payments. Deposits. Records. Books. — He shall 
 pay all demands against Council, when required to do so, but in 
 no case shall he pay any money to any person who is at the 
 time indebted to Council for any sum, until a settlement is had, 
 
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 without special authority from Council. He shall safely keep all 
 moneys belonging to the city and when required by the Finance 
 Committee or by Council shall deposit the same in bank, in the 
 name of the City of Columbus. He shall keep a regular and 
 fair account of all money received, and from whom, and all 
 money paid out and to whom, which said account shall at all 
 times be open to the inspection of any member of Council and 
 shall make monthly returns of his account. 
 
 SEC. 94. — Treasurer Board of School Trustees. — The Treasurer 
 shall be ex-officio Treasurer of the Board of Trustees of the 
 Public Schools of the city. 
 
 SEC. 95. — Hospital Treasurer. — The Treasurer is hereby 
 authorized to receive and receipt for all money due the City 
 Hospital, to endorse and collect all checks, drafts or money 
 orders that may be made payable to or for the use of said 
 hospital. 
 
 CHAPTER 7. 
 
 CITY MARSHAL. 
 
 SEC. 96. — The Marshal shall be ex-officio member of the 
 Board of City Assessors, and assist in the appraisement for 
 taxation of all real estate in the City of Columbus; he shall 
 receive the returns of all real and personal property in the 
 City of Columbus subject to taxation, and use his best efforts and 
 judgment to see that all property subject to taxation is properly 
 returned at its true value. 
 
 The Marshal shall see that all persons doing business in the 
 City of Columbus shall register as required by the laws of the 
 said city, on or before the first day of March in each year, stating 
 the nature of the business in which they propose to engage; to see 
 that all license fees and special taxes required by the laws of 
 the city for doing business therein shall be paid, or in the event 
 of failure to pay, the delinquent shall be summoned to appear 
 before the Recorder’s Court to answer the charge of doing 
 business without a license. And it shall be the duty of the 
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 Marshal to present before the Recorder proper proof showing 
 that the law requiring the payment of the license has been 
 violated. 
 
 It shall, also, be the duty of the Marshal to keep a Special 
 book which shall contain a list of all persons owing taxes or 
 assessments to the City of Columbus, which said taxes or assess- 
 ments are past due and unpaid for a period of four months 
 or longer. 
 
 SEC. 97. — Collections. Money. Executions. — He shall collect 
 all executions, either for taxes or otherwise, which may be 
 placed in his hands; he shall account to the Treasurer and pay 
 over to him, weekly, all moneys in his hands and generally per- 
 form all acts required of him by any ordinance and Council. 
 
 SEC. 98. — Service of Process and Orders. — He shall serve all 
 notices and carry all orders required by the Mayor and Chair- 
 men of the committees. 
 
 CHAPTER 8. 
 
 CITY ATTORNEY. 
 
 SECTION 99. — Duties of. — It shall be the duty of the City 
 Attorney to draft all bonds, deeds, contracts, and other legal 
 instruments of whatever nature which may be required of him 
 by any ordinance or order of Council, or by any committee 
 thereof. He shall commence and prosecute all actions and suits 
 to be commenced by the city before any tribunal in this state, 
 whether in law or equity; and also to appear in defense and ad- 
 vocate the rights and interests of the city, or any of the officers 
 of the city, in any suit or prosecution for any act or omission in 
 the discharge of their official duties, wherein any estate, right, 
 privilege, ordinance or act or any breach of any ordinance may 
 be brought in question. He shall also when required by Council, 
 act as attorney and counsel for any officer of the city in any 
 prosecution or proceeding which may be instituted by said 
 officers for any breach of the laws of this state or any 
 of the ordinances, orders or by-laws of the city; and 
 he shall in all matters do every professional act inci- 
 
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 dent to the office which may be required of him by Council, 
 or by any committee thereof; and shall when required, furnish 
 Council or any committee thereof, or any officer of the city who 
 may require it in the discharge of his official duties, with his 
 legal opinion on any subject touching the duties. of their respec- 
 tive offices, or the rights, duties and interests of the city. He 
 shall perform such other duties in connection with his office that 
 the Mayor may direct. 
 
 SEC. 100. — Compensation. — In full compensation for all the 
 services of said City Attorney, he shall receive an annual salary, 
 to be determined by Council. In all cases, however, when his 
 attendance out of the city may be required of him, his reasonable 
 traveling expenses shall be allowed him; and in all suits for 
 the collection of any debt or demand due the city, he shall 
 receive such commission on the amount collected as Council may 
 allow, not exceeding the usual commission of attorneys for . 
 collections. 
 
 CHAPTER 9. 
 
 CITY PHYSICIAN. 
 
 SECTION 101. — Election. Qualification. Duties. — There shall 
 be elected at the same time other officers are elected by the 
 Mayor and Board of Aldermen, one City Physician; unless in 
 the discretion of said Mayor and Board of Aldermen it should 
 be deemed advisable and by resolution so declared, to have 
 more than one City Physician for any given year; or to have one 
 City Physician with one or more assistants in either of which 
 events there shall be elected said officer, or officers or assistants 
 as the case may be, at the same time and in the same manner 
 and for the same term as other city officers are elected; except 
 that Assistant City Physician may be elected at any time that 
 a necessity therefor may, in the judgment of Council, exist, and 
 for any length of time within the term of office of City Physician. 
 That any person or persons elected under the provisions of this 
 section, shall go into the office on the first Wednesday after 
 the second Saturday of December of the year in which said 
 
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 election occurs, and hold office for the term of two years or 
 until their successors are duly elected and qualified. 
 
 SEC. 102. — Qualifications. — No person shall be eligible to hold 
 office under this section either as City Physician, whether there 
 shall be one or more incumbents of the office, or as assistant 
 thereto, who is not a resident of said city and also a graduate of 
 a recognized reputable medical college and legally qualified and 
 licensed to practice his profession under the laws of the State of 
 Georgia. 
 
 SEC. 103. — Special Duties. — In addition to the duties already 
 prescribed by law, the duties of said City Physician or Physi- 
 cians as the case may be, shall be to attend professionally, free 
 of charge, all persons residing in said city or who may be in any 
 hospital, camp of detention, quarantine station, pest house or 
 other place of like character which shall be under the charge of 
 said city or established by said city or that may hereafter be 
 established by said city, whether the same be inside of the city 
 limits or not; and to attend professionally any person who 
 may be temporarily within the limits of said city, or in any of 
 the places above mentioned, who may require the service of a 
 physician and who is unable to employ and pay for the same. 
 
 SEC. 104. — Special Duties. — To attend professionally, free of 
 charge, all employees of said city who are injured while in the 
 discharge of the duties required of them during the period 
 of their employment by said city; provided, such employees 
 request such attendance. 
 
 SEC. 105. — Special Duties. — To attend professionally, free of 
 charge, any and all persons who may be injured upon any of 
 the streets or sidewalks of said city when directed so to do 
 by the Mayor or any member of the Hospital Committee of 
 Council. 
 
 SEC. 106. — Reports. — To report at each regular meeting of 
 Council, his or their actings and doings as such City Physician 
 including the condition of the hospital and other places of like 
 character, as enumerated in this section, and the number and sex 
 of inmates and patients treated therein and for what disease; 
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 and medicines made for the pauper patients, or for the hospital 
 from date of last report. 
 
 SEC. 107. — Vaccinations. Special Duties. — To vaccinate, free 
 of charge, all persons within the City of Columbus or any 
 specified portion of Muscogee County outside of the City of 
 Columbus, whenever the Mayor and Board of Aldermen shall 
 by resolution declare that a necessity for such vaccination shall 
 exist and order it done, and specify where the same shall be 
 done; provided, that in case of compulsory vaccination such City 
 Physician shall have the right to make the usual professional 
 charge for such work, in all cases where the person vaccinated 
 does not claim to be unable to pay for the same. 
 
 SEC. 108. — Absence. Assistant to be Provided. — In the event 
 of the absence from the city of any City Physician, or Assistant 
 City Physician or of the sickness or inability to discharge the 
 duties of his office, he shall in either of such events at his own 
 expense furnish an acceptable physician who shall be otherwise 
 eligible to office of City Physician who shall discharge the duties 
 required of the City Physician; provided, that any such physician 
 offered as a substitute shall be approved by the Hospital Com- 
 mittee before entering upon the performance of the duties of 
 the office. Whenever there shall be elected more than one City 
 Physician with one or more assistants the Hospital Committee 
 of Council shall determine the respective duties of each, and 
 can either divide the work among them by territory or by giving 
 to each a specified class of work as in its discretion may be 
 deemed best and all persons taking the office of City Physician 
 or Assistant City Physician, shall take it subject to such action 
 as said Hospital Committee may thereafter take under this 
 section. 
 
 SEC. 109. — Time of Service. — Where there shall be elected one 
 City Physician, the Mayor and Board of Aldermen, shall, before 
 his election say by resolution whether said City Physician shall 
 give his whole time to the discharge of the duties of his said 
 office, if he shall be required to do so. 
 
 SEC. 110. — Bond of. — The City Physician or Assistant City 
 Physician shall give bond as other officials of the city govern- 
 ment and conform to the law applicable to other city officials. 
 
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 SEC. 111. — May be Removed for Cause. — Refusal or neglect to 
 perform the duties of the office of City Physician or Assistant 
 City Physician shall subject the offender when such fact has 
 been established before Council, to removal from office and loss 
 of salary for the remainder of his term of office. 
 
 SEC. 112. — Shall Admit Patients to the Hospital. When. — It 
 shall be the duty of the City Physician to admit into the hospital 
 and attend to all indigent sick persons who are without house or 
 home, and who are in absolute want of medical attention, and the 
 necessaries of life, and are unable to provide them, and for whom 
 no other provision is made, either by the county, state or by the 
 government of the United States. 
 
 SEC. 113. — Smallpox. Duty as to. — Should smallpox make its 
 appearance in the community, on his being notified of the fact, 
 it shall be his duty to examine such case or cases, and if it prove 
 to be smallpox, he shall immediately notify the Marshal, whose 
 duty it shall be to have the person or persons moved to the 
 hospital or he may have doubtful cases removed to a quaran- 
 tine house until the disease has developed itself. If the disease 
 should be in the neighborhood of the city and there be any 
 danger of its being brought into it, he shall adopt such precau- 
 tionary measures as he may consider necessary, and shall inform 
 the Mayor of the same, who shall see that they are properly 
 observed. 
 
 SEC. 114. — Visits to Hospital and Qaurantine Stations. Office 
 Hours. — He shall attend upon all persons needing medical atten- 
 tion, either in the hospital or quarantine, except such persons 
 should desire some other physician. He shall appoint a time, 
 not less than one hour each day when he will meet indigent 
 sick who may need medical advice or medicine, and who are 
 unable to procure it for themselves, and shall prescribe for and 
 furnish them with such medicines as their cases may require. 
 
 SEC. 115. — Indigent Sick. Duties to. — He shall also visit such 
 indigent sick in the city as are in aboslute want of medical 
 attention or medicine, and who are unable to procure them 
 for themselves, and shall prescribe for and furnish them with 
 such medicine as their cases may require. Whenever he has 
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 medicine is entitled to receive them, he may refuse to furnish 
 either, and refer such person to the Alderman of the ward in 
 which they live, and he shall attend upon and furnish medicine 
 in all cases where he may be directed to do so by the Alderman 
 of any ward or the Council. 
 
 SEC. 116. — Medicines. — He shall take charge of such stock of 
 medicine as shall be furnished him from time to time, upon his 
 requisition by the Hospital Committee, and shall dispense the 
 same or cause it to be done, without expense to the city. He 
 shall keep a book to be called the “City Prescription Book” in 
 which he shall copy all prescriptions compounded for the poor 
 of the city or for patients in the city hospital, and shall give the 
 name, age, sex, disease and residence of patients for whom the 
 same is compounded, which said book shall be used as the 
 vouchers for stock of medicines furnished by him. 
 
 SEC. 117. — Record to be Kept by. — He shall keep a register 
 showing in separate columns the name, age, sex, disease, dates of 
 admission, death or discharge of each patient in the city hospital 
 which shall be submitted monthly to the inspection of the 
 Hospital Committee. 
 
 SEC. 118. — Vaccine Matter to be Kept by. — He shall keep a 
 stock of fresh vaccine matter on hand, which shall be furnished 
 by the Hospital Committee and vaccinate free of charge all 
 indigent persons who desire it, and shall generally make such 
 suggestions and recommendations to Council as he may deem 
 necessary for the preservation of the health of the city and the 
 prevention of the spread of contagious diseases. 
 
 CHAPTER 10. 
 
 RECORDER. 
 
 SECTION 119. — Creating Office of Recorder. — A Recorder shall 
 be elected by the Mayor and Board of Aldermen at the regular 
 time of electing other city officials, every two years, as provided 
 in the charter of said city. The salary of said Recorder shall be 
 fixed in the same manner and at the same time that the salary 
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 Recorder of the City of Columbus as set forth in the charter 
 and laws of the City of Columbus. All the powers and duties 
 prescribed in said charter shall evolve upon said Recorder and 
 he shall be subject to all the terms and conditions named in 
 said charter. 
 
 CHAPTER 11. 
 
 SUPERINTENDENT OF PURLIC WORKS. 
 
 SECTION 120. — Creating Office of Superintendent of Public 
 Works and Defining His Duties. — A Superintendent of Public 
 Works shall be elected every two years, at the same time that the 
 other officers of the city are elected, said Superintendent of 
 Public Works to hold office (except as otherwise provided here- 
 inafter) for the term of two years or until his successor is 
 elected and qualified. 
 
 SEC. 121. — Salary and Expenses. — Said Superintendent shall 
 receive such salary as may be fixed by the Mayor and Roard of 
 Aldermen; in the event he should be required to keep a horse 
 the city to feed his horse. His salary shall not be increased 
 or diminished during the term for which he is elected; and such 
 Superintendent, before entering upon his duties, shall take such 
 oath in writing and make such bond as the Mayor and Roard of 
 Aldermen shall direct. 
 
 SEC. 122. — May be Discharged or Suspended. — The Mayor and 
 Roard of Aldermen shall have power to suspend, discharge, or 
 remove from office said Superintendent of Public Works at 
 any time for any neglect or failure to perform his duties or for 
 any other cause whatsoever that may be deemed sufficient in the 
 discretion of said Mayor and Board of Aldermen. 
 
 SEC. 123. — Salary Suspended on Discharge. — In the event of 
 the discharge or removal from office of said Superintendent of 
 Public Works as provided for in the foregoing section, his salary 
 shall at once cease and determine immediately upon and from 
 the time that he is notified in writing by the Mayor of his 
 discharge or removal, and if said Superintendent of Public 
 Works should be suspended from office for any time, his salary 
 
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 shall cease and determine immediately upon and after he is 
 notified in writing as aforesaid by the Mayor and during the 
 time of his suspension, and until he is reinstated and re-enters 
 upon the discharge of his duties. And it is hereby made the duty 
 of the Mayor to so notify said Superintendent of Public Works 
 of his discharge or suspension. 
 
 SEC. 124. — Qualifications. General Powers. — Any person 
 shall be eligible to the office of Superintendent of Public Works 
 who may receive a majority of the votes of the Mayor and Board 
 of Aldermen. Under the direction of the Mayor and Committee 
 on Streets and Sewers, the Superintendent of Public Works shall 
 have general supervision over the streets, sewers, public ways 
 and public buildings of said City of Columbus and shall have 
 full charge and control of the entire working force of said city, 
 consisting of laborers, mules, carts, tools, etc., or any portion 
 thereof. 
 
 SEC. 125. — Entire Time Shall be Devoted to Duties. — The 
 Superintendent of Public Works shall devote his whole time and 
 attention to the duties of said office, as prescribed by said Com- 
 mittee and Mayor and Board of Aldermen. Said Superintendent 
 of Public Works shall give his attention to the Sanitary Inspector 
 and shall require said Inspector to furnish him with a full list, 
 giving the names and wages of every laborer and sub-boss under 
 them; and said Superintendent of Public Works shall require the 
 Sanitary Inspector to keep a time table and said list of laborers 
 and time table shall be approved weekly by said Superintendent 
 of Public Works and by said Superintendent lodged with the 
 City Treasurer, whose duty it shall be to settle with all employees 
 of the city government. The Superintendent of Public Works, 
 immediately upon entering upon his duties, shall prepare a table 
 fixing the working hours of all laborers of the city and present 
 the same to the Mayor and Board of Aldermen for approval. It 
 shall further be the duty of the Superintendent of Public Works 
 to see that the working hours, as approved by the Mayor and 
 Board of Aldermen are strictly carried out and shall report to 
 the Mayor and Board of Aldermen in writing any one who 
 refuses to carry out said rules. 
 
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 SEC. 126. — Under Direction of Mayor and Council and Street 
 Committee. — The Superintendent of Public Works shall be under 
 the general supervision and direction of the Mayor and Council 
 and Committee on Streets and Sewers and he shall attend each 
 regular meeting of Council and shall be directly accountable 
 to the Mayor and Board of Aldermen and shall make all his 
 reports through the Committee on Streets and Sewers monthly 
 to the Mayor and Board of Aldermen. Said Superintendent of 
 Public Works shall, at each regular meeting of Council, make 
 a report to the Mayor and Board of Aldermen the names of all 
 laborers who may have been discharged during the month 
 preceding, and cause of discharge and shall perform all other 
 duties that may be from time to time required of him by said 
 Committee, or Mayor and Board of Aldermen. 
 
 CHAPTER 12. 
 
 GENERAL INSPECTOR. 
 
 SECTION 127. — Office Created. His Powers and Duties. — That 
 the office of “General Inspector” for the City of Columbus be and 
 the same is hereby created. 
 
 SEC. 128. — Election. Compensation. Term of Office. Oath. 
 — That the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the City of Colum- 
 bus shall, as soon as they may deem advisable after the adoption 
 of this ordinance, proceed to elect by ballot a “General Inspec- 
 tor” for the City of Columbus, who' shall hold his office to and 
 including the 31st day of December, 1914, and until his successor 
 is elected and qualified and who shall receive such salary or 
 compensation as the said Mayor and Board of Aldermen may fix 
 by resolution or ordinance which said salary or compensation 
 shall be fixed or determined before his election, and which shall 
 not be increased or diminished during his term or stay in office 
 for which he was elected; and the said person so elected shall 
 before entering upon his duties take such oath in writing and 
 make such bond for the faithful discharge of his duties as the 
 Mayor and Board of Aldermen shall direct. He shall attend 
 each meeting of Council. 
 
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 SEC. 129. — Election of Successor. Term of. — That the suc- 
 cessor to such General Inspector whose election is provided for 
 in the preceding section shall be elected at the regular meeting 
 of the Mayor and Board of Aldermen held in July, 1914, when 
 other officers of the city are elected, and who shall hold office 
 for the term of two years beginning January, 1915, and that 
 regular elections for such General Inspector shall be held 
 biennially, as other officers of the city are elected. 
 
 SEC. 130. — Discharge or Suspension of. — That the Mayor and 
 Board of Aldermen shall have the right to suspend, discharge or 
 remove said General Inspector at any time for neglect or failure 
 to perform his duties or for any other cause that may be deemed 
 sufficient or proper in the discretion of said Mayor and Board of 
 Aldermen; and the salary or compensation shall cease imme- 
 diately after such removal, suspension or discharge without 
 notice to such officer. 
 
 SEC. 131. — Office May be Abolished. — That the Mayor and 
 Board of Aldermen reserve the right and shall have the power 
 and authority to abolish said office of General Inspector at any 
 time or may decline to elect any such officer and leave said office 
 vacant, for any term or portion thereof and in the event such 
 office is abolished or said office left vacant, such officer then in 
 office shall receive no other or further compensation or perform 
 further service thereafter, or any duties pertaining thereto. 
 
 SEC. 132. — General Duties. — The duties of said General 
 Inspector shall be to inspect and approve all electric wiring and 
 plumbing and buildings that are now or that may hereafter 
 be installed or constructed and to see that such is installed and 
 constructed in accordance with the ordinances of the city, to 
 supervise and check when required, the reading of all meters for 
 measurement of water, gas or electric current consumed by the 
 city and the inhabitants thereof, to inspect and verify the 
 corrections when required, of all weights and measures of 
 merchants and traders doing a business in said city, to keep 
 on file in his office a full and complete record of all wiring 
 done as well as all permits for building and construction; and 
 shall make monthly reports to Council, giving full information 
 
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 in condensed form of the work done by him, and under his 
 supervision. 
 
 SEC. 133. — Prescribing Fees to be Charged for Inspection of 
 Electric Wiring, Plumbing and Building, and Providing for the 
 Collection of Same. — Certain fees as set forth below shall be 
 collected by the Inspector from the owners of the property 
 inspected and turned over to the City Treasurer. Until paid, 
 the fees herein prescribed shall constitute a lien on the property 
 inspected and may be collected in the same manner that taxes 
 are collected under the general tax ordinance of the City of 
 Columbus : 
 
 Electrical Inspection. 
 
 Minimum charge for 5 lights or less $ .50 
 
 From 5 to 12 lights 75 
 
 From 12 to 24 lights 1.00 
 
 From 24 to 36 lights 1.50 
 
 From 36 to 50 lights 2.00 
 
 For each additional 12 lights 25 
 
 For fixtures (1 to 4) each 25 
 
 For each additional fixture 10 
 
 For each re-inspection, where job is condemned 1.00 
 
 Motors. 
 
 Minimum charge for 1 h. p. or less •$ .50 
 
 From 1 to 5 h. p 75 
 
 From 5 to 15 h. p 1.00 
 
 For each additional 10 h. p., or portion thereof .15 
 
 Heating units to be rated according to power consumed. 
 
 Electric signs on streets (each) 1.00 
 
 Building Inspections. 
 
 From $500 to $1,000 $ 2.50 
 
 From $1,000 to $2,000 4.00 
 
 From $2,000 to $5,000 6.00 
 
 From $5,000 to $10,000 7.50 
 
 From $10,000 to $20,000 10.00 
 
 For each additional $1,000 • 25 
 
 For permit to use portion of park or street 15.00 
 
 Cost of 'cleaning up street to be charged against this deposit 
 of $15.00 and balance refunded. 
 
 Plumbing Inspections. 
 
 Roughing inspection $1.00 
 
 Sewer connection inspection 50 
 
 Both inspections made at same trip to job 1.25 
 
 For fixtures installed (each) 25 
 
 For final inspection and certificate of approval 1.00 
 
 For each re-inspection where job is condemned 1.00 
 
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 SEC. 134. — Office at Court House. — That for the purpose of 
 successfully performing the work and duties of such Inspector 
 there shall be provided for said inspector a suitable office at 
 the court house in said city either alone or in connection with 
 others as may be provided by the Mayor and Board of Aldermen 
 and said Inspector shall be required to designate at least two 
 hours of each day of the week for office hours during which 
 said hours said Inspector shall be at said office, unless called 
 therefrom by work of emergency or other good causes. 
 
 SEC. 135. — Street Committee Shall Direct. — That said Inspec- 
 tor shall he under the general direction and control of the Street 
 Committee of Council and in connection with the specific duties 
 required of him as are enumerated and set forth in this chapter, 
 he shall do and perform such other duties as may be required 
 of him by Council and the Committee under whose supervision 
 and direction he may be placed. 
 
 CHAPTER 13. 
 
 STREET OVERSEER. 
 
 SECTION 136. — Office Created. Discharge of. — A Street Over- 
 seer shall be appointed by the Committee on Streets and Sewers 
 in conjunction with the Mayor as ex-officio member of said 
 Committee and such Street Overseer shall be subject to dis- 
 charge at any time in the discretion of said Committee. 
 
 SEC. 137. — Compensation. — The monthly compensation of said 
 Street Overseer shall be suggested by said Committee and 
 approved by the Mayor and Board of Aldermen. 
 
 SEC. 138. — Duties. — The duties of said Street Overseer shall be 
 to superintend and direct the work of maintenance and repair 
 of the streets and alleys and sewers of the City of Columbus, 
 sweeping and sprinkling, maintenance of parks and when so 
 directed by the Committee of Streets and Sewers, to assist the 
 Superintendent of Public Works in works of construction and 
 other works which are under the supervision of said Superin- 
 tendent of Public Works. Also said Street Overseer shall super- 
 
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 vise and direct the care and maintenance of the live stock and 
 implements of the City of Columbus which are kept at the city 
 stables, and shall perform such other duties as may be required 
 of him coming under the department of Streets and Sewers. 
 
 CHAPTER 14. 
 
 HEALTH OFFICER. 
 
 SECTION 139. — Office Created. Term. Compensation. Oath. 
 Bond. — The office of Health Officer shall be one of the offices of 
 the City of Columbus. He shall be elected by the Mayor and 
 Board of Aldermen of said city at the same time that 
 the other officers of said city are elected, said officer to hold his 
 office for the period of two years, or until his successor is elected 
 and qualified. Said Health Officer shall receive such salary as 
 may be fixed by the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of said city 
 and the salary of such Health Officer shall not be increased nor 
 diminished during the term of office for which he is elected; 
 and the said officer shall before entering upon his duties, sub- 
 scribe to an oath in writing to faithfully carry out the duties of 
 his office and shall make such bond as the Mayor and Board of 
 Aldermen may require. He shall attend each meeting of 
 Council. 
 
 SEC. 140. — Qualifications. Discharge of. — No person shall be 
 eligible to the office of Health Officer unless such person is a 
 regular practitioner of medicine or a regular bacteriologist, 
 pursuant to the laws of the State of Georgia. The Mayor and 
 Board of Aldermen shall have the right to remove from office 
 any person elected to the office of Health Officer at any time 
 for any neglect or failure to perform the duties required of 
 him and in the event of any such discharge or suspension from 
 office the said Health Officer’s salary shall cease, together with 
 all other benefits accruing therefrom. 
 
 SEC. 141. — Under Supervision of Mayor and Board of Aider- 
 men. Powers. — The said Health Officer shall be under the 
 general supervision and direction of the Mayor and Board of 
 
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 Aldermen or such committees as the Mayor and Board of Aider- 
 men may direct. The Sanitary Inspector, City Physician, Clerk 
 of Market, Police and all other officers shall report to said 
 Health Officer all such matters coming to their attention as they 
 may think demands his services. 
 
 SEC. 142. — General Duties. — It shall be the duty of said Health 
 Officer to inspect or cause to be inspected by the employees of 
 the city, all dairies, cows, utensils and apparatus used in dis- 
 tributing milk for sale in this city and shall look after and see 
 that all milk supplied by persons engaged in the sale of milk 
 is pure and to see that the same is distributed in a clean and 
 sanitary way and that all laws, rules and regulations adopted 
 by the Mayor and Board of Aldermen respecting the sale of 
 milk in the city are carried out and complied with. Also to see 
 that all laws, rules and regulations that are now in force or 
 may hereafter be passed by the Mayor and Board of Aldermen, 
 be enforced and complied with as pertaining to slaughter 
 houses in the city or its police jurisdiction and as to inspection 
 of meats, fruits, vegetables and all food stuffs and to look after 
 the sanitary condition of all lots when required and the pre- 
 vention of contagious diseases as far as possible. 
 
 CHAPTER 15. 
 
 HOSPITAL KEEPER. 
 
 SECTION 143. — General Duties. — The Hospital Keeper shall 
 reside at the hospital, and it shall be his duty to keep the 
 hospital and the grounds attached thereto, clean and in good 
 order. He shall nurse and attend upon patients admitted to 
 the hospital, and administer such medicines as may be pre- 
 scribed. He shall provide such diet for the patients as the 
 City Physician may direct or approve, and shall administer all 
 medicines and remedies prescribed by said physician. He shall 
 observe the ordinances of Council and all rules and regulations 
 prescribed by the City Physician and Hospital Committee, and 
 see that the same are properly enforced. 
 
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 SEC. 144. — Salary. Compensation.— In case the Council should 
 furnish provisions and hire a cook for the hospital, he 
 shall superintend the preparation of food for the patients, and 
 shall receive such salary as Council may allow; but if Council 
 should require of him to provide provisions and have the same 
 prepared, then he shall receive for his services such rate of 
 board for the patients as Council may allow. 
 
 SEC. 145. — Custodian of Hospital Furniture and Supplies. — 
 It shall be the duty of the City Hospital Keeper to take charge 
 of all furniture and supplies belonging to the city hospital, and 
 render a full account of the same to the Hospital Committee upon 
 his retiring from office. 
 
 SEC. 146. — Duties at Hospital. — He shall keep in order the 
 wards of the hospital, and attend to the washing of the bedding 
 and clothing of patients, preserving cleanliness in both these 
 respects. He shall go after and administer all medicines pre- 
 scribed, and prepare such diets as shall be ordered by the City 
 Physician. 
 
 SEC. 147. — Visitors to Hospital. Regulations. — He shall not 
 admit visitors to the patients in the hospital, without the written 
 permit or verbal consent of the City Physician; nor allow any 
 patient to go outside of the inclosure of the hospital grounds, 
 unless so ordered by the medical officer in charge. 
 
 SEC. 148. — Duties to Patients. — He shall notify the City Phy- 
 sician immediately of any sudden illness occuring among the 
 patients, and shall exercise that kindly attention towards them 
 due to the sick. 
 
 SEC. 149. — Reports to Medical Officer. — He shall report to the 
 Medical Officer any misdemeanor among the patients, and any 
 want of respect due them in their kindly ministrations. 
 
 SEC. 150. — Attention to Patients. — He shall furnish lights for 
 the sick at night at his own expense, keep up necessary fires, and 
 remove chambers from the room when patients are unable to go 
 out to attend to the calls of nature. 
 
 SEC. 151. — Under Direction of City Physician. — He shall obey 
 with due respect all orders given by the City Physician 
 and treat him with becoming courtesy in his official intercourse. 
 
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 SEC. 152.— Duty of the Patients.— It shall be the duty of 
 patients to exercise a becoming regard for the wishes and feel- 
 ings of the City Physician and Hospital Keeper, and to observe 
 a strict decorum in their deportment. They must obey all 
 instructions for their recovery, and remain within the hospital 
 and its enclosure, until discharged by the medical attendant. 
 
 SEC. 153. — Discharged for Cause. — For any violation of the 
 rules on the part of the Hospital Keeper or patients, they shall 
 be held amenable to Council, and upon sufficient proof, be dis- 
 charged from office and treatment. 
 
 CHAPTER 16. 
 
 CLERK OF MARKET. 
 
 SECTION 154. — General Duties. — It shall be the duty of the 
 Clerk of Market to superintend the market during market hours; 
 to collect and pay over monthly to the Treasurer all fees, fines 
 and penalties accruing in his department; to condemn all 
 unsound, impure and unwholesome provisions brought to market 
 for sale, and to have them thrown into the river; to decide all 
 disputes between the buyer and the seller; to regulate all 
 weights and measures in the manner pointed out by the ordi- 
 nances of Council; he shall have the market house swept clean, 
 and the blocks and stalls therein cleaned every day, within two 
 hours after the close of market; and he shall see that all 
 ordinances of the city regulating the market are strictly observed 
 and conformed to. It shall be his duty to have the market bell 
 rung at least one minute at the opening and closing of market 
 hours. He shall maintain good order and regularity in said 
 market for which purpose he is hereby invested with all the 
 power of a policeman; and he is furthermore authorized to call 
 upon the Marshal or any policeman to aid and assist him. 
 
 SEC..155. — To Require Gates to Stalls Kept Closed. — It shall be 
 the duty of the Keeper of the Market to require the renter of 
 each stall to close the gate to his stall before leaving the market. 
 
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 SEC. 156. — Gates Broken. Penalty. — Any person or persons 
 breaking a gate with a wagon or by ill use, shall be required to 
 pay to the city the cost of repairs. Any person or persons 
 violating this ordinance shall be fined in the sum of five dollars 
 or imprisonment in the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 CHAPTER 17. 
 
 SEXTONS. 
 
 SECTION 157. — General Duties. Reports. — It shall be the duty 
 of the Sextons to superintend the digging of all graves and the 
 burying of all dead bodies in the city. Upon being notified of a 
 funeral he shall promptly and without delay make all necessary 
 preparations and see that they are properly and punctually 
 carried out He shall keep a record of the owners of lots in 
 the cemetery, and shall not allow any corpse to be buried on 
 a private lot without authority from the owner. It shall be 
 his special duty to see that all the rules, regulations and 
 ordinances of Council in reference to the cemetery are properly 
 enforced and shall report all violations of the same. He shall 
 keep the walks and streets of the cemetery in good order, and 
 shall report to Council when any repairs or other necessary 
 work is needed upon any part of the same. 
 
 SEC. 158. — Records to be Kept. — He shall keep a regular book 
 of records containing the names, ages and places of nativity 
 and diseases of which they died, of all persons interred in the 
 cemetery, and shall make monthly reports of the same to 
 Council. He shall also keep a record of the number of the lot 
 in which persons are interred, and if the bodies are removed to 
 any other lot, shall make a record of the fact. This record 
 shall be a large and substantial book and shall be turned over 
 by each Sexton to his successor in office, and shall at all times 
 be subject to the inspection of persons desiring to see the same. 
 Said book shall be furnished at the expense of the city. He 
 shall receive for all other services such fees as may be agreed 
 upon by the parties. 
 
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 SEC. 159. — Pauper Burial. — The Sexton shall not be allowed to 
 bury any person or persons as paupers, unless approved by the 
 City Physician and no coffins shall be furnished except on cer- 
 tificate of said officer. 
 
 SEC. 160. — Policeman’s Powers. — He shall have full power of 
 a policeman so far as relates to the cemetery and shall arrest any 
 and all persons stealing flowers, shrubbery or any other kind 
 of ornaments from or in any manner mutilating graves in the 
 cemetery and report the same to the Mayor. 
 
 SEC. 161. — Fines in Mayor’s Court. — The Recorder shall fine 
 all parties convicted of either of the foregoing offenses in a sum 
 of not less than twenty dollars; the Sexton to receive half of 
 all fines collected from such persons as he may arrest and 
 report. 
 
 SEC. 162. — Consolidating Office of Keeper of Exposition Park 
 With the Office of Sexton of Riverdale Cemetery. — The office of 
 Park Keeper at the Exposition Park is hereby consolidated and 
 united with the office of Sexton of Riverdale Cemetery, and the 
 Sexton of Riverdale Cemetery shall perform and discharge all 
 the duties pertaining to the office of said Park Keeper and here- 
 tofore performed by said Park Keeper as well as the duties 
 of Sexton of Riverdale Cemetery. 
 
 CHAPTER 18 . 
 
 SANITARY INSPECTOR. 
 
 SECTION 163. — Sanitary Inspector. Office Created. His 
 Duties. Term. Compensation, Etc. — The Mayor and Council 
 shall, as provided by the City Charter, elect by ballot a Sanitary 
 Inspector for the City of Columbus who shall hold his office 
 except as otherwise hereinafter provided for the term of two 
 years or until his successor is elected and qualified; he shall 
 receive such salary as the Mayor and Council shall by ordinace 
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 election and shall not be increased nor diminished during his 
 stay in office within the term for which he shall be elected. 
 
 SEC. 164. — Oath of. — Said Inspector shall, before entering 
 upon his duties, take such oath in writing and make such bond 
 as the Mayor and Council shall direct and said Mayor is hereby 
 fully authorized to administer said oath. 
 
 SEC. 165. — Suspended or Discharged. When. — Said Mayor and 
 Council shall have power to suspend, discharge or remove from 
 office said Inspector at any time for any neglect or failure to 
 perform his duties, or for any other cause whatsoever that 
 may be deemed sufficient in the discretion of said Mayor and 
 Council. 
 
 SEC. 166. — Salary Ceases on Suspension or Discharge. — In the 
 event of the removal or discharge from office of said Inspector, 
 as provided for in the foregoing section, his salary shall at once 
 cease and determine, immediately upon and from the time that 
 he is notified in writing by the Mayor of his discharge or 
 removal. And if said Inspector should be suspended from office 
 for any time his salary shall cease and determine upon and after 
 he is notified in writing as aforesaid by the Mayor, for and 
 during the time of his suspension, and until he is reinstated and 
 re-enters upon the discharge of his duties, and it is hereby made 
 the duty of the Mayor so to notify said Inspector of his discharge 
 or suspension. 
 
 SEC. 167. — Office May be Declared Vacant. — Said office of 
 Sanitary Inspector may be filled or left vacant for any year or 
 any portion of any year, in the discretion of said Mayor and 
 Council. 
 
 SEC. 168. — General Duties. — The duties of said Sanitary Inspec- 
 tor shall be to inspect all lots, yards, alleys and public ways of 
 the city, and to see that they are kept clean, well-drained, and 
 in a proper sanitary condition. He shall have special charge of 
 the garbage and scavenger carts and other vehicles of the city; 
 provided , however, that all carts and mules of said department 
 are subject to the call of the Superintendent of Public Works; 
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 other refuse matter and everything injurious to the public 
 health is promptly removed therefrom and properly disinfected. 
 It shall be his duty from time to time and as often as may be 
 necessary, to inspect every lot within the city and to notify the 
 owner, occupant or other person in charge thereof, of any 
 nuisance or of any matter thereon calculated to injure the 
 public health and to direct the prompt removal of same. He 
 shall report to the Mayor for his action, the owner, occupant or 
 person in charge of any lot, who fails or refuses within twenty- 
 four hours after notice to remove therefrom any nuisance or 
 matter calculated to injure the public health. 
 
 SEC. 169. — May Enter on Private Property. — In cases of such 
 failure or refusal on the part of the owner, occupant or person in 
 charge, the Sanitary Inspector is hereby authorized to enter 
 upon the premises and place the same in a sanitary condition. 
 
 SEC. 170. — Cost to be Borne by Owners. — All costs incurred by 
 said Sanitary Department under the provisions of this chapter 
 shall be defrayed by the owners of such property which is so 
 cleaned and it shall be the duty of the Sanitary Inspector to 
 certify to the Clerk of the City Council an itemized bill of all 
 materials used and work done by him and the costs thereof and 
 the name of the owner of the property, and said Clerk shall 
 issue execution for all the costs so incurred against such owner, 
 which execution shall be collected as other executions in favor 
 of the City of Columbus. 
 
 SEC. 171. — Inspection of Meats and Vegetables. Seizure of 
 Impure Foods. — It shall be the duty of said Sanitary Inspector 
 to inspect daily the meat, fish, sausage, vegetables and other 
 articles of food offered for sale at the city markets, and to 
 promptly condemn and seize any such articles of food as may be 
 found tainted or unfit for food, and to report the person or 
 persons so offering for sale any such article to the Health 
 Officer, and he shall make a like seizure and report when any 
 such tainted or unfit articles of food come under his observa- 
 tion when offered for sale in wagons or elsewhere in said 
 city. 
 
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 SEC. 172. — Sugar, Flour, Groceries Inspected. When. — It shall 
 be the duty of said Inspector at any time upon order from the 
 Mayor, to inspect sugar, flour, meal and other groceries offered 
 for sale in the stores of said city, and to report any unwhole- 
 some adulteration of the same in writing to the next meeting 
 of said Mayor and Council. 
 
 SEC. 173. — Old Clothing to be Inspected. — It shall also be the 
 duty of said Inspector to carefully inspect all second hand 
 clothing exposed or offered for sale by any person or persons 
 within the corporate limits of Columbus and to see that said 
 clothing is accompanied by the proper certificate from the 
 proper sanitary officers, as prescribed by the Acts of the Georgia 
 Legislature, and approved October 15, 1885 — (1884-5, p. 137) and 
 to promptly report any neglect or failure to comply with the 
 requirements of said Act, such report to be made in writing to 
 the Mayor. 
 
 SEC. 174. — To Enforce Sanitary Laws and Ordinances. — It 
 shall be the duty of said Inspector to see that all sanitary ordi- 
 nances of the City of Columbus now of force or that may here- 
 after be adopted, are strictly enforced and fully complied with, 
 and he shall perform all other duties that may be required of 
 him by the said Mayor and Council and by the Board of Health 
 of the City of Columbus. 
 
 SEC. 175. — Monthly Reports. — The said Sanitary Inspector 
 shall make a monthly report in writing to each regular monthly 
 meeting of said Mayor and Council, setting forth his actings and 
 doings and the sanitary condition of the city. 
 
 SEC. 176. — Under Supervision of Mayor and Board of Health. 
 — Said Inspector shall be under the immediate supervision and 
 control of the Mayor and Board of Health of the city. He shall 
 act under the direction of the said Mayor and Board of Health, 
 shall receive his orders from, and make his reports directly to 
 them, and shall report to said Mayor and Board of Health in 
 writing, on any subject or matter connected with his office when 
 required to do so by said Mayor and Board of Health, and as 
 often as they may direct. 
 
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 CHAPTER 19. 
 
 PORT WARDENS.— WHARF. 
 
 SECTION 177. — Election of. Qualifications. — There shall be 
 elected by the Mayor and Council at the same time other officers 
 are elected by the Mayor and Council, or as soon thereafter as 
 convenient, five competent persons, to act as Port Wardens of the 
 city. 
 
 SEC. 178. — Duties. — It shall be the duty of the Port Wardens, 
 whenever called upon, to make a survey or surveys upon any 
 steamboat, box or barge or any other water-craft navigating 
 the Chattahoochee River, and also of all goods, wares, and mer- 
 chandise which are alleged to have been damaged or injured 
 upon any such steamboat, box or barge or other water-craft, and 
 furnish such person so applying with a certificate of such survey 
 signed by them as Port Wardens. 
 
 SEC. 179. — Records. Powers. Oath. — Said Port Wardens 
 shall keep a complete record of all surveys made by them and 
 all their action had therein; and said record shall be kept by the 
 Clerk of Council in the Council Chamber, and shall be open for 
 inspection at all times, by any and every person interested 
 therein; and whenever required to do so, said Port Wardens shall 
 furnish a certified copy of said record. A majority of said Port 
 Wardens shall be sufficient to constitute a Roard for the tran- 
 saction of business. Refore entering upon the discharge of their 
 duties, the said Port Wardens shall take the following oath in the 
 presence of the Mayor, “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I 
 will make a true and just survey of all and every article or thing, 
 when called upon to do so, and shall assess the damages at a 
 true and fair valuation; and that I will, whenever required, 
 
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 furnish a correct certificate of each survey made by me. So 
 help me God.” 
 
 SEC. 180. — Fees of. — The fees of Port Wardens shall be: 
 
 For surveying a steamboat $5.00 
 
 For surveying a barge 1.00 
 
 For surveying a box or other craft 1.00 
 
 For surveying damaged goods, each survey 6.00 
 
 For each certified copy of survey 1.00 
 
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 SEC. 181. — Power Over Wharf. — Any person failing or refus- 
 ing to remove any article or thing deposited upon the wharf, 
 within a reasonable length of time after being notified to do so 
 by the wharfinger, shall be fined $20.00 and the wharfinger may 
 cause the same to be removed and stored at some secure place 
 at the expense of the owner of the same. 
 
 SEC. 182. — Drays at Wharf. Regulations. — All drays, carts or 
 wagons working or hauling to or from the wharf shall be 
 regulated in their positions by the wharfinger, and for failing 
 or refusing to. obey such regulations, the owner or driver there- 
 of may be fined twenty dollars; provided, the Recorder may 
 remit the penalty if he should be of the opinion that such regu- 
 lation was necessary, or the party was not allowed an equal and 
 fair privilege on the wharf with other persons. 
 
 SEC. 183. — Port Dues. — Port dues every twenty-four hours on 
 steamboat, $5.00; port dues every twenty-four hours on barge, 
 $1.00; port dues every twenty-four hours on box, $1.00; port dues 
 on steamboat during the months of July, August and September 
 for each landing, $5.00; provided, that steamboats making 
 pleasure excursions be exempt from port dues for such trips. 
 
 CHAPTER 2 0. 
 
 BOARD OF HEALTH. 
 
 SECTION 184. — Board of Health. Their Powers, Number and 
 Qualifications. — (a) There shall be at the time of the election 
 of other officers of said city appointed by the Mayor and Council, 
 eight citizens, who shall be physicians, if possible, who shall 
 constitute a Board of Health, and who shall go into office im- 
 mediately upon election, and hold office for two years from 
 election, or until their successors are elected and qualified, and 
 shall have the right to elect a chairman. The City Physician 
 and Health Officer shall be ex-officio members. The Board shall 
 have the services of the Clerk of Council when required, and 
 keep a journal of their proceedings which may at all times be 
 examined by the Mayor and Council. 
 
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 SEC. 185. — General Duties. — The members of the Board shall 
 inspect their wards carefully twice each month, from May till 
 November, and once a month for the balance of the year, visiting 
 all localities suspected of being unhealthy or exposed to disease. 
 They shall suggest to the Mayor and Council such measures as 
 they think fit to preserve the health of the city, and especially 
 to prevent the introduction and spread of contagious and infec- 
 tious diseases, and prevent or regulate business or callings 
 prejudicial to the public health and comfort. They shall also 
 consider and report upon all such matters as shall be referred to 
 them by the Mayor and Council, and make monthly reports of 
 their proceedings. 
 
 SEC. 186. — Powers and Authority. Reports by. — The members 
 of this Board are hereby invested with public authority in the 
 performance of their duties. They may require deleterious or 
 offensive matter, wherever found to be removed beyond the 
 limits of the city; and they may require yards, cellars and 
 premises when they think it important to the health of the 
 neighborhood, to be cleaned and limed by the occupant, and 
 if unoccupied, by the owner of such premises. They shall report 
 to the Recorder’s Court, through the Clerk, all offenses against 
 the health of the city, and all persons who fail, after five days’ 
 notice, written or verbal, to remove deleterious matter, or to 
 clean and lime their premises, shall be fined at the discretion 
 of the Recorder, not less than five nor more than twenty dollars, 
 unless the Recorder is notified of the inability of the parties to 
 comply with the orders of the Board of Health. 
 
 SEC. 187. — Health Regulations. Ashes. Garbage. Penalty. — 
 No person shall deposit or cause to be deposited in any street, 
 public or private alley, any filth, garbage, ashes, rubbish or any 
 such thing, under the penalty of being fined not less than five 
 nor more than twenty dollars, and each day any such deposit 
 remains shall be a distinct offense. 
 
 SEC. 188. — Hog Pens. — No hog or pig shall be kept on any lot 
 where the Board of Health shall consider the presence of such 
 hogs or pigs deleterious or offensive to the neighborhood. Any 
 person violating the requirements of this section; shall pay a fine 
 
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 of not less than one nor more than ten dollars, and such hogs 
 or pigs shall be forfeited to the city. 
 
 SEC. 189. — Board May Employ the Street Overseer and Street 
 Hands. — Whenever in the opinion of the Board, it shall be neces- 
 sary the Board may require the services of the Street Overseer, 
 carts and hands, to clean particular localities and may make 
 requisitions on the city for lime to be distributed in such 
 localities. 
 
 SEC. 190. — Residents to Keep Premises Clean. — The occupant 
 of any house or lot shall cause all garbage and decayed or 
 refuse offensive matter to be put in boxes or barrels in the most 
 convenient place on such lot for removal, under a penalty of a 
 fine of not less than one nor more than ten dollars. The 
 Mayor and Council shall appoint the way in which such removal 
 shall be made, and the day or days upon which the Sanitary 
 Inspector and city carts shall remove the contents of said boxes 
 or barrels. 
 
 SEC. 191. — Nuisances to be Reported to Board. — Whenever any 
 citizen shall report, in writing, to the Board of Health, the 
 existence in his neighborhood, of any nuisance or anything in 
 violation of this chapter, they shall be required to take immedi- 
 ate cognizance of it and apply the *remedy, as provided in this 
 chapter. 
 
 SEC. 192.— No Compensation. — The members of the Board of 
 Health shall have no salary. 
 
 CHAPTER 21. 
 
 COMMITTEE ON SANITATION.— SPECIAL DUTIES. 
 
 SECTION 193. — Defining Duties of Committee on Sanitation. — 
 The duties of the Committee on Sanitation shall be as follows: 
 1. To see that all lots, yards, streets, alleys and public ways of 
 the city are kept clean, well-drained and in proper sanitary 
 condition; to supervise the work of the garbage and scavenger 
 carts, and other vehicles of the city used for sanitary purposes; 
 and to see that all filth, offal, dead animals and all other refuse 
 
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 matter, and everything injurious to the public health be promptly 
 removed from said city by the Sanitary Inspector, and that said 
 city be kept from all things that may be injurious to public 
 health. 
 
 2. It shall be their duty to require the Sanitary Inspector as 
 often as may be necessary to inspect every lot within the city, 
 and to notify the owner, occupant, or person in charge thereof 
 of any nuisance, or of any matter thereon calculated to injure the 
 public health, and to require said Sanitary Inspector to notify the 
 owner, occupant or person in charge of said lot to remove there- 
 from all matter that may be deemed injurious to the public 
 health. 
 
 3. The said Committee shall also require the Sanitary Inspec- 
 tor to supervise all articles offered for sale at the city markets 
 and whenever necessary said Committee is hereby authorized 
 through its Sanitary Inspector to see that all articles of food that 
 may be found tainted or unfit for use, shall be condemned and 
 removed from the market by said Sanitary Inspector. 
 
 4. It shall be their duty to see that all sanitary ordinances of 
 the City of Columbus that are now of force, or that hereafter 
 may be adopted are strictly enforced and fully complied with by 
 the citizens, and that all duties required of the Sanitary Inspec- 
 tor shall be done and performed by him. 
 
 5. It shall be their duty to see that all carts, vehicles and 
 live stock used by the city in sanitary work are preserved and 
 kept in sound condition, and to report all accounts for work 
 done, and all expenses incurred by the Sanitary Inspector and 
 others in carrying out all ordinances passed for sanitary pur- 
 poses. 
 
 6. Said Committee shall make monthly reports of their acts 
 and doings in the premises as well as full and accurate reports 
 of the sanitary condition of the City of Columbus and also to 
 require as often as they may deem necessary, full reports from 
 the Sanitary Inspector touching all matters connected with the 
 sanitary department of the city. 
 
 7. Said Committee shall have immediate supervision and con- 
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 the direction of said Committee, and shall make all reports to 
 them on any subject or matter connected with his office, when 
 required to do so by said Committee. 
 
 8. Said Committee shall have entire control of all carts, 
 vehicles and live stock used by the city in sanitary work; and 
 whenever in their judgment, more carts, vehicles or live stock 
 are needed for sanitary work, said Committee shall report the 
 same to Council. 
 
 9. Said Committee shall confer as often as may be necessary 
 with the Board of Health of said city and shall unite with said 
 Board of Health in preserving the good health of the city, and 
 shall use all proper means which their own judgment as well 
 as that of the Board of Health shall suggest for the purpose of 
 preserving the health of the city. 
 
 10. Said Committee shall supervise all plumbing, relative to 
 sewers and house connections, enforce quarantine regulations 
 and see to and enforce the proper drainage of lots in the City 
 of Columbus. 
 
 11. Said Committee, whenever in their judgment the same is 
 necessary, shall have all sewers in said city properly flushed, 
 and report the same to the next regular meeting of the Council. 
 
 CHAPTER 2 2. 
 
 BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 
 
 SECTION 194. — Mayor Shall be Ex-Officio Member of Board of 
 Trustees of Public Schools. — The Mayor of the City of Columbus 
 shall be and he is hereby made an ex-officio member of the 
 Board of Trustees of the Public Schools of the City of Columbus, 
 and said Mayor shall by virtue of his office as Mayor, be a mem- 
 ber of said Board of Trustees of the Public Schools, and shall 
 exercise all the rights, power and duties as such. 
 
 SEC. 195. — Number. Terms. Qualifications. Elections. — In 
 order not to increase the number of Trustees of said Board of 
 Trustees of the Public Schools by the addition of the Mayor of 
 said city as an ex-officio member thereof, beyond the present 
 number of eleven and in order to provide for the several vacan- 
 
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 cies which will occur in the Board of Trustees and to provide 
 that such vacancies as they occur may be so managed as to 
 have two vacancies occur in the membership of said Board in 
 each year, so that the term of office of each member will be five 
 years and two of such members to be elected each year. At the 
 regular meeting of the Mayor and Board of Aldermen to be # held 
 in July, 1909, one Trustee shall be elected, whose term of office 
 will expire in July, 1912, and the Mayor and Board of Aldermen 
 at its regular meeting to be held on the first Tuesday in July, 
 1910, shall elect two Trustees to fill the vacancies which will 
 occur in the present Board at that time and that likewise the 
 Mayor and Board of Aldermen at the regular July meeting, 1911, 
 shall elect two Trustees to fill the vacancies which shall occur 
 in the present Board at that time, and at the regular meeting of 
 the Mayor and Board of Aldermen to be held on the first Wed- 
 nesday in July, 1912, shall elect four Trustees to fill the vacancies 
 of the members of the present Board whose terms of office expire 
 at that time, two of which said members to be then elected shall 
 be elected for a term of two years and the other two shall be 
 elected for a term of five years; so that the Board of Trustees of 
 the Public Schools of the City of Columbus shall be managed and 
 controlled by eleven persons, one of whom shall be the Mayor of 
 said city who shall be ex-officio member and ten other white, 
 male citizens of said city who are eligible to registration to vote 
 for Mayor and Aldermen of said city, whose term of office shall 
 be each five years, so that two vacancies on said Board shall 
 occur each year. 
 
 No Alderman of the City of Columbus shall be eligible to hold 
 the office of Trustee of the Public Schools of said city. 
 
 CHAPTER 2 3. 
 
 BUREAU OF VITAL STATISTICS. 
 
 SECTION 196. — Creating Bureau of Vital Statistics. Clerk of 
 Council Registrar. — The Clerk of Council shall be the Registrar 
 of Vital Statistics for the City of Columbus. 
 
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 SEC. 197. — Subject Matter for Statistics. — Every physician, 
 coucheur and midwife or other person, who shall attend, assist 
 or advise the birth of any child or children, within the corpor- 
 ate limits of the City of Columbus, shall report to the Registrar 
 of Vital Statistics within six days thereafter, stating distinctly 
 the date of birth, sex, and color of such child, or children born; 
 its or their physical condition, whether stillborn or not, and the 
 full name of such child or children if known; and the full name, 
 nativity and residence of the parents of such child or children. 
 
 SEC. 198. — Deaths. Records and Reports of Physicians. — 
 When the death of any person occurs within the corporate limits 
 of the City of Columbus, the attending physician or midwife, if 
 any, shall report such death to the Registrar of Vital Statistics, 
 within six days, stating plainly the name, sex, age, nativity, last 
 place of residence, date of death, cause of death, and when and 
 where buried, and the name and residence of the attending phy- 
 sician or midwife, if any; and when the death of any person 
 occurs in said city without the attendance of a physician or 
 midwife it shall be the duty of any witness to said death or 
 person having knowledge thereof, to report said death to the 
 Registrar of Vital Statistics, together with all the facts in his or 
 her knowledge as above set forth. 
 
 SEC. 199. — Sextons to Make Monthly Reports of Deaths. — It 
 shall be the duty of the City Sextons to make monthly reports of 
 all persons interred in the city cemeteries to the Registrar of 
 Vital Statistics, showing plainly the name and age, date of death, 
 date of burial, last place of residence and cause of death. He 
 shall also state in said report the number of the lot in which 
 persons are interred, and if the bodies are removed to any other 
 lot he shall report such removal and give the number of the lot 
 or place to which it is removed. 
 
 SEC. 200. — Registrar to Keep Records. — The Registrar of Vital 
 Statistics shall keep a correct record in a well-bound book, of all 
 the births reported to him, showing date of birth, sex and color 
 of child, whether stillborn or not, full name of child if known; 
 and showing full name, nativity and residence of the parents of 
 said child or children. And he shall also keep a correct record of 
 
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 all deaths and interments reported to him, showing the name, sex, 
 age, nativity, place of residence, date of birth, cause of death, 
 name and residence of attending physician or midwife, and the 
 person who made the report and the date said report was made; 
 the date of burial, number of cemetery lot where interred, and if 
 a* body is removed to another lot or from the cemetery, he shall 
 keep a record of the fact and the number of the lot or the name 
 of the place removed to; and he shall record such other facts as 
 will, in his judgment, assist in the correctness and clearness of 
 these statistics; said book to be kept in the office of the Clerk of 
 Council. 
 
 SEC. 201. — Deaths to be Reported to Clerk by Relatives and 
 Obtain Burial Permits. Penalty. — Before an interment can be 
 made in the city cemeteries it shall be the duty of the relatives, 
 or person desiring to make such interment to report such death 
 to the Clerk of Council, together with a certificate of the attend- 
 ing physician or other satisfactory evidence of the cause of death 
 of such deceased person, and when such evidence is produced 
 it shall be the duty of said Clerk to issue a permit to bury such 
 deceased in the city cemetery; such permit to be addressed to the 
 City Sexton, to state the cause of death and name of attending 
 physician, date of death and name of deceased person and such 
 permit to be returned by said Sexton. Any person who shall 
 violate the provisions of this chapter shall on conviction before 
 the Recorder be punished by fine not exceeding fifty dollars, or 
 confinement not exceeding thirty days, in the discretion of the 
 Recorder. 
 
 CHAPTER 2 4. 
 
 FIRE DEPARTMENT. 
 
 SECTION 202. — Fire Department. Who to Compose. — The Fire 
 Department of the city shall consist of all the members of the 
 regularly organized fire companies in the city. 
 
 SEC. 203. — Election of the Chief. — The Mayor and Board of 
 Aldermen of the City of Columbus shall elect a Chief of the Fire 
 
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 Department at the same time other officers are elected by them, 
 as provided in the Charter of the City of Columbus. 
 
 SEC. 204. — Assistant Chief. Election of. — There shall be one 
 Assistant to the Chief of the Fire Department, elected by the 
 Mayor and Board of Aldermen as other officers are elected. 
 
 SEC. 205. — Chief to Devote Entire Time to Duties. — The Chief 
 of the Fire Department shall devote his entire time to the dis- 
 charge of the duties of his office. 
 
 SEC. 206. — Companies Have Care of Equipment. — All fire com- 
 panies shall be empowered to take charge and have the care and 
 management of their respective engines, hose, ladders, hooks and 
 other apparatus for extinguishing fires, that now belong to or 
 hereafter may be provided by the Mayor and Council, as long as 
 such companies may exist. 
 
 SEC. 207. — General Duties of Chief. — The Chief of the Fire 
 Department shall make frequent examinations of all fire plugs, 
 hydrants or cisterns used or likely to be used, for fire purposes, 
 and whenever he finds any of the same not to be in a proper or 
 fit condition for effective use in case of fire, he shall at once 
 notify the Mayor and shall also notify any person, firm or officer 
 or agent of any corporation owning, controlling or operating any 
 such hydrant or fire plug for which the city is paying rental, to 
 repair the same or to put the same in proper condition to be 
 effective for fire purposes at once. 
 
 SEC. 208. — Chief. General Control Over Equipment. Com- 
 mand. — The Chief of the Fire Department shall have general 
 control and supervision of all of the equipment and of all of the 
 members of the Fire Department, and he shall be responsible to 
 the Mayor and Board of Aldermen for the condition and effi- 
 ciency of the same, and shall be in full command of all firemen, 
 regular or volunteer. 
 
 SEC. 209. — Chief’s Duty as to Fire Alarm System. — It shall be 
 the duty of the Chief of the Fire Department to keep in thorough 
 repair and in good working order the fire alarm telegraph 
 system, its poles, wires, batteries, boxes, gauges, bell, striker and 
 other apparatus of the city. 
 
ARTICLE III. 
 
 ELECTIONS.— RULES GOVERNING. 
 
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ARTICLE III. 
 
 CHAPTER 2 5. 
 
 GENERAL ELECTIONS. 
 
 SECTION 210. — General Elections for City Officers. — All elec- 
 tions for Mayor and Board of Aldermen elected by the people 
 shall be held at the court house in this city, by the general ticket 
 system, until otherwise changed. 
 
 GENERAL AND SPECIAL ELECTIONS. 
 
 SEC. 210. — (a.) — Voting Booths. Secret Ballot. Marshal’s Duty. 
 Managers Prepare Ballot. When. — In all general and special 
 elections held in the City of Columbus, wherein the qualified 
 voters of said city vote, there shall be erected at all the polling 
 places, where ballots are received, a booth or booths, each of 
 sufficient size to accommodate one voter at a time, and so con- 
 structed that the voter in preparing his ballot to be voted at 
 said election, shall be screened from observation by any and all 
 persons. 
 
 Marshal’s Duty. — It shall be the duty of the Marshal of said 
 city to see that a sufficient number of booths shall be erected and 
 constructed at each and all polling places for all elections held 
 in said city before the hour of election shall have arrived, and all 
 voters in such elections are hereby required to enter the compart- 
 ment or booth so erected for the purpose of preparing and cast- 
 ing his ballot in said election, said booths to be constructed so as 
 to admit of easy approach and access to the ballot box or boxes 
 where the ballot of such voters shall be deposited, the cost of 
 erecting and installing said booths to be paid for from any funds 
 in the hands of the Treasurer upon order of the Mayor, that are 
 available for that purpose. 
 
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 Votes. How Cast. — Only one voter shall be admitted to a 
 booth at the same time, and no person shall be allowed inside of 
 a booth or compartment until said voter shall have prepared and 
 cast his ballot, which he shall do as speedily as the same can 
 be done, in order to permit other voters to enter for the same 
 purpose; provided, that any voter may request a manager of the 
 election to prepare his ballot for him. 
 
 Guard Rails About Booths. — Each and all of said compartments 
 or booths shall be protected by gates or guard rails, within which 
 limits no unauthorized persons shall be permitted to come while 
 said election is in progress. 
 
 SEC. 211. — Such elections shall be held under the superintend- 
 ence of managers to be appointed by Council. If for any reason, 
 either or all such managers should fail to serve, the Mayor shall 
 appoint others in their stead. 
 
 SEC. 212. — It shall be the duty of the managers of elections, 
 before receiving any ballots to take and subscribe to the oath pre- 
 scribed by Council. They shall cause each person who offers to 
 vote, and whose vote may be challenged, or who they have 
 reason to suspect is not entitled to vote, to take the oath pre- 
 scribed by law in such cases, and any person refusing to take 
 such oath, shall not be allowed to vote; provided, that the person 
 whose vote may be challenged shall be known to the managers 
 to be entitled to vote, then the person challenging such voter 
 shall be required to state the grounds of such challenge, and if it 
 appears reasonable, then the oath shall be administered; and in 
 all cases where the voter shall take the oath, he shall be marked 
 upon the list as “sworn.” 
 
 SEC. 213. — The managers shall cause at least two lists of voters 
 to be kept, and for this purpose may appoint two or more clerks. 
 Each ticket shall be numbered before being placed in the box, 
 and no ticket shall be taken from the box after being placed 
 therein, for any reason. 
 
 SEC. 214. — As soon as the polls are closed, the managers shall 
 proceed to count out the votes and shall cause the clerks to keep 
 at least two tally sheets. If the election is for any 
 officer to be elected by the whole city, the managers of each 
 
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 If the contest shall be for the office of Mayor, or Alderman of any 
 ward, then the Mayor or Alderman of that ward in office, shall 
 retain their offices until the contest is decided, and their succes- 
 sors qualified. 
 
 SEC. 219. — Council shall proceed to hear and determine such 
 contested elections at as early a day as practicable and shall 
 cause a written notice to be given to the party whose election 
 is contested three days prior to the time of trial, but no contest 
 shall be entertained in any case when it shall appear that the 
 ballot-box has been illegally opened, except upon the clearest 
 proof that the person contesting said election was in no way 
 privy to such illegal opening. 
 
 CHAPTER 2 7. 
 
 CONDUCT AT ELECTIONS. 
 
 SECTION 220.— Officers Shall Not Solicit Votes. Penalty. 
 Removal. — Any officer of the government of the City of Colum- 
 bus, or employee of the City of Columbus, who shall at any elec- 
 tion of the Mayor and Aldermen, or Aldermen, personally solicit 
 votes on the day of the election for any given candidate, or 
 candidates, for office, or who on the day of such election shall 
 attempt to prevent any person from voting for the candidate of 
 his choice; or who shall use any abusive language to any candi- 
 date on the day of the election, shall be deemed guilty of conduct 
 unbecoming an officer, or employee of the government of the 
 City of Columbus, and upon conviction therefor, in the Recorder’s 
 Court and upon said conviction being certified to the Mayor and 
 Board of Aldermen by the Recorder, such officer or employee so 
 found guilty of such offense shall be removed from office by said 
 Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the City of Columbus, and said 
 office shall be declared vacant and said officer or employee so 
 removed shall forfeit the salary attached to said office for the 
 balance of the term of the same. 
 
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 CHAPTER 2 8. 
 
 REGISTRATIONS. 
 
 SECTION 221. — Prescribing Registration Oath and Providing 
 Penalty for Illegally Offering to Register and for Illegal Regis- 
 tering and for Correcting Registration List and for Preparing 
 Registration List. — (a.) No person shall be allowed to register 
 as a voter in the City of Columbus until he shall have first taken 
 and subscribed to the following oath, to be administered by the 
 Clerk of Council or other person who may be acting as registrar 
 under the direction of Council, to-wit: “I solemnly swear 
 
 or affirm that I am a citizen of the United States; that I am 
 twenty-one years of age or will be on the second Saturday of 
 December of this current year; that on the second Saturday of 
 December of this current year (the day of the annual election 
 for Mayor and Alderman or Aldermen) I will have resided 
 twelve months in the State of Georgia, six months in the County 
 of Muscogee, and thirty days in the City of Columbus, imme- 
 diately preceding said day of election, and that I have paid all 
 city taxes required of me, including city taxes since the adoption 
 of the present constitution of this State, and which I have had 
 an opportunity of paying agreeably to law, except for this year, 
 and I am entitled to register.” 
 
 (b.) The Clerk of Council or other person acting as registrar 
 by appointment of Council shall require each and every person 
 offering for registration to take and subscribe to the foregoing 
 oath before allowing such person to register. 
 
 (c.) All registration shall be done in person and not by 
 proxy. 
 
 (d.) Any person who shall illegally offer to register, who shall 
 knowingly not be legally entitled to register at the time such offer 
 is made, shall be fined not less than five nor more than fifty 
 dollars or be sentenced to hard labor upon the public works for 
 not less than thirty days, either or both, in the discretion of the 
 Recorder. 
 
 (e.) If the Chief of Police or any member of the police force 
 of the City of Columbus has reason to suspect that any person 
 
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 has sworn falsely in taking the foregoing oath, then said Chief 
 of Police or such member of the police force shall proceed to 
 prosecute such person for such offense as provided in the 
 Charter of the City of Columbus. 
 
 (f.) The Clerk or officer or other person appointed registrar, 
 shall register the name of each applicant for registration who 
 shall have taken the foregoing oath, expressing in said registry 
 his name, age, occupation, color, ward in which he resides, and 
 street number or approximate street number of residence and 
 length of residence in the city immediately preceding registra- 
 tion. 
 
 (g.) It shall be the duty of the Clerk or other person ap- 
 pointed registrar by Council, immediately after closing the list 
 of registered voters, to arrange an alphabetical list of said regis- 
 tered voters, designating the ward in which they reside at the 
 time of their registry, and shall, within five days after said list 
 is closed, publish in the newspaper in which the proceedings of 
 Council are published or in hand-bill form if so ordered by the 
 Mayor and Board of Aldermen, a full and complete list of the 
 registered names, and to furnish said list to the Mayor and 
 Board of Aldermen and make such distribution of the same as 
 may be ordered by the Mayor and Board of Aldermen. 
 
 (h.) When said list is furnished to the Mayor and Board of 
 Aldermen as aforesaid, then should the Clerk, or other person 
 acting as registrar, or any other person, have cause to believe 
 that any name or names on said list are not legally entitled to be 
 on the same, then such person shall make complaint in writing 
 to Council of the same; and thereupon the Mayor and Board of 
 Aldermen shall proceed before or after any election is held 
 under such registration to hear evidence in support of such 
 complaint and in support of the legality of such registration; 
 and should it be found that any name or names have been 
 illegally entered on said registration list, then and in that event 
 the Mayor and Board of Aldermen shall direct the Chief of 
 Police to prosecute any person or persons whose names shall 
 have been found to be illegally entered on said registration 
 ' list, for false swearing as provided in the Charter of the City 
 of Columbus. 
 
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 (i.) It shall be the duty of the Clerk of Council to furnish 
 to the managers presiding at the election of Mayor and Board of 
 Aldermen and at every election ordered by the Mayor and Board 
 of Aldermen of the City of Columbus, at or before the opening of 
 the polls or places of voting in said city to be referred to by them 
 in ascertaining the eligibility of voters, a complete list of all the 
 names arranged in alphabetical order, which shall have been 
 registered according to the provisions of this Section showing 
 the age, occupation, color, ward and street number or approxi- 
 mate street number or residence at the time of registration of 
 every person whose name is so registered (being a copy of 
 last registry) certified under the hand of the said Clerk and the 
 corporate seal of the City of Columbus, which list shall be kept 
 before said managers in the several places of voting during such 
 election and when such election is over it shall be deposited in 
 the office of said Clerk of Council to be safely kept by him. 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
ARTICLE IV. 
 
 THE PUBLIC REVENUE— TAXATION— SPECIAL 
 TAXES— THE PUBLIC DEBT. 
 
ARTICLE IV. 
 
 CHAPTER 29. 
 
 GENERAL TAX LAWS. 
 
 SECTION 222. — Tax Assessors. Their Duties and Compen- 
 sation. — At the same time other officers are elected, the Mayor 
 and Council shall elect three proper persons to assess the value 
 of real estate in the city. The City Assessors shall receive such 
 compensation as may be voted by Council and it shall be their 
 duty to view and assess each parcel of real estate in this city 
 subject to taxation, and to make a true return of such assessment 
 by the first day of February following. Before entering upon 
 the discharge of their duties they shall take an oath to faithfully 
 perform their duties and shall certify their rethrn to be true. 
 
 SEC. 223. — Tax Assessors. Appeals from Decisions. — Any 
 person or persons who may desire to appeal from the assessment 
 made upon their property by the City Assessors, shall by the 
 first day of June following such assessment make oath before 
 some officer authorized to administer an oath, that the assessed 
 value of the whole of his or her or their real estate is compara- 
 tively greater than the assessed taxable value of other real estate 
 in the same vicinity. After such oath has been made and filed 
 with the Clerk of Council, the same shall, at the next meeting of 
 Council, be referred to the Finance Committee, who shall, at 
 such time as they may designate, not exceeding sixty days from 
 the filing of said affidavits, proceed to hear testimony as to 
 the facts, and may make such alteration as in their judgment may 
 be necessary to equalize relatively the assessment complained of. 
 
 SEC. 224. — Tax Digest. Duty of Finance Committee. — It shall 
 be the duty of the Finance Committee upon the return of the 
 
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 Assessors to proceed forthwith to prepare and lay before Council 
 a tax digest for the year, which said digest shall be prepared and 
 acted upon by the middle of February or as soon thereafter as 
 practicable. As soon as said digest is completed, it shall be the 
 duty of the Marshal to proceed at once to receive the return 
 of taxable property in this city and he shall keep the books 
 open for such purpose at such place as he may select, until the 
 first of May, when said books shall be closed and the parties who 
 have failed to make return shall be declared defaulters. 
 
 SEC. 225. — Taxes. Duties of Marshal and Treasurer. — As soon 
 as the books are closed, the Marshal shall report to Council the 
 amount of property returned, and of the taxes due upon the 
 same according to the tax digest and shall turn over said books 
 to the City Treasurer. The Marshal shall, also, from the former 
 books and such other sources as he may discover, make out a 
 list of the defaulters with the estimated value of their property 
 and amount of taxes due upon the same, and report the same to 
 Council, which said list shall be turned over to the Treasurer. 
 
 SEC. 226. — Executions for. — All executions shall be issued by 
 the Clerk of Council and directed to the Marshal of the city. 
 Executions shall be levied forthwith by the Marshal and after 
 making levy he shall advertise the same as provided by law. 
 
 SEC. 227. — Oath of Tax Payer. — The following oath shall be 
 administered to all tax payers making returns of their property 
 by the Marshal, who is hereby authorized to administer the 
 same: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that the account which 
 
 I now give is a just and true account of all the taxable property 
 which I was possessed of, held or claimed within the corporate 
 limits of the City of Columbus on the first day of January in the 
 present year; or was interested in or entitled to, either in my own 
 right or in the right of any other person or persons whatever, as 
 parent, guardian, executor, administrator, agent or trustee, or 
 in any other manner, according to the best of my knowledge, 
 information and belief. So help me God.” 
 
 SEC. 228. — Taxes. Reductions. Petitions for. — All petitions 
 for a reduction of assessments on the assessed value of real 
 
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 estate shall be made to Council in proper form by the first 
 day of June in each year. All persons failing to make their 
 petitions in due form and by the time stated, are debarred from 
 any reduction of the value as returned by the Assessors. 
 
 CHAPTER 3 0. 
 
 BONDED DEBT. 
 
 SECTION 229. — The existing valid outstanding bonded debt of 
 the City of Columbus, bonds for which have been heretofore 
 issued, are hereby declared valid and subsisting debts of the city 
 and shall be met and paid according to their tenor and effect 
 and in accordance with the provisions of the ordinances hereto- 
 fore enacted under which the same were issued, all of which said 
 ordinances shall be as binding and effective as if included and 
 incorporated in this Code and no part of any of said ordinances 
 are repealed. 
 
 SEC. 230. — A list of the outstanding bonds of the City of 
 Columbus are herein given, and are valid debts of the city, less 
 such amounts as have already been paid: 
 
 BONDED DEBT OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS, GA., 
 APRIL 1, 1914. 
 
 All bonds and coupons are payable at the office of the City 
 Treasurer. 
 
 Due January, 1927, 41 per cent $55,000.00 
 
 Due January, 1928, 41 per cent 50,000.00 — $105,000.00 
 
 Due January, 1931, 31 per cent 49,000.00 
 
 Due January, 1935, 4 per cent 38,500.00 
 
 Due October, 1913 to 1924, 4 per cent, 
 city improvement bonds, due $2,000.00 
 
 each October 24,000.00 
 
 January, 1939, 41 per cent, refunding 
 
 bonds 250,000.00 
 
 July, 1940, 41 per cent, lower bridge 
 
 bonds 100,000.00 
 
 July, 1942, 5 per cent, lower bridge 
 
 bonds 50,000.00 
 
 Hospital bonds, due February 15, 1944. . 60,000.00 
 
 Waterworks bonds, due annually 450,000.00 
 
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 In January, 1897, were issued $55,000.00 44 per cent, bonds, due 
 1927, to refund bonds due 1896 and 1897. 
 
 In January, 1898, were issued $50,000.00 41 per cent, bonds, due 
 in 1928, to refund bonds due in 1898, 1899 and 1900. 
 
 In January, 1901, were issued $49,000.00 34 per cent, gold bonds, 
 due January, 1931, to refund bonds due in 1901, 1902, 1903 and 
 1904. 
 
 In October, 1904, were issued $40,000.00 4 per cent, city im- 
 provement bonds, due $2,000.00 each year, from 1905 to 1924. 
 
 In January, 1905, were issued $44,500.00 4 per cent, bonds, due 
 January, 1935, to refund bonds due in 1905, 1906, 1907 and 1908. 
 
 In January, 1909, were issued $250,000.00 44 per cent, bonds, 
 due January, 1939, to refund a like amount of bonds due January 
 1, 1909. 
 
 In July, 1910, were issued $100,000.00 44 per cent. lower bridge 
 bonds, due July 1, 1940. 
 
 In July, 1912, were issued $50,000.00 5 per cent, lower bridge 
 bonds, due July 1, 1942. 
 
 On February 15, 1914, were issued $60,000.00 5 per cent hos- 
 pital bonds, due thirty years from date. 
 
 On July 1, 1914, were issued $450,000.00 of waterworks bonds, 
 drawing 5 per cent, interest, falling due $15,000.00 each year 
 until fully paid. 
 
 SEC. 230. (a.) — Registration of Bonds. Treasurer’s Duty. — 
 For the purpose of the registration of the bonds of the City of 
 Columbus, it shall be the duty of the City Treasurer to procure 
 at the expense of the city, a suitable book or books, in which, 
 upon application and presentation of any bond or bonds of the 
 City of Columbus, he shall enter therein in a manner to be of 
 easy and ready reference, a description of said bond or bonds, 
 giving the number, the series, the date of issue, the denomination 
 and such other data as may be necessary for the ready identifica- 
 tion thereof, together with the name of the person or persons 
 registering the same, the character or capacity in which such 
 person or persons hold said bond or bonds, and for whose bene- 
 fit the same is or are registered. 
 
 It shall be the duty of the Treasurer to enter upon each and 
 every bond so registered as above provided the date of the regis- 
 tration, by whom the same was registered and in what character 
 or capacity the same are held and shall sign the entry so made 
 on said bond or bonds in his official capacity, and shall cut with 
 a stamp prepared therefor the letter “R” in the face of said 
 bond or bonds so registered. 
 
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 That no bond or bonds of the City of Columbus which shall 
 have been registered in the manner above provided, shall be 
 negotiable by delivery, but said bonds may nevertheless be 
 negotiated or transferred by the person in whose name they are 
 registered, by a re-registration thereof in the name of the person 
 to whom the same are to be transferred or negotiated. 
 
 CHAPTER 31. 
 
 GAS AND LIGHT BILLS OF CITY. 
 
 SECTION 231. — Chairman of Each Department to Approve Gas 
 and Light Bills. — All bills for gas and lights used in the city shall 
 be sent to the standing committee in charge of each department 
 and approved by said committee, and that the amount of the bills 
 for each department for gas and lighting shall be charged to the 
 account of each department respectively from the appropriation 
 made by Council for said accounts, in the same manner as any 
 other bill or expense is charged off against moneys appropriated 
 by Council for the use of the several separate departments of the 
 city government. 
 
 TAX ORDINANCE FOR 1914. 
 
 CHAPTER 3 2. 
 
 TO LEVY AND ASSESS TAXES FOR THE CITY OF COLUMBUS, 
 GEORGIA, FOR THE YEAR 1914. 
 
 SECTION 232. — Purposes of Taxation. — It is ordained by the 
 Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the City of Columbus, by virtue 
 of the authority vested in the same, that for the purpose of 
 defraying the necessary expenses of the city, and sustaining the 
 credit thereof; for paying its bonds and coupons falling due; 
 for supporting and maintaining its public schools, and for other 
 
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 purposes, the taxes and revenue hereinafter mentioned shall be 
 levied and collected for the year 1914. 
 
 (1.) On all real estate within the corporate limits of the City 
 of Columbus, on the first day of March, 1914, subject to taxation, 
 and, 
 
 (2.) On all personal property owned on the first day of 
 March, 1914, by residents of the city, whether individuals, firms 
 or corporations, (excepting banks, which shall pay as hereinafter 
 prescribed) such personal property to include money, solvent 
 debts, bonds, stocks, other than stocks on which the tax is paid 
 by corporations, merchandise, machinery, vehicles, animals, 
 furniture, musical instruments, sewing machines, iron safes, 
 diamonds, watches, clocks, jewelry, gold, silver and plate ware, 
 libraries — professional and literary, billiard and pool tables, bar 
 fixtures, printing presses and material, and all other personal 
 property of whatever kind not enumerated, and all personal 
 property within the limits of the city on the first day of March, 
 1914, subject to taxation, and owned by non-residents, individ- 
 uals or corporations, a tax of 14 per cent, on the value thereof. 
 
 SEC. 233. — Returns. — Returns of taxable property including 
 description of real estate, shall be made on oath to the City Tax 
 Receiver on or before May 1st, 1914, and in default of such 
 return, the property shall be assessed by the Tax Receiver and 
 twenty-five per cent, added thereto as a penalty for failure to 
 make such return. Should any person, firm or corporation fail 
 to make returns of property for taxation as required by this 
 ordinance, the Marshal shall proceed to assess the property, for 
 which no returns are made, for taxation from the best informa- 
 tion he can obtain as to its value, and the pwner shall be required 
 to pay the tax thereon as though regularly returned by such 
 owner, together with the penalties herein imposed for default 
 in making return thereof. A failure to pay the tax on said 
 property from the returned or assessed value shall subject said 
 property to the same liability to execution and sale as other 
 like property regularly assessed or returned, where the same was 
 in the city limits on March 1, 1914. 
 
 It shall be the duty of the Marshal to carefully scrutinize each 
 return and see that no real estate is returned at a value less than 
 
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 that fixed by the City Assessors, and that all personal property 
 embraced in the return is fixed at its true market value; and if, in 
 the judgment of said Marshal he shall find the personal property 
 embraced in any return, or any portion of it, returned below its 
 true market value, he shall immediately or within thirty days 
 after said return is made, assess the same at the true market 
 value and notify the person making the return of his assess- 
 ment; in case the person making the return is dissatisfied with ^ 
 the assessment placed on said personal property by the Marshal, 
 such person making the return shall have the right and privilege 
 to have the market value submitted to three disinterested per- 
 sons, residents of the City of Columbus, one of whom shall be 
 selected by the tax payer, one selected by the City of Columbus 
 through its Mayor, and these two thus selected shall select a 
 third to act in case they disagreed, a majority of whom shall fix 
 the value of said personal property. 
 
 Whenever any persons are called in to arbitrate and fix the 
 value of any personal property embraced in the return of any 
 tax payer, such persons shall take an oath before some officer 
 of this state authorized to administer oaths, to do justice between 
 the city and tax payer touching the true assessment of the 
 property embraced in the return. 
 
 SEC. 234. — Bank Stock. — A tax of II per cent, shall be levied 
 upon the market value of the shares of stock of all banks organ- 
 ized under the authority of the State of Georgia or any other state 
 or of the United States. Returns hereof shall be made in the 
 following manner: 
 
 The president or chief officer of each and every bank or bank- 
 ing association, located in the City of Columbus, shall be required 
 to return on oath under the regulations for tax returns, all of the 
 shares of stock of the stockholders of such bank or banking 
 association, whether resident or non-resident at the true market 
 value of such shares of stock to the City Tax Receiver of the 
 City of Columbus, the same to be taxed for the purposes herein- 
 before provided; also all other property owned by said bank 
 or banking association, not represented in the market value of 
 the shares of said bank. The private banks and bankers shall 
 
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 pay a tax of II per cent, on the value of their capital stock, 
 surplus and undivided profits. 
 
 That the president of all building and loan associations or 
 other associations of like character, shall be required to return to 
 the City Tax Receiver at its true market value the stock of such 
 association to be taxed as other moneyed capital in the hands of 
 private individuals is taxed. 
 
 SEC. 235. — Street Tax. — On each and every male person who 
 is a resident of the city on the first day of March, 1914, between 
 the ages of twenty-one and sixty years there shall be collected 
 a tax of $2.00 as a commutation for street duty for the 
 current year, and all persons becoming residents of said city 
 after that date, shall pay such tax pro rata, and all persons liable 
 to pay such tax and failing after notification to do so, shall be 
 required to work three days on the streets under the direction of 
 the Street Committee. Upon failure of any person liable for said 
 tax to pay the same by the time the books for the collection of 
 tax shall be closed, the Clerk of Council shall issue execution 
 therefor against the person liable, which may be levied and col- 
 lected by the Marshal as other tax executions and legal costs 
 thereon. Such person may be notified by the Marshal or any 
 policeman of Columbus to appear and work the streets. Upon 
 failure to appear and work the streets after five days notice, 
 such person shall be arrested and brought before the Recorder 
 and upon conviction fined or imprisoned, either or both, in the 
 discretion of the Recorder, in a sum not exceeding $50.00 or 
 imprisonment not exceeding thirty days. 
 
 SEC. 236. — Tax Books. — The Marshal shall have all taxes duly 
 assessed, with the calculations properly extended and present 
 the books to the July meeting of Council for examination and 
 approval. As soon as examined and approved, the books to be 
 delivered to the Treasurer. 
 
 SEC. 237. — Expenditure. — Of the taxes levied and collected as 
 above provided, five mills shall be for the payment of the ordi- 
 nary current expenses of the City of Columbus, three mills shall 
 be for school purposes and the maintenance of the public 
 library, and one-half mill for school building purposes, one-half 
 
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 mill for paving and macadamizing streets and three and one-half 
 mills for the payment of the principal and interest on the public 
 debt of the City of Columbus. 
 
 SEC. 238. — Taxes. When Due. — All taxes shall be due and pay- 
 able on or before the first day of August. For all taxes paid before 
 August 1st, a discount at the rate of six per cent, will be allowed 
 up to August 1st. For all taxes not paid by September 1st the 
 Clerk shall issue executions and said executions shall beai* 
 interest at the rate of six per cent, per annum from September 
 1st until paid. 
 
 SEC. 239. — Special or License Tax . — It is further ordained by 
 the authority aforesaid, That each person, firm or corporation 
 engaged in any business, trade or profession or occupation 
 hereinbelow specified shall register under oath with the City 
 Treasurer, in a book provided for that purpose, his, her or their 
 business, trade or occupation as hereinbelow specified, and shall 
 pay the license tax as prescribed by the 15th day of February, 
 1914, and take out a license for said business, trade, profes- 
 sion or occupation; which license shall be displayed in a con- 
 spicuous place in their place of business. The license herein 
 provided for shall be issued by the City Treasurer; and if any 
 person, firm or corporation, whose duty it is to register and 
 obtain a license shall transact or offer to transact in said city, 
 either of the kinds of business, trades or occupation in this 
 section specified, without having first registered and obtained 
 said license, or who shall wrongfully or improperly register his, 
 her or their business, he, she or they or such agent, shall on 
 conviction before the Recorder, be punished by a fine not to 
 exceed $100.00, or imprisonment not to exceed sixty days, either 
 or both in the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 All persons commencing business in the City of Columbus 
 after the 15th day of February, 1914, shall likewise register their 
 names and business, and take out the license herein prescribed 
 as soon as they shall commence the same; and any person, firm 
 or corporation failing to do so or who shall wrongfully or 
 improperly register his, her or their business, shall on conviction 
 be punished by a fine not to exceed $100.00, or imprisonment 
 
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 not to exceed sixty days, either or both in the discretion of 
 the Recorder. 
 
 No license shall be transferred, except upon the approval of 
 the Mayor and Marshal and no license shall be exchanged for 
 a license for a different line of business and it is hereby made the 
 duty of the Marshal and Chief of Police and the police of the 
 City of Columbus, to promptly report and prosecute all violators 
 of this ordinance or any portion thereof. 
 
 SEC. 240. — Parties Subject to License Tax. — 
 
 Advertising wagon, per week $ 5.00 
 
 Advertising, street car, per week 5.00 
 
 Any person, firm or corporation controlling street car 
 
 privilege for advertising 100.00 
 
 Agency, claim or collection 25.00 
 
 Agency, advertising or periodical 10.00 
 
 Agency, commercial 50.00 
 
 Agency, for building and loan association 50.00 
 
 Agency, real estate or renting 25.00 
 
 Agency, steamboat or agent or manager of any line of 
 
 boats transacting business in the city 50.00 
 
 Agents, attorneys or firm negotiating or advertising to 
 
 negotiate loans on real estate 50.00 
 
 Agency, sash and blind factory 50.00 
 
 Agency, for any railroad company not running into the 
 city, and employed about the business of said company 
 either for sale of tickets or soliciting freight or pas- 
 sengers 25.00 
 
 Agents having an office in the city, and representing 
 
 persons or firms outside of the city 25.00 
 
 Agents for or dealers in discarded or second hand army 
 guns or rifles or shells or cartridges designed therefor, 
 alone or in connection with any other licensed busi- 
 ness 500.00 
 
 No license shall be prorated in any event, and none to 
 be granted except on approval of both the Mayor and 
 Board of Aldermen. 
 
 Agents or agencies not specifically mentioned 25.00 
 
 Auctioneers 50.00 
 
 No license shall be issued for less than $50.00. No 
 auctioneer’s license shall be transferable. But any 
 licensed auctioneer shall be allowed to employ an assist- 
 ant or crier to conduct sales for him at any time or 
 place he may desire; provided, that no auctioneer shall 
 be allowed to have more than one sale going on at one 
 and the same time. 
 
 Architects, acting as superintendents of construction, 
 
 each 25.00 
 
 Automobiles, garage, charging for the storage or care 
 
 of, selling and repairing 50.00 
 
 Automobile, garage for the store and care of and repair- 
 ing 30.00 
 
 Automobiles, dealers in or agents for 30.00 
 
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 Automobiles, dealers in and repairers $ 40.00 
 
 Automobiles, repairers of but not dealers 20.00 
 
 Awning makers, alone or in connection with other 
 
 licensed business 10.00 
 
 Astrologers, clairvoyant, fortune tellers, palmist, phre- 
 nologist, or person of like character, and no license to 
 be issued for less than 500.00 
 
 B. 
 
 Bagging manufacturers, or dealers in second hand bag- 
 ging, selling to dealers or others 50.00 
 
 Bakery, without steam or other power 10.00 
 
 Bakery, using steam or other power 20.00 
 
 Banks or bankers (except national banks) or any cor- 
 poration or individual doing a banking business not 
 
 including savings department 50.00 
 
 Banks, savings 50.00 
 
 Banks, with savings department attached 75.00 
 
 Barber shop, on each barber employed, including the 
 
 proprietor or proprietors acting as barber 2.50 
 
 Barrel factory 25.00 
 
 Bicycle, motorcycle, agents or dealer in 15.00 
 
 Bicycle, motorcycle, agents or dealers and repairers 25.00 
 
 Bicycle, motorcycle, repairer of 10.00 
 
 Billiard, pool or bagatelle table, for each table set up 
 or used $25.00 each for the first two, and $15.00 each 
 for any additional ones and no license to be trans- 
 ferred unless by consent of the Mayor and Board of 
 Aldermen. No screens, partitions or other obstructions 
 allowed so as to prevent public view of such tables. 
 All persons operating a billiard, pool or bagatelle table 
 shall close their places of business at 11:30 P. M., and 
 shall not open sooner than 4:30 A. M. 
 
 Bill posters, to include all who engage in the business 
 of posting, tacking or placing advertisements upon 
 houses, walls, fences or stands erected for the purpose 
 or who distribute bills, dodgers or circulars, pamphlets 
 or other printed or advertising matter or who paints or 
 places painted signs on houses, fences, walls or stands 
 erected for that purpose, shall be deemed a bill poster; 
 provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall 
 apply to the painting of store, office or other signs 
 by sign painters or to one who follows the occupa- 
 tion of painting nor to the posting of legal notices by 
 public officers or attorneys in the manner and places 
 prescribed by law, nor to any church or benevolent 
 society or persons engaged in such work who desire to 
 distribute advertising or post notices, concerning 
 such church or society, nor to any local merchant, firm 
 or corporation posting or distributing by his or their 
 own employees advertisements upon which his or their 
 name or names appear (but not to include foreign ad- 
 
 vertisements) per annum 35.00 
 
 No license under this ordinance shall be let for less 
 than the amount of license for 12 months. 
 
 Blacksmith shop, one forge 2.50 
 
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 Blacksmith shop, more than one forge $ 5.00 
 
 Boarding house, with not more than 12 rooms, taking 
 
 transient guests 10.00 
 
 Boarding house with more than 12 rooms taking transient 
 
 guests 25.00 
 
 Bookbindery 15.00 
 
 Books and stationery . 25.00 
 
 Bootblack, for each operator employed, seat or stand to 
 be located at such place as the Mayor may approve; 
 
 no stand allowed on sidewalks on Broad Street 5.00 
 
 This is not to apply to those inside hotels and barber 
 shops. 
 
 Bootblack, inside building and connected with some other 
 
 business, each operator or chair 2.50 
 
 Boot and shoe dealer, wholesale 100.00 
 
 Boot and shoe dealer, retail and jobbing to other mer- 
 chants, but not traveling a man or city drummer 60.00 
 
 Boot and shoe dealer, retail alone, with three or more 
 
 employees connected with the business 40.00 
 
 Boot and shoe dealer, retail alone, with two employees 
 
 connected with the business 30.00 
 
 Boot and shoe dealer, retail alone, with one employee 
 
 conected with the business 20.00 
 
 Any dealer giving personal attention to the business 
 shall be considered an employee for the purpose of this 
 ordinance. 
 
 Boot and shoe repairer, by hand, each 5.00 
 
 Boot and shoe repairer, using machine, each 20.00 
 
 Bottlers and manufacturers of Coca Cola and similar 
 
 drinks, whether manufactured in this city or not 50.00 
 
 Bottlers or manufacturers of ginger ale, or other bever- 
 ages, not including Coca Cola and similar drinks 25.00 
 
 Bowling alley kept for public play 30.00 
 
 Brick, manufacturer of, broker or agent for the sale of. . 25.00 
 
 No license prorated. 
 
 Brokers, buying and selling for profit, or on commission, 
 
 railroad or theatre tickets 200.00 
 
 Broker, in securities or real estate, no license prorated. . . 50.00 
 
 Brokers in merchandise, unless otherwise specified, no 
 
 license prorated 50.00 
 
 Those who sell merchandise from cars, stores or other- 
 wise for their own account or the account of others 
 shall be classed as wholesale merchants and pay the tax 
 as same. 
 
 Brokers, each and every person, firm or corporation 
 engaged in or conducting the business of putting on 
 bankrupt, liquidation or forced sales or other similar 
 sales of goods, wares or merchandise for and in behalf 
 of any regularly licensed merchant or dealer of the 
 
 city, shall pay a license for such business of 100.00 
 
 And said license shall not be prorated. 
 
 Broom factory 10.00 
 
 Builders’ supplies, dealers in 40.00 
 
 Building and loan, or similar associations, located or 
 
 doing business in the city 50.00 
 
 Business not specially mentioned 25.00 
 
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 Cabinet shop, repairing furniture $ 10.00 
 
 Cafe or restaurant, no license prorated 15.00 
 
 Candy manufacturer, wholesale 25.00 
 
 Candy stand, alone 5.00 
 
 Candy and fruit stand 10.00 
 
 Subject to Section 5, page 92 of new Charter. Stands 
 to be located at such place as the Mayor may approve. 
 Carriages, buggies and wagons, dealers in, alone or in 
 
 connection with any other licensed business 40.00 
 
 Carriage, buggy or wagon manufacturer, alone or in con- 
 nection with repair shop 25.00 
 
 Carriage or buggy repair shop, alone 10.00 
 
 Carriage, wagon and buggy supplies, dealers in 25.00 
 
 Chiropodist, manicurist or hairdresser 10.00 
 
 Chiropodist, manicurist or hairdresser, and dealer in 
 
 supplies v 15.00 
 
 Cattle, sheep or hogs, dealers in 25.00 
 
 Cash register, dealers in or agents for 25.00 
 
 Chewing gum, manufacturers of 15.00 
 
 Cider and vinegar factory 25.00 
 
 Cigar manufacturer 20.00 
 
 Any manufacturer selling in less quantity than 100 
 cigars shall pay an additional license of $10.00. 
 
 Cigars and tobacco, wholesale and retail 50.00 
 
 Cigars and tobacco, retail dealer in 30.00 
 
 Circus or wild west or trained wild animal or similar 
 show, charging not more than 35 cents for admission 
 
 and reserved seats, per day 100.00 
 
 Circus or wild west or trained wild animals or similar 
 show, charging not more than 75 cents for admission 
 
 and reserved seats, per day 200.00 
 
 And $150.00 for each street parade if they perform out 
 of the corporate limits. 
 
 Circus or wild west or trained wild animals or similar 
 show, charging more than 75 cents for admission, in- 
 cluding reserved seat, per day 300.00 
 
 Circus or wild west or trained wild animals or similar 
 show, each side show or concession not prohibited by 
 
 city ordinance, per day.. 10.00 
 
 Tented show other than circus charging more than 35 
 
 cents for admission and reserved seat, per day 75.00 
 
 Tented show other than circus charging not more than 
 35 cents for admission and reserved seat, per day.... 50.00 
 
 Civil engineer or surveyor 10.00 
 
 Clairvoyant — See Astrologers. 
 
 Clothing manufacturer, employing ten hands or less 20.00 
 
 Clothing manufacturer, employing more than ten hands. . 40.00 
 
 Clothing merchant 40.00 
 
 Cleaning and pressing not in connection with clothing 
 
 dealer or tailor 15.00 
 
 Clothing, second hand dealers in, alone or in connection 
 with other licensed business 200.00 
 
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 Coal, dealer in, alone or in connection with any other 
 licensed business in the City of Columbus, whether his 
 yard or place of business be located within the limits 
 
 or not $ 25.00 
 
 Coal or lime, selling from cars to others than registered 
 
 dealers, each car 10.00 
 
 Coal or wood, peddlers of, buying from coal yards 10.00 
 
 Coffin factory 25.00 
 
 Cold storage warehouse charging for storage, alone or 
 
 in connection with other licensed business 25.00 
 
 Concrete manufacturers or pavers or agents for, or dealer 
 in sand, gravel, stone or other similar material, alone 
 or in connection with any other licensed business 
 
 and no license prorated 25.00 
 
 Confectioner or retail dealer in fruit or candy 10.00 
 
 Contractor, general or builder, license not to be prorated. 40.00 
 Contractor, special or builder, when the contract exceeds 
 $10.00 doing one class of work only, license not to be 
 
 prorated 10.00 
 
 Cooper shop 5.00 
 
 Corn grist mill only 25.00 
 
 Cotton buyer and shipper 50.00 
 
 Cotton compress 100.00 
 
 Cotton seed oil mill 100.00 
 
 Cotton or woolen factory 100.00 
 
 Cotton mill, weaving or spinning only 50.00 
 
 Cotton seed or seed cotton, dealers in 25.00 
 
 Cracker manufacturer or agents for, or dealers in crack- 
 ers, cakes, etc., jobbing to other merchants 50.00 
 
 Crockery 40.00 
 
 Crockery dealer, selling to other merchants but not a 
 traveling man 50.00 
 
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 Debenture or redemption company 25.00 
 
 Dime stores, dollar stores, or similar stores, jobbing and 
 
 retail 100.00 
 
 Dime stores, dollar stores or similar stores, retail 60.00 
 
 Dry goods, wholesale 100.00 
 
 Dry goods, wholesale and retail 100.00 
 
 Dry Goods and notions, wholesale 100.00 
 
 Dry goods and notions at retail with 12 or more employees 
 
 connected with the business 60.00 
 
 Dry goods and notions at retail with 8 and under 12 
 
 employees connected with the business 50.00 
 
 Dry goods and notions at retail with 4 and under 8 em- 
 ployees connected with the business 40.00 
 
 Dry goods and notions at retail with 2 and under 4 em- 
 ployees connected with the business 30.00 
 
 Dry goods and notions at retail with 1 employee 10.00 
 
 And in determining the number of employees con- 
 nected with the business the owners or proprietors 
 giving their personal attention to the same shall be con- 
 sidered as employees for the purpose of this ordinance. 
 
 Drugs, wholesale and retail, traveling a man or city drum- 
 mer 100.00 
 
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 Drugs, retail and jobbing to other merchants and not 
 
 traveling a city drummer $ 60.00 
 
 Drugs, retail with 2 or more employees 40.00 
 
 Drugs, retail with 1 employee 30.00 
 
 And owner or proprietor giving his personal attention 
 to the business shall be considered an employee for the 
 purpose of this ordinance. 
 
 All merchants other than druggists or pharmacists, sell- 
 ing patent or proprietary medicines or other medicines, 
 excepting paregoric, designating the dose of paregoric, 
 at various ages thereon, castor oil, turpentine, salts, 
 borax, sulphur, containing the label of a regularly 
 licensed druggist or pharmacist of the State of Georgia. 30.00 
 Dye house, resident or agent for others 10.00 
 
 E. 
 
 Eating house, alone or in connection with other business 
 
 and no license prorated 15.00 
 
 Electric light and power company doing business in the 
 
 city 250.00 
 
 With the same proviso as to the poles and wires as is 
 applied to telephone and telegraph companies. 
 
 Electric supplies, dealers in and contractors for installing 
 same, including gas fittings, no license to be for less 
 
 than 30.00 
 
 Electrical worker, not in employ of dealer in electrical 
 
 supplies or contractors for installing same 10.00 
 
 No person shall be employed to install electrical work 
 or gas pipes or fittings until the Superintendent of 
 Public Works shall certify to the City Treasurer that 
 the applicant is, in his opinion, fully qualified to install 
 such works in accordance with the requirements of 
 the National Board of Fire Underwriters, fee for such 
 
 certificate to be paid to the City Treasurer shall be 2.00 
 
 Electric theatre, moving pictures, vaudeville or similar 
 shows $75.00 per annum and no license shall be issued 
 
 for less than 75.00 
 
 Employment agency or intelligence office 10.00 
 
 Express company, to include the use of wagons 150.00 
 
 Exchange, for sale of fancy work 15.00 
 
 F. 
 
 Factory, sash, blind and planing mill 60.00 
 
 Feather or carpet renovator 10.00 
 
 Fertilizers, dealers in, or manufacturer of or agent for, 
 alone or in connection with other licensed business, 
 
 doing business in the City of Columbus 75.00 
 
 Fireworks, wholesale or jobbing to other merchants alone, 
 or in connection with other licensed business not to 
 
 include retail 50.00 
 
 Fireworks, retail alone or in connection with any other 
 
 licensed business 15.00 
 
 Fortune teller — See Astrologer. 
 
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 Fish and oyster dealer, it being understood that no license 
 shall be issued for less than the rate named for twelve 
 months, and that the license when issued shall not be 
 exchanged for a license to transact a different kind of 
 
 business $ 10.00 
 
 Flour and grist mill 100.00 
 
 Flying jenny, per month „.. 10.00 
 
 The machine or apparatus to be located at such place 
 in the city as the Mayor may approve, and license sub- 
 ject to revocation at any time in the discretion of the 
 Mayor and, provided, further, that persons obtaining 
 such license shall pay the expense of a policeman to be 
 selected by the Chief of Police and subject to his 
 
 control. 
 
 Foundry, alone 50.0Q 
 
 Foundry and machine shop 100.00 
 
 Fruit store, alone 5.00 
 
 Furniture or fixture manufactory 60.00 
 
 Furniture dealer with three or more employees 40.00 
 
 With less than three employees 25.00 
 
 And in determining the number of employees connected 
 with the business the owners or proprietors shall be 
 considered as employees for the purpose of this ordi- 
 
 nance. 
 
 Furniture or stove repairer 10.00 
 
 Furniture packer and shipper 10.00 
 
 G 
 
 Gas works or company 
 
 Gin, public 
 
 Groceries, wholesale 
 
 Any person, firm or corporation engaged in that busi- 
 ness who travels a man or city drummer soliciting or- 
 ders from other merchants shall be denominated whole- 
 sale. 
 
 Groceries, retail and jobbing to other merchants and not 
 
 traveling a man or city drummer 
 
 Groceries, small dealer, 1 employee 
 
 Groceries, 2 employees 
 
 Groceries, 3 employees 
 
 Groceries, 4 employees . 
 
 Groceries, 5 employees 
 
 Groceries, 6 employees 
 
 Proprietors giving their attention to the business shall 
 be denominated employees for the purpose of this 
 ordinance and each place of business shall be required 
 to pay a license. 
 
 All persons or corporations selling goods from cars or 
 otherwise, shall pay as other merchants. 
 
 Green groceries, wholesale 
 
 Green groceries, retail 
 
 Guaranty company furnishing surety bonds, for each 
 
 agent 
 
 And each company shall pay quarterly on gross receipts 
 of premiums 2i per cent. 
 
 Gunsmith 
 
 Gunsmith to include retail dealing 
 
 100.00 
 
 10.00 
 
 100.00 
 
 60.00 
 
 10.00 
 
 20.00 
 
 30.00 
 
 40.00 
 
 50.00 
 
 60.00 
 
 50.00 
 
 10.00 
 
 35.00 
 
 10.00 
 
 30.00 
 
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 H. 
 
 Haberdasher * $ 30.00 
 
 Hats and caps, wholesale 30.00 
 
 Hardware, wholesale 100.00 
 
 Any person, firm or corporation engaged in the business 
 who travels a man or city drummer soliciting orders 
 of other merchants, shall be denominated wholesale. 
 Drummer soliciting orders of other merchants and not 
 
 traveling a man or city drummer 60.00 
 
 Hardware, retail 40.00 
 
 Harness dealer, wholesale 100.00 
 
 And any person, firm or corporation engaged in the 
 business who travels a man or city drummer shall be 
 denominated as wholesale. 
 
 Harness dealer, retail or jobbing to other merchants and 
 
 not traveling a man or city drummer, alone or in con- 
 nection with any other licensed business 25.00 
 
 Harness repairer 5.00 
 
 Hides, dealers in, other than junk dealer, alone or in con- 
 nection with any other licensed business 25.00 
 
 Hides, dealers in, other than junk dealer, alone or in con- 
 nection with other licensed business 15.00 
 
 Horse drover — See stable keeper. 
 
 Hotel, having more than 12 and not exceeding 19 rooms. . . 25.00 
 
 Hotel, having more than 19 rooms and not exceeding 39 
 
 rooms 40.00 
 
 Hotel having more than 39 rooms 60.00 
 
 Huckster 10.00 
 
 No license shall be issued for less than $10.00. 
 
 Hosiery mills, making their own yarns 50.00 
 
 Hosiery mills, not in connection with other licensed 
 business 25.00 
 
 I. 
 
 Ice dealer, wholesale 25.00 
 
 Ice dealer, retail, selling one block or less, it being under- 
 stood that no license shall be issued for less than the 
 rate for 12 months, and that the license, when issued, 
 will not be exchanged for a license to transact a differ- 
 ent line of business 10.00 
 
 Ice factory 50.00 
 
 Ice cream, manufacturer of, selling to merchants 10.00 
 
 Ice cream, alone or in connection with any other business 5.00 
 Ice cream, or ice cream cakes, dealers in, selling from 
 
 wagon, hand cart or box, for each cart, wagon or box. . 10.00 
 
 Images of plaster of paris or other compositions, dealers 
 
 in 5.00 
 
 Insurance companies, fire or life, for each agent any com- 
 pany may appoint 50.00 
 
 Insurance companies, casualty, including all companies, 
 issuing accident, health, plate glass, steam boiler, credit, 
 burglar or employers’ liability contract, each company. 35.00 
 
 Insurance guaranty company and live stock company 35.00 
 
 Insurance, steam boiler only 25.00 
 
 Insurance company, furnishing surety bonds — See 
 
 guaranty company. 
 
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 Insurance broker or firm, for each company in which 
 said broker or firm undertakes to place insurance out 
 
 of this state, on property within this state $ 75.00 
 
 All insurance companies, including fire, life, accident, 
 guaranty or other insurance companies, shall pay quar- 
 terly on gross receipts of premiums, not including 
 premiums on life policies after being in force one year, 
 
 24 per cent. 
 
 Insurance, transient solicitor for, life, fire and accident 
 
 company 75.00 
 
 Itinerants and other persons claiming to give special 
 treatment for the cure of physical ailments, not licensed 
 
 as a physician by the state 150.00 
 
 And license not to be prorated. 
 
 Itinerant peddlers or vendors of proprietary or patent 
 articles, maps,, pictures, toys, candy, watches, jewelry 
 or any articles whatever on the streets or from house 
 
 to house, or located, including dealers in stone, marble, 
 granite or any article of merchandise shall pay license 
 
 tax of 50.00 
 
 To be collected from all persons alike engaged in such 
 business, whether residents or non-residents, and with- 
 out regard to the locality of the produce or growth of 
 the article sold, or for sale of which solicitations are 
 made. No license shall be granted, except in discretion 
 of the Mayor and Marshal to any person or firm to 
 erect a stand or sell from the pavement, vehicle or 
 street, with harangue, any patent medicine, novelty, 
 fruit or merchandise, for less than $100.00 or $25.00 
 for each quarter, location of such stand or vehicle to 
 be named by the Mayor or Marshal. No license shall 
 be issued for games of chance. 
 
 Itinerant vendor of patent medicines, with or without 
 harangue, for one year or part thereof 250.00 
 
 J. 
 
 Jewelry 40.00 
 
 Jewelry and watches, repairers of 10.00 
 
 Jewelry and watches, repairer of, keeping stock on 
 
 hand with three or more employees 40.00 
 
 Jewelry and watches, repairer of, keeping stock on hand 
 
 with two or less employees 20.00 
 
 And owner giving his attention to the business shall be 
 considered an employee. 
 
 Jewelry, manufacturers of, or dealers in wire, shell and 
 
 other jewelry, per month 10.00 
 
 And no license issued for less than $10.00. 
 
 Junk shops, or dealers in pelts, bones, scrap metals, rags, 
 
 bottles, etc 100.00 
 
 And all persons operating junk shops and taking out 
 licenses for the same, as prescribed in this ordinance, 
 shall accept the same on condition that their place of 
 business shall be subject to visitations and inspection 
 by the police of the city at any time and on refusal of 
 the junk dealers or persons in charge of the place of 
 business to submit to such visitation or inspection or 
 
CITY OF COLUMBUS. 
 
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 who shall deter or prevent a thorough inspection of 
 such place of business, the place of business shall be 
 immediately closed on the order of the Mayor or Chief 
 of Police, and in case any machinery or any part there- 
 of or any appliances or implements or tools or material 
 of any character connected with or belonging to any 
 railroad company, steam or electric, or to engines, 
 cars or track of any railroad company, steam or elec- 
 tric or gas company, or to the waterworks company, 
 or fire department or mills, factories or individuals 
 or any gas or waterworks fixtures shall be found in such 
 place of business, unless the same was sold to said junk 
 dealer by the authorized agent of the company owning 
 the same, it shall subject the owner or owners of said 
 junk shop on conviction thereof before the Recorder, 
 to pay a fine not to exceed $100.00 or imprisonment not 
 to exceed 60 days, either or both in the discretion of 
 the Recorder. And for the second offense the Recorder 
 shall have the power in his discretion not only to im- 
 pose the fine above provided but to revoke the license. 
 Each and every junk dealer shall keep a complete record 
 of all such articles purchased by him, of whom bought, 
 the price paid therefor, and the books or book of entry 
 shall be subject to inspection by the city, police, city 
 officials, or any other individual acting under the 
 authority of the Mayor, Chief of Police or the Recorder 
 claiming to have had the property stolen. 
 
 L. 
 
 Labor agent $100.00 
 
 Laundry, or agent for, run with steam, or other power, 
 
 doing business within this city 25.00 
 
 Laundry, or agent for, run without steam or other motive 
 
 power, doing business within the city limits 15.00 
 
 Lightning rod agent, or dealer doing business in the city 
 
 of Columbus, each agent or dealer 25.00 
 
 Livery stable — See stables. , 
 
 Lumber, shingles and building supplies, whether the yard 
 or place of business be within the corporate limits or 
 
 not 40.00 
 
 Lumber and shingles, all persons other than registered 
 dealers, selling rough lumber or shingles in carload lots 
 to other than registered dealers, per car of lumber. . . . 10.00 
 
 Or per car of shingles 35.00 
 
 Lumber and shingles, all persons other than registered 
 dealers, selling rough lumber or shingles in less than 
 
 carload lots, per 1,000 feet of lumber 1.00 
 
 Or per 1,000 shingles .50 
 
 Lumber, all persons other than registered dealers, selling 
 dressed lumber in carload lots to other than registered 
 
 dealers, per car 25.00 
 
 Or less than carload lots, per 1,000 feet 2.50 
 
 Lunches or sandwiches, hot, sold in connection with some 
 other business 5.00 
 
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 M. 
 
 Machine shop, alone with five or less employees $ 25.00 
 
 Machine shop, with more than five employees 50.00 
 
 Machine shop, for repairing only 10.00 
 
 Machinery and farm implements, dealers in, provided this 
 
 shall not apply to hardware merchants 30.00 
 
 Manufacturers of stock and similar powders 15.00 
 
 Manufacturers not herein otherwise taxed 30.00 
 
 Marble yard, for manufacture and sale of monuments, or 
 
 agents for 30.00 
 
 Marble or stone dealer, soliciting business in this city, 
 
 and having no shop or place of business in the city.. 30.00 
 Mattress manufacturer, wholesale or selling to merchants. 20.00 
 
 Mattress manufacturer, retail 10.00 
 
 Medical institute or infirmary or sanitarium 25.00 
 
 Merchants, small dealers, not herein otherwise provided 
 
 for 10.00 
 
 Merchants, wholesale dealers, not otherwise provided for. 100.00 
 
 Messenger service, maintaining local office 10.00 
 
 Milk depot, for sale of milk and other dairy products, 
 
 alone or in connection with other licensed business.. 25.00 
 Millinery, retail, in connection with any other licensed 
 
 business where trimmers are employed 25.00 
 
 Millinery, wholesale 60.00 
 
 Millinery, retail alone 30.00 
 
 Money lenders, persons engaged in the business of lending 
 money on personal property by chattel mortgage or in 
 
 amount less than $50.00 150.00 
 
 And no license issued for less than $150.00, and any 
 person soliciting for such money lender whether with 
 office within or without the city, shall be considered a 
 money lender within the meaning of this ordinance. 
 Multigraph, business of 10.00 
 
 * 
 
 N. 
 
 Newspapers, daily 40.00 
 
 Newspapers, weekly 15.00 
 
 News stands selling daily, weekly or monthly periodicals 10.00 
 News stands selling other merchandise in addition to 
 periodicals, carrying a stock of merchandise in the ag- 
 gregate of $250.00 or more 25.00 
 
 News butcher, each person or firm doing a news butcher 
 business on any of the different trains leaving the city 
 
 and having an office in the city 10.00 
 
 Notions, wholesale 100.00 
 
 Novelty or veneering works 15.00 
 
 O. 
 
 Optician 10.00 
 
 Optician and dealer in optical goods, not in connection 
 
 with other business 25.00 
 
 Optician, itinerant, alone or in connection with any other 
 
 licensed business, no license prorated 25.00 
 
 Oil, retail dealer 25.00 
 
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 Oil, wholesale dealer $100.00 
 
 Organ grinder, or street musician, per month 5.00 
 
 License not prorated. 
 
 Oyster and fish dealer — See fish and oyster dealer. 
 
 P. 
 
 Packing house or dealer doing a cold storage business in 
 
 this city 100.00 
 
 Painters, taking contracts 10.00 
 
 Painters, sign, local or itinerant 10.00 
 
 And $10.00 shall be paid for each additional painter 
 employed to assist in painting signs. A sign painter’s 
 license shall not be sub-let to any person nor shall any 
 transient sign painter be privileged to operate under 
 such license, but shall be required to take out a license 
 from the City Treasurer. 
 
 Palmist — See Astrologer. 
 
 Paper box factory, alone or in connection with any other 
 
 licensed business 25.00 
 
 Paper hangers, taking contracts 10.00 
 
 Paper or paper bags, wholesale or retail alone, or in con- 
 nection with any other licensed business 25.00 
 
 Patent rights, or patented articles 25.00 
 
 Pavers or agents for, with brick, macadam, concrete, 
 
 bitulithic, asphalt or similar material 25.00 
 
 And no license prorated. 
 
 Peanut stands, not prorated 10.00 
 
 Peanut vendors, from carts or in streets to do business at 
 places designated by the Chief of Police, provided 
 tenants occupying adjacent property do not object; 
 said business to be carried on only as herein specified. . 100.00 
 Pawnbroker 150.00 
 
 All pawn brokers’ shops taking out license shall keep a 
 detailed account of the pawner, stating whether white 
 or colored, and the hour at which the articles were re- 
 ceived, and in the event of failure to comply with the 
 above, he or they shall be fined in the discretion of the 
 Recorder. Their books to be subject at any time, under 
 order of the Mayor or Chief of Police, to visitation 
 and thorough inspection by the police of the city, and 
 on refusal of the proprietors at any time to permit 
 their shops to a thorough inspection by the police their 
 shops shall be immediately closed, and their license 
 revoked. And no person, firm or corporation shall be 
 permitted, under pawn brokers’ license to sell any 
 goods, wares or merchandise other than unredeemed 
 
 pledges, without taking an additional license of 25.00 
 
 And no license prorated. 
 
 Persons, firms or corporations other than licensed brokers 
 — See stocks, etc. 
 
 Pianos, organs, graphophones or other musical instru- 
 
 ments, dealers in or agents for, alone or in connection 
 
 with any other licensed business 25.00 
 
 Picture frames, dealers in or manufacturers of, alone or 
 
 in connection with any other licensed business 10.00 
 
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 Pipe layers, taking contracts $ 10.00 
 
 Pipe dealers — See terra cotta pipe. 
 
 Photographer or portrait painter, canvasser for, or doing 
 
 business in the city 10.00 
 
 Planing mill 25.00 
 
 Planing mill, sash and blind factory 60.00 
 
 Plow factory 50.00 
 
 Plumber, steam pipe, hot air, hot water or gas fitter.... 30.00 
 
 No license shall be issued until the person applying 
 shall present a certificate from the Superintendent of 
 Public Works stating that in his opinion the person is a 
 competent plumber, and is fully qualified to do the 
 work as prescribed in the plumbing rules and regula- 
 tions. And no license shall be issued for less than 30.00 
 
 Plumber, steam pipe, hot air, hot water or gas fitter, 
 journeyman in the employ of any plumber or gas fitter 
 or any firm of plumbers or gas fitters shall stand ex- 
 amination by the Superintendent of Public Works. No 
 license shall be issued until the person applying shall 
 present a certificate from the Superintendent of Public 
 Works stating that in his opinion the person is a com- 
 petent plumber and is fully qualified to do the work as 
 prescribed in the plumbing rules and regulations, for 
 which certificate he shall pay to the City Treasurer a 
 
 fee of 2.00 
 
 Pool, billiard or bagatelle table — See billiard table. 
 
 Pop corn stand or wagon, and no license to be prorated. . 10.00 
 
 Power company, located out of the city and furnishing 
 
 power within the city 100.00 
 
 Power — Any person, firm or corporation furnishing power 
 to any person, firm or corporation for generating elec- 
 tricity or other power 100.00 
 
 Pressing and cleaning hats, ladies’ and gents’ clothing, not 
 
 in connection with clothing dealer or tailor 15.00 
 
 Printing office, job and binding 30.00 
 
 Printing office, job alone or in connection with newspaper 
 
 or other licensed business 15.00 
 
 Proprietary articles, such as perfumery, medicines, etc., 
 
 And the same are not to be sold on the street, or from 
 
 house to house, without additional tax of 10.00 
 
 Public weigher 10.00 
 
 Public auditor or accountant 25.00 
 
 Public hall or theatre, for presentation of dramatic and 
 
 other entertainments 100.00 
 
 Public hall or theatre for presentation of concerts and 
 lectures but not including dramatic entertainment.... 15.00 
 Public exhibition, except chautauquas, not in licensed hall 
 or street or tent show not otherwise taxed, $50.00 per 
 
 week, and no license shall be issued for less than 50.00 
 
 Phonograph, or similar thing per month $5.00 and no 
 license shall be issued for less than 5.00 
 
CITY OF COLUMBUS. 
 
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 R. 
 
 Railroad company, delivering freight from the cars on 
 
 the streets of the city $100.00 
 
 Real estate agency — See agency, also broker. 
 
 Redemption and debenture company 25.00 
 
 Refinery of sugar or syrup alone or in connection with 
 
 any other licensed business 50.00 
 
 Restaurant or cafe — See cafe or restaurant. 
 
 Roofers, asphalt, gravel or other material 25.00 
 
 Rubber balloons, and similar toys, dealers in, $5.00 per 
 month. No license to be issued for less than 5.00 
 
 S. 
 
 Scales, public weighing for the public for pay 25.00 
 
 Scales, repairers of, not in connection with any other 
 
 licensed business 10.00 
 
 Scissors, knife and saw grinders or sharpeners and no 
 
 license prorated 5.00 
 
 Seed stores 15.00 
 
 Sellers of non-intoxicating or soft drinks of any kind not 
 to include near beer or cider or not in connection with 
 sale of other merchandise. No license to be prorated. . 10.00 
 
 No screens, partitions or other obstructions allowed 
 which will prevent public view of such place or places 
 where this class of drinks are sold. 
 
 Sewing machines, agent for, each company or factory 25.00 
 
 Sewing machines, dealers in, not in connection with any 
 
 other line of business 25.00 
 
 Sewing machines, repairers of, whether having shop or 
 
 not 10.00 
 
 Shooting gallery 15.00 
 
 Show case manufacturer 60.00 
 
 Sign painter — See painters. 
 
 Skating rink 25.00 
 
 Slot machines, meaning weighing machines and machines 
 for sale of gum, candy or other merchandise, not in 
 
 connection with any business, not prorated 10.00 
 
 Soap factory 10.00 
 
 Soda fount, alone 10.00 
 
 Soda fount in connection with any other licensed business 5.00 
 Soft drinks — See sellers of. 
 
 Stables — Each livery stable, keeper, firm or corporation 
 for keeping or feeding horses or mules for hire, not 
 to include drays or wagons to haul in competition with 
 
 licensed drays or wagons 60.00 
 
 Stables — Sale and feed, each sale or feed stable or lot 
 keeper without livery 40.00 
 
 Each keeper of a livery stable who does a hack busi- 
 ness in addition to his stable business shall take out a 
 license for each hack run by him the same as regular 
 hackmen. Each and every person, firm or corporation, 
 including warehousemen, dealing in horses or mules, 
 and each and every person known as drovers, selling 
 their stock in the city shall pay 25.00 
 
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 A license granted to any sale or livery stable shall not 
 authorize the holder of said license to sell for any tran- 
 sient dealer or any person bringing horses or mules into 
 the city for sale, but every such transient dealer or 
 other person shall be compelled to take out a license as 
 required by this ordinance. Each proprietor of a sale 
 or livery stable shall be held responsible for this license 
 on all stock sold from his premises. 
 
 Stocks, mining or other stocks in non-resident corpora- 
 tions, persons, firms or corporations other than licensed 
 
 brokers in securities selling same $ 50.00 
 
 And no license issued for less than $50.00. 
 
 Store fixtures, dealers in 40.00 
 
 Stencil cutters 5.00 
 
 Street railroad company, doing a passenger business.... 100.00 
 
 Street musician, per month, each 5.0U 
 
 No license to be prorated. 
 
 Street sellers, transient of notions, novelty, jewelry and 
 
 similar articles, per month, each 10.00 
 
 No license to be prorated. 
 
 Sugar or syrup refinery, alone or in connection with any 
 other licensed business 50.00 
 
 T. 
 
 Tailor shop, not selling materials to include cleaning and 
 
 pressing 15.00 
 
 Tailor, selling materials from sample or stock, and mak- 
 ing of men’s and ladies’ clothing or ordering such cloth- 
 ing from samples 25.00 
 
 Telegraph companies 50.00 
 
 Telephone companies 100.00 
 
 The license issued to telegraph and telephone compa- 
 nies is subject to this provision; That such company 
 shall move or alter the position of any telegraph or 
 telephone pole or wire when required to do so by the 
 Street and Sewer Committee of this Council, or by 
 Council, and in case of refusal to do so the superin- 
 tendent or manager shall on conviction thereof, be pun- 
 ished by a fine of not more than $100.00 or imprison- 
 ment not exceeding sixty days, either or both in the 
 discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 Ten pen alleys, kept for public play 30.00 
 
 Terra cotta pipe, dealer in 10.00 
 
 Ticket seller, electric theatre, vaudeville show or other 
 similar entertainment, selling tickets at any place other 
 
 than the ticket office, on each person selling 10.00 
 
 Tin shop, not registered as merchants including tin or 
 
 metal roofing 10.00 
 
 Tinkers 5.00 
 
 Tobacco and cigars, wholesale and retail 50.00 
 
 Tobacco and cigars, retail dealer in 30.00 
 
 Tobacco and cigars, manufacturer of 20.00 
 
 Any manufacturer selling in less quantities than 100 
 
 shall pay an additional license of 10.00 
 
 Towel supply, alone or in connection with any other 
 business 5.00 
 
CITY OF COLUMBUS. 
 
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 Typewriter or adding machine, dealer in, agent for and 
 
 repairer of $ 25.00 
 
 Typewriter or adding machine, repairer of, local or 
 
 itinerant 5.00 
 
 Trading stamps, any person, firm or corporation doing a 
 
 trading stamp business in the City of Columbus. 250.00 
 
 U. 
 
 Undertaker 
 
 Umbrella repairer 
 
 25.00 
 
 5.00 
 
 Y. 
 
 Veterinary surgeon, with infirmary or hospital 25.00 
 
 W. 
 
 Wagon or stock yard...-..; 25.00 
 
 Keeper of wagon or stock yard, keeping horses or 
 mules for sale shall take license as sale and feed stables 40.00 
 
 Wagon factory, selling at wholesale 50.00 
 
 Warehouse, cotton 100.00 
 
 Warehouse for storage of merchandise other than cotton. . 25.00 
 
 Weighing, striking or similar machine, per month, $5.00, 
 
 and no license issued for less than 5.00 
 
 Wheelwright 5.00 
 
 Wood yard or wood dealer, alone or in connection with 
 any other licensed business, doing business in the City 
 of Columbus, whether his yard or place for preparing 
 his wood is located within the city limits or not 10.00 
 
 SEC. 241. — Persons Represented by Agents. — All persons, firms 
 or corporations or manufacturing companies, having either their 
 business proper, or their general or branch office or agency 
 located within the corporate limits of the city, or who are repre- 
 sented in said city by officers or agents soliciting or transacting 
 business for them within the corporate limits of the city, shall 
 be required to register and take out the necessary license for 
 said business prescribed in this ordinance, and in default thereof, 
 the officer or agent for such person, firm or corporation or 
 manufacturing company shall be subject to the same penalty as 
 other persons who fail to register, and take out a license. 
 
 SEC. 242. — Itinerant Traders. — The Mayor and Board of Aider- 
 men shall impose such taxes from time to time as they may deem 
 just and equitable upon all local and itinerant traders or agents, 
 or other persons not specially mentioned in this ordinance. 
 The Mayor may, in case of emergency, fix such licenses as he 
 
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 may deem equitable and just upon all local and itinerant agents 
 or trader or other persons not specifically mentioned in this 
 ordinance. This ordinance shall be subject to alteration or 
 repeal in whole or in part at any time, and no such amendment 
 shall be construed to deny the right of Council to assess and 
 collect any of the tax or license charges prescribed. 
 
 SEC. 243. — Canvassers and Transient Agents. — Transient 
 traders in goods, wares and merchandise of any description 
 whatever, also agents, canvassers for the sale of any article 
 whatever, itinerant physicians or sellers of proprietary articles 
 or nostrums, before exposing or offering the same for sale shall 
 first register and pay such special tax as is fixed in these 
 ordinances, or that may be hereafter or at any time, prescribed 
 by the Mayor and Board of Aldermen, and in default of such 
 registry and payment shall be punished by a fine not to exceed 
 thirty dollars, or imprisonment not to exceed sixty days, either 
 or both in the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 244. — Former Tax Ordinances Still in Force. — So much 
 and such parts of ordinances heretofore passed as provided for 
 the issuing and enforcing of executions for any tax or assessment 
 required by such ordinance, or that impose fine and penalties 
 for the non-payment of such tax, or for the failure to register 
 or to take out license provided for in said ordinance or ordi- 
 nances, shall continue and remain in force until such tax or 
 assessment shall be fully paid. 
 
 SEC. 245. — Duties of Marshal and Police Department. — It is 
 hereby made the special duty of the Marshal and police depart- 
 ment to see that the provisions of this ordinance relating to 
 street tax and special or business is observed; and to summon all 
 violators of the same to appear before the Recorder’s Court. 
 And it is hereby made the duty of the Marshal and Chief of 
 Police to inspect all licenses issued by the City of Columbus 
 as often as in their judgment it may seem necessary, to determine 
 that the license held is a proper and sufficient one for the busi- 
 ness sought to be transacted thereunder. And the Recorder is 
 hereby given authority to punish any and all violators of the 
 same by a fine not to exceed $100 or imprisonment for sixty 
 days, either or both in the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
CITY OF COLUMBUS. 
 
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 SEC. 246. — This ordinance shall remain in full force and effect 
 until the tax ordinance for the year 1915 shall have been adopted. 
 
 SEC. 247. — Rights of Council Over. — In any case where a 
 license tax, as fixed under this ordinance may have been paid 
 for the year 1915 before the adoption of the tax ordinance for 
 that year, that the same shall be subject to the right of Council 
 to raise or lower the same, as may be determined upon in the 
 general tax ordinance for the year 1915. 
 
 SEC. 248. — Where the license tax exceeds the sum of $5.00, 
 the Treasurer, upon the approval of the Mayor, may prorate the 
 price of all license taxes hereinbefore enumerated, (except 
 where otherwise provided in this chapter), upon all business, 
 trades and occupations, including dray and hack licenses, com- 
 menced after the first day of July, 1914, but no license shall be 
 issued for a sum less than one-half the cost of the full year’s 
 license. 
 
 SEC. 249. — It is ordained by the authority aforesaid , That all 
 ordinances or parts of ordinances or resolutions in conflict with 
 this ordinance be and the same are hereby repealed. 
 
 Adopted in Council February 4th, 1914. 
 
 Approved: JNO. C. COOK, 
 
 Mayor. 
 
 Attest: M. M. MOORE, 
 
 Clerk of Council. 
 
 ORDINANCE. 
 
 CHAPTER 3 3. 
 
 FIXING DRAY, HACK, AUTOMOBILE AND OTHER VEHICLE 
 LICENSE FOR THE YEAR 1014. 
 
 SECTION 250. — It is ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen 
 of the City of Columbus, That for the year 1914, the rate of 
 dray, hack, automobile and other vehicle license shall be as 
 follows: 
 
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 Hack, drawn by one horse $15.00 
 
 Hack, drawn by two horses 20.00 
 
 Automobile, carrying passengers for a fare 20.00 
 
 Automobile, delivering merchandise, baggage or freight 
 
 2,000 pound capacity, $15.00; over 2,000 pounds 25.00 
 
 Dray, express or other vehicle used for delivering mer- 
 chandise of any kind, drawn by one horse 10.00 
 
 Express or other vehicles used for delivering merchan- 
 dise, except drays drawn by two horses 15.00 
 
 Dray, drawn by two horses 20.00 
 
 Dray, drawn by three horses 30.00 
 
 Dray, drawn by four horses 30.00 
 
 Omnibus, drawn by two horses 20.00 
 
 Each baggage wagon, engaged exclusively in the transfer of 
 baggage, whether run in conjunction with licensed hack or other 
 vehicle, charging for such transfer shall pay as a dray. 
 
 Drays or other vehicles, run by any person or firm, in their 
 own business or otherwise and whether they be employed in 
 general business of their owners and their customers, shall pay 
 the same license tax as is charged for drays. 
 
 License shall be paid annually in advance. The owner of each 
 dray or other vehicle for hire shall procure license and a num- 
 ber, the number to be fastened to the rear axle or right hand 
 side of each vehicle, all old numbers to be removed and the 
 police are enjoined to enforce this regulation. No license pro- 
 vided for in this ordinance shall be transferred more than one 
 time during the year for which it is issued, except that licenses 
 issued for hacks and automobiles carrying passengers for fare 
 may be transferred as hereinafter provided for. 
 
 All hacks shall be required to have a lamp on each side thereof 
 and the same shall be lighted and the light unobstructed when 
 running at night, under a penalty of not less than $1.00 nor 
 more than $5.00 in the discretion of the Recorder. All motor- 
 cycles shall be required to carry a light on the front while 
 running at night. 
 
 Each and every hack or vehicle used in the City of Columbus 
 for the transportation of passengers shall have the license 
 number of said vehicle plainly printed on the said lamp. For 
 violation of this clause each person offending shall be sum- 
 moned before the Recorder and fined not less than $5.00. 
 
 Each driver while in charge of a hack or automobile carry- 
 ing passengers for a fare, shall wear on his hat or cap or lapel 
 
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 of his coat, a badge, the number of which shall correspond with 
 the number of hack or automobile. 
 
 All hacks, drays and automobiles carrying passengers for a 
 fare, are subject to the call of the police and chief of the fire de- 
 partment, and a refusal to respond to such a call shall subject the 
 offender to a fine of not less than $5.00. No license for a hack 
 or automobile carrying passengers for a fare shall be issued 
 unless the applicant presents to the Clerk of Council a certifi- 
 cate from the Chief of Police that the vehicle and team which 
 the applicant proposes to use is such as will be creditable and 
 safe, and that the driver is of proper age, and a suitable and 
 proper person. 
 
 And it shall be the duty of the Chief of Police to make monthly 
 inspection of said hacks and teams and automobiles, carrying 
 passengers for fare, on the 15th day of each month, or such 
 other date as may be named by the Chief of Police, and if found 
 in such condition as to be unsafe or discreditable, to revoke the 
 license until such defects are remedied; also to make a report 
 to Council every three months of the condition of said hacks and 
 teams and automobiles, carrying passengers for a fare. No 
 license to be transferred except by permission of the Chief of 
 Police. 
 
 No person shall, within the limits of the union passenger 
 station. Broad Street, Chattahoochee or other railroad depot, 
 drum, solicit, persuade or attempt to induce any person to 
 ride in any hack or other licensed vehicle, or not to ride in 
 any particular hack or vehicle. 
 
 No drummer or solicitor or person to patronize hotels or 
 boarding houses, shall, when permitted within the limits of 
 any railroad depot, announce or carry on his business out of 
 an ordinary tone of voice. The violation of any portion of the 
 above ordinance shall subject the offender to a fine not to exceed 
 $10.00 or imprisonment not to exceed thirty days in the discre- 
 tion of the Recorder. 
 
 Adopted in Council December 30, 1913. 
 
 Approved: JNO. C. COOK, 
 
 Attest: M. M. MOORE, Mayor. 
 
 Clerk of Council. 
 
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 CHAPTER 34. 
 
 REGULATING THE SALE OF LIQUORS IN IMITATION OF 
 ALCOHOL— SPIRITUOUS OR MALT LIQUORS, 1914. 
 
 SECTION 251. — Near Beer Licenses . — It is ordained by the 
 Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Columbus, That every per- 
 son or firm dealing in any beverage or drink of liquor in imita- 
 tion of, or intended as a substitute for beer, wine, whiskey or 
 other alcoholic, spirituous or malt liquors to be sold within the 
 corporate limits of the City of Columbus, either at wholesale or 
 at retail, shall pay a license of $200.00, the business to be carried 
 on only at the place named in the license, unless the location is 
 changed by consent of Council. Application for license shall be 
 made on a blank form, to be furnished by the Clerk of Council, 
 and the tax shall be paid before the license is issued. No 
 assignment or transfer of any license shall be made unless with 
 the consent of Council. The license shall be posted conspic- 
 uously in the place of business. The Clerk of Council shall 
 furnish the Chief of Police with the name of each person or 
 firm that takes out a license. No license for the sale of such 
 beverage, drink or liquors as referred to in the above section, 
 shall be issued for less than the price of a full year’s license. 
 Under the wholesale license the dealer shall sell only in kegs, 
 or bottles packed in cases or barrels and shall not permit any 
 liquor to be drunk on the premises or within the place of 
 business. Under the retail license, a dealer shall not sell in 
 quantities greater than four and one-half standard gallons. All 
 licenses shall expire on the 31st day of December after date of 
 license. 
 
 SEC. 252. — Closing and Opening Hours. — All dealers or em- 
 ployees having charge of stores in which such beverages, 
 drinks or liquors are sold, shall close their places of business 
 
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 at 11:30 P. M., and shall not open same earlier than 4:00 o’clock 
 A. M. In buildings in which said liquors are sold at retail no 
 screens, partitions or other obstructions shall be allowed which 
 will prevent full, complete and public view of such place or 
 places, at all times where such beverages, drinks or liquors are 
 sold. 
 
 SEC. 253. — Saloons Subject to Inspection. — All houses or places 
 of business in which such liquors are sold shall be subject to 
 inspection by the police at any and all times. 
 
 SEC. 254. — Sunday Regulations. — Dealers or employees hav- 
 ing charge of houses or places of business in which any of such 
 
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 liquors are sold, shall not open said houses or places of business 
 nor permit same to be opened on Sunday nor Sunday night. 
 
 SEC. 255. — Revocation of Licenses. — The Mayor and Council 
 may upon proof of the violation of this ordinance, or any 
 other ordinance of the city, or law of the state, in reference 
 to the sale of liquor, or upon recommendation of the Board of 
 Police Commissioners, that the license be revoked because of 
 disorderly conduct in the house in which such liquors are 
 sold, or any part of the premises under control of the party 
 holding a license, forfeit and revoke the license of the offending 
 party, and the City of Columbus shall not be liable for the 
 return or refunding of any part of the license, by reason of such 
 revocation; and all licenses are issued by the city and accepted 
 by the parties in taking them subject to all conditions set 
 forth in this ordinance. 
 
 SEC. 256. — Penalty for Violating. — Any person violating this 
 Chapter or any part thereof, shall on conviction before the 
 Recorder, be punished by fine, not to exceed $100 or imprison- 
 ment not longer than sixty days, either or both in the discretion 
 of the Recorder. 
 
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 CHAPTER 35. 
 
 APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1914. 
 
 SECTION 257. — Appropriations. — . 
 
 Salaries $ 15,000.00 
 
 Police 40,000.00 
 
 Fire department 41,000.00 
 
 Streets, parks and sprinkling 12,000.00 
 
 Sewers 3,000.00 
 
 City stables 7,500.00 
 
 Sanitation 9,500.00 
 
 Hospital 4,500.00 
 
 Cemeteries 5,000.00 
 
 Market and magazine 3,300.00 
 
 Bridges and wharf 1,800.00 
 
 Gas and electric lights 12,500.00 
 
 Water rent 11,750.00 
 
 Parks 2,400.00 
 
 City stockade 1,200.00 
 
 Printing and advertising 1,500.00 
 
 Pauper burials 300.00 
 
 Fuel account 1,000.00 
 
 Stationery 250.00 
 
 Kindergarten 300.00 
 
 Old Woman’s Home 50.00 
 
 Charity 150.00 
 
 Associated charities 500.00 
 
 Miscellaneous 7,500.00 
 
 Interest 1,500.00 
 
 Georgia Industrial Home 100.00 
 
ARTICLE V. 
 
 THE PUBLIC SAFETY— BUILDINGS— FIRE 
 REGULATIONS. 
 
ARTICLE V. 
 
 CHAPTER 3 6. 
 
 FIRE LIMITS. 
 
 SECTION 258. — Fire Limits Defined. — The fire limits of the 
 City of Columbus shall be as follows: All that territory bounded 
 
 by a line drawn from the Chattahoochee river east along 
 Fifteenth Street to a point one hundred and fifty feet east of 
 First Avenue; thence south to a point ninety feet south of 
 Tenth Street; thence west to a point one hundred and fifty feet 
 west of First Avenue; thence south to Ninth Street; thence 
 west to the river and up along the river to the point of com- 
 mencing; also all that territory lying one hundred and ninety- 
 three feet north of Twelfth Street and west of Second Avenue, 
 and all that territory lying one hundred and fifty feet south of 
 Twelfth Street and west of Second Avenue; also the city block 
 bounded on the north by Fifteenth Street, on the east by the 
 right of way of the Central of Georgia Railway, and on the 
 south by Fourteenth Street, and on the west by Sixth Avenue. 
 
 CHAPTER 3 7. 
 
 BUILDING REGULATIONS— PROVIDING RULES FOR THE 
 CONSTRUCTION OF BUILDINGS, ETC. 
 
 SECTION 259. — Permits to Build. — When any person shall be 
 desirous of erecting, repairing, changing or altering any building, 
 buildings or structure, within the fire limits of the City of 
 Columbus, he shall make application at the office of the General 
 Inspector for a permit for that purpose, and shall furnish said 
 
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 Inspector with a written statement of the proposed location, 
 dimensions and manner of construction of the proposed buildings 
 or structure, and the materials to be used and the plans and 
 specifications of the proposed building, buildings or structure, 
 which shall be delivered to said Building Inspector, and remain 
 in his custody not exceeding five days to allow the necessary 
 examination to be made of same}, and if required by the 
 Inspector, a copy of said plans and specifications shall be 
 filed in the office of said Inspector of buildings. After which, 
 if it shall appear to said Inspector that the laws and ordinances 
 of the city are complied with, he shall give the permit asked for 
 in writing. Blank forms for the detailed statement, as herein 
 required, may be obtained at the office of the Inspector of 
 buildings for applicants to fill out, describing location of the, 
 proposed structure, number and height of stories, dimensions 
 of joists and timbers and distance apart, cfimensions of support- 
 ing iron work, (if any) for what purpose the building, buildings 
 or structure is designed, and such other information applicable 
 to the proposed improvement, which statement so properly filled 
 out, the owner or owners, his or their architect or agent, shall 
 sign the agreement contained in said detailed statement, that he 
 or they will in all respects construct the work in accordance 
 with such detailed statement, plans and specifications, and in 
 compliance with the laws and ordinances of the City of Colum- 
 bus, and it shall not be lawful to proceed to construct, alter or 
 repair any building, buildings or structure within the fire limits 
 of said City of Columbus, without such permit. 
 
 SEC. 260. — Record of Permits. — It shall be the duty of said 
 Inspector to keep a record of all permits issued, which shall be 
 regularly numbered in the order of their issue, and also a 
 record of the statements upon which permits are issued. He 
 shall also keep a record of and report to the City Council on 
 the 1st of December of each year, a full and complete register of 
 the number, description and size of every building erected in 
 the city during that year, of what material constructed, with the 
 aggregate of the number, kind and cost of buildings. 
 
 SEC. 261. — Inspector’s Duties. — It shall be the Inspector’s duty 
 to visit and inspect each and every house or houses, building or 
 
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 buildings, which may be in the course of erection, construction 
 or alteration, within the fire limits of the city, and to see that 
 each house or houses, building or buildings are being erected, 
 constructed or altered according to the provisions of this 
 chapter and all acts and ordinances in force in said city and the 
 manner adopted for the security thereof against fires, and the 
 safety of the occupants; that the materials used are suitable for 
 the purpose and that the work is done in a substantial and 
 workmanlike manner, and is of sufficient strength and solidity 
 to answer the purpose for which it is designed and before the 
 foundations are laid, he shall examine the trench dug for the 
 same, and be fully satisfied that the soil or substratum is suffi- 
 cient for the structure, or at least the best that can be obtained. 
 And should the nature of the soil be such and the work of 
 sufficient magnitude as to require piling, the same should be 
 done; provided, that it may be deemed necessary by the Inspec- 
 tor; that his visits and inspections shall be repeated from time 
 to time during the erection, construction or alteration of each 
 house or houses, building or buildings, until the walls have 
 been completed and the same enclosed, when his duties shall 
 terminate. 
 
 SEC. 262. — Brick and Stone Buildings. — It shall not be lawful 
 for any person to erect, construct or build or cause to be erected, 
 constructed or built, any brick, iron, granite, marble, concrete 
 or stone house or building, or any house or building composed 
 partly of brick, iron, granite or stone or to alter any such 
 building so as to make it substantially a new building unless 
 the same shall have been inspected from time to time by the 
 Inspector of buildings. 
 
 SEC. 263. — Buildings in Fire Limits. — No person or persons 
 shall erect, or cause to be erected, within the fire limits of the 
 City of Columbus, as now established by ordinance, or hereafter 
 may be established by ordinance, any building or addition to 
 a building, the outer walls of which are not composed entirely 
 of brick, stone or mortar, iron, concrete or other incombustible 
 material. Every building erected or built as aforesaid shall 
 be covered or roofed with slate, tin, zinc, copper, iron or other 
 fire-proof roofing, and if any building within the limits afore- 
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 said shall be destroyed to the extent of one-half thereof, it 
 shall be unlawful to rebuild the same unless the outer walls 
 and the roof of the portion rebuilt shall be composed entirely 
 of incombustible materials. 
 
 SEC. 264. — Repairs in Fire Limits. — Whenever any frame 
 building within the fire limits shall have become damaged by fire 
 or decay, the extent of which, in the judgment of the Inspec- 
 tor of buildings exceeds fifty per cent, of the value of the 
 building, it shall be condemned by the Inspector of buildings 
 and it shall be unlawful, as aforesaid, to repair the same. 
 Provided, however, that any building or structure so con- 
 demned may be repaired for temporary occupancy not exceed- 
 ing thirty days, at the end of which period said building shall 
 be vacated and the repairs forthwith removed. 
 
 SEC. 265. — Height and Walls. Regulations. — The height of 
 stories for all given thickness of walls within the fire limits must 
 not exceed 11 feet in the clear for the basement, 18 feet in the 
 clear for the first story, 15 feet in the clear for the second story, 
 13 feet in the clear for the third story, 12 feet in the clear for the 
 fourth story, and 14 feet in clear average height of upper story; 
 if any story exceeds these heights, respectively, the walls of such 
 story and of all stories below the same, shall be increased 
 four inches additional to the thickness hereafter mentioned. 
 
 SEC. 266. — Walls of Buildings. — In accordance with the fore- 
 going provisions, all walls for business buildings or for buildings 
 used for store purposes and dwellings combined shall be of 
 the thickness designated in the following table: 
 
 Height of Building. Thickness of Wall in Inches. 
 
 1 story building 13. 
 
 2 story building 13, 13. 
 
 3 story building 17, 13, 13. 
 
 4 story building 17, 17, 13, 13. 
 
 5 story building 22, 17, 17, 13, 13. 
 
 6 story building 22, 22, 17, 17, 13, 13. 
 
 Parapet wall to rise not less than 18 inches above roof, and 
 to be not less than 13 inches thick. 
 
 Girder and beams to rest on ledges of metal, stone or brick. 
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 where the weight of the floor is carried on reinforced concrete 
 columns and no portion of the weight of the floor is carried by 
 the walls of the building, four inches may be deducted from 
 the thickness of the walls as above specified; provided, that no 
 walls of less than 13 inches thickness shall be permitted. 
 
 The following being a full and correct description of a 
 standard building: 
 
 Is one having walls of brick or stone (brick preferred) not 
 less than 13 inches thick at top story, extending through, and 
 18 inches above roof in parapet and coped, and increasing 4 
 inches in thickness for each story below the ground, the 
 increased thickness for each story to be utilized for beam and 
 girder ledges. Ground floor area not over 5,000 square feet, (say 
 50 by 100); height not over four stories, or 50 feet; floors of 3 
 inch plank, covered by 1 inch flooring, crossing at right angles, 
 with water-proof paper between (tin or sheet-iron preferred) ; 
 wooden beams and girders and wooden story posts 
 or columns 12 inches square or protected iron columns; elevators, 
 stairways, etc., cut by brick walls or plaster on metallic studs 
 and lathing communications with stairway at each floor pro- 
 tected with approved tin covered doors and fire proof sills; 
 windows and doors on exposed sides protected by approved 
 tin covered doors and shutters; walls of flues not less than 8 
 inches in thickness to be lined with fire brick, terra cotta or 
 cast iron, and throat capacity not less than 64 square inches, if 
 steam boilers are used; all floor timbers to be trimmed at least 
 4 inches from outside of flue; heated by steam; lighted by 
 gas; cornices of brick, metal, terra cotta or other incombustible 
 material; roof covered with metal or tile; if partitions are hollow 
 or walls are furred off there must be mortar or other fire stops at 
 each floor. 
 
 SEC. 267. — Business Buildings. — The term “business building” 
 shall embrace all buildings used principally for business pur- 
 poses, thus including, among others, hotels, theatres and office 
 buildings. 
 
 SEC. 268. — The term “wholesale store” or “warehouse” shall 
 embrace all buildings used or intended to be used exclusively for 
 purposes of mercantile business or storage of goods. 
 
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 SEC. 269. — Basements. — A basement story of any building is 
 defined as a story whose floor is 12 inches or more below the 
 sidewalk and whose height does not exceed 11 feet in the clear. 
 All such stories that exceed 12 feet high shall be considered as 
 first stories. 
 
 SEC. 270. — Height. — The height of all buildings for the purpose 
 of this ordinance shall be taken from the grade of sidewalk to 
 a point half way from the lowest to the highest part of the 
 roof. 
 
 SEC. 271. — Height Increased. How. — Whenever it is sought to 
 increase the height of any building beyond the height for which 
 the original permit was granted, the thickness of walls thereof 
 shall also be increased in accordance with the table in Section 9, 
 above entitled, “walls of buildings.” 
 
 SEC. 272. — Churches and Public Halls. — The outside walls of 
 rooms having trussed roofs or ceilings, such as churches, public 
 halls, theatres, dining rooms, or the like, if more than 15 or less 
 than 25 feet high, shall average at least 16 inches; if over 25 feet 
 high, at least 20 inches; if over 45 feet high, at least 24 inches in 
 thickness. An increase of 4 inches in thickness shall be made 
 in all cases where the walls are over 100 feet long, unless there 
 are cross walls of equal height. 
 
 SEC. 273. — Thickness of Walls. Regulations. — If solid but- 
 tresses are employed with a sectional area of 300 or more 
 square inches, placed less than 18 feet apart, and extended to 
 or nearly to top of walls, 4 inches may be deducted from the 
 thickness of any wall having such buttresses. 
 
 SEC. 274. — Cut Stone Facings. — Cut stone facings of walls shall 
 be backed up with brick work of same thickness required 
 where no cut stone is used. In cases where the cut stone is 
 used, in a great measure, self-supporting, 4 inches less thickness 
 of brick back may be used. Ashler fronts, properly bonded to 
 the brick work may have backing same as self-supporting stone 
 fronts or walls. 
 
 SEC. 275. — Party Walls. — Any party wall now existing that 
 shall have been built conformable to the requirements of any 
 law regulating the construction of such walls, and in force at the 
 
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 time of such construction, if sound and in good condition, may 
 be used in the construction of any adjoining building; provided, 
 however, that no brick work shall be placed on such wall to 
 give additional height to the wall, unless the thickness of such 
 additional wall and the thickness of the old wall in each story 
 shall at least equal thickness required for division walls. This 
 Section shall apply in all cases where it is desired to add ad- 
 ditional height to any business building. In case of outside 
 walls of any business building being built against the wall of any 
 old building (not being a party wall) the new wall shall be of 
 the same thickness required for outside walls in such building. 
 
 SEC. 276. — Electrical Work. Permits and Inspections. — The 
 installation of all electrical wiring in the City of Columbus for 
 all light, power or other use, shall be done in strict accordance 
 with the rules of the Southeastern Underwriters Association. 
 All persons, firms and corporations desiring to install electric 
 wiring, shall make written application for permit to do so to 
 the General Inspector on blank form furnished by said General 
 Inspector for that purpose, and before said wiring shall be con- 
 nected for use the same shall be subject to and shall be inspected 
 by the General Inspector of the city to see that such wiring 
 has been installed in a workmanlike manner, and in compliance 
 with Southeastern Underwriters rules and regulations for elec- 
 tric wiring. 
 
 SEC. 277. — Connecting Service Wires. Permits and Inspection. 
 That all electric or power companies engaged in soiling elec- 
 tricity in the city, shall before connecting their service wires to 
 such installations have furnished to them by the owner or 
 tenant the certificate of Inspector showing that the work has 
 been approved by the General Inspector. 
 
 SEC. 278. — Dwellings in Fire Limits. — All dwelling houses in 
 the fire limits, including those having first story used for 
 business purposes and all other buildings that are used more 
 than two stories high, having flat roof, shall have all the walls 
 (except front walls) extended 16 inches above the roof, and not 
 less than 8 inches thick; to have proper copings of incombustible 
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 walls carried up, forming fire walls in same manner; walls at 
 eaves of all roofs (except flat roofs) shall be carried up their full 
 thickness flush with the upper edge of the rafters of the roof, 
 and the sheeting boards shall be bedded in mortar on such 
 walls. 
 
 SEC. 279. — Roofs of Business Buildings. — Business buildings 
 more than two stories high, having flat roofs, shall have their 
 side and rear walls carried up 2 feet above the roof; division or 
 party walls, 4 feet above forming fire walls not less than 12 
 inches thick, to have copings of incombustible material; front 
 walls may terminate flush with the upper surface of sheeting of 
 roof. Division and party walls to extend through mansard or 
 other steep roofs not less than 16 inches and having copings same 
 as other fire walls. 
 
 SEC. 280. — Chimneys. — No chimney shall be built with less 
 than 4 inch wall, and no chimney top shall be less than 5 feet 
 above the roof (for flat roofs), and 2 feet above the ridge of 
 any pitched roof. Ordinary flues in business buildings shall 
 have walls and 8 inch jams; flues larger than 250 square inches 
 and less than 500 square inches shall be surrounded with walls 
 not less than 8 inches thick; those erected or hereafter to be 
 built or erected, shall not be cut off or altered without a permit 
 to do so having been first obtained from the Inspector. Every 
 temporary support placed under any structure wall, girder, 
 beam or column during the erection, finishing, altering or repair- 
 ing of any building or part thereof, shall be equal in strength 
 to the permanent support for such construction. 
 
 SEC. 281 — Doorways and Openings. — No opening or doorway 
 shall be cut through a party wall of a brick building without a 
 permit from the Inspector and every such doorway or opening 1 
 shall have top, bottom and sides of stone, brick or iron; shall 
 be closed by two standard metal covered doors (separated by 
 the thickness of the wall) hung to rabbitted iron frames or to 
 iron hinges in brick or stone rabbits; shall not exceed 10 feet 
 in height and 8 feet in width and every opening other than a 
 doorway shall be protected in a manner satisfactory to the 
 Inspector. 
 
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 SEC. 282. — Wood Used in Walls. Regulations. — No timber, 
 excepting lathing strips, shall be used in any wall of any brick 
 building, except arched forms for interior arched opening. 
 
 SEC. 283. — Anchors in Walls. — All walls of a brick building 
 on which the ends of beams rest shall be anchored at each 
 tier of beams at intervals of not more than 10 feet apart, with 
 good, strong wrought iron anchors at least i inch by IT inches 
 well built into the walls, and fastened at the top of the beams; 
 and where the beams are supported by girders, the ends of the 
 beams resting on the girders shall be butted together, end to end 
 and strapped with wrought iron straps or tie irons at the same 
 distance and in the same beams as the wall anchors and shall be 
 well fastened. 
 
 SEC. 284. — Piers. — All piers shall be built of the best quality 
 of good, well burnt hard brick, laid in cement and sand mortar, 
 and well wet when laid in warm weather. 
 
 SEC. 285. — Brick Piers Under Lintels. — Brick piers, under 
 lintels, girders or columns of brick buildings over one story high 
 shall have a cap of iron at least 2 inches thick, the full size of 
 the pier. 
 
 SEC. 286. — Brick Piers. — Brick piers and buttresses shall be 
 bonded with thorough courses, level and bedded, each course, 
 and where their foundations rest on piles, a sufficient number 
 shall be driven to insure a proper support. 
 
 SEC. 287. — Metal Columns. — Every metal column in a brick 
 building shall rest on an iron plate of not less thickness than 
 2 inches. Wooden columns supporting girders and floors in 
 such buildings shall set on H inch iron plates, with sockets and 
 counter sinkages. 
 
 SEC. 288. — Backing of Iron Fronts. — The backing of any iron 
 front that is not wholly self-supporting shall be treated as an 
 independent wall. If the iron is self-supporting then the party 
 wall shall be extended to meet the outer thickness of iron, and all 
 vacancies shall be filled with grout to insure a complete separa- 
 tion of adjoining buildings. 
 
 SEC. 289. — Roofs in Fire Limits. Pitch of Roofs. — The weather 
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 incombustible materials, the pitch of non-combustible compo- 
 sition roofs shall not exceed two inches to the foot. 
 
 SEC. 290. — Roofs. Tar or Woodwork. — No uncovered tar, 
 composition, resin, felt or woodwork shall in any way be 
 exposed on any roof or appendages. 
 
 SEC. 291. — Flues. — Appendages of any business building above 
 the first story and above thirty feet from grade of sidewalk on 
 any building, walls of such flues above the inlet funnel shall 
 be 12 inches thick for the. first 15 feet around and above such 
 inlet; tops of such chimneys to be at least 8 feet above the roof, 
 or five feet above the highest part of the roof within 50 feet of 
 such chimney. Flues with more than 500 or less than 800 inches 
 area shall have not less than 12 inch walls for the first 36 feet 
 and 16 inch walls opposite the inlet and 10 feet above the same, 
 top of chimney 10 feet above the roof, or 7 feet above the highest 
 part of the roof within 50 feet of such chimney; provided, that all 
 chimneys having walls less than 8 inches thick shall be plastered 
 on the brick or covered with metallic lath or wire cloth, before 
 plastering. 
 
 SEC. 292. — Chimneys and Flues. — The provisions of the fore- 
 going Sections as to the thickness of walls pertaining to chim- 
 neys shall be applicable only to such chimneys as are part of 
 or situated in any building. Flues in party walls shall not 
 extend beyond the center of the wall. Joint flues in party walls 
 shall be separated by a 4 inch width of fire brick their entire 
 length. 
 
 SEC. 293. — Chimney Foundations. — Any chimney not forming 
 a part of a wall shall rest upon the ground, with proper founda- 
 tion and in no case shall any chimney rest on or be supported 
 by frame work, beams or posts of woodwork of any description. 
 
 SEC. 294. — Foundations of Buildings. — Proper foundation of 
 masonry shall be prepared for the support of buildings and no 
 foundation shall be less than one foot below the exposed surface 
 of the ground and in no case shall any foundation rest on any 
 filling or made ground. The breadths of the foundations of the 
 several parts of any buildings shall be proportioned so that as 
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 foot of the foundation. Cement mortar shall be used in the 
 masonry of all foundations exposed to dampness. 
 
 SEC. 295. — Piles. — Piles driven for a wall to rest upon shall 
 not be less than 8 inches in diameter at the smallest end and 
 shall be spaced not more than 3 feet on centers in the direction 
 of the length of the wall, and nearer if required by the Inspec- 
 tor. The Inspector shall determine the grade at which piles 
 shall be cut off. 
 
 SEC. 296. — Walls on Piles. — Walls not exceeding 20 feet in 
 height, where piling is necessary may rest on a single row of 
 piles if deemed advisable by the Inspector; walls exceeding 20 
 feet in height shall rest on not less than two rows of piles. 
 Extra piles shall be driven where required by the Inspector. 
 
 SEC. 297. — Headers in Brick Walls. — In brick walls every 
 seventh course shall be headers. All fire flues shall be smoothly 
 plastered or have struck joints. Walls shall be securely anchor- 
 ed to the timbers and joists resting upon them. 
 
 SEC. 298. — Hollow Walls. — Hollow walls, not bearing walls, 
 may be used in all cases; but all hollow walls shall be bonded 
 or tied together with incombustible anchors, placed not more 
 than 3 feet apart. If used as bearing walls, the thickness shall 
 be reckoned by their solid parts, unless either part is at least 
 8 inches thick, and solid connections are made in upright direc- 
 tion, not less than 12 inches wide nor more than 8 feet apart 
 from centers. In such cases two-thirds of the hollow space 
 shall be connected with the solid parts. Provided, that in no 
 case shall the ends of the joists or other wood be allowed to come 
 within four inches of the hollow space. 
 
 SEC. 299. — Walls. Temporary Supports. — No wall of any 
 building now erected or hereafter to be erected or built, shall be 
 cut off or altered without a permit so to do having been first 
 obtained from the Inspector. Every temporary support placed 
 under any structure wall, girder, beam or column during the 
 erection, finishing, altering or repairing of any building or 
 part thereof, shall be equal in strength to the permanent sup- 
 port required for such construction. 
 
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 SEC. 300. — Doorways. Party Walls. Permits. — No opening 
 or doorway shall be cut through a party wall of a brick building 
 without a permit from the Inspector, and every such doorway or 
 opening shall have top, bottom and sides of stone, brick or iron; 
 shall be closed by two standard metal covered doors (separated 
 by the thickness of the wall) hung to iron frame or to iron 
 hinges in brick or stone rabbits; shall not exceed 10 feet in 
 height and 8 feet in width, and every opening, other than a 
 doorway shall be protected in a manner satisfactory to the 
 Inspector. 
 
 SEC. 301. — Brick Walls. — No timber, excepting lathing strips, 
 shall be used in any wall of any brick building except arch 
 forms for interior arch opening. 
 
 SEC. 302. — All walls of a brick building on which the ends of 
 beams rest shall be anchored at each tier of beams at intervals 
 of not more than 10 feet apart, with good, strong wrought iron 
 anchors at least one-half inch, well built into the walls and 
 fastened at the bottom of the beams; and where the beams are 
 supported by girders, the ends of the beams resting on the 
 girders shall be butted together, end to end, and strapped with 
 wrought iron straps or tie irons at the same distance apart 
 and in the same beams as the wall anchors and shall be well 
 fastened. 
 
 SEC. 303.— Piers. — All piers shall be built of the best quality 
 of good, well burnt hard brick, laid in cement and sand mortar 
 and well wet when laid in warm weather. 
 
 SEC. 304. — Brick Piers. Caps. — Brick piers, under lintels, gird- 
 ers or columns of brick buildings over one story high shall 
 have a cap of iron at least two inches thick, the full size of the 
 pier. 
 
 SEC. 305. — Brick Piers and Buttresses. — Brick piers and but- 
 tresses shall be bonded with thorough courses, level 
 arid bedded, each course, and where their foundations rest on 
 piles a sufficient number shall be driven to insure a proper 
 support. 
 
 SEC. 306. — Metal Columns. — Every metal column in a brick 
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 inches. Wooden columns supporting girders and floors in such 
 buildings shall set on one and a half inch iron plates with 
 sockets and counter sinkages. 
 
 SEC. 307. — Backing of Fronts. — The backing of any iron front 
 that is not wholly self-supporting shall be treated as an inde- 
 pendent wall. If the iron is self-supporting, then the party 
 wall shall be extended to meet the outer thickness of iron and all 
 vacancies shall be filled with grout to insure a complete separa- 
 tion of adjoining buildings. 
 
 SEC. 308. — Roofs. — The weather covering of all roofs within 
 the fire limits shall be made of incombustible materials. The 
 pitch of non-combustible composition roofs shall not exceed two 
 inches to the foot. 
 
 SEC. 309. — Roofs. — No uncovered tar, composition, resin, felt 
 or woodwork shall in any way be exposed on any roof or 
 appendages. 
 
 SEC. 310. — Appendages of Business Buildings. — Appendages of 
 any business building above the first story and above thirty 
 feet from grade of sidewalk on any building, if not wholly of 
 incombustible material shall be enveloped with metal. Dormer 
 windows, cornices, mouldings, balconies, bay windows, towers, 
 spires, ventilators, etc., shall be considered as appendages. 
 
 SEC. 311. — Bay Windows. — No bay windows or other structure 
 shall be placed on any building so as to project over any public 
 way or square without the permission of the City Council. 
 
 SEC. 312. — Skylights. — Glass in all skylights if not “prismatic 
 lights,” shall be protected by screens made of No. 10 (or heavier) 
 wire, with meshes not exceeding one and one-half inches; such 
 screen to be secured to the sash and kept at least four inches 
 above the glass. 
 
 SEC. 313. — Metallic Leaders. — All buildings hereafter erected 
 within the fire limits shall be kept provided with proper metallic 
 leaders for conducting the water from the roof to the ground, 
 sewer or street gutter in such a manner as shall protect the walls 
 and foundations from damage; and in no case shall the water 
 from such leaders or otherwise be allowed to flow upon the 
 
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 surface of the sidewalk, but shall be conducted underneath the 
 sidewalk by drain pipes to the street gutter or sewer. 
 
 SEC. 314. — Cornices, Gutters and Eaves. — All cornices, gutters, 
 eaves and parapets on buildings within the fire limits (above first 
 story of business buildings and above thirty feet from grade of 
 sidewalk on all other buildings) shall be made of incombustible 
 materials. 
 
 SEC. 315. — Scuttles to Roofs. — All roofs shall be so constructed 
 as to be reached by a scuttle, or by iron steps fastened to the 
 outside of the outer wall. If by scuttle, the same shall be at 
 least 20 to 30 inches, the frame and lid covered with metal, and 
 shall have a stationary ladder communicating with the scuttle. 
 
 SEC. 316. — Stand Pipes for Certain Buildings. — All business 
 buildings being more than fifty-six feet high, covering an area of 
 more than five thousand superficial feet, also all buildings 
 exceeding eighty feet in height, shall have a two and one-half 
 inch or larger metallic stand pipe within and near the wall and 
 connected with the water main under full pressure supplied by 
 the waterworks with a hose connection on each floor. Said 
 stand pipe shall have a stop valve at the sidewalk so arranged 
 that the supply can be cut off in case of necessity. All hose 
 couplings shall conform to the size and pattern adopted by the 
 fire department. 
 
 SEC. 317. — Floor Beams, Joists and Headers. — All floor beams, 
 joists and headers shall be kept at least two inches clear of 
 any wall enclosing a fire flue or chimney breast, and the space 
 left between the framing and such flue shall be filled with 
 solid gauged mortar, to be a heavy coat of plastering put on the 
 walls of such flues before any other woodwork shall be placed 
 against it. 
 
 SEC. 318. — Floors. — All floors shall be constructed to bear a 
 safe weight per superficial foot, exclusive of materials as fol- 
 lows: For dwellings, tenants or lodging houses, one hundred 
 
 pounds; for storehouses, warehouses, machine shops, armories 
 and drill rooms, not less than two hundred and fifty pounds. 
 These requirements shall apply to all alterations as well as to 
 
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 new buildings. In all calculations for the strength of materials 
 to be used in any buildings, the proportion between the safe 
 weight and the breaking weight shall be as one to three for all 
 beams, girders and other pieces subjected to cross strain; and as 
 one to six for all posts, columns and other vertical support, and 
 for all beams, and other pieces subjected to a tensile strain; and 
 the requisite dimensions of each piece of material are to be 
 ascertained by computation by rules given by the best authori- 
 ties using for constants in the rules only such numbers as have 
 been deduced from experiments on materials of like kind with 
 that proposed to be used. 
 
 SEC. 319. — Hearths and Fireplaces. — All hearths for fireplaces 
 shall rest on trimmer arches, the header kept at least 18 inches 
 from face of chimney breast. The back of all fireplaces shall not 
 be less than 8 inches thick; all stove pipe holes to have proper 
 thimbles and stoppers. 
 
 SEC. 320. — Ends of Joists. — Ends of joists or beams entering 
 a brick wall shall be cut not less than three inch bevel so as not 
 to disturb the brick work by any defection or breaking of the 
 joists or beams. All joists or timbers entering a party or divis- 
 ion wall from opposite sides shall have at least 4 inches of solid 
 brick between the end of such timber or joists. All buildings for 
 residence or business purposes shall have the brick project not 
 less than 14 inches inside the face of the wall between the joists 
 of each floor and ceiling joists. 
 
 SEC. 321. — Joists and Girders. — Joists and girders in any build- 
 ing shall be of proper dimensions to sustain the load designated 
 to be placed upon them. Girders may rest upon piers of brick or 
 stone or upon columns of wood or iron of proper dimensions. 
 All floor joists shall be properly bridged with cross bridges. 
 All headers in floor framing of business buildings that are placed 
 at a greater distance than 2 feet from the end of a trimmer 
 shall be fixed in proper iron stirrups. 
 
 SEC. 322. — Unsafe Buildings. Duties of Inspector and Owners. 
 — The owner or other party having an interest in any building, 
 staging or other structure or anything connected with or attached 
 to a building or other structure which shall be unsafe so as to 
 
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 endanger life, shall immediately upon notice received in writing 
 from the General Inspector, cause the same to be made safe 
 and secure, or taken down and when public safety requires 
 immediate action, the Inspector may enter upon the premises, 
 with such assistance as may be necessary and cause the said 
 structure to be secured or taken down without delay, at the 
 expense of such owner or party interested. No temporary stag- 
 ing or stand for observation purposes shall be constructed or 
 occupied upon the roof of any building within the city. 
 
 SEC. 323. — Unsafe Buildings. Penalty. — Every building which 
 shall appear to the Inspector to be especially dangerous in case 
 of fire, by reason of bad condition of walls, overloaded floors, 
 defective construction, decay or other cause, shall be held to be 
 unsafe; and the Inspector, besides proceeding as provided in the 
 preceding Section, may also affix a notice of the dangerous 
 character of the structure in a conspicuous place on the exterior 
 wall of said building; any person removing such notice so affixed 
 shall be liable to a fine of not less than $10.00 nor more than 
 $50.00 for each and every offense, to be paid into the treasury of 
 said city, or in default of said payment to work on the public 
 works not more than thirty days. 
 
 SEC. 324. — Unsafe Buildings. Penalty. — The owner or party 
 having an interest in an unsafe building or structure mentioned 
 in the two preceding Sections, being notified thereof in writing 
 by the Inspector shall forfeit and pay a fine to the use of said 
 city for every day’s continuance thereof after such notice, a 
 sum of not less than $10.00 nor more than $50.00, or in default of 
 said payment to work on the public works not more than 
 thirty days. 
 
 SEC. 325. — Buildings Enveloped with Metal. — No building now 
 or hereafter if not wholly of incombustible material shall be 
 enveloped with metal. Dormer windows, cornices, mouldings, 
 balconies, bay windows, towers, spires, ventilators, etc., shall 
 be considered as appendages. 
 
 SEC. 326. — Bay Windows. — No bay window or other structure 
 shall be placed on any building so as to project over any public 
 way or square, without the permission of the City Council. 
 
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 SEC. 327. — Glass in Skylights.— Glass in all skylights if not 
 “prismatic lights” shall be protected by screens made of No. 10 
 or heavier wire, with meshes not exceeding 14 inches; such 
 screen to be secured to the sash and kept at least 4 inches above 
 the glass. 
 
 SEC. 328. — Roofs. Metallic Leaders for Water. — All buildings 
 hereafter erected within the fire limits shall be kept provided 
 with proper metallic leaders for conducting the water from the 
 roof to the ground sewer or street gutter in such a manner as 
 shall protect the walls and foundations from damage; and in no 
 case shall the water from such leaders or otherwise be allowed 
 to flow upon the surface of the sidewalk, but shall be conducted 
 underneath the sidewalk by drain pipes to the street gutter or 
 sewer. 
 
 SEC. 329. — Cornices, Gutters and Eaves. — All cornices, gutters, 
 eaves and parapets on buildings within the fire limits (above 
 first story of business buildings and above thirty feet from 
 grade of sidewalk on all other buildings) shall be made of 
 incombustible materials. 
 
 SEC. 330. — Roofs, Scuttles. — All roofs shall be so constructed 
 as to be reached by a scuttle, or by iron steps fastened to the 
 outside of the outer wall. If by scuttle, the same shall be at least 
 20 by 30 inches, the frame and lid covered with metal and shall 
 have a stationary ladder communicating with the scuttle. 
 
 SEC. 331. — Hose Couplings. Stand Pipes. — All business build- 
 ings being more than 56 feet high, covering an area of more than 
 5,000 superficial feet, also all buildings exceeding 80 feet in 
 height, shall have a 24 inch or larger metallic stand pipe within 
 or near the wall, and connected with the water main under full 
 pressure, supplied by the waterworks with a hose connection on 
 each floor. Said stand pipe shall have a stop valve at the side- 
 walk so arranged that the supply can be cut off in case of 
 necessity. All hose couplings shall conform to the size and 
 pattern adopted by the fire department. 
 
 SEC. 332. — Floor Beams Near Fire Flues. — All floor beams, 
 joists and headers shall be kept at least 2 inches clear of any wall 
 enclosing a fire flue or chimney breast, and the space left 
 
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 between the framing ’and such flue shall be filled with solid 
 gauged mortar to be a heavy coat of plastering put on the walls of 
 such flues before any other woodwork shall be placed against it. 
 
 SEC. 333. — Floors. — All floors shall be constructed to bear a 
 safe weight per superficial foot, exclusive of materials as follows: 
 For dwellings, tenements or lodging houses, 100 pounds; for 
 storehouses, warehouses, machine shops, armories and drill 
 rooms, not less than 250 pounds; these requirements shall apply 
 to all alterations as well as to new buildings. In all calcu- 
 lations for the strength of materials to be used in any buildings, 
 the proportion between the safe weight and the breaking weight 
 shall be as 1 to 3 for all beams, girders, and other pieces sub- 
 jected to cross strain; and as 1 to 6 for all posts, columns and 
 other vertical support and for all tie-beams, and other pieces 
 subjected to a tensile strain; and the requisite dimensions of each 
 piece of material are to be ascertained by computation by rules 
 built and shall not be altered until it has been examined and ap- 
 proved by the Inspector as being in good and safe condition to be 
 altered as proposed and the alteration so made shall conform to 
 the provisions of this or any other ordinance of the City of 
 Columbus in relation thereto. 
 
 SEC. 334. — Brick Walls and Buttresses. — All brick walls and 
 buttresses shall be of merchantable, well shaped bricks, well 
 laid and bedded, with well filled joints, in lime or cement mortar 
 and well flushed up at every course with mortar; and all bricks 
 used during the warm months shall be wet at the time they are 
 laid; and shall be dry at the time they are laid during the cold 
 months. 
 
 SEC. 335. — Flues in Walls. — No continuous vertical recess, 
 chase or flues shall be made in any party wall so deep that it will 
 leave thickness at the back less than 8 inches at any point, and no 
 recess of any kind shall be made in any 8 inch wall. No hori- 
 zontal recess shall be made in any wall, except by a special 
 permit from the Inspector. No continuous vertical recess other 
 than flues in stacks shall be nearer than 7 feet to any other 
 recess. 
 
 SEC. 336. — Buildings in Fire Limits. Materials Approved by 
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 the fire limits, the material of which in whole or in part, is 
 other than brick, stone or wood, the thickness of walls, of such 
 material, and the method of construction shall be such as the 
 Inspector shall approve. 
 
 SEC. 337. — Partitions in Hotels and Tenements. — Partitions in 
 hotel buildings and tenement houses made of scantling to be 
 lathed and plastered shall be filled with brick work 8 inches 
 high, in the best manner. Scantling partitions shall not be 
 employed as supporters of any floor or roof except dwelling 
 houses. 
 
 SEC. 338. — Stairways. — Stairways shall not be closed with par- 
 titions made of plank, board, flooring or scantling unless plas- 
 tered on both sides or covered with metal, this Section to apply 
 to all buildings within the fire limits, except dwellings. 
 
 SEC. 339. — Hoisting Openings. — Hoisting openings shall have 
 trap doors (covered with metal on the underside) on all floors 
 except where elevators are used, with sufficient guards for pro- 
 tection during the hours of business, and said doors shall be 
 kept closed at all other times. 
 
 SEC. 340. — Stores and Manufacturing Plants in Fire Limits. — 
 All stores, storehouses, mills, manufactories that may hereafter 
 be erected within the fire limits, which are more than two 
 stories high, shall have doors, blinds or shutters made of fire- 
 proof metal on every window or entrance where the same do 
 not enter upon a street. When, in any such building the shut- 
 ters, blinds or doors cannot be put on the outside, they shall be 
 put on the inside, and hung upon iron eyes or frames independ- 
 ent of any wood work; shutters above the first story to be ar- 
 ranged so that they can be opened from the outside. Wire glass 
 set in metal frames shall be regarded as an equivalent to iron 
 shutters. 
 
 SEC. 341. — Four-Story Buildings and Over in the Fire Limits. — 
 All buildings in said fire limits four stories or more in height, 
 not including basements used as a factory, work shop, lodge 
 room, hotel, boarding house, public hall, or sleeping place or 
 apartment, shall have thereon suitable and substantial fire 
 escapes of the following character and materials: Brackets must 
 
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 not be less than i by It inches, wrought iron, placed edgewise or 
 It inch angle iron, well braced, and not more than 3 feet apart, 
 and the braces to brackets must not be less than t inch square* 
 wrought iron, and must extend two- thirds the width of the 
 respective brackets or balconies. In all cases the brackets must 
 go through the walls and be turned down 3 inches. 
 
 SEC. 342. — Fire Escapes. — The Chief of the Fire Department 
 and Building Inspector shall constitute a Board of Fife Escapes, 
 and no lire escape shall be accepted without their approval, and 
 they shall have authority to decide the number and location 
 of all fire escapes in buildings. 
 
 SEC. 343. — Fire Escapes May be Required. Penalty. — When- 
 ever it is deemed essential for the safety of the occupants of 
 any of the buildings hereinabove set forth by the Board of Fire 
 Escapes, as hereinabove constituted, the Inspector of Buildings 
 shall have served ten days’ notice of a rule to appear before 
 the Recorder to show cause if any they can, why the fire escapes 
 as ordered by the Board of Fire Escapes, should not be erected 
 on their property, in accordance with the requirements set forth 
 in the ordinance on said subject. In the event the owner or 
 agent of such building shall fail to appear before the Recorder 
 to show cause why the fire escapes as contemplated above, 
 should not be erected, said owner or agent shall be considered 
 in default and failure to comply within thirty days thereafter 
 with the requirements of the Board of Fire Escapes, as may be 
 made in such cases, he or she shall be subject to a fine of not 
 exceeding $100.00 or to be imprisoned not exceeding thirty days, 
 either or both, in the discretion of the court, and for each 
 month thereafter until said Ordinance is complied with. Such 
 owner or agent or tenant in possession shall be subject to the 
 same penalties as aforesaid. 
 
 SEC. 344. — Fire Escapes. Kept in Repair. — After fire escapes 
 have been placed on any building as aforesaid, in compliance 
 with the provisions of this Ordinance and the same shall become 
 unsafe or in need of change or repair in order to make the same 
 safe, the Chief or Acting Chief of the Fire Department shall 
 serve notice to make such change within ten days. In case of 
 
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 failure of any owner to have such change or repairs made 
 within the time as required by the notice, he shall for such 
 failure be subject to the same penalty provided in this ordinance 
 to place fire escapes in the first instance. 
 
 SEC. 345. — Businesses Forbidden in the Fire Limits. — No build- 
 ing within the fire limits of the City of Columbus shall be used or 
 occupied in whole or in part for any of the trades hereinafter 
 mentioned, to-wit: Planing mills, sash, door and blind factories, 
 
 unless such buildings so occupied shall have in connection with 
 it a brick or fire proof vault of sufficient capacity to contain 
 all shavings, sawdust, chips or light combustible refuse con- 
 nected therewith, and all such shavings or other light com- 
 bustible refuse shall be removed daily from such premises to 
 such vault. In no event shall proprietors, owners or lessees of 
 such manufactories allow any combustible refuse to accumulate 
 upon any lot or in any building unless stored in a fire proof 
 vault. 
 
 SEC. 346. — Floors Under Heaters and Stoves. — Floors under all 
 stoves shall be protected by a covering of incombustible material. 
 Stoves shall be kept at least 20 inches and their smoke pipes 
 12 inches from any unprotected woodwork. 
 
 SEC. 347. — Boiler Houses. — The woodwork of all boiler houses 
 and boiler rooms shall be kept at least 6 feet from the boiler 
 and 4 feet from the breeching or smoke conductor, and 1 foot 
 from the dome of the boiler, unless such woodwork is properly 
 protected with incombustible material, and then there shall be 
 at least 2 feet space from the boiler or smoke pipe and pro- 
 tection. 
 
 SEC. 348. — Floors in Boiler Rooms. — The floors of all rooms, 
 when containing boilers, shall be made of incombustible mate- 
 rials, 5 feet on all sides and at least 8 feet in front of 
 any boiler. 
 
 SEC. 349. — Steam Pipes. — Steam pipes shall be kept at least 
 2 inches from all woodwork; otherwise they shall be protected 
 by a soapstone, asbestos or earthern ring or tube or rest on 
 iron supports. 
 
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 SEC. 350. — Officers May Enter Buildings for Inspection. — All 
 the officers appointed under this or any future amendments to 
 the same shall so far as may be necessary for the performance 
 of their respective duties, have the right to enter any building 
 or premises in the said city. 
 
 SEC. 351. — Alterations and Repairs. — Any work in addition to 
 or alteration made for any purpose, into or upon any building 
 except the necessary repairs, not affecting the external or party 
 walls, chimneys, stairways or height of building, shall, to the 
 extent of such work or alterations or addition, be subject to the 
 regulations of this Code. 
 
 SEC. 352. — Egress Openings in Public Halls. — All egress open- 
 ings in public halls shall have the word “Exit” conspicuously 
 placed over them. The aisles in such halls at all times shall be 
 kept unobstructed. 
 
 SEC. 353. — Elevators. Inspection of. — It shall be the duty of 
 the Inspector of Buildings to cause a careful investigation of 
 all passenger and freight elevators in the City of Columbus at 
 least once in six months, and see that said elevator shafts and 
 doors are in safe condition, and in accordance with the provis- 
 ions of this Act. 
 
 SEC. 354. — Elevators. Inspector May Forbid Use. — It shall be 
 unlawful for any person owning or having the care or control of 
 any elevator to use or permit the use of the same after it has 
 been declared by the Inspector to be in a dangerous or unsafe 
 condition, and he has prohibited the use of the same, until all 
 necessary repairs have been made, and the owner, agent or other 
 person has secured a certificate from said Inspector that said 
 repairs have been properly done, and that said elevator may be 
 safely used. 
 
 SEC. 355. — Floor Timbers. — All floor timbers, headers and 
 trimmers of every brick building hereafter erected or altered 
 in which a chimney is to be built in a brick wall, shall be placed 
 distant 2 inches from the outside of every chimney flue, and the 
 space between such brickwork and timbers shall be closed in 
 a proper forestop of incombustible material. 
 
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 SEC. 356. — Chimney Flues and Heating Apparatus. — If any 
 chimney flue or heating apparatus on any premises shall, in the 
 opinion of the Inspector, endanger the premises, the Inspector 
 shall at once notify in writing, the owner or agent of said 
 premises. If such owner or agent fails for a period of 48 hours 
 after the service of said notice to him to make such chimney, 
 flue or heating apparatus safe, he shall be liable to a fine as pre- 
 scribed in this ordinance. 
 
 SEC. 357. — Furnaces. — No furnace and no range set in masonry 
 shall hereafter be placed or its location changed in any building, 
 except as the Inspector shall approve. 
 
 SEC. 358. — Penalties. — Any person violating any of the pro- 
 visions of this Chapter shall, on conviction before the Recorder, 
 be punished by a fine of not exceeding $100; imprisonment or 
 labor on the public works not exceeding sixty days, any or all of 
 them unless another penalty is specially provided. 
 
 SEC. 359. — Stove Flues. — That all stove flues shall be con- 
 structed of hard burned brick and shall be not less than 16 inches 
 square from base to a point 6 inches above the roof line, lined 
 with fire clay piping not less than 24 inches long; flue to be 
 thoroughly plastered inside, and hung on iron stirrups of new 
 iron of not less than i by It inches, bent to come at least 1 inch 
 below the ceiling. No flue to be less than 5 feet high, and higher 
 should the Building Inspector deem it necessary for the safety 
 of the building. 
 
 SEC. 360. — Party Walls. — All party walls shall be 4 inches in 
 excess of the said walls as set out in Section 2 hereof by which 
 Section 9 of the original ordinance is changed. 
 
 SEC. 361. — Permits May be Refused. — The Inspector of Build- 
 ings shall have authority in his discretion to refuse a permit 
 for the erection of any structure within the city limits, if in his 
 judgment it is deemed dangerous or a nuisance. Said Inspector 
 shall also have the right to increase the thickness of any wall, 
 not exceeding 4 inches as prescribed in Section 2 hereof if 
 he regards the same as necessary. 
 
 SEC. 362. — Inspector Shall Determine all Other Matters. — In all 
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 of any building or buildings, or structure within the fire limits 
 of the City of Columbus, where there has been no specific pro- 
 vision made therefor by an ordinance or resolution of the City 
 Council, all questions shall be determined by the Inspector of 
 Buildings and his judgment in such matters shall be conclusive 
 unless changed by some act of the City Council of Columbus. 
 
 SEC. 363. — Awnings and Sheds in Portion of Fire District For- 
 bidden. Penalty. — It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or 
 corporation to erect or cause to be erected over any sidewalk 
 in that section of the fire limits of the City of Columbus which 
 lies west of Second Avenue, any shed, awning or other similar 
 structures except the same be made entirely of cloth supported 
 by iron or steel framing; provided, that this Ordinance shall not 
 apply to sidewalks in front of buildings used as hotels. Pro- 
 vided, further, that this Section shall not apply to that portion 
 of First Avenue lying between Twelfth and Thirteenth Streets; 
 and, provided, further, that awning made entirely of iron or 
 steel construction or other incombustible material may be 
 erected in front of livery stables only on First Avenue between 
 Twelfth and Thirteenth Streets when plans and specifications of 
 such construction as approved by the General Inspector; and, 
 provided, further, that when iron or steel construction be de- 
 sired wooden strips or beams not less than twenty-four inches 
 apart may be used to which the roof of such shed or awning 
 may be attached. 
 
 When any shed, awning or like structure now standing within 
 said limits is declared tobe unsafe by the General Inspector, whose 
 duty it shall be from time to time to carefully examine the same 
 and make report of the condition thereof to Council at its regular 
 monthly sessions and whenever in his opinion any shed or awning 
 is considered unsafe he shall cause immediate notice of the con- 
 dition of the same to be given in writing by the City Marshal 
 to the property owner or other person in charge of such prop- 
 erty, and within five days after service of said notice, said shed 
 or awning shall be removed by the owner or person having 
 charge of the property to which same is attached; in the event 
 the same is not removed within the aforesaid period, the City 
 Marshal shall without delay proceed to remove such shed or 
 
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 awning at the expense of said property owner or person in 
 charge of same, for which execution shall issue and be collected 
 as in cases of non-payment of taxes. 
 
 Any violation of any of the provisions of this Section shall 
 subject the offender to a fine not to exceed $50.00 or to imprison- 
 ment not to exceed thirty days, either or both, in the discretion 
 of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 364. — Repairs of Wooden Awnings, Etc. — No person, firm 
 or corporation shall, within the fire limits, repair any veranda, 
 shed, awning or roof of wood or remove any wooden structure 
 from a place within or beyond to any place within the fire limits 
 of the city; provided, however, that any veranda, shed or awn- 
 ing already constructed within the fire limits other than those 
 on Broad Street, may be repaired, if, when repaired, the same 
 is made to conform to the requirements of the next succeeding 
 Section of this Code, nor repair with wood or other combustible 
 material the roof of any building or enlarge with wood or other 
 combustible material or any combination of material a wooden 
 house or structure. 
 
 SEC. 365. — Awnings Over Sidewalks. Specifications. — All 
 awnings intended to cover the entire sidewalk shall be erected 
 as follows: The posts shall be of iron and not less than two 
 
 and one-half inches in diameter, and shall be firmly anchored on 
 inner edge of curb line, and not nearer than eight feet apart, and 
 not less than ten feet in height from the curb, including the 
 top rail, which shall not be less than two inches in diameter; 
 and said posts or rails shall be connected with the building by 
 parallel iron rods or pipe of not less than one and one-quarter 
 inches in diameter, and not more than three feet apart, running 
 on an incline to the building, and securely fastened to same 
 and not less than fourteen feet from the sidewalk. There shall 
 be no cross sections or braced rods running parallel with the 
 curb nearer than ten feet to the sidewalk; said awning shall be 
 covered with canvass only, and so constructed as to easily roll 
 up and down by ropes and pulleys; the bottom of said awning 
 shall not extend nearer to the curb than seven feet when down, 
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 the same being blown about by the wind. If iron pipe 
 be used for posts the same shall be re-inforced from the bottom 
 not less than 2 feet. 
 
 SEC. 366. — Window or Drop Awnings. — All awnings known as 
 the window-hinged or drop awnings shall not project more than 
 eight feet over the sidewalk and shall not be less than seven feet 
 high from bottom to sidewalk when extended or dropped and 
 shall be securely hinged to the building or frame-work to which 
 they are attached; said awning shall be covered with canvass 
 only, nor shall any curtain or awning of any description be 
 permanently fixed either across or parallel with the sidewalk, 
 nor shall any curtain or awning of any description whatever be 
 nearer the sidewalk than seven feet when dropped or suspended 
 and all awnings shall be rolled or folded up and securely fasten- 
 ed to the building not later than sunset and remain so until 
 sunrise. 
 
 SEC. 367. — Verandas Over Sidewalks. Specifications. — All 
 verandas to be erected shall not be less than twelve feet in height 
 from the curb and sidewalk at the building to which they must 
 be securely anchored. Said veranda shall rest on cast iron 
 columns not less than six inches in diameter above base, and not 
 less than eleven feet in length and shall be placed just inside of 
 the curb, and not less than eight feet apart, and shall not have 
 any more wood in its construction than is required to construct 
 the floor of same. All railings and columns above the floor shall 
 be of iron and the roof shall be covered with tin, zinc, sheet iron, 
 slate, gravel or other incombustible material. No veranda shall 
 be erected in the fire limits, except in front of buildings occupied 
 as hotels. 
 
 SEC. 368. — Sheds Over Sidewalks. Specifications for. — All 
 sheds to be erected shall not be less than twelve feet high at the 
 curb, and not less than fifteen feet high at the building to which 
 the same shall be securely fastened. Said shed shall rest upon 
 cast iron columns, not less than six inches in diameter above 
 the base, and not less than eleven feet in length, and placed just 
 inside the curb, not less than eight feet apart. The roof shall 
 be covered with slate, tin, sheet-iron, gravel or other incombus- 
 
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 tible material. No shed shall be erected on Broad Street within 
 the fire limits. 
 
 SEC. 369. — Businesses Forbidden in Fire Limits. — No person, 
 firm or corporation shall, within the fire limits, set up a foun- 
 dry, steam engine, blacksmith shop, wood, coal, or lumber yard 
 or warehouse, or store house for the sale or storage of wood, 
 coal, lumber, shingles or other such combustible material, or any 
 similar establishment in any building other than that of a brick 
 building covered with slate, tin, gravel or sheet-iron. 
 
 SEC. 370. — Penalty for Violating Preceding Sections. — Any 
 person, firm or corporation who shall violate any of the provis- 
 ions of the five preceding Sections or either of them, shall upon 
 conviction before the Recorder be fined not less than $25.00 
 for such offense, and immediate notice shall be given by the 
 City Marshal to the property owner or other person in charge 
 of such property to remove such illegal structure within five 
 days, and in the event the same is not removed within five days, 
 the City Marshal shall proceed to remove any such illegal struct- 
 ure at the expense of such property owner or person in charge 
 of the same, for which execution shall issue and be collected as 
 in case of non-payment of taxes. 
 
 SEC. 371. — Roofs of Buildings. Material and Specifications. — 
 The outside roof covering of all houses, buildings or other 
 structures located within all that territory of the City of Colum- 
 bus, which lies east from the Chattahoochee river to the west 
 side of Tenth Avenue, lying north of Ninth Street to the South 
 side of Sixteenth Street shall be of metal, slate, terra cotta or 
 other incombustible material and it shall be unlawful for any 
 person, firm or corporation to renew or replace the roof covering 
 of any house, building or other structure within the aforesaid 
 territorial area with wooden boards, shingles or other like 
 combustible materials. 
 
 SEC. 372. — Repairs of Roofs. — It shall be unlawful for any per- 
 son, firm or corporation to repair, renew or replace the roof of 
 any house, building or other structure within the territorial area 
 mentioned in the preceding Section, with wooden boards, 
 
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 shingles or other like combustible materials; but that all ma- 
 terials used in repairing, replacing or renewing the roof covering 
 to such houses, buildings or other structures shall be of metal, 
 slate, terra cotta or other incombustible material; provided, 
 however, that any house, building or other structure located in 
 the territorial limits aforesaid may be repaired one time only 
 with similar material to the old roofing where the area to be 
 repaired, renewed or replaced does not exceed 20 per cent, of the 
 area of the whole roof; unless the necessity to repair, renew or 
 replace such roof was caused by fire or other casualty in which 
 event the area to be repaired, renewed or replaced shall not 
 exceed fifty per cent, of the area of the whole roof. 
 
 SEC. 373. — Permits for Repairs of Roofs. — That if the owner, 
 lessee or other person in charge of such house, building or 
 other structure now standing in the said territorial limits men- 
 tioned above, shall desire to renew or replace the covering of 
 the roof of such house, building or other structure with any 
 covering other than tin, iron, slate or terra cotta, then said 
 owner, lessee or other person in charge of such house, building 
 or other structure shall, before commencing said work or repair- 
 ing, renewal or replacement, submit a sample of the material to 
 be used for such covering to the Inspector of Buildings and shall 
 secure from him a written permit to use such material as a cover- 
 ing for such roof, and it shall be unlawful to cover the roof of 
 any building or other structure located within the territorial 
 limits above mentioned with any material other than tin, iron, 
 slate, or terra cotta without the permission and approval in 
 writing of said Inspector of Buildings. 
 
 SEC. 374. — Rafters and Sheathing. — Nothing in the above or 
 foregoing Sections shall be construed to prevent the use of 
 wooden rafters and sheathing to which the roof covering may be 
 attached. Any person violating the provisions of the above and 
 foregoing Sections upon conviction thereof in the Recorder’s 
 Court shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $100 or a 
 sentence to work on the chaingang sixty days or other public 
 works of the city for a term not exceeding sixty days, either 
 or both in the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
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 CHAPTER 3 8. 
 
 EXPLOSIVE OILS. 
 
 SECTION 375. — Regulating the Storage of Naptha and Other 
 Explosive Oils. — No person, firm or corporation, without first ob- 
 taining a permit from the Chief of the Fire Department, shall, 
 within the corporate limits of the City of Columbus have, store, 
 keep, manufacture, use or sell gasoline, benzine, carbide or 
 naptha except as hereinafter provided and then only if kept in 
 self-closing metal cans, made for the purpose and free from leak; 
 provided, however, one gallon or less may be kept within a 
 building without obtaining a permit therefor; and, provided, 
 further, no can shall be filled inside the building. 
 
 SEC. 376. — Permits. — Application for a permit shall be made 
 to the Chief of the Fire Department in writing, and shall state 
 location of the building and the quantity of benzine, gasoline, 
 carbide or naptha it is desired to keep on storage or sale; 
 provided, however, no provision of this Section is intended to 
 prohibit the carrying of gasoline and carbide in the storage 
 tanks of automobiles or other gasoline driven vehicles. 
 
 SEC. 377. — Permits. When Issued. Safety Regulations. 
 
 Tanks. — No permit shall be issued for the storage or keeping 
 for sale or use of gasoline, benzine or naptha exceeding five gal- 
 lons in quantity, save in underground (buried in the ground) 
 metal tanks, with no opening for drawing out of contents below 
 the level of the ground, but to be drawn from the pumps. Such 
 tanks shall be constructed of steel or iron, galvanized or painted 
 and of suitable thickness and weight and shall be provided with a 
 fill and vent pipe so arranged that the fill pipe cannot be opened 
 without opening the vent; and also these pipes shall be provided 
 with a screen near the top and terminating in an iron cover 
 which shall be kept locked. 
 
 Said tank shall be buried at least two feet under the ground 
 and no tank capable of holding more than two hundred gallons 
 shall be permitted within one hundred feet of building; but any 
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 buried, may be located within ten feet of building; but no dealer 
 shall sell or deliver any quantity of gasoline, benzine or naptha 
 to any customer, except in metallic cans with proper appliances 
 for closing the aperture when such cans are not being used for 
 filling or emptying or through hose connection; and, provided , 
 further, that no dealer shall draw any quantity of gasoline, 
 benzine or naptha for sale or otherwise after dark, or in the 
 day time when artificial light, other than incandescent electric 
 is being used. 
 
 Places at which said oils are stored or sold shall have the same 
 indicated by proper signs. No volatile inflammable liquid shall 
 be kept in any garage, except in self-closing safety cans not to 
 exceed one gallon for cleaning other than filling the tanks for 
 automobiles and no such liquid shall be drawn in filling such 
 tanks except into approved safety cans not to exceed five gallons 
 each, and there only for the purpose of immediately filling the 
 tanks of automobiles; and such cans when not in use for filling 
 said automobiles shall be placed and kept in what is known as 
 the pump room. In lieu of the above safety cans, portable filling 
 tanks not to exceed sixty five gallons may be used for transport- 
 ing inflammable liquid to and from the storage tanks for filling 
 and charging automobiles; the said portable tanks shall be sup- 
 ported on rubber tired wheels and shall be supplied with a 
 rubber hose attachment not to exceed eight feet in length and 
 equipped at the end with shut-off valve with ground key. 
 
 SEC. 378. — Gasoline Vapor Lights. Tanks. Regulations. — 
 Where the system known as gasoline vapor gas light is used in any 
 building, the tanks and reservoirs used in connection therewith 
 shall be located outside of, and three feet from, any such build- 
 ing, and shall be boxed or enclosed under lock and key below 
 the level of the lowest pipe of the building used in connection 
 with such lighting apparatus. And it shall be unlawful for any 
 person, firm or corporation to sell or install any system or device 
 for lighting by gasoline which has not been tested and listed as 
 permitted by the National Board of Fire Underwriters, and such 
 installation shall conform in every respect to the rules of the 
 said National Board and shall have full force as set forth in 
 this Section. 
 
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 SEC. 379. — Storing. Permits for. — No person, firm or corpora- 
 tion without first procuring a permit therefor, as herein pro- 
 vided, shall, within the corporate limits of the City of Columbus, 
 store, manufacture, keep for sale or keep for use in any art, 
 trade or manufacture any carbide that will free an inflammable 
 gas by contact with water or moisture or any chemical element 
 which will free an inflammable gas by contact with water. 
 
 SEC. 380. — Calcium Carbide. — A permit may be issued for the 
 storage and keeping of calcium carbide in hermetically sealed 
 iron receptacles and in quantities not exceeding one hundred 
 pounds in the aggregate, in the isolated buildings where it will 
 not be an exposure to any adjoining property; provided, the 
 building is water-proof, well ventilated and drained with floors 
 raised above the grade upon which it stands. 
 
 SEC. 381. — Calcium Carbide. — If the building is used exclu- 
 sively for the storage of calcium carbide and if it is detached at 
 least 30 feet from other buildings a written permit may be given 
 by the Chief of the Fire Department for the storage in quantities 
 in excess of one hundred pounds and not exceeding five hundred 
 pounds; provided, the calcium carbide is stored in not exceeding 
 one hundred pound packages in sealed iron receptacles. In such 
 buildings no artificial light or fire other than incandescent 
 electric shall be permitted. 
 
 SEC. 382. — Calcium Carbide. — Not more than one hundred 
 pounds of calcium carbide either in bulk or in cartridges shall be 
 stored or kept in any building used for a dwelling, mercantile or 
 manufacturing purposes, and this amount shall be kept only on 
 permit obtained from the Chief of the Fire Department, which 
 permit shall provide that all quantities in excess of two pounds 
 shall be in light metal packages and kept elevated at least six 
 inches from the floor in a fire-proof safe or vault, located 
 above the street grade or in galvanized iron cans, provided with 
 securely fastened covers, on metal legs at least six inches long. 
 
 SEC. 383. — Installations Subject to Inspection. — All installa- 
 tions of this character shall be subject to the inspection of the 
 Chief of the Fire Department and it shall be unlawful to install 
 any such system without first obtaining a permit therefor from 
 
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 him or to use such system until the inspection shall have been 
 made and permission granted for the use of the same by the 
 said Chief. 
 
 SEC. 384. — Penalty. — All persons, firms or corporations failing 
 to comply with, or violating any of the terms of the above and 
 foregoing provisions or Sections, shall be fined not exceeding 
 $100, or imprisonment not to exceed sixty days, either or both, 
 in the discretion of the Recorder for each and every day said 
 person, firm or corporation shall so fail. 
 
 SEC. 385. — Requiring the Inspection of Theatres. — The Chief 
 of the Fire Department, the City Marshal and the Chief of Police 
 shall be required to visit each and every theatre and each of 
 the so-called electric theatres and all other places of amusements 
 where similar devices are employed and make careful examina- 
 tion as to the dangers of fire from such devices. The said named 
 officials shall make such visitations in a body once every three 
 months and they shall have full power to require needed changes 
 or in default thereof shall be empowered to close such places of 
 amusements until such changes are made as will protect the 
 public against danger from fires and upon refusal of proprietor 
 or person in charge of such place or places of amusement to 
 make such changes, such person or persons shall upon conviction 
 before the Recorder, be fined not exceeding $100 or sentenced to 
 work on the chaingang not exceeding sixty days, one or both, in 
 the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 386. — Requiring Inspection and Regulation of Theatres 
 and Other Places of Amusement. — Each and every theatre, opera 
 house and so-called electric theatre and all other places of amuse- 
 ment in the City of Columbus where similar devices are em- 
 ployed or where people congregate for the purpose of witnessing 
 any theatrical performance, picture show or other similar at- 
 tractions shall be subject at all times when such performances 
 are in progress or about to be begun to visit by the Chief of the 
 Fire Department, Chief of Police and the City Marshal whose 
 duty it shall be to inspect said places and to see that people who 
 congregate thereat are not exposed to dangers from fires or other 
 casualties and to see that all laws, rules and regulations of the 
 
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 City of Columbus respecting the conduct and requirements of 
 such theatres are being observed and carried out; and the pro- 
 prietor, manager or other person in charge of such theatre, 
 opera house, electric theatre or other places of amusements, who 
 shall fail or refuse to permit said Chief of the Fire Department, 
 Chief of Police or City Marshal to enter such places of amuse- 
 ment upon application of each of the above named officers to 
 make inspection in conformity with the terms of this Section, 
 while a performance is in progress thereat, or about to be begun, 
 the license issued to such theatre, opera house, electric theatre 
 or other similar places of amusement shall be revoked and the 
 person or persons, failing or refusing to permit entrance of such 
 officers into such buildings, where such performances are being 
 carried on, shall upon conviction thereof in the Recorder’s Court 
 be fined not less than $5.00 nor more than $100 or imprisoned 
 in the city guard house or work on the city chaingang for not 
 less than five days nor more than thirty days, in the discretion of 
 the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 386 (a.) — Regulating the Construction and Operation of 
 Moving Picture Shows, Theatres and Auditoriums. — 
 
 1. Any person, firm or corporation owning, constructing, 
 operating or maintaining electric theatres, auditoriums, play- 
 houses, halls, rooms, or tents, open to the public, where moving 
 pictures, theatrical or other performances are displayed or held, 
 shall comply with this Section, all such places now existing, as 
 well as those hereafter constructed. 
 
 2. Such theatres or other places shall not be constructed, 
 operated or licensed until a permit has been issued therefor by 
 the City Council through the General Inspector, said officer is 
 hereby directed and authorized to issue such permits; provided, 
 such theatres or auditoriums are constructed in accordance with 
 plans approved by the General Inspector, the Chief of the Police 
 Department, and the Chief of the Fire Department. Such 
 theatres and other places shall be operated under the supervision 
 of such General Inspector, Chief of the Police Department, and 
 Chief of the Fire Department, who shall make reports from time 
 to time to regular meetings of the Mayor and Board of Aldermen 
 
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 of the city. All such theatres and places shall be inspected 
 by all of said three officers at least once every three months, and 
 such officers shall assemble at the call of any one of such 
 officers. 
 
 3. Any owner or operator of any such theatre or other place 
 who may be dissatisfied with the action or recommendation of 
 such officers above named, shall have the right of appeal to a 
 regular meeting of the Mayor and Board of Aldermen. 
 
 4. Wiring in such theatres shall be installed under the direct 
 supervision of the General Inspector, and where he condemns 
 wiring hereinafter installed, same shall be re-installed under his 
 direction and approval; and in all cases where the owners or 
 operators of such theatres refuse to conform to directions herein 
 referred to, their license therefor shall be void when so declared 
 by said three officers, or a majority thereof, and such theatres or 
 places shall be immediately closed and placarded as unsafe for 
 patronage. 
 
 5. All exits shall be plainly indicated by a sign, on separate 
 supply from other parts of the house or tent, or shall be illumi- 
 nated other than by electricity, and shall bear the word “Exit,” 
 the letters of which must not be less than four (4) inches in 
 height; and there must not be more than one set of fuses in any 
 exit sign between the service fuses and the sign. Said exits shall 
 be equal to two doors not less than three (3) feet by seven (7) 
 feet each, opening into an open area accessible to street or alley. 
 
 6. Inside lights, and all lights in halls, corridors or other 
 parts of the building used by the audience, except the general 
 auditorium lights, must be fed independently of the stage light 
 and must be controlled only from the lobby or other convenient 
 place in the front of the house; and there must be two circuits 
 into the auditorium, one controlled by the operator in the booth 
 and one controlled from without the auditorium, in lobby or 
 without the entrance; and there shall be at least one three- 
 inantel gas arc, or its equal in gas light, in each theatre for every 
 fifteen hundred square feet of floor space, and controlled from 
 lobby or booth, to be used in case of failure of electric supply 
 or other emergency. 
 
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 7. Every portion of the theatre, or other such place, devoted 
 to the use or accomodation of the public, all outlets to the 
 streets, all open courts, corridors, hallways, and exits, shall be 
 thoroughly lighted during every performance, and the same 
 shall remain lighted until the entire audience has left the 
 premises. One sixteen (16) candle power lamp, or the equiva- 
 lent thereof, for every four hundred (400) square feet of floor 
 surface is hereby ordained as sufficient illumination. 
 
 8. Each arc lamp used as a part of the moving picture 
 machine must be constructed as specified in the National Electric 
 Code, and the wiring of same must not be of less capacity than 
 No. 6B. and S. gauge. 
 
 9. The rheostats must conform to rheostat requirements of 
 the National Electric Code. 
 
 10. Top and bottom reels must be incased in an iron box, 
 which box shall have holes large enough only for films to 
 pass through. No solder shall be used in the construction of 
 these boxes. 
 
 11. The handle or crank used for operating the machines must 
 be secured to the spindle or shaft, so that there will be no 
 liability of such handle or crank coming off or of allowing the 
 film to stop in front of the lamp. 
 
 12. An automatic shutter shall be placed in front of the con- 
 denser, arranged so as to be closed normally. 
 
 13. Extra films must be kept in a metal box having a tight- 
 fitting cover. 
 
 14. Said machines must be operated by hand. Motor driven 
 machines are hereby prohibited, except by special permit of the 
 General Inspector. 
 
 15. The picture machine must be placed in an enclosure or 
 house made of or lined with fire-proof material, thoroughly 
 ventilated to the outside of the building, and large enough for 
 the operator to walk freely on either side or back of the 
 machine. Such enclosure or house must have no openings into 
 the auditorium other than the opening where the light for the 
 picture is emitted, and this opening must be provided with fire- 
 
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 proof covering or door hinged with spring hinges, opening by a 
 trigger which is in reach of the operator so that it can be 
 released by hand, which door must be constructed so that it can 
 be securely closed. Furthermore, if the General Inspector shall 
 decide that the arrangements are such as would require it, such 
 doors must be arranged that it may be released automatically. 
 All other openings, such as vents and entrances to the enclosure, 
 must open into some other part of the building or theatre than 
 the main auditorium. No electrical pictures or material of any 
 kind will be permitted in the operating booth, other than the 
 picture machine and its accessories in use. No smoking shall be 
 permitted in or about the booth or stage, or other part of the 
 theatre or like place. 
 
 16. All operators of moving pictures and all switchboard 
 attendants shall be at least eighteen years of age, and shall have 
 been proven competent by examination by the General Inspector, 
 and shall be licensed for one year at a time. The amount of such 
 license shall be $2.00 annually and the names and numbers of 
 such licenses shall be shown on slides and published on pro- 
 gram at each performance and between pictures. That all 
 theatres, picture shows or other such places shall have at least 
 one licensed operator in charge of its room or switchboard at 
 all times. No one but the operator and his authorized assistant 
 shall be permitted in the booth during any performance. 
 
 17. Each theatre or like place shall have at least two (2) 
 approved three (3) gallon fire extinguishers located as directed by 
 the three city officers named in Section 2 above, and such 
 extinguishers shall be kept properly charged at all times. 
 
 18. Said General Inspector shall visit all moving picture 
 shows, theatres, and other places coming within the operation 
 of this ordinance at least once each week while such places are 
 in operation, and at such other times as may be deemed neces- 
 sary by said three officers above named. 
 
 19. All electrical work and equipment of such places shall 
 conform to the requirements of the National Electric Code of the 
 National Board of Fire Underwriters, and all such places shall 
 have such fire escapes as are ordered by said three named 
 officers. 
 
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 20. No more than six chairs shall be permitted in one row 
 unless they have an aisle intervening; provided, that twelve 
 chairs may be placed in one row with an aisle at each end. 
 Center aisles shall not be less than thirty-six (36) inches wide; 
 and side aisles not less than thirty (30) inches wide. Seats shall 
 not be less than twenty-eight (28) inches from back to back, and 
 shall be securely fastened together and to the floor. 
 
 21. In theatres, moving picture shows or any other such 
 places covered by this Ordinance, no patrons shall be allowed to 
 stand in aisles or doors. 
 
 22. All authority vested in the three officers named in Section 
 2, hereof, may be exercised by a majority thereof when said 
 officers are assembled for purpose of carrying out the provis- 
 ions of this Ordinance. 
 
 23. Any person, firm or corporation, their agents or em- 
 ployees, constructing, operating, or managing such theatres or 
 other places covered by this Ordinance, who violate the terms 
 hereof, shall upon conviction in the Recorder’s Court, be pun- 
 ished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisoned 
 on the public works not exceeding sixty (60) days, either or 
 both, in the discretion of the Recorder. Each day’s operation or 
 maintenance contrary to the provisions hereof shall be held as 
 a separate offense. 
 
 CHAPTER 3 9. 
 
 POWDER REGULATIONS. 
 
 SECTION 387. — Gun Powder and Dynamite. Gun Powder to 
 be Stored in Magazine. — All gun powder which may be brought 
 to the city, shall by the owners or consignees thereof be con- 
 veyed to the magazine as soon as practicable after its arrival. 
 
 SEC. 388. — Amount to be Kept by Dealers Regulated. — Persons 
 desirous of retailing gun powder within the limits of this city, 
 shall keep the same in either tin, or copper cans or canisters, and 
 shall not have on hand more than twenty-five pounds at any 
 
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 time and no wholesale dealer more than three kegs of twenty- 
 five pounds each. They shall keep the same as near the front 
 door of the store or shop as practicable, and shall cause the 
 word “Powder” to be painted either upon the can containing the 
 same or in some conspicuous place immediately near the spot 
 where it is kept, and shall point out to the Fire Wardens or Chief 
 of the Fire Department on application by them or any one of 
 them, the place where the powder is kept. For a violation of 
 any provision of this Section the offender shall be punished by 
 fine or imprisonment in the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 389. — Magazine Keeper. Duties of. Fee Collected. — It 
 shall be the duty of the magazine keeper to attend at all times, 
 when required, between sun rise and sun set (Sundays excepted) 
 as well for the purpose of receiving as delivering gun powder 
 to the owner thereof. He shall have a fixed place of residence 
 or business, which he shall advertise. He shall receive into the 
 magazine all gun powder offered to be stored, and enter the same 
 in a book to the credit of the respective owners, and issue 
 receipts therefor; provided, that the city shall not be required to 
 store more powder than the capacity of the present magazine 
 will warrant. He shall keep an account of all moneys collected 
 and pay same over to the Treasurer each month. 
 
 SEC. 390. — Report to Council Weekly Moneys Collected. — He 
 shall report to the Council weekly all moneys collected and 
 paid to the Treasurer, and at the same time exhibit an 
 account of the powder and other explosives in the magazine, and 
 the names of the persons from whom he has received storage, 
 and the amount received from each, and a list of persons from 
 whom storage is due; it shall be his duty to collect storage in 
 every instance before delivering any powder or other explosives. 
 
 SEC. 391. — Rates for Storage of Powder and Explosives. — The 
 rates of storage for powder and other explosives in the magazine 
 shall be one cent per pound for the first twelve months, or 
 fractional part thereof, if paid by the owner within ten days 
 after it shall be stored; and one and a half cents per pound if 
 not paid within said space of ten days; and one-half cent per 
 pound for each succeeding six months, or fractional part thereof, 
 
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 after the expiration of the first twelve months; provided, that 
 the storage on blasting powder shall be ten cents per keg of 
 25 pounds. 
 
 SEC. 392. — Dynamite. Amount Kept by Dealers. Regulated. — 
 No wholesale or retail dealer shall keep on hand in his place 
 of business more than 50 pounds of dynamite. 
 
 CHAPTER 40. 
 
 SECTION 393. — Ashes in Wooden Vessels. Police and Fire 
 Chief to Inspect Building Suspected. — No person shall be per- 
 mitted to place within any building in the City of Columbus, 
 ashes in any box, barrel or other wooden vessel or floor, unless 
 the same is immediately removed from the building, and all 
 owners or occupants of buildings in this city are required to 
 permit the Chief of the Fire Department or any officer or mem- 
 ber of the police force to inspect their buildings to see if the 
 above is complied with. And it is hereby made the duty of the 
 Chief of the Fire Department and of the police force to make 
 such inspections whenever and wherever they may suspect a 
 violation of this Section. 
 
 SEC. 394. — Cause of Fire to be Investigated. — It shall be one of 
 the duties of the Committee on Fire Deparment to investigate 
 into the cause of each fire, the management thereof, and 
 report any inefficiency in the department or any other causes 
 by reason of which any fire was not promptly extinguished in 
 order that such action may be taken by the Mayor and Board 
 of Aldermen as may seem expedient and proper to remedy any 
 fault that may exist, and as will tend to improve the service 
 generally; these reports to be submitted monthly. 
 
ARTICLE VI 
 
 THE PUBLIC HEALTH. 
 

ARTICLE, VI. 
 
 CHAPTER 41. 
 
 CONTAGIOUS DISEASES. 
 
 SECTION 395. — Prevention of Contagious Diseases. — Every 
 physician, nurse, parent or other person in charge of any patient 
 in the City of Columbus who is suffering with diphtheria, 
 scarlet fever, smallpox, cerebro- spinal meningitis, typhoid fever, 
 pulmonary tuberculosis, pellagra or trachoma, shall immediately 
 notify the Health Officer after becoming aware of the existence 
 of such diseases, giving the name of the disease, the name, 
 age, sex, and color of the person suffering therefrom, 
 and setting forth by street and number of the house, 
 room, or other place in which said patient can be found. 
 Every physician or other person as set forth above shall make 
 separate reports of each case occurring in the reports for each 
 case occurring in the same family or in the same dwelling place. 
 Death or recovery shall be reported to the Health Officer. But 
 no person shall certify knowingly or negligently that any patient 
 has recovered from any of the aforesaid diseases until such 
 patient is in condition to be free from danger of communicating 
 the disease to other persons. 
 
 SEC. 396. — Quarantine and Isolation to be Established in Cer- 
 tain Places. — Immediately upon receiving notice of the existence 
 of scarlet fever, diphtheria, smallpox, or cerebro-spinal menin- 
 gitis, the Health Officer shall investigate the same and shall 
 take such measures as hereinafter provided to prevent the 
 spreading of such disease. The Health Officer shall establish or 
 cause to be established proper quarantine at the dwelling place; 
 provided, house quarantine can be carried out without danger 
 to the general public; otherwise, the patient or patients must be 
 removed to the hospital for contagious diseases. 
 
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 SEC. 397. — House Quarantine. Warning Cards. — In case of 
 house quarantine, a warning card shall be so placed on the front 
 and rear entrances that any one coming to either door will be 
 warned of the presence of the disease within; provided, that 
 where the family lives above a store-room the card shall not 
 be placed on the store door; provided, there is one entrance 
 separate from the store. 
 
 No unauthorized person shall tear down or in any way deface 
 any placard or signal of warning placed under the direction 
 of the Health Department. 
 
 SEC. 398. — Exposed Persons. Disinfected. Permits from 
 Health Officer. — No person who has been in contact with a 
 person having any of the last mentioned diseases, except the 
 attending physician or Health Officer, shall leave the premises or 
 come in contact with any other than the patient, unless properly 
 disinfected and permitted to do so by the Health Officer. The 
 members of the family who work out must either board and 
 room at another house or stop work and stay at the house 
 quarantined. The Health Officer may, after personal investiga- 
 tion of the premises wherein contagious case or cases exist, 
 issue a written permit to wage-earners to enter and leave the 
 premises during the period of quarantine ; provided, that he finds 
 that such modification of quarantine will not endanger the 
 public health. Neither this or other modification of quarantine 
 will be permitted, except with the written consent of the Health 
 Officer, and no modification will be permitted or allowed in 
 case of any wage-earner who is engaged in the sale of wearing 
 apparel, bedding articles, or food, or drink, candy, cigars, or 
 works in a laundry. No person from any dwelling placarded 
 for any of the above mentioned diseases shall take any book or 
 magazine to or from the Public Library, or any Sunday School 
 Library or any Circulating Library of any kind. It shall be the 
 duties of the managers of Public Libraries to have all books 
 known to have been in infected houses thoroughly disinfected 
 before being placed again in circulation, or the same shall be 
 destroyed if deemed necessary by the Health Officer. 
 
 SEC. 399. — Milk Deliveries to Infected Houses. Other Regula- 
 tions. — Milk men must empty milk delivered to infected houses 
 
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 into covered receptacles placed outside the door of such prem- 
 ises. They must not enter such premises nor remove milk bot- 
 tles therefrom until the house has been fumigated and the 
 bottles have been sterilized. If bottles have been delivered they 
 must not be taken from the house until the case is terminated 
 and the bottles have been sterilized. Grocerymen and other 
 persons delivering merchandise are forbidden to enter such 
 premises or to remove packages, money, or other articles from 
 the house. Laundrymen are forbidden to enter such premises 
 or to remove any clothing therefrom until such have been boiled 
 or otherwise sterilized. No one shall remove anything from 
 such premises except by permission of the Health Officer. 
 
 SEC. 400. — Cats and Dogs to be Kept Out. — No cat, dog, or 
 other domestic animal shall be allowed to run in and out of the 
 house during the quarantine period. Representatives of the 
 Health Department shall visit the premises from time to time as 
 they see fit to observe the efficiency of the quarantine and for 
 such purposes shall have the right of entering any time 
 
 SEC. 401. — Release of Patients. Quarantine Periods. — No case 
 under any circumstances shall be released until desquamation 
 has absolutely and entirely ceased, and until all nose and ear 
 discharges have healed. 
 
 The minimum period of quarantine in cases of scarlet fever 
 shall be thirty days with such additional time as may be neces- 
 sary for the complete recovery of the case. The minimum 
 period of quarantine in diphtheria shall be fourteen days where 
 there has been anti-toxin used with such additional time as may 
 be necessary for the complete recovery of the disease. The 
 minimum period of quarantine of smallpox shall be twenty days, 
 with such additional time as may be necessary for the com- 
 plete recovery of the disease. No patient shall be discharged 
 until desquamation has entirely ceased. The minimum time of 
 quarantine for cases of cerebro-spinal meningitis shall be four- 
 teen days, with such additional time as may be necessary for the 
 complete recovery of the cases. 
 
 SEC. 402. — Raising the Quarantine. — Upon receipt of notice 
 from any physician in attendance of the complete recovery of 
 
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 any person affected with any of the above mentioned diseases, 
 the Health Officer may terminate the quarantine or isolation; 
 provided , that the minimum time of quarantine has elapsed. 
 He shall remove the quarantine and cause the premises to be 
 fumigated and the patients and the attendants to be disinfected. 
 The fumigation of the premises shall be done only by the 
 Sanitary Inspector, or his assistant, and by the instruction of 
 the Health Officer. 
 
 SEC. 403. — Exclusion of Children from School. — The Superin- 
 tendent of the Public School shall be notified immediately of the 
 existence of any contagious disease among school children. 
 When any child is taken from any school building ill with any 
 of the contagious diseases hereinabove enumerated, the room 
 from which the child was taken shall be fumigated within 
 twenty-four hours. Children excluded from school on account 
 of the following diseases will be given certificates from the 
 Health Officer recommending admission to the school as follows: 
 Scarlet fever, ten days after quarantine is terminated; diphtheria, 
 after the termination of quarantine; smallpox, fifteen days after 
 quarantine is terminated; cerebro-spinal meningitis, when 
 recovery is complete. Contacts residing in the same dwelling- 
 place as the patient to be excluded from school. 
 
 SEC. 404. — Health Officer and Board of Health May Make Regu- 
 lations. — The Board of Health and the Health Officer shall have 
 the power from time to time to make such regulations for the 
 prevention of contagious diseases as they shall see necessary. 
 
 SEC. 405. — Penalty. — Any person who shall violate any clause, 
 provision, requirement, or regulation of this Chapter or who 
 shall fail, neglect, or refuse to comply with such provision, 
 requirement, or clause as herein provided for or any person 
 who shall interfere with, or in any manner resist any officer or 
 agent of the city in the discharge of his duties as herein defined, 
 shall be guilty of a midemeanor and, upon conviction, be subject 
 to a fine by the Recorder of not more than the sum of $100 for 
 each and every violation. 
 
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 CHAPTER 4 2. 
 
 QUARANTINE. 
 
 SECTION 406. — Mayor May Establish Quarantine. — The Mayor, 
 whenever he deems it necessary for the health of the city, or is 
 so instructed by the City Council, must establish and put in force 
 a quarantine against such places or persons as he or the Council 
 may deem necessary to prevent the importation or spread of any 
 infectious or contagious disease; and may establish quarantine 
 on recommendation of the Board of Health; and shall have 
 power and authority to employ the necessary officers and agents 
 for the efficient enforcement of the quarantine. 
 
 SEC. 407. — Quarantine. Penalty. — Whenever any quarantine 
 has been ordered or proclaimed against any places, any person or 
 persons who may have come from such places into this city 
 (other than is provided in Section 1647 of the Code of Georgia) 
 or within the limits of its police quarantine jurisdiction within 
 twenty days prior to the promulgation of such quarantine, may 
 be required by the Mayor to immediately depart from the city 
 and the limits of its police or quarantine jurisdiction and remain 
 absent for twenty days thereafter, or such less period as the 
 Mayor may direct; and any person who refuses to leave after 
 being so required or who, having left, unlawfully returns to 
 the city or within the police or quarantine jurisdiction thereof, 
 shall on conviction therefor be punished by fine not exceeding 
 $50.00, or by imprisonment not exceeding thirty days, in the 
 discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 408. — Persons Coming into the City. Regulations. — All 
 persons coming within the quarantine limits, may be required by 
 the police and quarantine officers to exhibit satisfactory evi- 
 dence where they are from and where they have been for twenty 
 days prior to coming to this city, and upon failure to produce 
 satisfactory evidence or when it appears that they have come 
 from within the infected territory they shall be warned away; 
 and should they not at once depart and remain away for a 
 period of twenty days then said Mayor shall adjudge them guilty 
 of a violation of the next preceding Section of the City Code. 
 
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 SEC. 409. — Mayor’s Powers. Quarantine Regulations. — In the 
 enforcement of quarantine and for the prevention of the impor- 
 tation of persons or things likely to endanger the public health 
 or to bring or spread contagious or infectious diseases, the 
 Mayor shall have power and authority to prevent the bringing 
 into the city or within the quarantine jurisdiction and limits 
 thereof, any matters, freight, vehicle, car, boat, or anything from 
 any infected district; and any person bringing or aiding in 
 bringing such forbidden matter or thing shall, on conviction 
 thereof, be punished by fine not exceeding $50.00, or by impris- 
 onment not exceeding thirty days, in the discretion of the 
 Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 410. — Persons Violating Regulations. Penalty. — Any per- 
 son coming into this city by land or water from a place infected 
 with a contagious disease may be compelled to perform quaran- 
 tine by the Health Officer, under the direction of the Mayor and 
 restrained from traveling until discharged and any person thus 
 restrained traveling before he is discharged, shall be guilty of a 
 misdemeanor and shall be arrested and committed and punished 
 as is provided under the laws of the State of Georgia. 
 
 SEC. 411. — Quarantine Limits. Publication. — Upon declaring 
 a quarantine at any time, the Mayor and Hospital Committee are 
 hereby authorized and empowered to define the limits of the 
 quarantine and to establish a pest house; and to establish such 
 rules and regulations for the control and government of said 
 quarantine as may be needful; and said Mayor shall cause to 
 be published the rules of said quarantine and the territory 
 quarantined against; and to give such notice as to best sub- 
 serve the health of said city, and to take such precautionary 
 steps as in their discretion may seem necessary for the health 
 of said city. 
 
 CHAPTER 4 3. 
 
 WELLS AND CISTERNS. 
 
 SECTION 412. — Open Wells, Cisterns, Etc. Nuisance. — It 
 shall be unlawful for the existence on any lot or parcel of land. 
 
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 of any abandoned or open well, cistern, dangerous hole or exca- 
 vation, and any person, corporation or firm, owning a lot or 
 parcel of land in the City of Columbus on which such a nuisance 
 exists, who shall refuse to abate the same on notice from the 
 Health Department to do so after five days’ notice, shall, on 
 conviction in the Recorder’s Court, be punished by a fine not 
 exceeding $5.00 for each and every day he or she fails to comply 
 with such notice. 
 
 And in case the owner of any lot or parcel of land in said 
 city on which there exists an open well, cistern, dangerous hole 
 or excavation, be a non-resident of the City of Columbus, then 
 after public notice through the daily press or otherwise, specify- 
 ing the nuisance to be abated, if such nuisance is not abated 
 within one week after the notice, then the said city to abate such 
 nuisance and the cost or expenses thereof, shall be assessed by 
 said city as a tax against the property on which such nuisance 
 exists and the tax so assessed shall bear interest at the rate of 
 seven per cent, per annum until paid, and shall be carried on the 
 regular tax rolls of said city and be collected in the manner 
 provided for in the collection of general taxes. 
 
 CHAPTER 4 4. 
 
 DRAINAGE. 
 
 SECTION 413. — To Require and Enforce the Proper Drainage 
 of Lots in the City of Columbus. — No owner or person in charge 
 of any lot, yard, or premises in the City of Columbus shall allow 
 rain, drain or stagnant water to stand or remain upon said lot, 
 yard, or premises for longer than ten days after receiving notice 
 from the city authorities to drain the same, but such owner or 
 person in charge of any such lot, yard, or premises shall imme- 
 diately upon the receipt of such notice proceed to properly drain 
 said lot, yard, or premises as directed by the aforesaid notice. 
 
 It shall be the duty of the Street Committee when it is reported 
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 city should, as a sanitary measure, be drained, or whenever in the 
 discretion of said Committee they deem it necessary or advisable 
 for the good of the city or for the public health or comfort that 
 any yard or premises in the city should be drained, the said 
 Committee shall cause a written notice to be served upon the 
 owner, occupant, or person in charge of any such lot, yard, or 
 premises, notifying said party or parties that said lot, yard, or 
 premises be properly drained within ten days from the time of 
 the service of such notice, said notice setting forth how and in 
 what manner such draining shall be done. A copy of said notice 
 may be served by the Marshal or any policeman of the city, who 
 shall make his return of service together with the original 
 notice to the Clerk of the City Council who shall file and pre- 
 serve the same. 
 
 SEC. 414. — Penalty. — Any person or persons, owning or having 
 charge of any such lot, yard, or premises who, after having re- 
 ceived notice to drain such lot, yard or premises, as prescribed in 
 the preceding Section, and who, after the expiration of ten days 
 from the service of such notice as aforesaid, has neglected or 
 failed to properly drain said lot, yard, or premises as directed 
 by said notice, such person or persons, so neglecting or failing 
 to drain said premises as aforesaid, shall be fined for every day 
 of such neglect or failure at the discretion of the Mayor. 
 
 SEC. 415. — Street Committee May Enforce Drainage. — After 
 the expiration of ten days from the time notice is served, as 
 provided in the preceding Section, it shall be the duty of the 
 Street Committee with the assistance of the City Engineer to 
 proceed to have said lot, yard, or premises properly drained in 
 such manner as they deem advisable. 
 
 SEC. 416. — Cost of Drainage by City. How Collected. — All 
 costs incurred or made by said Committee under the provisions 
 of the preceding Sections shall be defrayed by the owners or 
 persons in charge of such property which is so drained. 
 
 It shall be the duty of said Street Committee to Certify to the 
 Clerk of the City Council an itemized bill of all such materials 
 used and work done by them, and the costs thereof and the name 
 of the owner of the property, if known, and the said Clerk of 
 
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 Council shall issue execution for all the costs so incurred against 
 such owner, which execution shall be collected as other execu- 
 tions, in favor of the City of Columbus! In the event of the 
 owner of any such lot, yard, or premises being unknown and 
 if there is no person in charge of such lot, yard, or premises 
 upon whom notice can be served as prescribed in the preceding 
 Sections, then, and in that event, due and legal service of the 
 aforesaid notice to drain may be perfected by posting said notice 
 at the court house door in said city, and allowing it to remain 
 so posted for ten days from the date of the posting which shall 
 be deemed a sufficient service and after the expiration of the said 
 ten days the owner or owners or persons in charge of such lot, 
 yard, or premises shall be subject to the same penalties and the 
 said Street Committee shall proceed in like manner to drain, as 
 if such person or persons had been served personally. 
 
 The provisions of this Chapter shall apply only where such 
 lot, yard, or premises as may be reported as in need of draining 
 as aforesaid, is situated in a block bounded upon at least one of 
 its sides by a city sewer. 
 
 CHAPTER 45. 
 
 HOGS AND CATTLE IN STOCK YARD. 
 
 SECTION 417. — Requiring Cattle, Hogs, Etc., Brought to City 
 for Sale to be Placed in the City Stock Yard. — All persons bring- 
 ing into the City of Columbus for sale or otherwise, except such 
 as may be only passing through, any cattle, cows, sheep, goats, 
 or hogs shall place the same immediately in the city stock yard, 
 the same to be hereinafter provided by the Market Committee, 
 before offering such live stock for sale within the city limits. 
 
 All persons placing such stock or cattle in such stock yard 
 shall pay to the keeper thereof a fee of ten cents per head for 
 each beef or hog, and five cents per head for each sheep or 
 goat, for the first twenty-four hours, or fractional part thereof, 
 that such stock or cattle may remain in such stock yard, which 
 fee when so paid shall give the privilege to the owners of stock of 
 
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 having their stock weighed on the city scales at such stock yard 
 without further charge therefor, at which place all stock shall 
 hereafter be weighed, and for each twenty-four hours or 
 fractional part thereof over and above the first twenty-four 
 hours that said stock may remain in said stock yard, one-half 
 of the above stated fee shall be charged therefor. 
 
 Any person failing to comply with the provisions of this 
 Section, or any person knowingly buying from any person 
 violating them, shall, upon conviction thereof in the Recorder’s 
 Court, pay a fine of not less than 50 cents or more than $1.00 
 for each head of stock or cattle so offered for sale not placed 
 in the city stock yard as aforesaid, or be confined in the guard 
 house or county jail for not more than one day for each head 
 of cattle not so confined, either or both, in the discretion of the 
 Recorder. 
 
 CHAPTER 4 6. 
 
 SLAUGHTER HOUSE.— MEATS. 
 
 SECTION 418. — Slaughter House. Regulations. Specifica- 
 
 tions. — (a) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or cor- 
 poration to use any slaughter house of pen, for the purpose of 
 slaughtering animals to be used for food in the City of Columbus, 
 or within its police jurisdiction, except one constructed in 
 accordance with the following specifications, to-wit: The build- 
 
 ing shall be of ample size and constructed in a manner suitable 
 for the character of work for which it is intended; the floors 
 shall be of tongue and groove flooring of not less than one and 
 three-eighths of an inch in thickness, free from sap and knots, 
 with seams well caulked and so constructed as to make them 
 water tight. The floors of the rendering and hide rooms must 
 be of cement of standard quality. All floors are to be con- 
 structed so as to provide adequate drainage. All buildings or 
 structures intended for a slaughter house shall be two stories 
 high, and shall be provided with ample space for a cooling room 
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 building or structure, shall be ceiled with No. 1 dressed ceiling 
 boards, and thoroughly screened throughout, and before the 
 commencement of the construction of any such building or struct- 
 ure, blue prints of the plans for same shall be submitted to the 
 City Health Officer, together with the Superintendent of Public 
 Works, for approval and a written permit issued by them before 
 the doing of any work towards the actual construction thereof. 
 
 It shall be unlawful to deliver any meats slaughtered until said 
 meats shall have remained in the cooling room for a sufficient 
 length of time in the opinion of the Inspector for all the animal 
 heat to be out of same. 
 
 (b.) Rendering and dry rooms must be constructed so they 
 can be cut off from the slaughter house. The slaughter house is 
 to be equipped with hoisting apparatus and blood vats for the 
 proper bleeding of animals and collection of the blood. 
 
 (c.) The rendering room shall be provided with rendering 
 tanks, one fertilizer press and one fertilizer dryer, all of suffi- 
 cient capacity to utilize all offal from the daily slaughter of 
 cattle; one evaporator, sufficiently large to evaporate all water 
 from rendering tanks and that from rendering and slaughter 
 rooms. There shall be an engine and boiler of sufficient 
 power to operate all the machinery and tanks in connection 
 with the plant. There shall be a sufficient supply of pure, 
 wholesome water for all purposes. There shall also be 
 a sufficient number of sheds and pens to properly keep at least 
 three days’ supply of stock for slaughter. All slaughtering shall 
 be done on such floor of building as the Health Officer shall 
 designate. 
 
 (d.) All work done in accordance with sub-Section (a) of 
 this Section shall be under the supervision of, and executed to 
 the satisfaction of the City Engineer and the City Health Officer. 
 
 SEC. 419. — Health Officer to Inspect Meats. — The City Health 
 Officer shall be ex-officio Inspector of Meats and Slaughter 
 Houses, with an assistant, if necessary, w r ho shall be employed 
 by the Market Committee and whose salary shall be paid out 
 of the inspection fees. 
 
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 SEC. 420. — Inspection of Meats. Certificates. — It shall be un- 
 lawful for any person, firm or corporation to sell or offer for 
 sale, or deliver after sale, or keep on hand at the place of busi- 
 ness of any dealer or dealers in fresh meat, any fresh meat in the 
 City of Columbus or in its police jurisdiction, unless the same 
 has been slaughtered as provided in this Section and inspected as 
 provided in this Section and a certificate to that effect given by 
 the Inspector; which certificate shall be attached to the meat 
 inspected. 
 
 SEC. 421. — Inspection Fees. — There shall be charged and col- 
 lected in advance, by the Inspector, for inspection required 
 under this Chapter, a fee of ten cents for each animal inspected 
 and ten cents for each dressed animal or fractional part 
 thereof, brought into the City of Columbus or into its police 
 jurisdiction, to be sold or offered for sale for food purposes. 
 
 SEC. 422. — Slaughter Houses to be Kept Clean. Health Offi- 
 cer’s Duties. — It shall be the duty of the Inspectors to see that 
 the slaughter house or houses are kept clean and in a sanitary 
 condition and shall suggest to the Mayor and Council from time 
 to time needful rules and regulations for the purpose of carrying 
 out and enforcing the provisions of this Chapter. 
 
 SEC. 423. — Fees of Slaughter House Owners. — The following 
 prices may be charged by persons, firms or corporations operat- 
 ing slaughter houses erected under the requirements and speci- 
 fications of this Chapter, to-wit: For slaughtering cattle thirty- 
 
 five cents shall be a maximum charge; for suckling calves, hogs, 
 sheep and goats, twenty-five cents per head, when the number 
 slaughtered does not exceed three; for more than three, a fee of 
 not more than fifteen cents per head. Pennage per day not to 
 exceed ten cents each for cattle and five cents each for hogs, 
 sheep and goats. 
 
 SEC. 424. — Slaughter House to Furnish Labor. — The owners of 
 slaughter houses shall furnish all labor necessary for conducting 
 the business in which they are engaged. 
 
 SEC. 425. — Not Applicable to Farmers Outside Police Jurisdic- 
 tion. — The requirements of the provisions of this Chapter shall 
 not be applicable to farmers living outside of the police juris- 
 
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 diction, not engaged in the meat and butcher business in the 
 City of Columbus or in the police jurisdiction, who may bring 
 their meat into the city, or its police jurisdiction, for sale, except 
 that such meats must be inspected by said Inspector before 
 offered for sale. 
 
 SEC. 426. — Anti-Mortem Examinations. Condemned Meats. — 
 An anti-mortem examination of all animals shall be made. Any 
 animal found to be diseased or in a condition unfit for human 
 food shall be marked by placing a metal tag in the ear, bearing 
 a serial number and “Condemned, Columbus, Ga.”; the con- 
 demned animal shall also be marked with yellow paint, in letters 
 not less than four inches long and wide, with the legible word, 
 “Condemned.” Condemned animals shall be placed in pens 
 set apart for this purpose and only removed by the Inspector to 
 that part of the abattoir or to rendering works designated by 
 the Inspector, where they shall be killed under the supervision 
 of the Inspector and rendered in such manner as to make their 
 product unfit for human food. 
 
 All animals rejected on account of their pregnant or parturient 
 condition shall be held for ten days during gestation and for ten 
 days thereafter, unless removed by permit, for stockers or for 
 rendering in the same manner as specified in this Chapter for 
 condemned animals. 
 
 No animal shall be allowed to pass to the slaughtering room 
 until it has passed the anti-mortem inspection. All animals 
 found on either anti-mortem or post-mortem examination to 
 be affected with any of the following diseases or conditions are 
 to be condemned and their carcasses treated as specified in this 
 Chapter: (1) Hog cholera; (2) swine plague; (3) anthrax, 
 
 including sysptonic anthrax, black leg; (4) rabbies; (5) malig- 
 nant epizootic catarrh; (6) pyaemia and septicaemia; (7) mange 
 or scab in advanced stages; (8) actinomycosis, lumpy jaw, in 
 advanced stages; (9) inflammation of the lungs, the intestines or 
 the peretoneum; (10) Texas fever; (11) tuberculosis, extensive 
 or generalized; (12) all animals in an advanced stage of preg- 
 nancy or which have recently given birth to young; (13) any dis- 
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 the system of the animal to a degree which would make the 
 flesh unfit for food; (14) carcinoma, malignant sarcomacas or 
 any form or kind of tumors where extensive matastasis has 
 taken place to such a degree that the flesh is unfit for human 
 food. 
 
 Any organ or part of a carcass badly bruised or so diseased 
 that the balance of the carcass is not affected said organ or 
 part shall be cut away and condemned. 
 
 SEC. 427. — Inspections at Time of Slaughter. Condemned 
 When. Tags. — All animals slaughtered shall be inspected at the 
 
 time of slaughter by the Inspector or his assistant. The head 
 and internal organs of each animal shall be held until the inspec- 
 tion is completed in order that they may be identified in case the 
 carcass is condemned. If the carcass of any animal on anti- 
 mortem or post-mortem examination be found diseased and unfit 
 for human food, said carcass shall be marked with a yellow 
 condemnation tag, and the sides, shoulders and quarters slashed 
 and mutilated. The entire carcass with the head, organs and the 
 parts thereof shall be removed under the supervision of the 
 Inspector, or his assistant, to tanks deposited therein and ren- 
 dered in such a manner that it cannot be withdrawn or used in 
 any way for human food. In case where only a portion of the 
 carcass is condemned, the condemned part may be cut and sent 
 to the rendering tank. 
 
 The Inspector or his assistant shall remove the Stub of the 
 yellow condemnation tag at the time of placing the carcass or 
 part of the said stub to the Inspector’s office, with the report of 
 the number of carcasses and parts of carcasses destroyed, the 
 reason for their destruction and also state that they were tanked 
 in his presence. 
 
 SEC. 428. — Animals to be Slaughtered. Tagged. — Animals to be 
 slaughtered shall be marked by placing a metal tag in the ear, 
 bearing a serial number and the words, “Columbus, Ga.” 
 
 SEC. 429. — Examinations. Method of Conducting. — The micro- 
 scopic inspection of pork shall be conducted as follows: When 
 the slaughtered hog is passed into the cooling room, or at the 
 completion of post-mortem examination, the Inspector or his 
 
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 assistant shall take from each carcass three samples of muscles, 
 one from the pillar of the diaphram, one from the psoas muscle 
 and the other from the inner aspect of the shoulder and said 
 samples shall be put into a self-locking tin box and a duplicate 
 number of the ear tag shall be put into the tin box with the 
 samples. The tin boxes containing the samples are to be taken 
 or sent to the microscopic room fqr microscopic examination, 
 together with the numbers of all carcasses from which samples 
 were taken. The Inspector or his assistant shall as soon there- 
 after as possible make a microscopic examination. 
 
 All carcasses found by microscopic examination to be affected 
 with trichinae, shall be disposed of as condemned carcasses, or 
 they may be rendered into edible lard at a temperature not less 
 than one hundred and fifty degrees Fahrenheit, or made into 
 cooked meat products if the temperature is raised to the boiling 
 point sufficient time to thoroughly cook the interior of the 
 pieces. Any of these methods of disposing of the carcasses must 
 be conducted under the supervision of the Inspector. 
 
 SEC. 430. — Delivered in Closed Wagons. — All meats delivered 
 to the market for sale or any where else in the city or police 
 jurisdiction shall be delivered in closed wagons, which wagons 
 shall be thoroughly cleansed each day under the supervision of 
 the Inspector or his assistant. 
 
 SEC. 431. — Inspection by Market Clerk. — The Market Clerk 
 shall inspect all meat brought to the Market for sale and see that 
 it is properly tagged and approved by the Inspector. 
 
 SEC. 432. — Animals to be Slaughtered. — All animals shall re- 
 main at the slaughter house stock yards not less than thirty-six 
 hours prior to the time of slaughter except suckling calves 
 which can be slaughtered at any time by consent of the In- 
 spector. 
 
 SEC. 433. — Approved Slaughter Houses. Hours. — The market 
 house in the City of Columbus and the approved slaughter 
 houses in the police jurisdiction of said city and such other 
 places in said city and its police jurisdiction that may from time 
 to time be fixed by the Inspector of Columbus, are designated as 
 places at which animals and meats to be used for food in the 
 
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 City of Columbus and its police jurisdiction are to be inspected; 
 provided, that live animals shall not be inspected at said market 
 house. The Inspector shall have the right and it shall be his 
 duty to fix the hours at which said meat shall be inspected. 
 
 SEC. 434. — Dealing in Impure Meat. Penalty. — It shall be un- 
 lawful for any person, firm or corporation to keep, expose or 
 offer for sale for food or keep the same for purpose of food, 
 within the limits of the city, any emaciated, tainted, putrid, 
 decayed, decaying, unwholesome or diseased meat. In case of 
 keeping, exposing or offering such, the City Inspector or his 
 assistant shall have the power and authority to seize, condemn 
 and confiscate the same and also all maimed and diseased animals 
 or any that may be too young to be used for food. The keeping, 
 exposing or offering for sale as aforesaid of any emaciated, 
 tainted, putrid, decayed, decaying, unwholesome or diseased 
 meat or any maimed animals or diseased animal or animals too 
 young to be used for food, shall be and is hereby declared 
 to be unlawful. 
 
 SEC. 435. — Condemned Meat to be Destroyed. — All cattle con- 
 demned by the Inspector and ordered destroyed by being burned 
 or buried shall be at the loss of the owner of such cattle and no 
 payment whatever shall be made to the owner for the destruction 
 of such cattle. All cattle condemned by the Inspector in a post- 
 mortem examination and which can be utilized by the owner of 
 slaughter house by being placed in the rendering vats or tanks 
 shall be paid for at the rate of two cents per pound net, and all 
 hogs, sheep and goats to be paid for at the rate of three cents per 
 pound net; this payment to be made by the owner or owners of 
 slaughter houses. All cattle condemned for other than in- 
 fectious, contagious or incurable diseases shall, with the permis- 
 sion of the Health Officer be returned to the owner to make such 
 disposition of as he may deem proper. 
 
 SEC. 436.— Hogs to be Stall Fed. When.— All hogs fed on 
 blood and cooked meat shall, before being slaughtered and 
 offered for sale, be fed for thirty days on corn or other sub- 
 stantial food. 
 
 SEC. 437. — Penalty. — All persons, firms or corporations vio- 
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 before the Recorder, be fined not less than $1.00 nor more 
 than $100, or be imprisoned not less than one day nor more than 
 sixty days, one or both, in the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 CHAPTER 4 7. 
 
 MARKET REGULATIONS. 
 
 SECTION 438.— Clerk of Market. General Duties.— It shall 
 be the duty of the Clerk of the Market to superintend and look 
 after the market during market hours; and to collect and pay 
 over monthly to the Treasurer of the city, all fees, fines and 
 penalties collected in this department; to condemn all unsound, 
 impure and unwholesome foods brought to the market for sale; 
 to decide all disputes between buyer and seller; regulate all 
 weights and measures; and to do and perform such other 
 duties as are in this Chapter specified, and as may be hereafter 
 adopted by the Mayor and Board of Aldermen; it shall be his 
 duty to see that the market house is swept clean and the blocks 
 and stalls therein cleaned every day within one-half hour after 
 the market closes, and to see that all laws, rules, and regulations 
 of the city respecting the market and the sale of meats, vege- 
 tables and other articles are strictly observed; to see that good 
 order is maintained in said market for which purpose he is 
 hereby vested with the power of a policeman, and he is author- 
 ized to call to his aid and assistance the Chief of Police or 
 any policeman of said city in the enforcement of the laws, rules 
 and regulations of the city relative to the market and the main- 
 tenance of peace and good order. 
 
 SEC. 439. — Market House. Hours. — A public market shall be 
 held at the market house each day in the year, Sundays excepted, 
 at which market house all articles usually kept and sold at the 
 market, such as fresh meats, fish, poultry, game, fruits and 
 vegetables may be sold. Said market house shall be opened at 
 4:00 o’clock A. M., each day and shall be closed at 10:00 o’clock 
 A. M., each day, except on Saturdays when said market house 
 shall be kept open until 9:00 o’clock, P. M. 
 
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 SEC. 440. — Stalls Rented. How and When. Regulations. — 
 The stalls in said market house shall be numbered consecutively 
 and rented by the Market Committee of Council to the highest 
 bidder at public auction at the market house. The meat stalls to 
 be rented on the third Wednesday in December of each year 
 for a term of twelve months beginning January the first thence 
 next ensuing; and the stalls in the vegetable market shall be 
 rented on the first Monday in May of each year to the highest 
 bidder. The minimum price at which the stalls in the meat mar- 
 ket shall be rented shall be as follows: Corner or end stalls, one 
 hundred and twenty dollars, and middle or intervening stalls 
 sixty dollars; the corner or end stalls in the vegetable market, 
 thirty-five dollars, and the middle or intervening stalls, twenty- 
 five dollars. 
 
 SEC. 441. — Rent of Stalls. Payments of Rental. — Each renter 
 of any meat or vegetable stall or stalls are hereby required to 
 pay in advance upon the day of renting, three months’ rent and 
 the balance of the rent to be closed with notes to become due 
 quarterly thereafter with good security to be approved by the 
 Finance Committee of Council; and a deduction of ten per cent, 
 will be made on all notes given for rent of meat or vegetable 
 stalls; provided , all three notes are paid on or before the first 
 day of February and first day of June respectively, after said 
 notes are given and accepted. 
 
 SEC. 442. — Renters of Stalls. Duties. — No renter of any stall 
 in the meat or vegetable market shall be permitted to take 
 possession or remain in possession of any stall unless such 
 renter shall have fully complied with all terms and provisions 
 respecting said rent, as well as any other regulations required 
 of said renter under the laws of said city; and such renter shall 
 on demand of the Market Clerk or other person duly authorized, 
 surrender possession of any stall so rented upon a non- 
 compliance of such renter with his rental contract or other 
 market regulations. No person running one or more stalls in 
 either of said markets shall be allowed to sub-rent the same 
 without the approval of the Mayor and Board of Aldermen, 
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 of the license issued to such renter. Each person, firm or 
 corporation running one or more stalls in either of said markets 
 shall have issued to him, them or it, a license by the city to carry 
 on and conduct a business in said stalls upon a compliance by 
 said renter with the terms of rental as hereinabove set forth. 
 
 SEC. 443. — Market Bell. Closing Hours. — It shall be the duty 
 of the Market Clerk to see that the market bell is rung at least 
 one minute before closing hours; and within thirty minutes after 
 the ringing of said bell for closing, each and every occupant of a 
 meat stall shall vacate the same, and each and every occupant of 
 a vegetable stall shall vacate the same at 12:00 o’clock A. M., 
 except on Saturday, when they shall vacate said stall at 9:30 
 o’clock P. M. 
 
 SEC. 444. — Stalls. Use of. — Stalls in the vegetable market 
 shall be used only for the sale of fish, poultry, game, eggs, butter, 
 vegetables, fruits and other articles of like character. 
 
 SEC. 445. — Meat Stalls. For Fresh Meats Only. — Stalls in the 
 meat market shall be used only for the sale of fresh meats; and 
 it shall be unlawful to sell salted fish in any stall in the vege- 
 table market, or salted meat in any stall in the meat market; or 
 to make or manufacture any sausage in either said vegetable or 
 meat markets. 
 
 SEC. 446. — Vegetable Stalls. Delivery Wagons. — Persons rent- 
 ing a stall or stalls in the vegetable market shall be allowed to 
 have one or more wagons to each stall so rented for the purpose 
 of carrying on the business to be conducted. 
 
 SEC. 447. — Butchers and Salesmen. Neatness of Employees. — 
 All butchers and employees connected with the sale of articles 
 from their stalls in the market, during market hours, must be 
 clothed in clean over- shirts, aprons or frocks; and such persons 
 having articles for sale on the market shall remain inside of 
 their stalls in order that free passage may be had for purchasers 
 attending the market. 
 
 SEC. 448. — Stalls Kept Clean. Clerk’s Duties. — The Market 
 Clerk shall require the renter or occupant of any and all stalls 
 used to thoroughly cleanse said stall or stand and any meat 
 
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 blocks, tables, and benches connected therewith, at the close of 
 market hours; and said Market Clerk shall condemn all unsound 
 and unwholesome articles of food brought to the market for 
 sale or offered to sell elsewhere in the city, and have them imme- 
 diately removed and destroyed; and all persons renting or in 
 charge of stalls are required not to leave any barrels, boxes, or 
 other similar articles in stalls after market hours, or transact 
 any business in their stalls after market hours. 
 
 SEC. 449. — Smoking and Lounging Forbidden. — No person 
 shall be allowed to lie down, sleep or sit upon any of the public 
 stalls, benches or tables in the market; nor shall any person 
 smoke a pipe, cigar, cigarette or tobacco in any form in any part 
 of the meat or vegetable market; nor shall any person be allowed 
 to offer their produce for sale in a loud and boisterous man- 
 ner or use any vulgar, profane or abusive language in and about 
 the market house; and it shall be the duty of the Market Clerk 
 to see that the regulations in this Section are rigidly enforced 
 and the person or persons violating the same are prosecuted in 
 the Recorder’s Court. 
 
 SEC. 450. — Signs on Wagons. — All persons renting stalls in 
 each of the vegetable or meat markets and using wagons for the 
 sale and delivery of their produce on the streets shall have a 
 tin sign 7x20 inches, neatly painted, showing the name of 
 renter and number of stall rented, securely fastened on both 
 sides of their wagon or wagons in a conspicuous place, showing 
 the number of the stall rented and kept by them at the market. 
 
 SEC. 451. — False Weights and Measures. Revocation of 
 License. — All persons or person selling articles by weight or 
 measure below the United States standard or who may sell their 
 produce by false weights or measures, or scales improperly 
 balanced, shall be subjected to have their license revoked and 
 punished as hereinafter prescribed in this Chapter. 
 
 SEC. 452. — Clerk’s Directions to be Observed. — All persons 
 bringing produce of any kind to the market for sale, shall com- 
 ply with the directions of the Market Clerk in the arrangement 
 of their horses and vehicles; and no horse, mule, or vehicle of 
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 market and the sidewalk, longer than is necessary for loading 
 and unloading such products; nor shall any person obstruct 
 in any manner the passageways in the market by any article 
 of any kind or description whatever, and no person or persons 
 shall hitch or leave standing their animal or vehicle at the mar- 
 ket house after market hours. 
 
 SEC. 453. — Peddling on Streets. Regulated. — No person shall 
 peddle, sell or offer for sale upon any of the streets of the city, 
 between hours of 4:00 o’clock A. M., and 10:00 o’clock A. M., any 
 articles of produce or provisions usually vended and sold at the 
 market except renters or occupants of vegetable stalls, except 
 as hereinafter provided, who may leave the market at 8:00 
 o’clock A. M., and sell upon the streets after that hour; provided, 
 that such persons who have paid the market fees as in this 
 Chapter specified at the market house or such other place as may 
 be hereafter designated may sell their produce between the 
 hours of 4:00 A. M., and 10:00 A. M., north of Sixteenth Street; 
 persons other than renters of stalls at the city market who have 
 paid the required market fees are permitted to peddle and sell 
 vegetables, chickens and other similar articles on the streets 
 after 9:00 o’clock A. M., but not before that hour. 
 
 SEC. 454. — Markets Outside of City Deliveries in City. — Any 
 person whose place of business is without the corporate limits 
 of the city and who shall engage in the business of selling fresh 
 meats and other produce within the corporate limits of the 
 city, or have delivered the same within the corporate limits 
 of the city on sales made or orders taken from within or without 
 the city limits, shall be subject to the same license as are exacted 
 of persons conducting and carrying on a like business within the 
 limits of said city. 
 
 SEC. 455. — Licenses. — Persons (except farmers as herein pro- 
 vided) not renting stalls and selling at the market house or in 
 any part of the city (this is not to apply to parties having proper 
 business license) vegetables, fruits, melons, poultry, game, 
 butter, eggs, fresh fish or other like produce, during the market 
 hours, shall pay the following assessments or licenses for each 
 day’s sales, to-wit: On dealers from hand-carts, ten cents per 
 
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 day; on dealers from one-horse wagons, fifteen cents per day; 
 on dealers from two-horse wagons, twenty-five cents per day. 
 Said assessments or fees to be collected by the Market Clerk, who 
 shall keep an accurate account of all assessments and fees 
 collected and report to and turn the same over to the City 
 Treasurer. 
 
 SEC. 456. — Vendors at Market Other Than Renters of Stalls. — 
 All persons bringing vegetables in basket, by hand, chickens or 
 other like articles in any quantity to the market for sale during 
 market hours, shall pay such a fee or fees for the privilege of 
 selling the same, as the Market Clerk may think right and proper 
 for the privilege to be granted. Vendors of small fruits from 
 baskets shall be allowed to sell the same without paying any 
 market fees or assessments. 
 
 SEC. 457. — Truck Farmers. — Truck farmers selling at whole- 
 sale only shall be permitted to sell their products at any time; 
 provided, the market fees specified in this Chapter are paid. 
 
 SEC. 458. — Meats Sold by Others Than Stall Renters. License. 
 — Any person who shall engage in the business of selling fresh 
 meats without renting a stall or stalls at the market house, or 
 having a located place, are required to pay a license of $100 per 
 annum, and shall comply with all the provisions of this Chapter 
 as to the location of the place where such business is to be 
 carried on and shall conform to all the requirements of this 
 Chapter except all persons who rent stall or stalls at the market 
 house. 
 
 SEC. 459. — Meats Sold by Others Than Stall Renters. Inspec- 
 tion of Meats. — All persons other than renters of stalls, selling 
 or offering for sale, fresh meats shall first have said meats 
 inspected by the Market Clerk at the market house and no person 
 shall be allowed to purchase any such meats until the same shall 
 have been inspected; and when said meats shall have been 
 inspected as herein required, the Market Clerk shall give a 
 certificate of inspection and he shall condemn all spoiled, 
 unsound and unwholesome meats and pour oil thereon, and have 
 the same carried away and destroyed; and after such inspection 
 the Clerk of the Market shall collect on each pig, hog, sheep, calf, 
 goat, kid, venison or quarter of beef ten cents. 
 
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 SEC. 460. — Feed Stuffs, Corn, Hay, Etc., to be Weighed. — Per- 
 sons bringing corn, fodder, hay, oats, shucks, peas in hull, pea 
 vines and other articles of similar character to the city on 
 wagons for sale, are hereby required to have the same weighed 
 on the city scales prepared for that purpose at the north end 
 of the meat market and it shall be the duty of the Market Clerk 
 to superintend and look after said weighing; and when weighed 
 give a certificate showing that the same has been weighed; and 
 for which certificate he shall collect from the owner or person 
 having the same weighed a fee of fifteen cents for each wagon 
 drawn by one horse, and twenty-five cents for each wagon 
 drawn by two horses, and fifty cents for each wagon drawn by 
 three or more horses. 
 
 SEC. 461. — Defacing or Injuring Market. Penalty. — It shall be 
 unlawful for any person to cut, mutilate, break or deface or 
 otherwise injure any of the market buildings, stalls, or other 
 appurtenances to said market house. 
 
 SEC. 462. — Regulations to be Posted at Market. — A copy of 
 these regulations shall be suspended in each of the vegetable and 
 meat markets and it shall be the duty of the Market Clerk to give 
 such information and explanation of these regulations as may be 
 required. 
 
 SEC. 463. — Penalty. — Any person violating any of the fore- 
 going Sections of this Chapter shall be fined not more than 
 $100 or sentenced to work on the pubilc works of the city for not 
 more than sixty days, either or both, in the discretion of the 
 Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 464. — Farmers May Sell Produce to Dealers Without 
 License.— Any farmer or truck raiser shall be permitted to sell 
 and offer for sale to dealers in the City of Columbus, any 
 produce raised by him, also, chickens and eggs, between sun-up 
 and sun-down, and he shall not be required to pay any market 
 fee for the privilege of so doing; provided, such farmer or truck 
 raiser and vendor of chickens and eggs, before selling or offering 
 any such articles for sale shall apply to the Market Clerk and 
 procure a written permit to make a sale of any such produce, 
 chickens and eggs. 
 
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 CHAPTER 48. 
 
 SALE OF MILK AND DAIRIES. 
 
 SECTION 465. — Permits. — It shall be unlawful for any person 
 or persons to bring into or receive into the City of Columbus 
 for sale, or to sell, or to offer for sale therein, or have on hand 
 for purposes of sale, any milk or cream without first obtaining 
 from the Clerk of Council of Columbus permit to do so, as 
 hereinafter provided. 
 
 Said permit shall state that the licensee will comply with this 
 or any other laws of the city, and on violation of any of its 
 items, the Health Officer shall have the privilege of suspending 
 the license to do business, and said license may be revoked by 
 a majority vote of Council. It shall be unlawful for any licensee 
 to sell or furnish or have on hand for sale in the city, any milk, 
 after the revocation of the license. The licensee can be re- 
 instated to do a regular dairy business by agreeing to same and 
 by a recommendation of the Sanitary Committee and the Health 
 Officer. 
 
 SEC. 466. — Application for Permits. — To procure such a per- 
 mit, the applicant therefor shall file with the said Clerk of 
 Council a written statement setting forth his residence, the 
 number of cows owned by him, the name and address of any 
 and all persons from whom he is purchasing or obtaining milk, 
 and the number of gallons of milk sold by him daily, as nearly as 
 he can estimate the same; and if such permit be granted, it shall 
 be the duty of the holder thereof to notify the Health Officer 
 in writing of any change in the name or address of the person 
 or persons from whom he obtains his supply of milk. 
 
 SEC. 467. — Permits Issued Annually. Renewals. — All permits 
 must be renewed during the month of January of each year to 
 be valid. Renewal of permits may be granted at the discretion 
 of the Health Officer after investigating the record of said 
 applicant. 
 
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 SEC. 468. — Permits Issued Without Fees. — There shall be no 
 charge for such permits, but in accepting same the applicant 
 agrees to furnish free of charge such samples of milk as the 
 Inspector may take for analysis; provided, each sample be not 
 more than one pint of milk or cream. 
 
 SEC. 469. — Illegal Sales. — It shall be unlawful for any person 
 to sell, offer for sale or have on hand for sale in this city any 
 milk or butter, who fails or neglects, by himself or agent, to 
 comply with all the terms of this Chapter or who sells or 
 offers for sale or has on hand for sale, products from cows or 
 dairies, which are not maintained as required by the terms of 
 this Chapter. 
 
 SEC. 470. — Stables and Dairies. — No building shall be used for 
 stabling cows for dairy purposes which is not well lighted, venti- 
 lated, drained and constructed. 
 
 SEC. 471. — Floors to be Kept Clean. — The stalls or places 
 where the cows are milked shall be provided with clean floors. 
 The accumulation of urine, manure, stagnant water or other 
 filth shall not be permitted in any stable or place where 
 milchcows are kept to that extent that the cows may become 
 befouled lying in or walking through the same. 
 
 SEC. 472. — Inside of Dairies. No Other Animals Permitted In. 
 — No water closet, cess pool, urinal, habited room or workshop 
 shall be located within any building or shed used for stabling 
 cows for dairy purposes nor shall any fowl, hog, horse or goat 
 be kept in any room used for such purposes. 
 
 SEC. 473. — Inside Regulations. — No accumulation of manure, 
 urine, stagnant water or other filth shall be permitted within 
 twenty feet of the stalls or place where cows are kept. 
 
 SEC. 474. — Cleanliness Required. — Every building or shed for 
 cows for dairy purposes shall be kept clean and in good repair 
 and well painted or whitewashed. 
 
 SEC. 475. — Diseased Cows. — Milk from cows suffering with 
 tuberculosis, antinomycosis, Texas fever, abcess or any other 
 contagious disease and milk from cows twenty days previous and 
 ten days after parturition shall not be marketed in the City 
 of Columbus. 
 
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 SEC. 476. — Diseased Cows Isolated from Herd and Reported to 
 Inspector. — It shall be the duty of every person having charge or 
 control of any premises upon which cows are kept, to notify the 
 Dairy Inspector of the existence of any contagious disease or 
 serious or recurring inflammation, or abcess of the udder imme- 
 diately upon the discovery thereof, and to immediately isolate 
 such cow or cows and keep same away from herd until per- 
 mission is granted in writing by the Dairy Inspector to permit 
 such cow or cows to return to the herd. 
 
 SEC. 477. — Feed of Milchcows. — It shall be unlawful for any 
 dairyman to feed milch cows or have in his possession with 
 intent to feed to milch cows, any garbage, swill, refuse, wet 
 brewers grain or other improper food. 
 
 SEC. 478. — Milkers and Attendants. Cleanliness Required of. — 
 All milkers and other attendants who handle the milk or cream 
 which is offered for sale or delivered in the City of Columbus 
 shall be personally clean and all such person before entering 
 upon their duties shall thoroughly wash their hands with soap, 
 and no milker shall be permitted to wash the teats of the cow 
 with milk or water in the milk bucket or to milk the cow with 
 wet or moist hands. 
 
 SEC. 479. — Diseased Cattle to be Reported to Health Officer. — 
 It* shall be the duty of any person having charge or control of 
 any premises upon which milk or cream is produced, handled, 
 stored or distributed, to notify the Health Officer immediately 
 upon the discovery of diphtheria, measles, membraneous croup, 
 scarlet fever, smallpox, typhoid fever, or any other contagious 
 or infectious disease upon such premises. 
 
 SEC. 480. — Infected Premises. No Sales From. — No milk or 
 cream shall be sold or exchanged, given away, or in any manner 
 distributed from such infected premises until all danger of the 
 spread of the disease shall be removed and the Health Officer 
 certifies to that effect. 
 
 SEC. 481. — Milkers Not to Enter Infected Premises. — Any per- 
 son who attends to cows or milks them or who has the care or 
 handling of vessels for the sale, storage or distribution of milk 
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 any of the diseases mentioned herein. Nor shall any such 
 person have any communication, direct or indirect, with any 
 person who resides in or is an occupant of such infected place. 
 
 SEC. 482. — Vehicles. — All vehicles used for handling or distrib- 
 uting milk or cream must be kept neat and clean and in good 
 repair and must not be used for hauling manure, slops or any- 
 thing else of an objectionable nature, and must be provided with 
 a covered top of canvas or other material which will protect 
 all vessels containing milk or cream from the rays of the sun. 
 
 SEC. 483. — Vehicles. Name of Dairy on. — Each vehicle used 
 for hauling or distributing milk or cream shall have printed on 
 each side in letters not less than three inches, the name of the 
 dairy, the name of the person to whom such permit was granted, 
 and the number of such permit. 
 
 SEC. 484. — Milk Depots. — All milk depots and places for 
 handling milk or cream must be kept thoroughly clean through- 
 out, and must be screened so as to exclude all flies. The floors 
 of milk depots must be of cement or tiling. The room in which 
 the milk is handled or kept, shall be screened, or protected in 
 such manner as to be free from flies and bugs. 
 
 SEC. 485. — Care of Milk. — All milk shall be strained as soon as 
 milked. All milk must be offered for sale as milked from the 
 cow, and must not be passed through cream separators or other 
 apparatus other than strainers for the purpose of removing 
 manure, dirt or other substance. 
 
 SEC. 486. — Time of Marketing. — All milk shall be marketed as 
 soon as possible after milking. 
 
 SEC 487. — Pure Milk. — All milk brought into the city or sold 
 or offered for sale in the city must not contain more than 
 200,000 bacteria per cubic centimeter. 
 
 SEC. 488. — Milk Containing Dirt. — It shall be unlawful for any 
 person or persons to bring or receive into the City of Columbus 
 for sale, or to sell any milk which contains any manure or dirt 
 (that is in quantity sufficient to be detected with the naked eye 
 after milk has been standing for one hour or more.) 
 
 SEC. 489. — Refrigerators. — No milk shall be kept in ice boxes 
 or refrigerators which are in any way connected with sewers 
 
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 or cess pools nor shall any milk be kept in the same com- 
 partments of any ice box or refrigerator in which meats or other 
 articles of food are kept. 
 
 SEC. 490. — Milk Deliveries into Infected Houses. — It shall be 
 unlawful for any dealer in milk or cream or his agents to serve 
 milk or cream in bottles to any dwelling that has in it any 
 contagious disease or that is placarded by the Depart- 
 ment of Health for contagious diseases until such placard has 
 heen removed by the proper authorities. This Section is not 
 intended to prevent the delivery of milk or cream to such 
 dwellings. 
 
 SEC. 491. — Milk Bottles Not to be Removed from Infected 
 Houses. — It shall be unlawful for any person to remove from 
 such dwelling any bottles or receptacles which have been or are 
 to be used for the purpose of receiving or storing milk or 
 cream. 
 
 SEC. 492. — Milk to be Bottled at Milk Depot or Dairy. — It shall 
 be unlawful for any dealer in milk or cream or his agents to 
 bottle or cause to be bottled or to be placed in jars or cans any 
 part of his milk or cream supply while upon the wagon, or at any 
 other place than the dairy or milk depot. 
 
 SEC. 493. — Temperature. — All milk brought or shipped into the 
 city for sale, or offered for sale, by dairymen or their agents, 
 milk depots, hotels, restaurants, lunch rooms, ice cream factories, 
 etc., shall be kept at a temperature below fifty-five degrees 
 Fahrenheit and must not contain more than 200,000 bacteria per 
 cubic centimeter. All milk or cream used in ice cream factories, 
 bakeries, soda fountains, etc., must be kept at a temperature below 
 fifty-five degrees Fahrenheit and must not contain more 
 than 200,000 bacteria per cubic centimeter. 
 
 SEC. 494. — Preservatives. Adulterated Milk. — It shall be un- 
 lawful to sell, offer for sale or have on hand for sale, any milk, 
 cream, butter or cheese containing any preservatives of any 
 kind, or adulterated milk, cream, butter or cheese. 
 
 SEC. 495. — Adulterated Milk Defined. — The words “adulter- 
 ated milk” as used in this Chapter mean: Milk containing more 
 
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 than eight per centum of water; milk containing less than 
 twelve per centum of milk solids; milk containing less than 
 three and six-tenths per centum of butter fats; milk which has 
 been diluted with water or other fluid or to which has been 
 added, or into which has been introduced, any foreign substance 
 whatever; milk drawn from animals fed on distillery waste, wet 
 brewers grain, or any substance in a state of fermentation or 
 putrifaction, or on any unwholesome food. 
 
 SEC. 496. — Cream. — Cream sold or offered for sale as such 
 must contain at least eighteen per cent, butter fats, and must 
 not contain any foreign substances or coloring matter and must 
 not contain more than 200,000 bacteria to the cubic centimeter. 
 
 SEC. 497. — Ice Cream. — Ice cream sold or kept for sale must 
 contain at least ten per cent, butter fats for fruit ice cream and 
 twelve per cent, for plain ice cream. All ice cream factories 
 where ice cream is manufactured for sale must have floors of 
 tiling or cement. 
 
 SEC. 498. — Skimmed Milk. — All milk which contains less than 
 three and six-tenths per cent, butter fats and not less than ten 
 and five-tenths total solids which is of specific gravity between 
 1030 and 1038, which is free from foreign addition of any kind, 
 and conforms to the requirements of sweet milk as regards 
 temperature and number of bacteria per cubic centimeter, except 
 where being ripened for buttermilk, shall be known as “skimmed 
 milk,” and may be lawfully sold as such, if all vessels, cans and 
 packages be distinctly marked in a conspicuous place on the 
 outside of each container with the words “skimmed milk” in 
 plain letters. 
 
 SEC. 499. — Care of Vessels. — All cans, bottles or vessels of any 
 kind used for holding milk or cream, must be cleansed at least 
 once a day with soap or soda or other cleansing preparations 
 made for the purpose and then rinsed with boiling water. They 
 should always be cleansed as soon as emptied. All bottles, cans 
 and vessels in which milk or cream has been delivered must be 
 thoroughly cleansed before they are returned to the dairymen. 
 
 SEC. 500. — Copy of This Law With Each Permit Issued. — 
 Copies of this Chapter are to be printed on large cardboards 
 and copy of same delivered with each permit, or renewal of 
 
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 same, and said copy must be posted in a conspicuous place in 
 the dairy or milk depot of party holding such permit. 
 
 SEC. 501. — Penalty. — Any person, firm or corporation, their 
 agent or employees who shall violate any of the provisions of 
 this Chapter shall be deemed guilty of an offense and upon con- 
 viction thereof in the Recorder’s Court shall be punished by a 
 fine of not less than $1.00 and not exceeding $100, or sentenced 
 to work upon the public works for a term not exceeding thirty 
 days, one or both, in the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 CHAPTER 4 9. 
 
 FOOD PRODUCTS.— PROTECTION FROM FLIES. 
 
 SECTION 502. — Foods Protected From Flies. — All persons, 
 firms or corporations, their agents or employees in charge of or 
 working at meat markets, fish markets, restaurants, bakeries, 
 retail grocery stores, milk depots, lunch counters, tables, stands 
 or any other place where articles of food are kept or sold or 
 offered for sale, shall thoroughly and securely screen all doors, 
 windows or other openings into such places so as to prevent the 
 ingress of flies or other insects thereto. 
 
 SEC. 503. — Kept Inside of Stores, Etc. — No article of food, 
 excepl live articles, such as chickens, ducks, etc., shall be kept 
 on the outside of any retail store, market, restaurant, bakery, 
 milk depot or other place where food is sold or offered for sale, 
 or upon the sidewalks in front of such places for purposes of 
 display, or for purposes of advertisement, or for any other 
 purpose except to receive and deliver same to and from such 
 place, unless such place where any article of food is offered for 
 sale be securely screened so as to prevent flies and other insects 
 from coming in contact with such food. 
 
 SEC. 504. — Bakeries. 4 Fly Proof Vehicles and Receptacles. — It 
 shall be unlawful for any firm or person to run or operate 
 any bakery or deal in bread or any employee of such bakery or 
 dealer in bread to carry or cause to be carried, bread, cakes or 
 pies or like articles of food through the street’s unless trans- 
 ported in fly proof or dust proof receptacles. 
 
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 All wagons used for transporting bread, cakes and pies and 
 like articles of food shall be furnished with a fly proof and dust 
 proof compartment that shall contain shelves on which the bread 
 shall be placed and such shelves shall be covered with clean 
 paper and this paper shall be changed at least once every twenty- 
 four hours. Furthermore, all bread, cakes, pies and like articles 
 of food offered for sale in grocery stores, bakeries or other retail 
 distributors of bread, etc., shall be kept in fly proof and dust 
 proof show cases or like receptacles. 
 
 SEC. 505. — Stables and Cow Lots. Protection from Flies. 
 Cleanliness of. — It is wisdom to prevent the breeding of flies as 
 far as possible, and as flies breed more abundantly and rapidly 
 in manure piles than in any other source, therefore, no person, 
 firm, or corporation shall be allowed to keep on his, her or their 
 premises, within the City of Columbus, horses, mules or cows, 
 without cleaning and sprinkling the floor or surface of stall, 
 stable or lot in which said animals are kept, every morning 
 from April 1st to October 1st, of each year with some disinfect- 
 ant and at least once a week from October 1st to March 31st of 
 each year. The excretia of such animals shall not be allowed to 
 remain on such premises for a longer period than one week 
 when it shall be removed lo some point without the city; but as 
 long as it shall remain on the premises it shall be con- 
 stantly sprinkled with some disinfectant or securely screened. 
 
 SEC. 506. — Delivery Wagons. Protected from Flies. — All ped- 
 dlers of fruits and vegetables doing business under a license in 
 the City of Columbus or by permission of the city authorities 
 shall have tops on their wagons and shall furthermore have their 
 wagons screened so as to prevent the ingress of flies or other 
 insects. 
 
 CHAPTER 5 0. 
 
 PLUMBING REGULATIONS. 
 
 SECTION 507. — Connections with Sewers. — No person shall 
 connect any drain or pipe with any public sewer or any appur- 
 
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 tenance of a public sewer, or maintain such connection without 
 the permission of the Committee on Streets and Sewers and the 
 General Inspector. 
 
 SEC. 508. — Injuring Sewers and Fixtures. — No person shall 
 injure any sewer or fixture or appurtenance of a sewer or 
 deposit any garbage, offal or refuse matter or material of any 
 kind in any catch basin, manhole or other fixture of a public 
 sewer or remove any manhole cover without the permission of 
 the Committee on Streets and Sewers and the General Inspector. 
 
 SEC. 509. — Plumber’s Licenses. — No person, firm or corpora- 
 tion engaged in or working at the business of plumbing shall 
 engage in or work at the business in the City of Columbus, Ga., 
 either as master, employing or journeyman plumber, unless such 
 person, firm or corporation first receives a license therefor in 
 accordance with the provisions of this Chapter. No person, 
 firm or corporation carrying on the business of plumbing shall 
 allow his, her or their name to be used by any other person, 
 directly or indirectly, either to obtain a permit, or to do any 
 work under his, her or their licenses. 
 
 SEC. 510. — Plumbing Defined. — Within the meaning of this 
 Chapter the following shall constitute plumbing: The connect- 
 
 ing of all pipes and appurtenances pertaining to a sanitary 
 fixture. 
 
 SEC. 511. — Penalty. — Any person who shall violate any pro- 
 vision or Section of this Chapter shall, on conviction before the 
 Recorder, be punished by confinement not exceeding thirty days 
 or by fine not exceeding $50.00, either or both, in the discretion 
 of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 512. — Appeals to Sanitary Committee. — The General 
 Inspector is to be the judge of the material and workmanship; 
 and the construction of this Chapter as to its meaning. Should 
 any difference in opinion arise appeal from his decision shall 
 be made to the Committee on Streets and Sewers in writing, and 
 a copy of the same furnished to the General Inspector within 
 six hours, stating clearly the points at issue, otherwise the 
 decision of the General Inspector will govern. 
 
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 SEC. 513. — Plumbers to be Competent. — Persons licensed as 
 drain layers or plumbers shall furnish the Committee on Streets 
 and Sewers with satisfactory evidence of their ability and 
 willingness to do the work in accordance with the laws and 
 ordinances of the City of Columbus. 
 
 SEC. 514. — Applications for Permits. — Applications for permits 
 to connect with any public sewer must be made to the General 
 Inspector on a form prescribed by and furnished by him. The 
 application for permit must be signed by the owner of the prem- 
 ises to be connected or his attorney and must state the location 
 of the premises, the name of some licensed plumber to be employ- 
 ed, and must be made prior to the commencment of any work 
 thereon. Such application must contain an agreement on the 
 part of the owner to abide by all rules and regulations estab- 
 lished by the Committee on Streets and Sewers and the General 
 Inspector, and to waive any claim for damages in case of 
 revocation as herein provided. 
 
 SEC. 515. — Penalty. — Persons violating the regulations after 
 receiving permits, shall be fined $5.00 per day for every day 
 that the drain remains connected with the public sewer after 
 being notified by the General Inspector that the work has been 
 improperly done, or for such other reasons as the said General 
 Inspector may deem sufficient. 
 
 SEC. 516. — Inspections by General Inspector. Penalty. — Any 
 plumbing work as aforesaid or any house sewer or house drain 
 which shall be covered over before it has been inspected and 
 passed by the General Inspector shall be uncovered for inspec- 
 tion and the contractor, builder or plumber who may be in 
 charge of the work and who may be responsible therefor, shall 
 be subject to the penalties prescribed in this Chapter for the 
 violation of this Section. All lead work shall be in where pos- 
 sible and under test. 
 
 SEC. 517. — Connections with Sewers. — Where there is a sewer 
 in the street every sewer shall be separately and independently 
 connected with it unless the General Inspector shall give per- 
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 do, to the owner of two or more contiguous houses to connect 
 them all to the sewer through one opening. 
 
 SEC. 518. — Old Sewers Replaced. — When either an old or a 
 new house is placed upon a lot which has an old sewer within 
 any part of its foundation, said sewer must be either removed 
 or replaced with cast iron pipe, except under frame buildings, 
 having open space underneath and then terra cotta may be used 
 where depth of pipe below surface of the ground is 18 inches, 
 or more, all sewers and pipes to be run in accordance with 
 these regulations. 
 
 SEC. 519. — Re-laying Old Sewers. — In taking up and re-laying 
 old sewers for any reason only sound pipe can be used and must 
 be inspected. The General Inspector, if he deems it necessary, 
 shall order “Y’s” placed in the lines of the sewer for the purpose 
 of cleaning, especially in any old lines that have been or are 
 giving trouble. 
 
 SEC. 520. — Size of Pipes Leading to Main Sewers. — For no 
 reason shall sewers be reduced in size toward the main sewer. 
 After leaving the opening in the main sewer the pipe must not 
 increase in size unless a special permit in writing be obtained, 
 stating the particulars for such permit. 
 
 SEC. 521. — Houses to be Separately Connected. When. — When 
 for any reason a permit has been given allowing the use of one 
 line of sewer for two or more houses, and for any reason it 
 afterwards becomes necessary to have each of the houses con- 
 nected separately, the permit allowed to be issued will have no 
 effect, and the General Inspector may order premises or houses 
 separately connected when in his judgment it is necessary for 
 same to be done. 
 
 SEC. 522. — Back Pressure Valves. — Where for any reason 
 plumbing work is so located that there may be back pressure 
 from the city sewers, back pressure valves shall be put in. 
 Such arrangement will not be allowed where possible to avoid 
 it; and damage occurring to property will be at owners risk. 
 
 SEC. 523. — Plans of Work to be Filed with Inspector. — Every 
 plumber, before doing any work in any building, except the 
 
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 repairing of leaks or opening the obstructed pipes or fixtures, 
 shall first file with the General Inspector or his assistant a plan 
 or drawing and written description thereof, signed by the owner, 
 or his or her agent, and no -such work shall be done without 
 the inspection and approval of the said General Inspector. This 
 rule refers to all new work, modifications, replacements and 
 extensions of, existing work. 
 
 SEC. 524. — Right of Entry into Buildings for Inspection. — 
 
 The General Inspector, so far as may be necessary in the per- 
 formance of his duties, has the right to enter any building or 
 premises in the City of Columbus without interference or hin- 
 drance, and he shall have the power to condemn any unsanitary 
 work. A specific time shall be given in which to remedy said 
 work. He shall also report all persons who shall interfere with 
 him in the performance of his duties. 
 
 SEC. 525. — Tests to be Made. — When required by the General 
 Inspector, all soil, waste, vent and leaders must be tested with 
 water, or other satisfactory tests by Ihe plumber in the presence 
 of the General Inspector and all defects corrected. 
 
 SEC. 526. — Not to be Used Until Approved. — No plumbing 
 work shall be used until it has been duly passed by the General 
 Inspector. 
 
 SEC. 527. — Soil and Waste Pipes. — All soil and waste pipes 
 shall be carried above the roof, undiminished in size to a point 
 at least two feet above the roof. 
 
 SEC. 528. — Sewer, Waste and Vent Pipes. — All sewer, soil, 
 waste and vent pipes shall be as direct as possible, and shall be 
 constructed so that they can be rodded if necessary. “Y” clean- 
 outs shall be placed at every turn and change in direction of 
 pipes. 
 
 SEC. 529. — Pipe from Buildings. Grade. — From a point ten 
 feet outside the building where the iron pipe ends, to the 
 main sewer, shall not be less than five inch earthen pipe, 
 first quality, laid with uniform grade; soil to be well rammed 
 to prevent settling, the joints to be fitted and filled with Portland 
 cement. A scraper or wiper must be used after each joint is laid 
 
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 to remove cement which has been forced to the inside of the 
 pipe. Work required by this Section to be inspected by the 
 General Inspector. 
 
 SEC. 530. — Waste Pipes and Traps. — The sewer, soil and waste 
 pipes and all traps must be exposed to view for ready inspection 
 and convenience in repairing. When traps are placed in parti- 
 tion walls they must never be covered except with wood work 
 so fastened with screws that it may be readily removed. 
 
 SEC. 531. — Waste Pipes from Sinks, Closets and Baths. — The 
 waste pipe of each and every sink, basin, bath, water closet, 
 urinal or other fixture must be separately and effectually trapped. 
 And all bath tubs, sitz baths, and shower baths, shall have drum 
 traps, of either lead, iron or brass. 4x8 inches, and not less 
 than one and one-half (14) inches inlet and outlet and vent, said 
 traps to be located not exceeding 18 inches from fixtures which 
 it serves. No trap shall be less than 14 inches, no waste pipe 
 shall be less than 14 inches. 
 
 SEC. 532. — Traps to be Ventilated. — Each and every trap shall 
 be ventilated or looped into system. Each trap vent pipe shall 
 be of not less size than the trap which it serves, except in case 
 of water closets, which shall be not less than two inches in 
 diameter. Combination vents two inches in size may be used in 
 cases where the General Inspector may consider it good practice 
 combining water closets and baths only. Where water closet 
 is installed on top floor and no other fixtures above, back vent 
 may be dispensed with on syphon wash-down and syphon jet 
 closets. When impracticable to vent, sure seal traps of a type 
 approved by the General Inspector may be used. 
 
 SEC. 533. — Air Pipes. — All air pipes and waste pipes two inches 
 in diameter or over shall be of iron. Short lengths of lead may 
 be used where exposed to view, and all lead used shall be not 
 less weight than is specified in this Chapter. 
 
 SEC. 534. — Vent Pipes. — All vent pipes shall extend two feet 
 above the roof, and the highest window within twenty feet of 
 stack, and shall have “Y” and eighth Lend clean-out at foot of the 
 stack. When in the opinion of the Inspector, it is deemed neces- 
 sary to extend the stack higher than above specified, his 
 
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 decision shall be final. Said stack, when extended, shall be 
 thoroughly braced, subject to the approval of the Inspector. 
 
 SEC. 535. — Water Closets. — Every water closet shall be sup- 
 plied by water from a separate tank containing at least five 
 gallons, and shall have a flush-pipe not less than one and one- 
 quarter inches in diameter, and have a trap above the floor. 
 
 SEC. 536. — Water Closets Outside of Buildings. — Water closets 
 located outside of buildings shall be supplied with tank and 
 properly trapped. 
 
 SEC. 537. — Water Closets. Location. — Water closets must never 
 be placed in an unventilated room. In no building will water 
 closets be placed in cellars without special permit. 
 
 SEC. 538. — Waste Pipes from Refrigerators. — No waste pipe 
 from a refrigerator or receptacle where food stuffs are kept, nor 
 from a soda fount, bar fixture or floor drain where fish or 
 food stuffs are sold or kept shall be directly connected to a 
 sewer but may be drained into a sink drum-trapped, or into a 
 yard grate, said grate to be trapped from sewer. 
 
 SEC. 539. — Exhaust Pipes. — No steam exhaust, blow-off or 
 drip pipe shall be connected directly with a sewer, soil, waste or 
 vent pipe. 
 
 SEC. 540. — Cast Iron Pipe. — All cast iron pipe shall be free 
 from flaws and of uniform thickness. 
 
 SEC. 541. — Joints. — All joints in iron pipes shall be made with 
 lead and oakum, well caulked. All connections of lead to iron 
 pipe shall be made with brass ferrules, and wiped joints or 
 an approved lead ferrule of not less than the following weights 
 and all lead pipes shall conform to these weights: 
 
 li inch pipe 3 pounds per foot. 
 
 14 inch pipe 4 pounds per foot. 
 
 2 inch pipe 5 pounds per foot. 
 
 3 inch pipe 5 pounds per foot. 
 
 4 inch pipe 8 pounds per foot. 
 
 SEC. 542. — Lead Pipe Connections. — All connections of lead 
 pipe shall be wiped joints. 
 
 SEC. 543. — Traps Connected to Vent Pipes. — When more than 
 one trap is to be connected to a vent pipe the branches must be 
 run into the main vent above the highest fixture. 
 
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 SEC. 544. — Materials. General Quality. — All materials used in 
 the work of plumbing and drainage must be of good quality 
 and free from defects. The work must be executed in 
 a thorough and workmanlike manner. Any master or journey- 
 man plumber, who shall repair, add to or replace, any work no', 
 in keeping with this Ordinance, or shall do any work .not per- 
 mitted by this Ordinance, shall be punished as provided 
 for any violation of any provision or Section of this Chapter. 
 
 SEC. 545. — Penalty. — Any violation of this Chapter shall be 
 punished by a fine not to exceed $50.00, or imprisonment not to 
 exceed thirty days, either or both, in the discretion of the 
 Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 546. — Penalty. — In addition to the above penalty, the 
 plumber shall be compelled to cause the work to conform to this 
 Chapter and each delay in complying shall be considered a 
 separate and distinct offense and shall be punished accordingly. 
 
 SEC. 547. — Committee on Streets and Sewers. Powers and 
 Duty. — The Committee on Streets and Sewers is hereby given 
 the power to modify any of these requirements that circum- 
 stances may demand, where, in their judgment, it will be to the 
 interest of the health of the city or citizens, and any license or 
 permit may be revoked whenever a majority of the Committee 
 on Streets and Sewers shall be of the opinion that the public 
 interest requires it, and all permits shall be granted subject to 
 such condition. 
 

 ARTICLE VII. 
 
 STREETS AND SIDEWALKS. 
 
ARTICLE VII. 
 
 CHAPTER 51. 
 
 NUMBERING HOUSES. 
 
 SECTION 548. — Houses Shall be Numbered. — All the business 
 houses and dwellings situated within the corporate limits of the 
 City of Columbus shall be numbered according to the plan or 
 system hereinafter described. 
 
 SEC. 549. — Starting Lines. — The initial or starting lines shall 
 be fixed on Broad Street north from First Street and east and 
 west from Broad Street and allowing 100 numbers to each block. 
 
 SEC. 550. — How Numbered. — The even numbers shall be put 
 on the right side of the streets and the odd numbers on the left 
 side of the streets, allowing not more than 25 feet to each num- 
 ber and the figures shall not be less than two and a quarter 
 inches high. 
 
 SEC. 551. — Chief of Police. Duty as to Numbering Houses. — 
 It shall be the duty of the Chief of Police to see that all new 
 buildings which may hereafter be erected or changes in the 
 fronts of buildings already erected, shall be supplied with the 
 number or numbers to which they shall be entitled under this 
 Chapter by the owners thereof, and in all such cases the figures 
 shall correspond with the plan or system herein contained. 
 
 SEC. 552. — Numbering of Houses. Required. Expense of. 
 Executions. — In all cases where house numbers have been fur- 
 nished by the officers or agents of the city to the owners or 
 agents of the houses, such owners or agents shall at once proceed 
 to have such houses numbered and upon a failure so to do for 
 the space of thirty days from such furnishing of such numbers, 
 then the city shall proceed to have such house numbers properly 
 affixed or painted on such houses, at the expense of the property 
 owners; and upon the failure of such property owners to pay 
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 such expense by July 1 of any year, the Clerk of Council shall 
 issue execution as for taxes against said owners for the cost of 
 doing such work. 
 
 CHAPTER 5 2. 
 
 STREETS; NAMES OF, CHANGED. 
 
 SECTION 553. — Names of Streets Changed. — The name of that 
 part of Bay Street north of Twelfth Street being an extension 
 northward of Front Street, shall be changed to Front Street. 
 The short street leading from the lower city common road 
 bridge to Broad Street, not named on the map of the city, shall 
 be known and designated as Dillingham Street. 
 
 SEC. 554. — Numbered Streets. — The City Engineer is instructed 
 to cause numbers to be substituted for the names of all streets 
 in the city running east and west, and that in future said streets 
 shall be known by numbers instead of names. Said numbers 
 to begin at what is now known as “Dawson” Street, which shall 
 hereafter be known as First Street. Dawson Street, First; 
 Carnes Street, Second; Goulding Street, Third; Covington Street, 
 Fourth; Fulton Street, Fifth; Early Street, Sixth; Few Street, 
 Seventh; Baldwin Street, Eighth; Thomas Street, Ninth; Craw- 
 ford Street, Tenth; St. Clair Street, Eleventh; Randolph Street, 
 Twelfth; Bryan Street, Thirteenth; Franklin Street, Fourteenth; 
 Lee Street, Fifteenth; Washington Street, Sixteenth; Woolfolk 
 Sireet, Seventeenth. 
 
 SEC. 555. — Names Changed. — The name of Oglethorpe Street is 
 changed to First Avenue; Jackson Street is changed to Second 
 Avenue; Troup Street is changed to Third Avenue; Forsyth 
 Street is changed to Fourth Avenue; McIntosh Street is changed 
 to Fifth Avenue; Mercer Street is changed to Sixth Avenue. The 
 road formerly known as the Hamilton Road from Seventeenth 
 Street to its intersection with the northern limits of the city, shall 
 be known as Hamilton Avenue; and that the road formerly known 
 as the Talbotton Road from its intersection with what was 
 
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 formerly known as the Hamilton Road at Conti’s store, northerly 
 to where it intersects the city limits shall be known as Talbot 
 Avenue. 
 
 SEC. 556. — In Rose Hill Annex. — All of the streets and avenues 
 except Hamilton and Talbot Avenues in what is known as the 
 Rose Hill annex, be numbered and named by the City Engineer as 
 far as possible, in accordance with the plan already adopted by 
 the city and as indicated elsewhere in this Code; and that the 
 houses therein be numbered in accordance with the plan already 
 adopted by the city and as provided elsewhere in this Code. 
 
 SEC. 557. — Wericoba Drive. Name Changed. — The name of 
 the street in the annex formerly known as Wericoba Drive shall 
 be changed to East Seventeenth Street. 
 
 CHAPTER 5 3. 
 
 IMPOUNDING ANIMALS. 
 
 SEC. 558. — Prohibiting Animals and Geese and Ducks in Any 
 of the Streets and Prescribing Charges for Impounding the 
 Same. — No horses, mules, jacks, cattle, hogs, goats, geese or 
 ducks shall be permitted in any of the streets or parks of this city 
 except while being driven through the same and any of the 
 aforesaid animals so found running at large shall be impounded 
 by the Chief of Police, who shall advertise and sell the same 
 after giving five days’ notice of time and place thereof by pub- 
 lication in the newspaper having the city publishing contract 
 and unless the owner shall within that time redeem the same 
 by paying all impounding fees and charges as hereinafter pro- 
 vided for. When sold the net proceeds shall be paid into the city 
 Treasury for account of owner. Nothing in this Ordinance 
 shall be construed to prevent the grazing of such animals upon 
 the commons of the city when they are in charge of competent 
 persons. The fees and charges for impounding as aforesaid 
 shall be as follows: Horses, mules and jacks, 75 cents impound- 
 
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 fee and 25 cents per day for food; hogs, 25 cents impounding fee 
 and 25 cents per day for food; goats, 25 cents impounding fee 
 and 25 cents per day for food; geese and ducks, 15 cents im- 
 pounding fee and 5 cents per day for food. 
 
 CHAPTER 5 4. 
 
 RAILROAD CROSSINGS. 
 
 SECTION 559. — Railroad Companies to Station Flagmen at 
 Crossings on Thirteenth Street. — It shall be the duty of the 
 railroad company operating engines, trains or cars on or across 
 Thirteenth Street, in the City of Columbus, between Sixth and 
 Eighth Avenues, to place or station at the point where said 
 track or tracks cross said street, a competent flagman who shall 
 be required to keep said track and crossing clear, about or at the 
 time of the passage of any engine, train or car across or along 
 said street. Said flagman must be stationed at said crossing and 
 must see that the way is kept clear, and no person or property 
 is in any way injured or damaged by reason of the passage or 
 running of such engine, train or cars. Nothing in this Section 
 shall be construed as to authorize any railroad company to 
 obstruct said street for a greater length of time than five minutes 
 or longer time than is absolutely necessary for the proper move- 
 ment of its trains. 
 
 Any superintendent or other officer or agent of any railroad 
 company who shall fail or refuse to comply with the require- 
 ments of this Section shall be fined or imprisoned for each day’s 
 default in the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 560. — Regulating the Construction and Maintenance of 
 Railroad Crossings. — All railroad companies owning or operat- 
 ing railroads within the corporate limits of the City of Columbus 
 shall be required to construct and keep in good repair and safe 
 condtion at the various street crossings and at such other points 
 throughout the city as may be designated by the Committee on 
 Streets and Sewers, suitable crossings over the tracks of said 
 railroads. The crossing shall be constructed upon plans and 
 
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 specifications approved by the Committee on Streets and Sewers 
 and the Superintendent of Public Works; and when so required 
 shall be built in accordance with plans furnished by the Superin- 
 tendent of Public Works. On Broad Street, between First, 
 Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Avenues, between Fourth 
 and Nineteenth Streets, wherever it may be required and so 
 designated by the Committee on Streets and Sewers, there shall 
 be built two crossings, each to be at least twenty feet wide; one 
 on each side of the avenue or street. All other crossings shall be 
 at least forty feet wide. Wherever it may be required and 
 when so notified by the Superintendent of Public Works, the 
 railroad company shall construct and maintain across and 
 through its tracks sidewalk and cross-walk crossings, of width 
 not less than eight feet. The crossing shall be built in a good 
 and substantial manner and of such material as to maintain the 
 surface of the driveway or walk even with the top of the rails; 
 and the space between the rails must be kept smooth and even 
 with the top of the rails. Wherever crossings are located 
 where the grade of the street and the tracks vary or differ, suit- 
 able approaches to the crossings shall be built and maintained 
 by the railroad company. 
 
 Wherever the distance from center to center of two or more 
 tracks located on one street is not greater than twelve feet, the 
 space between such tracks shall be kept in good order and repair 
 by the railroad company owning or operating such tracks. And 
 at wagon or foot crossings over such tracks the space between 
 the tracks shall be subject to the same regulation as that be- 
 tween the rails. 
 
 The grade of the railroad tracks and that of the streets along 
 which they are laid must conform as far as practicable, and the 
 railroad companies are hereby required to keep the surface of 
 the street between the rails and eighteen inches outside of each 
 rail, smooth and even and not more than two inches below the 
 top of the rails. Suitable openings or drains shall be built and 
 maintained by the railroad companies under and through the 
 several railroad tracks owned or operated by them, in order to 
 effect the proper drainage of any street or area; said openings or 
 drains to be located at such points as may be designated by the 
 
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 Superintendent of Public Works; provided, that certain tracks 
 and locations when so designated by the Superintendent of 
 Public Works and the Committee on Streets and Sewers shall not 
 be subject to the requirements of this Section. When any cross- 
 ing or section of tracks is in bad condition and does not conform 
 to the requirements of this Ordinance, it shall be the duty of the 
 Superintendent of Public Works to notify the owner or super- 
 intendent or agent or operator of the railroad to have same put 
 in order as prescribed in this Section; and should the work not be 
 done and approved by the Superintendent of Public Works and 
 upon conviction of said owner, or superintendent or agent or 
 operator of any railroad having failed or refused to have such 
 work done in conformity with the terms of this Section in the 
 Recorder’s Court, the said owner or superintendent or agent or 
 operator shall be fined any sum not over $100, or confined in the 
 guard house or county jail not over thirty days, either or both, 
 or any part thereof, in the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 CHAPTER 5 5. 
 
 SIDEWALKS. 
 
 SECTION 561. — Cellar Doors. — No cellar doors shall extend 
 more than six feet into any sidewalk, and said cellar door shall 
 be kept in a good state of repair; nor shall any portion thereof be 
 elevated above the level of such sidewalk. 
 
 SEC. 562. — Porches, Steps and Platforms. — Porches, steps and 
 platforms shall not extend into any sidewalk. All and every 
 person or persons who have encroached or may encroach on any 
 of the sidewalks or streets within the limits of the city, by any 
 building, porch, steps, signs, cellar doors, railing, platform or 
 enclosure, or obstruction of any kind, shall remove the same 
 by order of the Mayor, or the Mayor and Council. Any person 
 or persons owning or having charge of any building or lots 
 where there are encroachments of any kind, who shall neglect or 
 refuse to remove the same, after having received reasonable 
 notice to do so, shall be fined for every day of such refusal or 
 
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 neglect, at the discretion of the Recorder, and the Mayor, 
 or Mayor and Council, may upon such refusal have the same 
 done at the expense of the owners. Provided, that the owner of 
 any building located on Sixth Avenue in said city, may, under 
 the supervision of the Superintendent of Public Works, con- 
 struct steps leading from the Sixth Avenue sidewalk into the 
 cellar or basement of said building, when, in the opinion of the 
 Superintendent of Public Works, said steps are properly safe- 
 guarded by railings or enclosures and do not interfere with 
 the free use of the sidewalks; said steps, with their protections, 
 to be subject to removal as provided in this Code. 
 
 SEC. 563. — Leading or Riding Animals on. — No person shall 
 ride, drive or lead any horse or other animal upon any sidewalk 
 or crossing in this city unless for the purpose of necessarily 
 crossing the same or allow any animal belonging to him, or 
 under his care to stand on such sidewalk or crossing. 
 
 SEC. 564. — Obstructing with Goods, Merchandise or Other- 
 wise. — No person shall deposit, place or put or suffer to be de- 
 posited, placed or put by any person or persons in his or her em- 
 ployment any goods, wares, firewood, boxes or other obstruction 
 on any such sidewalk, except while actually removing the same 
 into or out of some building or enclosure, nor shall any person 
 suspend or cause to be suspended over any sidewalk, any goods, 
 wares or merchandise in such manner as to obstruct the free 
 passage of such sidewalk or annoy any person in passing along 
 such sidewalk. 
 
 SEC. 565. — Penalty. — For violation of either of the four pre- 
 ceding Sections the person offending shall be punished by fine 
 or other punishment or both, at the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 566. — Obstructions. Livery Stables. — No goods, wares, 
 or merchandise or other articles of whatever description shall be 
 placed and allowed to remain longer than is necessary to remove 
 them, on any sidewalk within the distance of seven feet from 
 the outer edge thereof. Livery stable keepers shall be required 
 to keep a space of ten feet from the inner line of the sidewalk 
 in front of their premises free from obstructions of whatever 
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 SEC. 567. — Police to Keep Open. — It shall be the duty of the 
 Chief of Police and the police of said city to keep the streets 
 and sidewalks thereof open and free for public passage and 
 travel and for that purpose they, or any one of them may order 
 the dispersal of any assemblage of persons that may be obstruct- 
 ing or interfering with such passage or travel. And any person 
 refusing to obey such order or continuing such obstruction or 
 interference shall be deemed guilty of obstructing the sidewalk 
 or street and shall be liable to arrest and on conviction by the 
 Recorder’s Court shall be punished by a fine not to exceed 
 $50.00, or by imprisonment or confinement at hard labor on the 
 public works, such imprisonment not to exceed thirty days, in 
 the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 CHAPTER 5 6. 
 
 SEWERS— CONSTRUCTION AND REGULATIONS. 
 
 SECTION 568. — Sewers and House Connections. — No person 
 shall connect any drain or pipe with any public sewer or 
 any appurtenance of a public sewer, or maintain such connec- 
 tion, without the permission of the Committee on Streets and 
 Sewers and Superintendent of Public Works. 
 
 No person shall injure any sewer or fixture or appurtenance 
 of a sewer or deposit any garbage, offal or refuse matter or 
 material of any kind in any catch-basin, man-hole or other fix- 
 ture of a public sewer or remove any man-hole cover without 
 the permission of the Street and Sewer Committee and Superin- 
 tendent of Public Works. 
 
 All connections with the sewers and all house or yard drains 
 shall be laid from the sewer to the property line by the Superin- 
 tendent of Public Works, with city labor, the cost of the work to 
 be paid by the plumber who obtains the permit, or the party for 
 whose benefit or use the connection is made or drain laid. 
 Before any work is done an application to have the drain must 
 be filed at the office of the Superintendent of Public Works and 
 before a permit for the same can be issued an amount of money 
 
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 or satisfactory security for same shall be deposited with the 
 City Treasurer sufficient to cover the actual cost of doing the 
 work; the amount of said deposit to be determined by the Super- 
 intendent of Public Works. Should the cost of the work be less 
 than the amount of the deposit, the difference shall be returned 
 to the party making it; and if the work cost more than the 
 amount deposited, the balance shall be paid to the city and 
 upon failure or refusal to pay same, the city shall proceed to 
 collect it in the manner prescribed for the collection of taxes. 
 
 Every person who shall violate any provision of this Section 
 shall, on conviction before the Recorder, be punished by fine 
 not exceeding $50.00, or by imprisonment not exceeding thirty 
 days, in the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 Persons licensed as drain layers or plumbers shall furnish the 
 Committee on Streets and Sewers with satisfactory evidence of 
 their ability and willingness to do the work in accordance with 
 the rules and regulations of said Committee, and execute a bond 
 in such sum, and with such securities as shall be approved by 
 said Committee for the faithful performance of the work of drain 
 laying and plumbing, in conformity with such rules and regu- 
 lations. 
 
 Applications for permits to connect with any public sewer 
 must be made to the Superintendent of Public Works in a form 
 prescribed by and furnished by him. The application must be 
 signed by the owner of the premises to be connected or his 
 attorney and must state the location of the premises, the 
 name of some licensed plumber to be employed, and must be 
 made prior to the commencement of any work thereon. Such 
 application must include an agreement on the part of the owner 
 to abide by all rules and regulations established by the Com- 
 mittee on Streets and Sewers and Superintendent of Public 
 Works and to waive any claim for damages in case of revocation 
 as herein provided. Permits to connect with public sewer will 
 be issued only when the plumbing in the building connected is 
 in accordance with the rules prescribed in these regulations. 
 Persons violating the regulations after receiving permits 
 shall be fined $5.00 for every day that the drain remains con- 
 nected with the public sewer after being notified by the Superin- 
 
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 tendent of Public Works that the work has been improperly 
 done, or for such other reasons as the said Superintendent of 
 Public Works may deem sufficient. 
 
 All joints on vitrified pipe shall be made tight with neat 
 hydraulic cement, and iron pipe with gasket and molten lead 
 well caulked, except in case the pipe shall be wrought iron 
 with screw joint, in which case the joints must be made with 
 a paste of red lead and left perfectly clear and smooth, and a 
 proper scraper shall be drawn through each pipe and laid. A 
 running trap, the full size of the main house drain with a hand- 
 hole, fitted with proper cover for inspection and cleaning shall 
 be placed on the drain just inside the curb line where the build- 
 ing occupies the property line of the street. A fresh air pipe 
 leading from the open air, and protected at the open end with 
 a return or other suitable covering shall be joined to the main 
 house drain on the house side of the main trap, and no trap or 
 other obstruction shall be placed in the main pipe between this 
 point of juncture and the open space above the roof. 
 
 The back filling shall be thoroughly rammed and the paving or 
 ballast replaced in the best condition and to the satisfaction of 
 the Superintendent of Public Works within forty-eight hours 
 after the back filling of the trench. Neglect of this rule shall be 
 sufficient cause for revocation of the drain layer’s or plumber’s 
 license. Notice must be left at the office of the Superintendent 
 of Public Works before the work is begun on a drain, and no 
 material shall be used or work covered up until inspected and 
 approved by the Superintendent of Public Works. 
 
 Before any plumbing or drainage work is done in a building 
 or before any additions are made to the old work except neces- 
 sary repairs a plan and description of the work to be done, 
 signed by a licensed plumber on blanks furnished by the Super- 
 intendent of Public Works, shall be filed at the office of the said 
 Superintendent of Public Works and no such work shall be done 
 until such plan shall have been approved and a written permit 
 to do the work issued by the Superintendent of Public Works. 
 No plans shall be altered without special permit signed by the 
 Superintendent of Public Works. Notice must be left at the 
 
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 office of the Superintendent of Public Works when the work is 
 ready for inspection and no work shall be covered or hidden 
 until inspected and approved. 
 
 All traps shall be separately ventilated by a special vent pipe 
 extending through the roof. No vent pipe or traps two or more 
 inches in diameter shall be less than two inches in diameter and 
 vent pipes on smaller sized traps shall be the same size as the 
 traps ventilated. All vent pipes shall rise continuously from 
 traps which they ventilate with a grade of not less than one- 
 quarter of an inch to one foot and every junction between vent 
 pipes must be made above the top of the highest fixture which 
 either of them ventilates. 
 
 All waste or vent pipes of less size than two inches in diameter 
 shall be of lead of not less than the following weights, viz: 
 Two inch pipe, four pounds per lineal foot; one and one-half 
 inch pipe, three and one-half pounds per lineal foot; one and 
 one-quarter inch pipe, two and one-half pounds per lineal 
 foot; one inch pipe, two pounds per lineal foot. All cast iron pipe 
 shall be made gas tight with gasket and molten lead properly 
 caulked. Joints on lead pipe shall be wiped joints whenever 
 possible; joints on wrought iron or brass pipes shall be made 
 with brass ferrules; joints on iron pipes when wrought iron 
 pipes are joined by screw joints shall be made with a paste 
 of red lead, as hereinbefore described. 
 
 Water closets shall in all cases be connected with the soil 
 pipe by water and gas tight flanges or lead joints. All water 
 closets connected shall be flushed from a special syphon tank 
 above them. No pipes or fixtures shall be connected with the 
 public sewers of a pattern not acceptable to the Superintendent 
 of Public Works. All soil and waste pipes shall be as direct as 
 possible and so arranged that they may be readily examined, and 
 no pipe shall be covered until it has been inspected by an 
 authorized inspector. All drains, soil or waste pipes three 
 inches or more in diameter inside a building, and to a point at 
 least four feet outside the foundation walls shall be of iron. All 
 soil pipes shall be at least four inches in diameter and extend 
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 above that part of the roof through which it comes, or at least 
 six inches above the highest part of the roof, should it come out 
 near the comb of the roof; it must be remote from windows; 
 no sheet metal, drain or ventilating pipe shall be used. Waste 
 pipes from refrigerators or safes, or overflows from tanks and 
 cisterns, from which water is used for drinking or cooking 
 purposes, shall not be connected with any drain or soil pipe. 
 
 The Committee on Streets and Sewers and the Superintendent 
 of Public Works, shall have the power to stop and prevent the 
 discharge of sewerage from any premises, in and upon any 
 public highway, stream, watercourse or public place, or into any 
 drain or cesspool, or public or private sewer, whenever they 
 shall determine the public good demands it. All plumbing or 
 drainage work shall be tested by such test as the Superintendent 
 of Public Works may direct, and when the work does not stand 
 the test, it must be repaired within ten days or connection with 
 the sewer shall be discontinued. All drain laying, plumbing, 
 repairs and connections, shall be made according to the rules and 
 regulations above prescribed, and subject to the approval of the 
 Superintendent of Public Works. 
 
 License to plumbers may be issued in pursuance of the above 
 regulations, and shall continue for the term of one year from 
 the date thereof, unless sooner revoked. Any license or permit 
 may be revoked whenever a majority of the Committee on Streets 
 and Sewers shall be of the opinion that the public interest so 
 requires, and all licenses and permits shall be granted subject 
 to such condition. 
 
 SEC. 569. — Regulating the Making of Openings on the Paved 
 Streets of the City of Columbus. — It shall be unlawful for any 
 person, plumber, drain layer, gas or waterworks company to 
 disturb, excavate or make an opening of any kind whatsoever, on 
 any of the paved streets of the City of Columbus, or those that 
 may hereafter be paved, without first obtaining a written permit 
 from the Superintendent of Public Works. 
 
 All openings or excavations that may be made under said 
 permit shall be done under the direction of the Superintendent 
 of Public Works at the expense of the party or parties, for whose 
 
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 benefit the excavation is made and in accordance with such 
 rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Committee on 
 Streets and Sewers and the Superintendent of Public Works; and 
 that the back filling of all trenches and excavations shall be 
 thoroughly tamped and rammed in, and the replacing of the 
 paved surface shall be done in a good and substantial manner, 
 satisfactory to and under the supervision of the Superintendent 
 of Public Works. 
 
 Any person, firm or company or corporation or the agents 
 thereof, who shall violate any of the provisions of this Ordi- 
 nance, shall be fined not less than $2.00, nor more than $25.00 
 for each and every violation. 
 
 CHAPTER 5 7. 
 
 WIDTH OF STREETS AND SIDEWALKS.— TREE PLANTING. 
 
 SECTION 570. — Width of, and Other Regulations. — The widths 
 of sidewalks from property line to outside of curb and the 
 planting of trees on all sidewalks and in the streets of the City 
 of Columbus shall conform to the following rules and regula- 
 tions under the supervision of the Superintendent of Public 
 Works: 
 
 The sidewalks shall be 4 feet wide on streets of 24 feet width. 
 
 The sidewalks shall be 6 feet wide on streets of 30 feet width. 
 
 The sidewalks shall be 8 feet wide on streets of 40 feet width. 
 
 The sidewalks shall be 10 feet wide on streets of 50 feet width. 
 
 The sidewalks shall be 12 feet wide on streets of 60, 66, 70 and 
 
 80 feet width. 
 
 The sidewalks shall be 13 feet wide on streets of 90 feet width. 
 Uniform width of 15 feet on each and both sides of Broad Street 
 between Ninth and Thirteenth Streets; provided, further, that 
 the sidewalks on Rroad Street between Ninth and Fifteenth 
 Streets shall not be less than 15 nor greater than 18 feet wide. 
 The sidewalks on streets 99 feet wide and on streets and avenues 
 132 feet wide and over shall be, not less than 14 feet nor 
 greater than 20 feet wide; the fixed width between these limits to 
 be determined and designated by the Committee on Streets and 
 Sewers and the Superintendent of Pubilc Works whenever the 
 improvement of such streets and avenues shall require it. 
 
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 The 24 feet streets are Twenty-first, Twenty-third, Twenty- 
 fifth, Twenty-seventh and Twenty-ninth in City Village. The 30 
 feet streets are Linwood or Twenty-sixth or Centre Street. The 
 40 feet streets are Seventeenth, between Fifth and Tenth Ave- 
 nues, Lawn Street, Russell Street, Pine Street, Tenth Avenue 
 north of A Street, Olive Street, Rose Hill Street, North Street, 
 Twentieth Street between Third and Hamilton Avenues, Ham- 
 ilton Avenue between Talbot Avenue and Hill, or Twenty- 
 seventh Street and Twenty-third Street between City Village 
 and Talbot Avenue. The 50 feet streets are Dillingham 
 Street, First Avenue from Twentieth to Twenty-ninth Street, 
 Hamilton Avenue from Hill, or Twenty-seventh Street to city 
 limits, Third Avenue from Nineteenth to Twenty-ninth Streets, 
 Twentieth Street from Hamilton to Talbot Avenue, Eleventh 
 Avenue north of G. M. & G. R. R., East Nineteenth Street, Talbot 
 Avenue, Jordan Street, Robinson Street, Florida Street, 
 Virginia Street, Carolina Street, Johnson Street and Alabama 
 Street. The 60 feet streets are Chappel Street, Linwood Drive, 
 East Seventeenth Street or Wericoba Drive, E Street, Warren 
 Street, Railroad Street, Tenth Avenue, between East Seventeenth 
 Street and A Street, and Hill or Twenty-seventh Street and 
 Comer Avenue. The 66 feet streets are Eighteenth Street, Nine- 
 teenth Street west of Robinson, Twentieth, Twenty-second, 
 Twenty-fourth, Twenty-sixth and Twenty-eighth Streets in City 
 Village. The 70 feet streets are Hamilton Avenue between 
 Seventeenth and Talbot Avenue, Eleventh and Twelfth Ave- 
 nues. The 80 feet streets are A Street, B Street, C Street, D Street, 
 First, Third and Fourth Avenues from Twenty-ninth Street to 
 the city limits. The 90 feet streets are First Avenue from Nine- 
 teenth to Twentieth and Second Avenue from Nineteenth Street 
 to city limits. The 99 feet streets are Third, Fourth, Fifth, 
 Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Thir- 
 teenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth Streets, 
 Short Street, Bay Street, Front Street above Twelfth Street, 
 Cemetery Street, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth and Tenth Avenues. 
 The 132 feet streets are Front Street to Twelfth, First, Second 
 and Third Avenues to Nineteenth Street, Fourth and Fifth Ave- 
 
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 nues to Seventeenth Street, and Sixth Avenue to cemetery. The 
 164 feet street is Broad Street. 
 
 All planting of trees on streets and sidewalks shall be as 
 follows: 
 
 On sidewalks they shall be inside of curb, and shall be distant 
 from property line — 
 
 3 feet on all sidewalks of 4 feet width. 
 
 5 feet on all sidewalks of 6 feet width. 
 
 7 feet on all sidewalks of 8 feet width. 
 
 8 feet on all sidewalks of 10 feet width. 
 
 10 feet on all sidewalks of 12 feet width. 
 
 11 feet on all sidewalks of 13 feet width. 
 
 12 feet on all sidewalks of 14 feet width. 
 
 12 feet on all sidewalks of 16 feet width. 
 
 The sidewalks on Hamilton Avenue from Talbot Avenue to 
 Twenty-seventh Street shall be 16 feet wide. 
 
 And the distance between trees to be designated and pre- 
 scribed by the Superintendent of Public Works. 
 
 Tree Planting. — There shall be no trees planted in the middle 
 of the streets with less than 70 feet width, and the middle plant- 
 ing shall be in streets of 70, 80, 90 and 99 feet width a single 
 row of trees 491 feet distance from the property line. 
 
 In streets 132 feet wide, the planting shall be in two rows 26 
 feet apart and 53 feet from property line. On Broad Street the 
 planting shall be in two rows 40 feet apart, distance 62 feet from 
 property line. In all cases of doubt arising from local con- 
 ditions such as railroads, amount of traffic, streams or ditches 
 and irregularities of ground, etc., the decision of the Superin- 
 tendent of Public Works shall be final. 
 
 The distance between all trees planted on any and all streets 
 shall be designated and prescribed by the Superintendent of 
 Public Works. Any person planting any tree or trees, other 
 than the manner provided, shall, upon notice by the Superin- 
 tendent of Public Works, remove the same within five days time; 
 in default of which the Superintendent of Public Works shall 
 cause the same to be removed at the expense of the person or 
 persons planting the same and in case of failure to remove the 
 same, the person or persons so planting said trees shall, on 
 conviction thereof, be fined by the Recorder in a sum not less 
 than $1.00, nor more than $20.00. 
 
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 CHAPTER 5 8. 
 
 PAVING AND CURBING.— PAVING AND CURBING SIDE- 
 WALKS— GENERAL REGULATIONS— RULES AND COST OF 
 —ASSESSMENTS FOR. 
 
 SECTION 572. — Superintendent of Public Works to Fix Grades 
 and Curbs. — Whenever Council shall by resolution or otherwise 
 give notice of intention to improve the sidewalks on certain 
 streets, the Superintendent of Public Works shall proceed to 
 fix the grade and locate the curb lines thereon, and under his 
 supervision and direction shall have suitable curbing set and the 
 walks properly graded and surfaced. 
 
 SEC. 573. — City May Construct or Contract. Assessments 
 Against Abutting Owners. — The cost of setting the curbing and 
 making the improvements shall be as follows: The city shall 
 
 furnish the curbing either by quarrying from its own quarry or 
 by contract to let to the lowest responsible bidder. The actual 
 cost of the curbing laid down on the sidewalk shall be paid by the 
 owners of the abutting property along and in front of which the 
 curbing is set and the cost of said curbing shall be assessed 
 against and charged to the owners of the abutting property, and 
 shall be collected as provided in the new Charter of the City of 
 Columbus. The city shall furnish the labor and pay all cost of 
 setting the curbing in place and all cost of grading and surfacing 
 the sidewalk. Whenever it may be necessary to lay drains 
 across the sidewalk in order to drain the abutting property, the 
 owners thereof shall pay the cost of such material as may be 
 required and the drain shall be laid by the city. Any or all 
 of the work prescribed in this Section may be done by the 
 city with hired labor, or by contract let to the lowest responsible 
 bidder, the whole to be done under the direction and supervision 
 of the Superintendent of Public Works, and in accordance with 
 the plans and specifications furnished by him. 
 
 SEC. 574. — Width. Material. Work by City. Superintendent 
 Supervises. — Whenever it is desirable and Council shall by reso- 
 lution or otherwise so designate, any sidewalk shall be paved 
 
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 to such width as may be prescribed by the Superintendent of 
 Public Works, the kind and character of pavement to be deter- 
 mined by Council. The work of constructing the pavement and 
 all necessary work attendant thereto shall be done by the City 
 of Columbus, either by contract let to the lowest responsible 
 bidder or directly with hired labor under the supervision of the 
 Superintendent of Public Works. 
 
 SEC. 575. — Bids for. Committee Advertises. City Awards. — 
 All contracts for the construction of sidewalk pavement, either 
 for the furnishing of material or for both material and labor, 
 shall be made and awarded by the Committee on Streets and 
 Sewers, after having been approved by the Mayor and Board of 
 Aldermen, and all pavements constructed or material furnished 
 under such contracts shall be in accordance with plans and 
 specifications furnished by the Superintendent of Public Works, 
 and the entire work shall be under his supervision and subject 
 to his approval. 
 
 SEC. 576. — Costs Assessed Against Abutting Owners. When 
 Due. Executions. — The entire cost of constructing pavement as 
 aforesaid, including all material and labor, shall be assessed 
 against and charged to the owners of the abutting property 
 along and in front of which the pavement is placed and shall be 
 collected as provided in the new Charter of the City of 
 Columbus, and shall be due and payable immediately on com- 
 pletion of the work and if not paid on or before the first day 
 of the following month, execution shall issue therefor and said 
 execution shall bear interest at the rate of seven per cent, per 
 annum until paid. 
 
 SEC. 577. — Repairs. Assessments for. — All repairs which may 
 be needed upon sidewalks which are now or may be hereafter 
 paved shall be repaired at the expense of the City of Columbus, 
 when said repairs have to be made within five years after the 
 building of said walks. After five years the cost of repairs shall 
 be assessed against the abutting property owners. 
 
 SEC. 578. — Owners May Pave with Consent of Committee on 
 Streets and Sewers. — No curbing shall be set and no sidewalk 
 pavement laid on any of the streets throughout the city except as 
 
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 provided in the preceding Sections; provided, however, any 
 property owner may, by and with the consent and approval of the 
 Committee on Streets and Sewers, pave and otherwise improve 
 the sidewalk in front of his property, if the sidewalk has not 
 already been ordered paved by Council as hereinbefore pro- 
 vided, the work to be done at the expense of and by the owner 
 of the property, but in accordance with plans and specifications, 
 lines and grades furnished and set by the Superintendent of 
 Public Works and under his direction and supervision. 
 
 SEC. 579. — Paving Assessments and Curbing Due. When. 
 Interest on. — All assessments against real estate, for street im- 
 provements, whether it be street paving or sidewalks paving, 
 shall be due and payable immediately on completion of the 
 said street improvement immediately in front of said abutting 
 real estate and if not paid on or before the first day of the 
 following month execution shall issue therefor, and said execu- 
 tion shall bear interest at the rate of seven per cent, per annum 
 until paid. 
 
 CHAPTER 5 9. 
 
 COLUMBUS, CITY OF— INVESTED WITH TITLE TO LAND. 
 
 SECTION 580.— (Acts of 1910, Pages 479, 480, 481.) Eleventh 
 Street. — An Act to vest in the City of Columbus, Georgia, 
 title to certain land now used for streets, and known as all 
 that part of Eleventh Street, (formerly Mercer Street), and extend- 
 ing to Seventh Avenue, and all that part of Seventh Avenue lying 
 north of the intersection of said avenue with the street leading 
 to the culvert under the Central of Georgia Railway tracks, with 
 power in said city to close said land for use as public streets and 
 to sell and convey the same, or exchange, for either land to be 
 used for street extension, and for other purposes. 
 
 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of 
 Georgia , and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same , 
 That from and after the passage of this Act, the title now vested 
 
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 in the State, shall vest absolutely in fee simple and without any 
 limitations or conditions, in the City of Columbus, in this State, 
 to the following described land in said city now used for street 
 purposes, to-wit: All that tract and parcel of land known as 
 
 part of Eleventh Street, (formerly St. Clair Street), lying east 
 of Sixth Avenue, (formerly Mercer Street), and extending to 
 Seventh Avenue, and all that part of Seventh Avenue lying north 
 of the intersection of said avenue with the street leading to the 
 culvert under the track of the Central of Georgia Railway Com- 
 pany, with power in said city to close said land, or any part there- 
 of for use as a public street and to sell and convey the same, or 
 any part thereof, or to exchange said land, or any part thereof, for 
 other land to be used for street extension or extensions, and in 
 such sale or exchange to convey to the purchaser good and suffi- 
 cient title in fee simple thereto, the proceeds of such sale or sales, 
 or any surplus in cash, if any, in case of exchange of said land, to 
 be covered into the Treasury of said city, and to be used and ex- 
 pended in such manner as the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of 
 said city may determine. Provided, however, that no part of 
 Eleventh Street east of Sixth Avenue, fronting the property of 
 the First African Baptist Church, Columbus, Georgia, shall be 
 closed by the city without consent of said church, unless said 
 church and the city agreed upon proper compensation for 
 damages to said church for closing said part of said street. 
 
 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid. That all 
 laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same 
 are, hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved August 3, 1910. 
 
 ACTS OF LEGISLATURE RELATING TO STREETS. 
 
 SECTION 581. — Columbus, Dedication of Street to Churches. 
 (Acts of 1907, Page 722.) — An Act to ratify and confirm the closing 
 to travel of the street between the lots of the First Baptist and 
 St. Luke Methodist Episcopal Churches, the same extending from 
 Second Avenue to Third Avenue, in Columbus, Georgia, and to 
 dedicate to said churches the land formerly used as said street. 
 
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 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of 
 Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, 
 That from and after the passage of this Act, the action of the 
 Mayor and Council of the City of Columbus, Georgia, in closing 
 to travel the street in the City of Columbus, Georgia, extending 
 between Second and Third Avenues and between the lots of the 
 First Baptist and of the St. Luke Methodist Churches, be, and it 
 is hereby ratified and confirmed. 
 
 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That 
 whereas the title to the land in the streets in the City of Colum- 
 bus is vested in the State of Georgia, that from and after the 
 passage of this Act, the title to the land heretofore dedicated to 
 and used as a street between the lots of the First Baptist and 
 St. Luke Methodist Episcopal Churches, in the City of Columbus, 
 is hereby given and dedicated to said churches, the north half 
 of said street to the First Baptist Church, and the south half 
 to the St. Luke Methodist Church, South, thereby adding to 
 the lots dedicated to said churches when the City of Columbus 
 was laid out by the State of Georgia. 
 
 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all 
 laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved August 9, 1907. 
 
ARTICLE VIII. 
 
 PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS— PUBLIC PROPERTY. 
 CEMETERIES. 
 
ARTICLE VIII. 
 
 CHAPTER 6 0. 
 
 CEMETERY REGULATIONS. 
 
 SECTION 582. — Burials. — No body shall be buried in any of 
 the streets or lanes, nor in any lots in any cemetery belonging 
 to private persons, without the consent of the owners thereof. 
 
 SEC. 583. — Sale of Lots. — The selling of lots in the cemeteries 
 shall be done by the Clerk of Council, who shall make out and 
 deliver to the purchaser upon receipt of the purchase money, a 
 deed to the same, which deed shall be signed by the Mayor and 
 said Clerk, upon behalf of the Mayor and Council. 
 
 SEC. 584. — Vehicles in Cemeteries. Regulations. — No carriage 
 or other vehicle shall be allowed to enter the cemeteries unless 
 at a funeral, when the sexton may permit such vehicles as con- 
 tain the family of the deceased person to enter with the hearse, 
 and no others and also such wagons, carts, etc., as may be em- 
 ployed in carrying building materials or other necessary articles 
 within the same. 
 
 SEC. 585. — Injuring Trees, Flowers or Monuments. Penalty. — 
 Any person who shall willfully mutilate or in any manner deface 
 any monument, fence or other enclosure or who shall break 
 down, injure or destroy any wild or cultivated flower, or any 
 trees, shrubs or plants in the cemetery, shall, upon conviction, be 
 fined not exceeding $25.00, or suffer other punishment in the 
 discretion of the Recorder; and it shall be the duty of the 
 Sexton to inform persons visiting the grounds of this Section. 
 
 SEC. 586. — Rubbish to be Removed From. — All piles of earth, 
 brick, mortar beds, rubbish or building materials of any kind 
 shall be removed by the party placing the same in the cemetery 
 within twenty-four hours after the completion of any 
 
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 work which may be done in the cemetery. Persons offending 
 against this Section shall be fined at the discretion of the 
 Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 587. — Pauper Burials. — All persons, white or colored, for 
 whom coffins are furnished or who are buried at the expense of 
 the city, shall be buried in lots in the cemetery known as 
 “Pauper burial ground.” The Sexton allowing the burial of 
 paupers elsewhere than said grounds, shall be held responsible 
 for any and all expense to the city for furnishing coffins, buHal, 
 etc., and the Sexton shall bury no one as a pauper unless upon 
 certificate of the City Physician or Marshal certifying that the 
 person to be buried is a pauper. 
 
 SEC. 588. — Rewards. — The Mayor is hereby authorized to offer 
 a reward of $20.00 for the conviction of any persons guilty of 
 committing depredations in the cemetery and that one-half of 
 the fine collected be paid to the informer. 
 
 SEC. 589. — Children Unattended Forbidden in Cemeteries. — 
 It shall be unlawful for children under the age of twelve years 
 to enter into or upon the grounds of any cemetery of said city 
 unless such child or children be accompanied by some older 
 person and it is hereby made the duty of the Sextons of the 
 cemeteries to see that this Section is enforced. 
 
 SEC. 590. — Dogs Forbidden in Cemeteries. — No dog shall be 
 allowed to enter the cemetery enclosure, and any person or per- 
 sons allowing their dogs to enter the cemetery shall be fined 
 in a sum not less than $5.00 nor more than $25.00, or suffer such 
 other punishment as the Recorder in his discretion m^y inflict; 
 and it shall be the duty of the Sexton to inform persons visiting 
 the grounds of this Section and also to report all violations of 
 this Ordinance. 
 
 SEC. 591. — Certain Streets Closed. — South Street No. 2, and 
 South Street No. 3, in Linwood cemetery shall be closed up and 
 the Superintendent of Public Works shall proceed at once to sur- 
 vey and layoff the ground heretofore occupied by said streets into 
 cemetery lots; and the Clerk shall proceed to offer said lots for 
 sale under such rules and regulations as may be adopted by 
 Council hereafter. This Section shall not go into effect until the 
 
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 written assent shall have been obtained of a majority of the 
 lot owners in Linwood cemetery, whose lots adjoin the streets 
 proposed to be closed. 
 
 SEC. 592. — Fees of City for Digging Graves. — The city shall 
 receive the following fees for digging graves: 
 
 For digging grave and interring white adult $5.00 
 
 For digging grave and interring colored adult 5.00 
 
 For digging grave and interring white child 3.00 
 
 For digging grave and interring colored child 2.00 
 
 SEC. 593. — Cemeteries. Under Supervision of Cemetery Com- 
 mittee. — The supervision of all the streets and alleys in the 
 cemetery belonging to the city is hereby placed under the 
 direction and control of the Committee on Cemeteries of the city 
 with full power and authority to keep and maintain the same in 
 suitable condition for travel thereon and to do this, said Com- 
 mittee shall have authority to call on the Superintendent of Public 
 Works of the city to make such surveys, establish such lines and 
 grades as they may direct. 
 
 SEC. 594. — For New Fences and Enclosures. — No new fences, 
 walls, copings or other enclosures shall be placed upon or 
 around any private burial lot in either of the cemeteries of the 
 city, except upon plans submitted to and approved by said Com- 
 mittee, the work to be done under the direction of the Superin- 
 tendent of Public Works or with his approval. 
 
 SEC. 595. — Permits for Repairing Houses and Enclosures. — 
 In repairing any fences, walls or copings now in use the work 
 shall be done as directed by said Committee on Cemeteries and 
 when such repairs are made the Committee shall have authority 
 to change the location of the walls, copings or fencing in order 
 to make them correspond with the lines of the said streets and 
 alleys as nearly as possible, the work to be done under the 
 direction of the Superintendent of Public Works. 
 
 SEC. 596. — Street Work to be Done by Street Committee. 
 When. — Upon the request of the Committee on Cemeteries and 
 approved by Council the Committee on Streets and Sewers shall 
 have such work done as may be necessary to carry out the 
 object and intent of the foregoing Sections. 
 
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 CHAPTER 61. 
 
 ROCK QUARRY. 
 
 SECTION 597. — Rules Governing Rock Quarry. — The Super- 
 visor shall have general authority over all property of the city 
 at the quarry. 
 
 The Supervisor shall have authority over all employees at 
 quarry and over all parties getting out stone, under contract or 
 otherwise. 
 
 The Supervisor shall employ all hands at quarry and may dis- 
 charge any employee for cause, but he shall report any discharge 
 in writing to the Superintendent of Public Works stating cause 
 for discharges. 
 
 He shall keep a time-book and enter up time made by every 
 hand each day and weekly; time-book to be subject to inspection 
 of Mayor and Board of Aldermen and Superintendent of Public 
 Works; shall report to the Superintendent of Public Works 
 at the end of every week, giving the number of hands at work 
 each day, time made by each hand daily and weekly, wages 
 made and approve same for payment. 
 
 The work hours at the quarry shall be such as shall be pre- 
 scribed by the Council or Superintendent of Public Works from 
 time to time. 
 
 No person shall be allowed to talk to any of the employees 
 without the consent of the Supervisor being first obtained. 
 The Supervisor shall keep the quarry grounds posted, and no 
 person shall be allowed on the grounds without the consent of 
 the Supervisor except the Mayor and Board of Aldermen and 
 Superintendent of Pubilc Works and such other parties as may 
 have business at the quarry. 
 
 It shall be the duty of the Supervisor to report in writing 
 to the Superintendent of Public Works the number of loaded 
 cars leaving the quarry every week, giving the number of the 
 car, character of contents, to whom consigned, and date of 
 shipment from quarry, and he shall keep a record of all such 
 cars in a book provided for such purpose. 
 
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 It shall be the duty of the Supervisor to report promptly in 
 writing to the Mayor any accidents to any person or persons 
 at the quarry, giving the name of the person or persons injured, 
 cause of accident, nature of wounds to best of his ability, names 
 of all witnesses present at the time of the accident and he shall 
 take down in writing as fully as possible testimony of witnesses 
 and forward to the Mayor. 
 
 It shall be the duty of the Supervisor to report promptly in 
 writing to the Superintendent of Public Works any accident to 
 any part of the machinery or buildings at the quarry, giving as 
 clear and full report as possible. 
 
 The Supervisor shall make a requisition on the Superintendent 
 of Public Works at the end of every week for all materials 
 needed and he shall keep a record of the same in a book to be 
 provided for such purpose. 
 
 The Supervisor shall keep an inventory of all tools and mate- 
 rials on hand and see that they are properly taken care of. 
 
 The City Council may at any time suspend work at the quarry 
 for any length of time at their discretion. 
 
 CHAPTER 62. 
 
 PUBLIC LIBRARY. 
 
 SECTION 598. — Accepting a Donation from Andrew Carnegie 
 of $30,000 for the Building of a Public Library, and Providing for 
 the Building of a Public Library, and Providing for its Support. 
 
 — Whereas, the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the City of 
 Columbus, Georgia, did by the Ordinance adopted July 2, 1902, 
 accept the offer of Andrew Carnegie to donate the sum of $25,000 
 for the erection of a public library in said city; provided, that 
 the city pledge itself to^ support said library at a cost of not 
 less than $2,500 a year; and, 
 
 Whereas, the Commissioner of Commons of said city did, on 
 February 10, 1906, set apart Mott’s Green as a site for said library 
 building and. 
 
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 Whereas, it is desirable to erect a building at a cost of $30,000 
 instead of $25,000, and Mr. Carnegie has signified his willingness 
 to donate said sum of $30,000; provided, the city will pledge 
 itself to provide the sum of $3,000 annually for the support of the 
 library; and. 
 
 Therefore, The Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the City of 
 Columbus have accepted, and do hereby accept the donation of 
 $30,000 for the erection of a public library and has pledged and 
 does hereby pledge itself to raise by taxation the sum of $3,000 
 annually to the support of said library. 
 
 CHAPTER 6 3. 
 
 PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 
 
 SECTION 599. — Board of Trustees. — Whereas, by the Ordi- 
 nance of Council organizing the Public School Board of Control, 
 which was afterwards changed to the Board of Trustees of the 
 Public Schools of the City of Columbus, it was provided that said 
 Board should consist of nine citizens, and should hold their office 
 for three years, and it should be so managed that only three 
 vacancies shall occur each year, and by Ordinance passed Feb- 
 ruary 11, 1867, the number of said Board was increased to 
 eleven; and, 
 
 Whereas, it is impracticable to manage for only three vacan- 
 cies to occur in each year; 
 
 Be it resolved, That it shall be so managed that four vacancies 
 shall occur for two years, and three vacancies shall occur every 
 third year. 
 
 SEC. 600. — Board of Trustees Report to Council. — The Board 
 of Trustees of the Public Schools shall lay before the City Coun- 
 cil annually, at its meeting on the first Wednesday in August, a 
 report showing the condition of the public schools during the 
 past year, with summaries of statistics as nearly as may be, in 
 tabulated form, giving all information, numerical, financial and 
 historical, of interest to the public; also estimates of the amount 
 
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 required for the support of the ensuing year, showing in detail 
 as many as may be, the items for which the amount is to be 
 expended; the report not to exceed when printed, two columns 
 in the city papers. The annual report of the Trustees of the 
 public schools shall be published in the city papers. (See also 
 new Charter.) 
 
 SEC. 601. — Appropriations by Council for Schools. — The City 
 Council will make appropriations for the public schools at their 
 meeting on the first Wednesday in August of each year, or at such 
 time as the Board of Trustees of the public schools shall lay 
 their report before them. 
 
 SEC. 602. — Vacancies in Board . — Be it ordained, that the 
 Trustees of the public schools of Columbus be, and are hereby, 
 authorized to declare vacancies in said Board on vote of two- 
 thirds of the members of the Board, for non-attendance or other 
 good and sufficient reason. 
 
ARTICLE IX 
 
 PRIVATE PROPERTY— PUBLIC REGULATION. 
 
ARTICLE IX. 
 
 CHAPTER 6 4. 
 
 FRANCHISE— AUTOMATIC TELEPHONE COMPANY. 
 
 SECTION 603. — Authorizing the Columbus Automatic Tele- 
 phone Company, John T. Norman, George B. Young, its Succes- 
 sors, and Assigns to Use the Public Streets of the City of 
 Columbus, Georgia, for the Purpose of Placing Poles and Elec- 
 trical Conductors Under the Same. — 
 
 (a.) Permission is hereby granted to the Columbus Automatic 
 Telephone Company, its successors and assigns to erect, operate 
 and maintain lines of telephone, including the necessary poles, 
 fixtures and electrical conductors upon, along and over, and sub- 
 ways for electrical conductors under the public roads, streets and 
 highways of the City of Columbus, Georgia, as its business may 
 from time to time require; provided, that all poles shall be neat, 
 symmetrical and painted in conformity with the provisions of 
 the laws of this Code relating to poles and that no electrical 
 conductors shall be placed less than twenty feet above the 
 surface of the ground. 
 
 (b.) The work of erecting and locating poles and constructing 
 subways and all other work done in the streets by virtue of this 
 Section shall be done under the supervision and approval of 
 the Superintendent of Public Works, which approval must first 
 be obtained before the commencement of any work, and the 
 said Columbus Automatic Telephone Company shall replace and 
 properly relay any sidewalk or street that may be displaced by 
 reason of the erection or construction of such poles or subways 
 as directed by the Superintendent of Public Works, and upon 
 the failure of the Company after notice shall have been given by 
 the Superintendent of Public Works to said Company to begin 
 such repairs at once and continue the work with diligence until 
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 completed satisfactory to the Superintendent of Public Works, 
 the city may make such repairs and collect the cost of the same 
 from said Company. 
 
 (c.) Said Company shall provide one cross-arm on each pole 
 and space not to exceed one duct in the subways constructed by 
 virtue of the provisions of this Section, for the free use of the 
 police and fire alarm systems of the City of Columbus, when so 
 requested by the Mayor. 
 
 (d.) Said Company shall at all times be subject to the laws 
 of the City of Columbus now in existence or which may here- 
 after be passed, relative to the use of the public streets by tele- 
 phone and telegraph companies, and to any and all other laws 
 relative to the use of the streets or otherwise when applicable. 
 
 (e.) Said Company shall indemnify the City of Columbus 
 against and assume all liabilities for damages which may arise or 
 accrue to the City of Columbus, Georgia, or to any person 
 holding the city liable from any injury to persons or property 
 from the doing of any work or growing out of any work done, 
 authorized or the neglect of said Company or any of its em- 
 ployees to comply with any law relative to the use of the 
 streets of said city and the operation of the Company under 
 the provisions of this Section shall be an agreement by it to 
 pay to the City of Columbus, Georgia, any sum of money for 
 which the city may become liable from or by reason of such 
 injury. 
 
 (f.) Any combination with or sale to any other competing or 
 organized telephone company doing business in the City of 
 Columbus, within the period of five years from the date of 
 July 3, 1902, shall operate as a forfeiture of all rights and 
 privileges herein and hereby granted to this Company. 
 
 (g.) This Section is to be construed as a permit or franchise 
 and not as a contract between the Columbus Automatic Tele- 
 phone Company and the City of Columbus, Georgia. 
 
 (h.) The provisions of this Section shall be in force from and 
 after the date of July 3, 1902, and the preliminary work and 
 actual construction of said telephone system shall be commenced 
 by said Company at a period not later than the first day of April, 
 
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 1903, and pushed to completion on or before October 1, 1903. 
 Otherwise the privileges and franchise herein granted to said 
 Company shall be revoked and annulled and this Section shall be 
 of no force and effect but void for all intents and purposes. 
 
 SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY. 
 
 SECTION 604. — Franchise. — It is ordained by the Mayor and 
 Board of Aldermen of the City of Columbus that permission be, 
 and the same is hereby granted to the Southern Bell Telephone 
 and Telegraph Company, its successors and assigns to erect, 
 operate and maintain lines of telephone and telegraph, including 
 the necessary poles, fixtures and electrical conductors upon, 
 along and over and subways for electrical conductors under the 
 public roads, streets and highways of the City of Columbus, as 
 its business may from time to time require; provided, that all 
 poles shall be neat, symmetrical and painted in conformity with 
 the present city laws or any subsequent city laws relating to poles 
 and that no electrical conductor shall be placed less than twenty 
 feet above the surface of the ground. 
 
 SEC. 605. — That the work of erecting and locating poles, and 
 constructing subways and all other work done in the streets by 
 virtue of this Ordinance shall be done under the supervision and 
 approval of the Superintendent of Public Works, which approval 
 must first be obtained before the commencement of any work, 
 and the said Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company 
 shall replace and properly relay any sidewalk or street that 
 may be displaced by reason of the erection or construction of 
 such poles or subways as directed by the Superintendent of 
 Public Works, and upon failure of the company after notice 
 shall have been given by the Superintendent of Public Works 
 to said company to begin such repairs at once and continue the 
 work with diligence until completed satisfactory to the Superin- 
 tendent of Public Works, the city may make such repairs and 
 collect the cost of the same from the company. 
 
 SEC. 606. — Said company shall provide one cross-arm on each 
 pole, and space not to exceed one duct in the subways con- 
 structed by virtue of this Ordinance, for the free use of the 
 
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 police and fire alarm telegraph system of the City of Columbus, 
 when so required by the Mayor. 
 
 SEC. 607. — Said company shall at all times be subject to the 
 city Ordinances now in existence or which may hereafter be 
 passed relative to the use of the public streets by telephone and 
 telegraph companies and to any and all other Ordinances relative 
 to the use of the streets or otherwise when applicable. 
 
 SEC. 608. — Said company shall indemnify the City of Colum- 
 bus, Georgia, against and assume all liabilities for damages which 
 may arise or accrue to the City of Columbus or to any person 
 holding the city liable from any injury to persons or property 
 from the doing of any work or growing out of any work done 
 herein authorized hr the neglect of said Company or any of its 
 employees to comply with any Ordinance relative to the use of 
 the streets of said city, and the operation of the company under 
 this Ordinance shall be an agreement by it to pay to the City of 
 Columbus any sum of money for which the city may become 
 liable from or by reason of such injury. 
 
 SEC. 609. — This Ordinance is to be construed as a permit or 
 franchise and not as a contract between the Southern Bell 
 Telephone and Telegraph Company and the City of Columbus. 
 
 SEC. 610. — This Ordinance shall be in force from and after 
 the date of its passage. 
 
 Adopted in Council October 4, 1899. Approved October 5, 1899. 
 
 CHAPTER 65. 
 
 RAILROAD COMPANIES. 
 
 SECTION 611. — The various railroad companies now entering 
 at Columbus shall be allowed, and are hereby empowered, to con- 
 struct and maintain a single railroad bed and one track (except 
 when the gauge differs, then two tracks may be laid upon one 
 and the same bed) upon First Avenue or Second Avenue and also 
 either Twelfth, Eleventh or Tenth Streets; provided , that no 
 track is allowed upon more than one street running north and 
 
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 south, nor upon more than one street running east and west; and, 
 provided, further, that the streets to be used under this privilege 
 shall be fixed by the selection made by the company which may 
 first avail itself of the privileges hereby granted. 
 
 SEC. 612. — The said railroad track or tracks shall not interfere 
 with the proper drainage or free use of the streets, nor extend 
 west of First Avenue; and at this terminus or intersection a pas- 
 senger station, similar to that used on Broad Street by the Mobile 
 and Girard Railroad may be constructed and maintained upon the 
 following conditions: First, trains passing through the city 
 
 shall not move at a greater speed than four miles per hour; 
 the passenger station herein allowed shall be so constructed as 
 to allow ample room for the passage of all vehicles, it being stip- 
 ulated and required that for any violation of this contract the 
 railroad company offending shall forfeit all privileges herein 
 granted, at the will and pleasure of the Council. 
 
 SEC. 613. — Whereas, under the terms and conditions of the 
 Act of the Legislature entitled an Act to authorize the con- 
 nection of the Muscogee Railroad with the Opelika Branch Rail- 
 road and the Mobile and Girard Railroad at Columbus, assented 
 to December 21, 1857, the question as to whether a connection 
 should be made by said railroad was submitted to a vote of the 
 people of the City of Columbus, and in such election in a single 
 line along Ninth Street; and, 
 
 Whereas, a side track has been laid in Ninth Street by the 
 Mobile and Girard Railroad and other side tracks have been laid 
 by said railroads or their legal successors in what was originally 
 the common of the City of Columbus, and no consent of the 
 people of the City of Columbus was given for the laying down 
 and using any side tracks, including the loading and unloading 
 cars in the streets, in any of the streets or commons of said city; 
 wherefore, 
 
 ’ SEC. 614. — An election shall be held at the court house in 
 the City of Columbus, on the 28th day of April, 1887, for the pur- 
 pose of obtaining the consent of the people of Columbus to the 
 laying down and using of such side tracks, including the loading 
 and unloading of cars in the same, as may have been already 
 
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 laid down in Ninth Street and elsewhere for the delivery of 
 freight to the citizens or persons doing business on said Ninth 
 Street or any other street, or in any part of said commons; and 
 also for the purpose of obtaining the consent of the people of 
 Columbus that other side tracks may be so laid down by said 
 railroads or their successors owning and operating said railroads 
 in any of the streets of the City of Columbus for the delivery of 
 freight to the citizens or persons doing business on any such 
 streets, including the right to load and unload in any such 
 streets; that at said election all the people of the City of Colum- 
 bus entitled by law to vote may vote; and those who consent to 
 the laying down and use of such tracks, including the right of 
 loading and unloading cars in the streets as are already laid 
 down, and also consent that other such tracks may be so 
 laid down and used in Ninth Street and in other streets of the 
 city and upon the commons of the city, upon such terms and 
 conditions and in such manner and at such times as the Mayor 
 and Council may agree upon, may manifest their consent by 
 voting “For side tracks, with the privilege of loading and 
 unloading cars in the street;” and those who do not consent 
 shall manifest their opposition by voting “Against sidetracks.” 
 
 That if at such election, a majority of the votes cast shall be 
 in favor of side tracks, then the people of the City of Columbus 
 shall be held to have given their consent to the laying down and 
 use of the side tracks already so laid down, including the 
 privilege of loading and unloading cars in the street, and to 
 authorize the Mayor and Council to permit other such side 
 tracks to be laid down and used upon such terms and in such 
 manner and at such times as the Mayor and Council shall agree 
 upon and prescribe. 
 
 SEC. 615. — Whereas , the Board of Trade of Columbus have 
 petitioned the Mayor and Council to relieve the railroads enter- 
 ing Columbus and who have received gifts of land from the com- 
 mons Commissioners to be used for railroad purposes only, from 
 said conditions, so that said railroads can sell or lease any part 
 or fraction of any of said land to any individual or corpora- 
 tion; and. 
 
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 Whereas, there is need for building lots with railroad fronts 
 for manufacturing purposes and for mercantile business; and, 
 Whereas, it is the duty of the Mayor and Council to encourage 
 and foster the material prosperity of the city and promote the 
 rapid growth that is now upon the city; therefore, 
 
 SEC. 616 . — Be it ordained. That the Columbus and Rome Rail- 
 road Company, the Western Railway of Alabama, the Central 
 Railroad and Banking Company of Georgia, the Mobile and 
 Girard Railroad Company, the Georgia Midland and Gulf Rail- 
 road Company and the Columbus Southern Railroad Com- 
 pany, all or either of them are hereby authorized and empowered 
 to sell or lease any portion or fraction of any land dedicated to 
 any of said railroads by the commons Commissioners for rail- 
 road purposes only; the said Mayor and Council hereby relieving 
 any portion or fraction of land sold or leased from forfeiture. 
 
 Resolved, That said railroads or either of them, will and shall, 
 pay to the Treasurer of the City of Columbus one-half of the 
 purchase money received for the land sold upon the sale of the 
 same, and one-half of each year’s rental for the rent or lease of 
 any of said land during the entire period of said rental or lease. 
 
 CHAPTER 6 6. 
 
 COLUMBUS RAILROAD COMPANY.— ORDINANCE OF 
 AUGUST 3, 1887. 
 
 SECTION 617. — Columbus Railroad Company. Powers . — Be it 
 ordained. That the Columbus Railroad Company be, and the 
 same is hereby allowed to propel its cars on any of its lines 
 now built or hereafter to be constructed, by steam engines; 
 that said cars shall not be propelled through the streets of 
 said city at a greater rate of speed than six miles per hour. 
 
 SEC. 618. — Obstructing Tracks Forbidden. — That it shall not be 
 lawful for any individual to obstruct the track of said company, 
 in person or with any vehicle, by walking or driving up or 
 down the same, but nothing in this Ordinance shall be construed 
 
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 to prevent any person, while walking or driving a vehicle of 
 any description, from crossing said track at pleasure. 
 
 SEC. 619. — Police Powers, Conductors and Mortormen. 
 Arrests . — Be it ordained, That from and after the passage of this 
 Ordinance, the conductors and drivers of the Columbus Railroad 
 Company are hereby given full power and authority to make 
 arrests of any persons for drunkenness, disorderly conduct, or 
 any violation of any city Ordinance, on any of the cars of said 
 company; and for these purposes, said conductors and drivers 
 are hereby made a part of the police force of the City of Colum- 
 bus without pay from said city. 
 
 Be it further ordained , That said conductors and drivers shall 
 be furnished with police whistles and badges by the Chief of 
 Police, and all signals given by them shall be immediately 
 responded to by the police of said city. Provided, that before 
 said powers shall be exercised by said drivers or conductors, 
 their names shall be submitted to the Mayor and approved by 
 him. 
 
 CHAPTER 6 7. 
 
 SALE OF MOBILE AND GIRARD RAILROAD STOCK. 
 
 ORDINANCE OF JULY 1, 1885. 
 
 SECTION 620. — Whereas, The bonded debt of the City of 
 Columbus, aggregating about one-half million dollars, has been 
 created by municipal subscription to the capital stock of 
 the four railroads entering the city, while the same were inde- 
 pendent railroads; and. 
 
 Whereas, Since such subscriptions were made, each and all of 
 said railroads have ceased to be competing lines as was intended 
 and have passed under the control of the Central Railroad and 
 Banking Company of Georgia, and all are being run and operated 
 by that system as continuous lines; and, 
 
 Whereas, From such causes the citizens of Columbus are 
 deprived of the benefits of legitimate competition as intended, 
 
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 and which their means were expected to secure, and in con- 
 sequence the trade of the city has been restricted and the value of 
 property largely depreciated; and, 
 
 Whereas , One of said railroads, to-wit: the Mobile and 
 
 Girard Railroad Company, is a corporation existing under the 
 laws of the State of Alabama, and has never been completed as 
 intended, and in consequence of the subscription made, the City 
 of Columbus is owner of a large number of shares of the capital 
 of said railroad, which stock has no fixed market value, and 
 has been held by the city for twenty years without any dividend 
 having been paid thereon; and, 
 
 Whereas, All material interests of the City of Columbus, its 
 trade, convenience of travel, appreciation of the property of 
 her citizens, would be greatly advanced and promoted by 
 making the Mobile and Girard Railroad an independent and com- 
 peting line, by construction of a line of railroad in a northerly 
 direction, connecting with systems other than the Central Rail- 
 road and Banking Company; 
 
 Therefore , For the purpose of realizing to the City of Colum- 
 bus the value of said stock, and for the additional purpose, so 
 far as can be legally done, of securing legitimate competition in 
 the transportation of freight and passengers to and from the 
 City of Columbus, 
 
 SEC. 621 . — Be it ordained, That all the shares of the capital 
 stock of the Mobile and Girard Railroad Company owned and 
 held by the City of Columbus, in its corporate capacity, together 
 with all and every interest therein and connected therewith, 
 whether direct or reversionary, and all the rights and benefits 
 which have accrued therefrom, together with all the scrip 
 issued or which hereafter shall be issued on same, and every 
 interest, value and property therein, and resulting therefrom, 
 be and the same is hereby transferred, assigned and made over 
 to G. Gunby Jordan, Isaac Joseph and two citizens to be named 
 by the Mayor for the purpose hereafter mentioned; and his 
 honor, the Mayor of the City of Columbus, is hereby authorized 
 and instructed, in the corporate name of said city, to transfer, 
 assign and convey to said persons, in their own name, all the 
 
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 certificates of stock and property owned by the said City of 
 Columbus in its corporate name and capacity in the Mobile and 
 Girard Railroad Company, and to sign the corporate name of the 
 city to such acquittances, receipts, transfers, releases, on the 
 books of said company, and elsewhere as may be necessary, 
 customary and required to vest in said persons as aforesaid, in 
 their own name, the full and complete title and control of all the 
 shares of stock, rights, interests and property, in being or expect- 
 ancy, which said city, in its corporate capacity, may have, or 
 be entitled to have, in said Mobile and Girard Railroad Company, 
 and as may be necessary to fully execute and carry out the object 
 of this action of the Mayor and Council of the City of Columbus. 
 Said transfer shall include all the stock and property in said Rail- 
 road Company which rightfully belongs to the City of Columbus, 
 in the corporate capacity, whether now held in the name of 
 “The Mayor and Council of the City of Columbus,” or standing 
 on the books of said railroad company in any other name. 
 
 SEC. 622 . — Be it further ordained, That said G. Gunby Jordan, 
 
 Isaac Joseph, and are 
 
 hereby fully authorized and empowered to sell such stock and 
 property at such time as they may agree on, at private sale, 
 and for such consideration as they may deem to be the interest of 
 the City of Columbus, and by their own conveyance or transfer, 
 made in their own name, to transfer to the purchasers thereof 
 full legal title thereto. They are further authorized and em- 
 powered to sell all of said stock and other property for cash, 
 bonds, stock or other thing of value, as to them may seem best; 
 and should such sale be made for a consideration other than 
 cash, to take title thereof in their own name, and proceed as 
 soon as practicable thereafter, to sell and dispose of such 
 property, bonds and stock, or other articles of value so received 
 as consideration, for cash or private sale, and the cash proceeds 
 of any sale made by them shall be paid by them to the Treas- 
 urer of the city, for which his receipt shall be voucher. 
 
 SEC. 623. — In all sales made by them of the stock and property 
 of the Mobile and Girard Railroad Company, preference shall be 
 given to such purchasers as will use the stock and property so 
 as to make the Mobile and Girard Railroad independent of and a 
 
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 competing line with the system now controlling it. They are 
 further directed and instructed in making the sales herein 
 authorized to aid, assist and encourage the construction of a 
 line of railroad northward from the City of Columbus, which 
 will connect, within this state, with any competing system of 
 railroad; provided, only , that such action on their part shall be 
 restricted to such acts and arrangements as are legal and proper 
 under the constitution and laws of this state. 
 
 SEC. 624 . — And be it further ordained, That in order to fully 
 carry out the instruction of the Mayor and Council of the City of 
 Columbus, said persons named and authorized and empowered 
 to bring and prosecute in their own name for the use of the 
 Mayor and Council of the City of Columbus, all suits and pro- 
 cesses in the courts of law and equity of this state, as may be 
 found necessary to secure control and manage any and all of 
 such stock and property against any person, firm or corporation 
 holding the same. 
 
 SEC. 625 . — And be it further ordained, That the Mobile and 
 Girard Railroad Company as well as the purchasers of said stock 
 and property, shall in no manner be held responsible for a 
 proper execution of the duties herein imposed on the said G. 
 Gunby Jordan, Isaac Joseph, and 
 
 SEC. 626. — The said persons, after the performance of the 
 duties assigned, shall in writing, make to the Mayor and Council 
 of the City of Columbus, a report of the sale made by them, and 
 shall account for all sums of money that may come into their 
 hands as proceeds of the property sold, as well as all property 
 which may remain in their hands unsold. 
 
 CHAPTER 6 8. 
 
 GAS AND WATER COMPANIES. 
 
 SECTION 627. — Cut-offs of Gas and Water Pipes. — All cut-offs 
 of gas and water, also water meters on the service pipes of 
 said gas and waterworks hereafter laid or put down in the 
 
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 City of Columbus when laid on the streets shall be placed just 
 within the outer edge of the sidewalk, next to the curbstone, and 
 all such cut-offs and meters shall be properly and securely 
 boxed in iron boxes in such a manner as may be approved by the 
 Superintendent of Public Works, so that said gas or water as the 
 case may be, may be cut off and turned on to the customers with- 
 out having to dig or displace the street or sidewalk or paving 
 thereon. 
 
 That all gas and water companies doing business in the 
 City of Columbus shall move all cut-offs and meters within the 
 line of such curbstone and grades as designated by the Superin- 
 tendent of Public Works, and shall properly and securely box all 
 their cut-offs and meters connecting with consumers so that the 
 supply of such gas or water may be cut off or turned on without 
 having to dig on any street, pavement, macadam or sidewalk 
 so to do. Such cut-offs and meters to be put down under the 
 approval of the Superintendent of Public Works, and all to be 
 of iron or metal approved by the Superintendent of Public 
 Works. 
 
 CHAPTER 6 9. 
 
 NORTH HIGHLANDS RAILROAD COMPANY. 
 
 SECTION 628. — Ordinances in Reference to. — To authorize the 
 North Highlands Railroad Company in addition to the privileges 
 and right of way heretofore granted it over the streets of the 
 City of Columbus to extend, lay out and construct the tracks of 
 the said railroad company over certain other streets of said 
 city besides those now occupied by it, and to operate and propel 
 its cars over and upon the same by animal power, steam, elec- 
 tricity, cable or other motive power, and other purposes, the 
 North Highlands Railroad Company be, and it is hereby empow- 
 ered, in addition to the right of way heretofore granted it, to ex- 
 tend, lay out and construct the tracks of its said railroad from the 
 present main line now occupied and operated by it on Second 
 Avenue from said Second Avenue out and upon Fifteenth Street 
 
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 to Broad Street, down Broad Street and as near the center as 
 may be to Eighth Street, out Eighth Street to First Avenue, 
 down First Avenue to Fifth Street, out Fifth Street to Fifth 
 Avenue, down Fifth Avenue to Third Street, so that said com- 
 pany may reach the Exposition Grounds and the new Riverdale 
 Cemetery and from Fifth Street up Fifth Avenue lo the line of 
 its present right of way on Eleventh Street and from its main 
 line on Second Avenue, out Eighteenth Street to Tenth Avenue, 
 up Tenth Avenue to Talbot Avenue, up Talbot Avenue to the 
 city limits, with the right to operate and propel its cars upon 
 and over said streets and avenues by animal, steam, electricity, 
 cable or other power, subject to such rules and regulations as 
 may be prescribed by the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of this 
 city. 
 
 Said railroad company shall have the right, and the consent of 
 the Mayor and Board of Aldermen is hereby given to it, to 
 parallel the tracks of any other railroad company on and upon 
 those portions of the streets and avenues in said Second Section 
 of this Ordinance designated over which the tracks of said North 
 Highlands Railroad Company are hereby authorized to be ex- 
 tended. 
 
 The said North Highlands Railroad Company be, and is hereby 
 authorized to construct and use such side tracks, turn-outs, and 
 other appliances, along and over said streets as may be neces- 
 sary for the operation of its said railroad, and to cross the tracks 
 of any other railroad alone and over its said route. 
 
 Be it further ordained, That the North Highlands Railroad 
 Company be, and it is hereby required, to commence construction 
 of the proposed extension of its tracks within six months from 
 the date of this Ordinance, and that they be required to complete 
 the same within twenty-four months from this date on all 
 streets on which the right to build is asked for, and that each, 
 every and all tracks, the right of which is asked of this Council 
 to construct before the Broad Street parallel is allowed. 
 
 Be it further ordained, That the said North Highlands Rail- 
 road Company be required to operate schedules on each and all 
 of said tracks for fourteen hours per day. 
 
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 Be it further ordained, That unless said company shall com- 
 mence work within six months from the date of this Ordinance 
 and complete the same within twenty-four months from the 
 date of commencing said work, that the rights and privileges 
 granted by this Ordinance and amendment thereto be revoked. 
 Adopted July 6, 1893. 
 
 SEC. 629. — To authorize the North Highlands Railroad Com- 
 pany to lay down and construct its tracks over and upon certain 
 streets of the City of Columbus and to operate and propel its 
 cars over and upon the same, by animal power, steam, elec- 
 tricity, cable or other motive power and for other purposes. The 
 North Highlands Railroad Company be, and it is hereby authoriz- 
 ed and empowered to lay down and construct a line of street rail- 
 road for the transportation of passengers and freight along and 
 over the entire length of Second Avenue, Sixth Avenue, Eleventh 
 and Sixteenth Streets in said city, or any portions thereof and 
 over and along Third Street, to and into the Exposition Grounds 
 with such terminal facilities therein as may be necessary, but 
 the tracks of said railroad company not to extend further 
 within the Exposition Grounds than the race track; the tracks of 
 said railroad to be laid along said streets under the direction of 
 the Street Committee. Said railroad company shall have the 
 right, and the consent of the Mayor and Board of Aldermen is 
 hereby given to it, to parallel the track of the Columbus Rail- 
 road Company on the same street on Second Avenue where the 
 same is occupied by the Columbus Railroad Company, and also 
 to parallel the track of the Georgia Midland and Gulf Railroad 
 Company and the Columbus Railroad Company on the same 
 street on Sixth. Avenue where said avenue is occupied by said 
 railroads. 
 
 Said North Highlands Railroad Company shall be, and is 
 hereby authorized to propel its cars over its road and through 
 and over said streets by means of animal power, steam, elec- 
 tricity, cables or other such motive power as said company may 
 select, subject to such rules and regulations as may be pre- 
 scribed by the Mayor and Board of Aldermen. 
 
 Said North Highlands Railroad Company shall be, and is 
 hereby authorized to construct and use such side tracks, turn- 
 
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 outs, and other appliances along and over said streets as may be 
 necessary for the operation of its railroad and to cross the 
 tracks of any other railroad along and over its said route. 
 Inasmuch as the Columbus Railroad Company now occupies said 
 Second Avenue for a distance of over 2,400 feet, and has hereto- 
 fore decided to extend its tracks on Second Avenue, that said North 
 Highlands Railroad Company shall accept its right of way on 
 Second Avenue subject to the right of the Columbus Railroad 
 Company at any time hereafter to extend its lines northwardly 
 on Second Avenue to an intersection with its tracks on Twelfth 
 Street; and permission is hereby granted to said Columbus 
 Railroad Company to extend its lines on Second Avenue as afore- 
 said. The new track laid by the Columbus Railroad Company 
 on Second Avenue shall be laid on the west side of the center 
 of said Second Avenue and the tracks of said North Highlands 
 Railroad Company shall be laid on the east side of the center 
 of said Second Avenue; and each track shall be laid a sufficient 
 distance from the center of said avenue to prevent any inter- 
 ference of one line with the other by reason of poles, wires 
 or other necessary appliances. 
 
 Adopted February 4, 1891. 
 
 SEC. 630. — To authorize the North Highlands Railroad Com- 
 pany, in addition to the privileges and rights of way heretofore 
 granted it over the said streets of the City of Columbus, to 
 extend, lay out and construct the tracks of the said railroad 
 company over certain other streets of said city besides those 
 now occupied by it, and to operate and propel its cars over and 
 upon the same, by animal power, steam, electricity, cable or 
 other motive power and for other purposes. 
 
 The North Highlands Railroad Company be, and is hereby 
 empowered in addition to the right of way heretofore granted it, 
 to extend, lay out and construct the tracks of its said railroad 
 from the present main line now occupied and operated by it 
 on Second Avenue from said Second Avenue out and upon 
 Fifteenth Street to Broad Street, down Broad Street to First 
 Avenue, down First Avenue to Fifth Street, out Fifth Street to 
 Fourth Avenue, down fourth Avenue to Third Street, so that said 
 
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 company may reach the Exposition Grounds and the new River- 
 dale Cemetery. And from its main line on Second Avenue out 
 Eighteenth Street to Tenth Avenue, up Tenth Avenue to Talbot 
 Avenue, up Talbot Avenue to the city limits, with the right to 
 operate and propel its cars upon and over said streets and 
 avenues by animal power, steam, electricity, cable or other 
 power, subject to such rules and regulations as may be pre- 
 scribed by the Mayor and Board of Aldermen. 
 
 Said railroad company shall have the right, and the consent 
 of the Mayor and Board of Aldermen is hereby given to it, to 
 parallel the tracks of any other railroad company on or upon 
 those portions of the streets and avenues in said Section 2, of this 
 Ordinance designated, over which the tracks of the said North 
 Highlands Railroad Company are hereby authorized to be ex- 
 tended. 
 
 The said North Highlands Railroad Company be, and is here- 
 by authorized to construct and use such side tracks, turn-outs, 
 and other appliances along and over said streets as may be 
 necessary for the operation of its said railroad, and to cross the 
 tracks of any other railroad along and over its said route. 
 
ARTICLE X 
 
 MAYOR’S OR RECORDER’S COURT— POLICE 
 
 DISTRICT. 
 
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ARTICLE X. 
 
 CHAPTER 7 0. 
 
 RECORDER’S COURT. 
 
 SECTION 631. — Recorder’s Court. Terms and Powers. — It shall 
 be the duty of the Recorder of said city to hold a court to be 
 called the “Recorder’s Court,” at such time and place within said 
 city as he may order and appoint for the trial of all offenders 
 against the laws and Ordinances of said city; and he is hereby 
 fully authorized to inflict such fines and penalties upon offenders 
 as he may deem proper and just, not exceeding the limits 
 allowed by law, or prescribed by Ordinances of Council, and to 
 enforce the judgment of the court by the attachment of the 
 person by execution; and to punish witnesses for non-attendance 
 or other contempts as a court of record may do. 
 
 SEC. 632. — Clerk of Recorder’s Court. — The Recorder shall be 
 ex-officio Clerk of said Court, and shall keep a regular docket 
 upon which he shall enter all cases brought before said Court 
 for investigation or trial, together with the judgment of the 
 Court in each case, and the amount of the costs and fines, or 
 other penalty assessed; and he shall make entry thereon when 
 excution for costs and fines shall issue, and the time of the 
 delivery of the same to the Marshal. The Clerk of Council 
 shall sign and issue all processes, summons, attachments and 
 executions which shall bear test in the name of said Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 633. — Recorder’s Duties as Ex-officio Clerk. — It shall be 
 the duty of the said Recorder to enter upon said docket the 
 names of all persons confined in the guard house, and also the 
 nature of the offense for which such person was confined; 
 and all such cases shall be tried by said Court within twenty- 
 four hours after confinement in said guard house. Whenever 
 any offense is reported by any person to the said Clerk of Court, 
 
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 it shall be his duty forthwith to issue a summons directed to 
 the offender stating the character of the particular part of the 
 Ordinance or Section charged to have been violated, and the 
 date of the alleged violation, and the time and place of holding 
 said Court and all such cases shall be tried within three days 
 after being reported; but the Recorder may continue any case 
 in said Court for good and special reasons, to such time or 
 times as the ends of justice may require. Such summons shall 
 be served personally upon the defendant by the Chief of Police 
 or any policeman of said city and whenever it appears that such 
 service has been made, the Court may proceed to investigate 
 the case and pass judgment whether the defendant is present or 
 absent without excuse. 
 
 SEC. 634. — State Offenses. Defendant Bound Over. — If, after 
 an investigation of any case, it shall appear that the said Court 
 has no jurisdiction to determine it, the Recorder shall require 
 the defendant to enter into bond, conditioned to appear before 
 the next term of the Court having jurisdiction, to answer for such 
 offense, which said bond shall be turned over to the proper 
 officer of said Court. In default of such bonds the Recorder 
 shall have power to commit the defendant to jail to answer 
 the charge at the next term of the Court having jurisdiction 
 thereof. 
 
 SEC. 635. — Costs in Recorder’s Court be Paid into the City 
 Treasury, Etc. — Costs arising in the Recorder’s Court of said 
 city shall be paid into the City Treasury of said city, and the 
 Clerk and Marshal of said city shall receive no costs, fees or 
 perquisites whatever for cases tried or reported to the Record- 
 er’s Court. 
 
 SEC. 636. — Recorder’s Court May Punish for Contempt. 
 Penalty. — The Recorder’s Court shall have power to issue at- 
 tachments and inflict summary punishment for contempt of 
 court. Said power shall not extend to any case except the 
 misbehavior of any person or persons in the presence of said 
 Court, or so near thereto as to obstruct the administration of 
 justice, the misbehavior of any of the officers of said Court in 
 their official transactions and the disobedience or resistance by 
 
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 any officer of said Court, party, witness or other person or 
 persons to any lawful writ, process, order, rule or command of 
 said Court. 
 
 The Recorder’s Court shall have power to punish any person 
 or persons in contempt as aforesaid by a fine not to exceed 
 $50.00, or imprisonment not to exceed five days, either or 
 both, in the discretion of the Court. 
 
 SEC. 637. — Bond Forfeitures Recorder’s Court. — In all cases 
 where persons charged with the commission or violations of 
 the laws and Ordinances of the City of Columbus, shall give 
 bond for their appearance before the Recorder’s Court of said 
 City of Columbus, or where witnesses summoned to appear 
 before said Court shall give bond for their appearance, and it 
 shall become necessary to forfeit said bonds for the non-appear- 
 ance of such persons; that the mode of procedure to forfeit such 
 bonds in said Recorder’s Court, shall be the same in all essentials 
 as is now provided by the laws of Georgia for the forfeiture of 
 bonds in criminal cases in the Superior Court of said State of 
 Georgia. 
 
 CHAPTER 71. 
 
 POLICE DISTRICT. 
 
 SECTION 638. — Establishing Police Jurisdiction Over Certain 
 Territory Outside Corporate Limits. — That the provisions of the 
 Charter of the City of Columbus embraced in this Code are 
 hereby declared to be in full force and effect in all of the parks 
 and territory immedialtely adjacent thereto reached by the lines 
 of the Columbus Railroad Company lying within the State of 
 Georgia, and within three miles of a straight line from any point 
 of the corporate limits of the City of Columbus and on all cars 
 running on the lines of the Columbus Railroad Company lying 
 within the above described limits; provided, that the said rail- 
 road company shall, at its own expense and without cost to the 
 city, employ suitable park policemen to be approved and sworn 
 in by the Police Commission; said policemen to be under the con- 
 
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 trol and direction of said Commission; provided, however, that 
 the City of Columbus is not to be held in any manner responsible 
 for any omission or neglect of any duty on the part of any such 
 park policemen or other policemen nor for any failure to furnish 
 police protection to any given person or persons on any given 
 occasion. 
 
 Whenever the Police Commission shall assent thereto, the 
 conductors or mortorinen of the Columbus Railroad Company 
 may be sworn in as members of the police force of the City of 
 Columbus; provided, that the city is not to be at any expense 
 in any manner connected therewith; and, provided, further, 
 that said mortormen and conductors, when so sworn in as police- 
 men, shall be under the control and direction of said Police 
 Commission so far as their duties as policemen are con- 
 cerned. 
 
 Said park policemen, motormen or conductors may call on any 
 member of the regular police force of the City of Columbus who 
 may be present at any of the said parks or on any of the said 
 cars of the railroad company, to assist in preserving order and 
 enforcing the Ordinances of the city. 
 
ARTICLE XI 
 
 THE CRIMINAL CODE. 
 
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ARTICLE XI. 
 
 CHAPTER 72. 
 
 THE PUBLIC PEACE AND DISORDERLY CONDUCT. 
 
 SECTION 639. — Resisting Officer in Performance of His Duty. 
 Penalty. — Any person who shall obstruct, resist or oppose the 
 Mayor or Marshal or any Alderman, Policeman, Wharfinger, 
 Health Officer, or other officer of the City of Columbus, Georgia, 
 in the performance of any duty required of such officer by the 
 laws and Ordinances or orders of said city or the authorities 
 thereof, shall be deemed guilty of obstructing an officer and on 
 conviction thereof by the Recorder’s Court shall be punished by 
 a fine not exceeding $50.00, or imprisonment or confinement at 
 hard labor on the pubic works not exceeding sixty days, in the 
 discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 640. — Drunkenness in Public Places. Penalty. — Any per- 
 son who shall appear in or upon any of the streets, lanes, alleys 
 or parks of the city, or in any other public place in the city in 
 an intoxicated condition, shall, upon conviction therefor, be 
 fined not more than $50.00, or imprisoned or confined at hard 
 labor on the public works not exceeding sixty days, either or 
 both, in the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 641. — Impersonating Policeman Forbidden. Penalty. — 
 Any person who wrongfully and willfully impersonates any of 
 the police officers of the City of Columbus by wearing either a 
 regulation uniform or badge of said policeman shall upon con- 
 viction, be guilty of disorderly conduct and shall be punished by 
 fine not exceeding $50.00, or imprisoned or confined at hard labor 
 on the public works not exceeding sixty days, either or both, in 
 the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 642. — Imitating Police Whistle. Penalty. Adopting the 
 Echo Whistle for Use of the Police. — The Echo whistle is here- 
 by selected and adopted as the police call for the City of Colum- 
 
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 bus, to be used exclusively by the police authorities of said city, 
 or persons authorized by them. 
 
 It shall not be lawful for any person other than police officers, 
 or persons entrusted therewith by the police authorities, to use 
 or blow, within the corporate limits of the City of Columbus, any 
 Echo or police whistle of the kind herein adopted and used by 
 the police force as a police call. 
 
 Any person who shall violate the provisions of this Section 
 shall, upon conviction before the Recorder, be punished by fine 
 not exceeding $50.00, or by confinement not exceeding sixty 
 days, either or both, in the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 643. — Imitating Fire Department Gongs Forbidden. 
 Penalty. — It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corpora- 
 tion, except the Fire Department, to use on any vehicle, the plain 
 gong, or the “New Departure” or rotary gong, or siren or any like 
 sounding whistle, now used by the Columbus Fire Department, 
 or any gong or whistle similar thereto; and a violation of this 
 Section shall be punished by a fine in the Recorder’s Court of the 
 City of Columbus of not exceeding $50.00, or imprisonment not 
 longer than sixty days, either or both, in the discretion of the 
 Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 644. — False Fire Alarms and Tampering with Boxes. 
 Penalty. — Any person or persons who shall maliciously give or 
 cause to be given any false alarm of fire by telephone or messen- 
 ger, or by turning an alarm from any of the fire alarm telegraph 
 signal boxes, or in any other manner; or shall break or cause to 
 be broken, or shall in any manner injure, cut or damage, or cause 
 to be injured, cut or damaged, any of the fire alarm signal boxes, 
 poles, wires, or other apparatus, or who shall in any manner 
 interfere with the same, or any part thereof, or the working of 
 the same, or any part thereof, unless by the consent of, or 
 under the direction of, the Superintendent of Fire Alarm, shall, 
 on conviction in the Recorder’s Court, be fined in a sum not 
 exceeding $100, or imprisoned for a term not exceeding sixty 
 days, either or both, in the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 645. — Disorderly Conduct. Penalty. — Each and every 
 person who shall revel, commit any mischief, quarrel, fight, or 
 
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 otherwise behave in a disorderly manner in any of the streets, 
 lanes or alleys in this city, or on the wharf or bridges, or in the 
 cemeteries or public lands in said city, or grounds set apart for 
 public purposes, or in any other place within the corporate 
 limits of the city, to the disturbance or annoyance of the peaceful 
 inhabitants thereof, or any portion of them, or shall aid, assist, 
 encourage or promote the same to be done by any other person 
 or persons, shall be fined or suffer such other punishment, or 
 both, as the Recorder shall, in his discretion, inflict. 
 
 SEC. 646. — Obscene Language and Indecent Conduct. Penalty. 
 — Each and every person who shall use any indecent or obscene 
 language or shall be guilty of any indecent conduct in any of the 
 streets, lanes or alleys of this city or on the wharf or bridges, or 
 in the cemeteries, or grounds set apart for public purposes, or in 
 any other place within the corporate limits of the city, to the 
 annoyance or offense of the inhabitants thereof, or any portion 
 of them, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $50.00, or im- 
 prisonment not exceeding sixty days, either or both, in the dis- 
 cretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 647. — Disorderly Houses. Penalty. — Any person who 
 shall keep or maintain, either by himself or herself or others, 
 a common, ill-governed and disorderly house to the encourage- 
 ment of idlesness, gaming, drinking or other misbehavior or to 
 the common disturbance of the neighborhood, or orderly citizens, 
 such person so offending shall on conviction, be punished by 
 fine not exceeding $50.00, or imprisonment not exceeding sixty 
 days, either or both, in the discretion of the Recorder. And any 
 room of a house shall be considered a house within the meaning 
 of this Section. 
 
 SEC. 648. — Obscene Writings and Defacing Property. 
 Penalty. — Any person convicted before the Recorder’s Court of 
 marking in obscene language, cutting or otherwise defacing, any 
 fence, house or tree in the city limits, shall be fined in the 
 discretion of the Recorder not exceeding $30.00, or imprisoned 
 for sixty days, either or both. Half of any fine collected to be 
 paid to the informer. 
 
 SEC. 649. — Walking or Riding with Women of Ill-fame. 
 Penalty. — Any person who rides or walks through or along any 
 
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 street or sidewalk, or other public place (not being an officer 
 in the discharge of his duty) with any prostitute or woman of ill 
 fame, shall, on conviction, be fined not exceeding .$50.00, or 
 imprisoned not exceeding sixty days, either or both, at the dis- 
 cretion of the Recorder. And to establish the character of 
 such woman it shall be sufficient to show that she resides in or 
 is in the habit of visiting a bawdy house or house of ill fame. 
 
 SEC. 650. — Public Indecency and Improper Dressing. Penalty. 
 
 — Any person who walks upon the streets or sidewalks indecently 
 attired, or who stands or sits at the door or gate or upon the steps 
 or porch of his or her house or home, or other house, in an 
 indecent position or lewd manner, shall, on conviction be fined 
 not exceeding $50.00, or imprisoned not exceeding sixty days, 
 either or both, in the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 651. — Steamboats. Violation of Law on. Regulations. 
 Penalty. — In case of violation of any of the laws and Ordinances 
 of the City of Columbus, when the offender is on board of any of 
 the boats at the wharf or leaving the same, the commander of 
 such boat shall be required to stop and deliver the offender on 
 being signaled by any officer to do so. Failure to comply with 
 this Section will subject the commanding officer of such boat to a 
 fine of not less than $10.00 nor exceeding $50.00, or imprisoned 
 not exceeding sixty days, either or both, in the discretion of the 
 Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 652. — Sling Shots. Regulations. Penalty for Using. — It 
 shall not be lawful to shoot gravel, or shot, or marble, or any 
 other thing out of a gravel shooter, blow gun, or marble sling, 
 or other device or implement of like character. 
 
 Any person violating this Section shall, on conviction, be 
 fined from $1.00 to $25.00, or imprisonment not exceeding sixty 
 days, at the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 653. — Forbidding Loitering or Sleeping in Stairways and 
 on Private Premises. Penalty. — It shall be unlawful for any per- 
 son or persons in said City of Columbus, Georgia, to loiter or sleep 
 on or at the foot of any stairway of any building of said city or to 
 loiter or to sleep in or on boxes or hogsheads or other things 
 in the streets or sidewalks or alleys, or on public grounds or on 
 
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 the private premises or grounds of another without the consent 
 of the person in control of any such premises or grounds or to 
 habitually loaf around the hotels and public places of the city. 
 Any person violating this Section shall be fined by the Recorder 
 not exceeding $50.00, or imprisoned not exceeding sixty days, 
 either or both, in his discretion. 
 
 SEC. 654. — Keeping Liquors for Illegal Sale. Penalty. — It shall 
 be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to keep within 
 the corporate limits of the City of Columbus, Georgia, for the 
 purpose of illegal sale, any alcoholic, spirituous, malt or intox- 
 icating liquors, or intoxicating bitters, or other drinks, which if 
 drunk to excess will produce intoxication and each and every 
 violation of this Section will be punishable upon conviction 
 before the Recorder of the City of Columbus by a fine not to 
 exceed $100, or by labor on the city chaingang not to exceed 
 sixty days, either or both, in the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 655. — Forbidding Minors to Enter Near Beer Saloons. 
 Penalty. — It shall be unlawful for any minor or minors to go 
 into any place where any imitation or substitute for beer, ale, 
 wine, whiskey or other spirituous or malt liquors are kept for 
 retail, unless by written consent of his parents or guardian, 
 which written consent shall be exhibited to any police officer 
 of the City of Columbus upon demand and failure to produce 
 the same upon demand shall be punishable in the same manner 
 as though such written consent did not exist. 
 
 Any minor violating the provisions of this Section shall, on 
 conviction before the Recorder, be fined not more than $10.00, 
 or sentenced to the rock pile or imprisonment for a period not 
 to exceed thirty days, either or both, in the discretion of the 
 Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 656. — Prohibiting Minors from Entering Billard or Pool 
 Rooms. Penalty. — (a.) It shall be unlawful for any minor to enter 
 any billiard or pool room where such business is carried on and 
 conducted in the City of Columbus; or to play at any game of 
 pool or billards at any pool or billard table where such business 
 shall be licensed, conducted and carried on in the City of 
 Columbus. 
 
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 (b.) Any minor or person under twenty-one years of age, 
 violating the provisions of this Section, upon conviction thereof 
 in the Recorder’s Court, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding 
 $20.00, or confined upon public works of the city for a period 
 not exceeding thirty days. 
 
 (c.) Any person engaged in the business of carrying on or 
 conducting a billiard or pool business in the City of Columbus, 
 who, either by himself or any other person, shall knowingly 
 permit any minor to play a game of billiards or pool in his place 
 of business shall, upon conviction in the Recorder’s Court be 
 fined not exceeding $50.00, or imprisoned for a period not 
 exceeding sixty days, either or both, in the discretion of the 
 Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 657. — Women Not Allowed in Saloons. Penalty. — It shall 
 be unlawful for any woman to loiter in a saloon or room where 
 liquors in imitation of alcohol, spirituous or malt liquors are 
 sold in the City of Columbus, or for any woman to drink any of 
 such liquors in any store, room or place of business where such 
 liquors are sold in the City of Columbus. 
 
 Any person violating the provisions of this Section shall, on 
 conviction in the Recorder’s Court, be punished by a fine not 
 exceeding $10.00, or by confinement in the guard house, or at 
 hard labor upon the public works of the city for a term not 
 exceeding thirty days, either or both, in the discretion of the 
 Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 658. — Prohibiting Disreputable Women Loitering. 
 Penalty. — All women of disreptuable character, commonly 
 known as street walkers, who may be found standing or loiter- 
 ing about the streets, stores, or pubilc places of the city, or who 
 may be seen to enter, or who may be found in any barroom in 
 the City of Columbus, Georgia, and who cannot prove that they 
 are in on unavoidable business, shall be arrested by the police 
 and shall be fined not exceeding $50.00, or imprisoned not exceed- 
 ing sixty days, either or both, in the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 659. — Inmates of Lewd Houses Dispossessed. When. — 
 Whenever it shall have been adjudged in the Recorder’s Court 
 that any person is an occupant or inmate of a lewd, or of a 
 
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 disorderly house, or that any house is a lewd, or a disorderly 
 house, or that any house is frequented by lewd women; there- 
 upon, the occupants or inmates of such lewd or disorderly house 
 shall be ordered by the Mayor or by the Recorder to move from 
 said house; and should said order be not obeyed within forty-eight 
 hours, upon conviction of such failure or refusal to so obey said 
 order in the Recorder’s Court, the person or persons so found 
 guilty shall each be fined not more than $100 nor less than 
 $5.00, or be confined at hard labor upon the public works in 
 said city for not more than sixty days, nor less than one day, 
 either or both of such punishments, in the discretion of the 
 Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 660. — Begging Prohibited. Tramps Defined. Penalty. — 
 Any person who shall go about from door to door, within the 
 corporate limits of the City of Columbus, Georgia, for the pur- 
 pose of begging for his or her benefit, or who shall place him- 
 self or herself in the streets, highways, lanes, parks, cemeteries 
 or other public grounds of said city, with no fixed place of 
 abode, shall be known and arrested as a tramp, and upon con- 
 viction in the Recorder’s Court as such, shall be fined in a 
 sum not exceeding $50.00, or imprisoned or confined to hard 
 labor upon the public works for a term not to exceed thirty 
 days, either or both, in the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 661. — Regulating Bathing in Pond, Branch or River 
 Within the City Limits. — It shall be unlawful for any one to 
 bathe in any pond or branch within the corporate limits of the 
 city between daylight and dark unless provided with suitable 
 bathing suits, and no person shall bathe in the river anywhere 
 between the north limits of the city and the southwest corner 
 of the Exposition Park between daylight and dark, unless pro- 
 vided with suitable bathing suits; and from the southwest corner 
 of park to southeast limit of city, persons may go in bathing at 
 will. 
 
 Any person violating the provisions of this Section shall, upon 
 conviction in the Recorder’s Court, be fined not less than $1.00 
 nor more than $2.50, or five days imprisonment, in the discretion 
 of the Recorder. 
 
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 SEC. 662. — Teasing Idiots and Simple Minded Persons. 
 Penalty. — It shall be unlawful and disorderly conduct for any 
 person to tease or harrass, either by words, signs or acts, on the 
 streets or public places in the City of Columbus, any simple 
 minded, idiotic, or crazy person, or any cripple, or other unfor- 
 tunate person, and it is hereby made the especial duty of the 
 Police Department to enforce the terms of this Section. 
 
 Any person violating this Section shall be held and deemed 
 guilty of disorderly conduct, and upon conviction thereof 
 in the Recorder’s Court, shall be fined not more than 
 $10.00, nor less than $1.00, or confined at hard labor upon the 
 public works of the city for not less than five days, nor more 
 than thirty days, either or both, in the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 663. — Improper or Profane Language Over Telephone 
 Forbidden. Penalty. — Any person or persons who shall, in the 
 operation of any telephone installed within the City of Columbus, 
 make use of any vulgar vituperation or profane language into 
 and over said telephone, shall be guilty of disorderly conduct 
 and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not less than 
 $1.00, nor more than $50.00, or be imprisoned at hard labor on the 
 chaingang for a period of not less than one day, nor more than 
 thirty days, in the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 664. — Getting On or Off Moving Trains or Cars. Penalty. 
 — All persons, unconnected with the railroad trains, are pro- 
 hibited from getting on the engines and cars within the City of 
 Columbus, unless for the bona fide purpose of taking passage on 
 the same; and all offenders shall be arrested by any special or 
 other policeman of the city, and on conviction, shall be fined 
 not exceeding $5.00, or be imprisoned not exceeding thirty days, 
 either or both, in the discretion of the Recorder. Any person 
 unconnected with the railroad trains, jumping or getting on or 
 off a moving train in said city, shall be subject to the same 
 punishment; provided, however, that nothing in this Section 
 shall be construed so as to interfere with persons meeting 
 friends, or seeing them off on the train of cars, when the same 
 are not in motion. 
 
 SEC. 665. — Wearing Hats in Theatres. Penalty. — It shall be 
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 the head which obstructs the view of other persons, in any 
 theatre, opera house, motion picture theatre or any other build- 
 ing where an entertainment is given and an admission charged, 
 during any performance at such theatre, opera house, motion 
 picture theatre or any other building where an entertainment is 
 given and an admission charged, and any person violating this 
 Section shall be fined in a sum not exceeding $20.00, or impris- 
 onment not more than thirty days, either or both, in the dis- 
 cretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 666. — Theatre Managers to Forbid Wearing of Hats. 
 Penalty. — It shall be unlawful for any proprietor, manager, or 
 any other person in charge of any theatre, opera house, motion 
 picture theatre, or any other building where an entertainment is 
 given and an admission is charged to permit any person to wear 
 a hat, or any other covering of the head which obstructs the view 
 of other persons in any theatre, opera house, motion picture 
 theatre or any other building where an entertainment is given 
 and an admission charged, and any such person, violating the 
 provisions of this Section shall be fined not exceeding $20.00, 
 or imprisoned not more than thirty days, either or both, in the 
 discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 CHAPTER 7 3. 
 
 STREETS AND SIDEWALKS. 
 
 SECTION 667. — Animals Running at Large. Impounded. 
 Penalty. — No cattle shall be permitted in any of the streets or 
 parks of the city, except while being driven through the same, 
 and any cattle so found running at large shall be impounded by 
 the Chief of Police who shall advertise and sell the same after 
 giving three days notice of time and place thereof, and unless 
 the owner shall within that time redeem the same by paying 
 50 cents for each head of cattle with 25 cents per day for feeding. 
 When sold the net proceeds shall be turned over to the City 
 Treasurer for account of the owner. Nothing in this Section 
 shall be construed to prevent the grazing of cattle upon any of 
 the commons of the city. 
 
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 SEC. 668. — Hogs Running at large. — It shall not be lawful for 
 any hogs to run at large within the corporate limits of the city. 
 It shall be the duty of the Marshal to put all hogs found in the 
 streets, within the corporate limits of the city, in a pound, which 
 the Mayor shall be empowered to furnish. And all hogs re- 
 maining in the pound three days shall be sold, and the proceeds 
 of the sale shall be put in the City Treasury; and any person or 
 persons finding their hogs in the pound shall pay for each hog, 
 pig or shoat, 50 cents per day for each. 
 
 SEC. 669. — Skinning Diseased Animals. Penalty. — Any person 
 who shall skin or cause to be skinned, any dead animal on any 
 lot in said city, and before the same is moved outside of the 
 city, which may die from disease or casualty shall be held and 
 deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon' conviction, shall be 
 fined or imprisoned, at the discretion of the Recorder. No 
 person is allowed to butcher any animal within the corporate 
 limits of the city; and any person violating this Section, shall 
 be fined or imprisoned, at the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 670. — Bitches Running at Large. — No bitch, when in heat, 
 shall be allowed to run at large on the streets, under penalty of 
 being killed, whether wearing a badge or not. 
 
 SEC. 671. — Loose Horses or Mules.— It shall be unlawful for 
 the owner or other person, to allow loose horses, mules or colts 
 to run at large upon the streets or commons of the city. 
 
 SEC. 672. — Feeding Horses and Mules in Streets. — It shall be 
 unlawful for the owner or other person to feed their stock in the 
 streets or alleys of the city without being securely fastened. 
 
 SEC. 673. — Loose Horses and Mules Taken up by Police. — It 
 shall be the duty of the Marshal and members of the police force 
 to at once take charge of such horses, mules or stock loose in the 
 streets or commons, and any stock being fed in the streets or 
 alleys of the city without being securely fastened, and carry the 
 same to any livery stable in the city, to be kept at the expense 
 of the owner until released as hereafter prescribed; and in all 
 cases where the Marshal and police cannot lay hands upon such 
 loose horses, mules or colts, that the owner of such stock shall be 
 reported to the Mayor and shall be fined as hereafter prescribed. 
 
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 SEC. 674. — Penalty. Fines and Expenses. — Any owner or other 
 person who shall allow loose horses, mules or colts to run upon 
 the streets or commons of the city, or any owner or other person 
 who shall feed their stock in the streets or alleys of the city 
 without being securely fastened, shall be found guilty of a 
 nuisance and for each offense shall be fined in the sum of $5.00, 
 or imprisonment not exceeding thirty days, in the discretion of 
 the Recorder, which fine, together with the expense of care and 
 maintenance of stock shall be paid before such horses or 
 mules or colts shall be released. All horses, mules or colts 
 remaining in stables longer than one week shall be sold at 
 public outcry and the funds less the proper charges put in the 
 City Treasury to be paid to the owner when called for. Does 
 not apply to drovers bringing in or taking stock out from the 
 city. 
 
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 SEC. 675. — Auction Sales. Articles Shall be Removed from 
 Streets. Penalty. — All auction sales of live stock, furniture and 
 articles of bulk shall be had at the intersections of Broad and 
 Eleventh Streets; said sales shall be held between the hours of 
 10:00 A. M., and 2:00 P. M., and all stock, furniture, etc., must 
 be removed from the street by 3:00 P. M. It shall not be lawful 
 for sales at auction to be made in any other place in the streets, 
 and any person violating this Section shall be fined not less than 
 $10.00 for each offense, or imprisoned not exceeding sixty days, 
 either or both, in the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 676. — Special Auction Sales Regulated. Penalty. Regu- 
 lations. — All persons exercising the “Special Permission of Coun- 
 cil” in conducting auction sales, shall be required to keep the 
 sidewalk clear, and the Marshal and police are strictly ordered to 
 enforce this resolution and assist the proprietors in its enforce- 
 ment, and the violations of this law shall subject offending party 
 to a fine upon conviction before the Recorder of not less than 
 $10.00 nor more than $50.00, or imprisonment not exceeding sixty 
 days, either or both, in the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 677. — Building Material and Rubbish on Streets. Regu- 
 lations. Penalty. — In erecting any building, situated on any 
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 nor suffer to remain in any part of said street for a longer 
 period, from time to time, than ten days, any dirt, rubbish or 
 remains of any old building; nor any lumber or other building 
 material for any longer period than may be necessary for the 
 prosecution of the work which may be going on; nor shall any 
 such dirt or rubbish or lumber or other building material, be 
 so deposited as to obstruct the passage over more than one-half 
 part of the street in which they may be so deposited. And any 
 person violating this Section shall be punished by fine not 
 exceeding $50.00, or imprisonment not exceeding sixty days, 
 either or both, in the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 678. — Unlawful to Feed Except by Means of a Nose Bag 
 or Leave Unhitched any Horse or Other Beast Within Certain 
 Limits. Penalty. — It shall be unlawful for any person to feed, 
 except by means of a nose bag, so attached as to prevent the feed 
 from falling upon the street or avenue of the City of Columbus, 
 any horse, mule, ox or other beast of burden, or to leave un- 
 hitched from vehicle any horse, mule, ox or other draught 
 animal, on any of the streets or avenues of said City of Colum- 
 bus, lying east of the west line of Broad Street or west of the 
 west line of Sixth Avenue or at a distance less than fifty feet 
 from private property, occupied exclusively as a residence. Any 
 person violating the provisions of this Section shall, on con- 
 viction before the Recorder, be subject to a fine not exceeding 
 $10.00 or to confinement in the guard house or on the city chain- 
 gang or rock pile for a period not exceeding thirty days, either 
 or both, in the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 679. — To Prevent Fruit Parings, Garbage and Other Arti- 
 cles Being Thrown on Sidewalks. Penalty. — It shall be unlawful 
 for any person or persons to deposit or throw on any sidewalk 
 or pavement in the City of Columbus any sweepings from any 
 stores or dwellings, or place of business, or any paper, hair, 
 slop, or washings of any kind, watermelon rinds or seeds, fruit 
 parings, any vegetable matter or any kind of garbage, and any 
 person who shall violate the provisions of this Section shall, on 
 conviction, pay a fine of not less than $1.00, nor more than $25.00, 
 in the discretion of the Recorder, or be imprisoned for not less 
 
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 than one nor more than ten days for each offense. Provided , 
 that this Section shall not apply to merchants and others expos- 
 ing fruits, vegetables, etc., for sale. 
 
 SEC. 680. — Paved Streets Protected from Hauling with Certain 
 Vehicles, Coal, Sand, Dirt, Etc. Penalty. — It shall be unlawful 
 for any person or persons to haul along and over the streets of 
 the City of Columbus old lumber, old shingles, broken crockery 
 or any other rubbish and debris having nails or screws or 
 any other thing attached thereto and likely, if dropped, to 
 injure the feet of persons or of horses, mules or other animals, 
 or puncture the tires of vehicles, or haul along or over any of 
 the paved streets of said city any sand, gravel, dirt, coal, cinders 
 or any other loose material of a similar character without having 
 the same securely enclosed within vehicles with proper frame 
 or other protection to prevent the same from falling along 
 the driveways. 
 
 Any person or persons who may haul material as herein above 
 described in any other way than is herein prescribed or who 
 shall haul any kind of material or any part thereof to be dropped 
 therein and remain where it is likely to injure the feet of persons 
 or horses, mules or other animals or puncture the tires of 
 vehicles shall be fined in the sum of not less than $1.00, nor 
 more than $50.00, or be imprisoned for a period of not less than 
 one nor more than thirty days, either or both, in the discretion of 
 the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 681. — Ashes and Refuse Matter on Streets. Penalty. — 
 No person shall throw or deposit, or cause to be thrown or 
 deposited in any street or sidewalk any soot, ashes, manure, 
 oyster shells, nor any filth, offal, putrid or stinking water, or 
 other putrid or offensive matter, nor the trimmings or prunings 
 of any poisonous plant, tree or vegetable whatever at any time; 
 nor shall any rubbish or the sweepings of any premises be 
 placed in any of the streets, except upon such days as may be 
 designated by the Mayor and Council for the purpose of having 
 the same removed by the city carts. And any person violating 
 the provisions of this Section shall be punished by fine not 
 exceeding $30.00, or imprisonment not more than sixty days, 
 in the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
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 SEC. 682. — Trash and Rubbish on the Streets. Regulations. — 
 It shall not be lawful for any person to deposit in any street or 
 avenue, public or private alley, decayed or refuse or offensive 
 matter, garbage, ashes, paper, rubbish, scrapings from premises, 
 except as follows: 
 
 All such matter as above referred to shall, on Broad Street and 
 First Avenue, between the south side of Ninth Street and the 
 north side of Fifteenth Street, be placed in boxes or barrels on 
 the edge of the sidewalk before 9:00 o’clock A. M., each day 
 except Sunday, and the owner shall remove the vessel to the 
 proper premises when emptied. That separate and distinct 
 receptacles shall be had for the depository of paper or other 
 inflammable material from that of ashes. 
 
 All such matter as is above referred to shall, in all other streets 
 and avenues, private or public alleys, be deposited in the same 
 manner, as in this Section provided, not later than 11:00 o’clock 
 A. M. And any person violating this Section or any part there- 
 of, shall be fined not less than $1.00 and not more than $10.00, 
 or imprisonment not more than sixty days, in the discretion of 
 the Recorder. And it shall be the duty of the Sanitary Inspector 
 with the assistance of the police force to enforce the provisions 
 of this Section. 
 
 SEC. 683. — Regulating Accumulation of Trash and Other Com- 
 bustible Matter. Penalty. — It shall be unlawful for any person, 
 firm or corporation to place and let remain in any box, barrel 
 or otherwise in any building, cellar, alleyway, or yard, within 
 the fire limits, longer than eighteen hours any loose straw, hay, 
 paper or other combustible matter, and all owners or occupants 
 of buildings or cellars within said limits are hereby required to 
 have an open alleyway extending from one end of the cellar 
 to the other and to permit the Chief of the Fire Department or 
 any member thereof designated by him or any officer or member 
 of the police force, to inspect their buildings, cellars and 
 premises to see whether or not the provisions of this Section 
 are being complied with. 
 
 And it is hereby made the duty of the Chief of the Fire Depart- 
 ment or any member thereof designated by him and of the 
 police force to make such inspections. 
 
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 Any person or persons violating the provisions of this Section 
 shall be arrested by an officer or member of the police force, 
 and may, on conviction before the Recorder, be fined in a sum 
 not exceeding $50.00, or to work on the streets, or imprisoned 
 not exceeding thirty days, either or both, in the discretion of the 
 Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 684. — No Article Tending to Soil One’s Clothing Shall be 
 Transported on the Sidewalk. Penalty. — No person or persons 
 shall use any hand-cart, or truck, or transport any ladder, 
 piping, lumber, paint or whitewash brush and bucket or any 
 other article or thing along and on the sidewalks and street- 
 crossings on Broad Street and First Avenue between Ninth and 
 Fifteenth Streets inclusive, which tend to or is liable to damage 
 the person or clothing of any person on said sidewalk or cross- 
 ing, but all such articles or things shall be transported or car- 
 ried in the streets and off the sidewalks and crossings in the ter- 
 ritory specified. For a violation of this Section the person or 
 persons so offending shall be punished by fine not exceeding 
 $30.00, or imprisonment not more than sixty days, or both, in 
 the discretion of the Recorder, and it shall be the duty of the 
 Marshal and police to notify all persons who may be guilty of 
 a violation of this Section and report the same to the Recorder’s 
 Court. 
 
 SEC. 685. — Spitting or Throwing Litter on Sidewalks or Floors 
 of Public Places. Penalty. — It shall be disorderly conduct and 
 unlawful for any one to spit or throw hulls, peelings or other 
 litter upon the paved or planked sidewalks or upon the paved 
 or stone crossings of the City of Columbus, or upon the floors of 
 churches, public halls, theatres, street cars, depots, bridges or 
 other public places in said city. Any person violating the pro- 
 visions of this Section shall, on conviction therefor in the 
 Recorder’s Court, be fined not less than $1.00 nor more than 
 $5.00, or be confined at hard labor upon the public works for not 
 less than one day, nor more than five days, either or both, 
 in the discretion of the Recorder, for each offense. 
 
 SEC. 686. — Sidewalks. Hauling Slops on, Forbidden. Penalty. 
 — It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to haul or 
 
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 transport slops of any kind upon any of the sidewalks of the 
 City of Columbus in wagons or vehicles of any kind, whether 
 the same be propelled by hand or by dogs, goats or any other 
 animals or animal. And any person violating the provisions of 
 this Section shall be punished by a fine of not more than $5.00, 
 or imprisonment not more than ten days, in the discretion of 
 the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 687. — Vending Lunches, Cakes, Etc., on Streets Forbidden. 
 — The vending of cakes, pies and all kinds of cooked victuals on 
 the bridges and streets is hereby prohibited, and all persons 
 found violating this Section shall be fined not less than $10.00, 
 or imprisonment as the Recorder may direct. And the Chief of 
 Police is instructed to notify all persons so engaged and see that 
 this Section is strictly enforced. 
 
 SEC. 688. — Fruit Stands and Vegetable Stands on Broad Street. 
 Penalty. — No person shall be allowed to erect a stand on Broad 
 Street for the sale of fruits, vegetables, etc., unless they have 
 a huckster’s license and have permission of Council and the 
 tenants adjoining and opposite the place where they desire to 
 have the stand. And any person violating the provisions of 
 this Section shall be punished by fine not exceeding $30.00, or 
 imprisonment not more than sixty days, in the discretion of the 
 Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 689. — Telegraph or Other Poles in the Streets to be 
 Painted. — All telegraph, telephone, electric light, fire alarm tele- 
 graph or other poles now erected, or which may hereafter be 
 erected in the streets of the city, shall be painted and shall be 
 kept in good repair. The Committee on Streets may at any time 
 notify the owners to paint or repair the same, which shall be 
 done within ten days from such notice, and any violation of 
 this Section will subject the offender to a fine not exceeding 
 $5.00 per post, or imprisonment not exceeding thirty days, in 
 the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 690. — Telephone, Telegraph and Electric Light Poles to 
 be Marked. Penalty. — Telegraph, telephone or electric or other 
 company using poles on the streets, alleys or other property of 
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 pole plainly with name or initial of such company stencilled on 
 same, and any violation of this Section shall subject such owner, 
 on conviction, to a fine of not less than $1.00, nor more than 
 $10.00 for each pole not so marked. 
 
 SEC. 691. — Regulating Construction of Pole Wire Lines. 
 Penalty. — It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corpora- 
 tion, who shall erect or maintain any pole line for carrying wires 
 in said city to attach or maintain any guy wire at a less distance 
 than fifteen feet above the ground unless such guy wire shall 
 be enclosed in an iron pipe or in a wooden box not less than 
 three inches in diameter, or be bolted to a timber not less than 
 three inches square with rounded corners. And any person or 
 officials of any corporation violating this Section, shall, on con- 
 viction, be fined not more than $10.00, or imprisoned on the 
 public works of the city for not exceeding twenty days, either or 
 both, in the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 692. — Prohibiting the Planting of Chinaberry, Mulberry 
 and Sycamore Trees in the Streets, Parks, Etc. Penalty. — It 
 shall be unlawful for any person or persons to plant or cause to 
 be planted in or on any of the streets, avenues, alleys, lanes, 
 sidewalks or cemeteries of the City of Columbus any china- 
 berry, mulberry or sycamore trees. Any person violating this 
 Section shall, upon conviction thereof in the Recorder’s Court, 
 be fined by the Recorder not more than $2.00 per day for such 
 time as such tree or trees are allowed to remain for each 
 tree so planted, or five days upon the city chaingang, either 
 or both, in the discretion of the Recorder; provided, that 
 said fines may be remitted by the Recorder when the per- 
 son so fined shall remove the trees so planted and substitute 
 therefor an oak or elm tree or any other tree not prohibited by 
 this Section, within the period to be named by the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 693. — Rules of the Road. Regulating the Running, 
 Operating and Driving of Vehicles in the City of Columbus. 
 Penalty for Violation. — 
 
 1. The owner, operator, driver or person in charge of any car, 
 dray, wagon, buggy, automobile, motorcycle or bicycle on the 
 streets, avenues or pubic highways of the City of Columbus, 
 
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 Georgia, shall conform to and observe the following rules and 
 regulations upon such streets, avenues or public highways in said 
 city. 
 
 2. The word “vehicles” including equestrians, led horses and 
 everything on wheels or runners except street cars, baby car- 
 riages and toy wagons. 
 
 3. The word “driver” includes the rider or driver of a horse, 
 a rider of wheels and the operator of a vehicle or street car. 
 
 4. The term “congested district,” as used in this Ordinance, 
 shall include all that portion of the City of Columbus bounded 
 on the north by the north side of Thirteenth Street; on the east 
 by the east side of First Avenue; on the south by the south side 
 of Tenth Street; on the west by the west side of Broad Street. 
 Also Dillingham Street. 
 
 5. The driver or person in control of a vehicle in slowing 
 down, stopping or turning shall signal those in the rear by 
 raising his hand. 
 
 6. No person in control of a vehicle shall back the same 
 without ample warning being given, and, while backing, care 
 must be exercised not to injure those in the rear. 
 
 7. Police, Fire Department and ambulance vehicles shall have 
 the right of way in any street. 
 
 8. Every person in charge of a vehicle shall pull to the 
 right of the street or road when signalled from a vehicle behind 
 desiring to pass. 
 
 9. Upon the approach of any fire apparatus, police patrol or 
 ambulance, responding to an emergency call, every vehicle shall 
 draw up as near as practicable to the right curb of the street, and 
 remain at a standstill until such apparatus, patrol or ambulance 
 shall have passed. 
 
 10. Every person in charge of a vehicle, upon any street, 
 approaching any street car which has stopped, or is about to 
 stop, for the purpose of taking on or discharging passengers, 
 shall stop, and shall not approach said street car close enough 
 to interfere with passengers boarding or leaving said street car; 
 provided, however, that this Section shall not apply to street 
 cars being operated on the tracks laid in the parkway, in said 
 street, and not in the driveway. 
 
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 11. Vehicles and street cars shall not stop on the cross-walks 
 so as to interfere with the passage of pedestrians; except that 
 such vehicles and street cars may stop in said crossings a 
 reasonable time for the purpose of permitting passengers to 
 enter or alight from said vehicles or street cars. 
 
 12. Vehicles shall be driven in a careful manner and with 
 due regard for the safety and convenience of pedestrians and 
 all other vehicles. 
 
 13. Every person using any vehicles upon any street in the 
 City of Columbus shall operate, drive or ride such vehicle on 
 the portion of said street to the right of the center of said street, 
 except where the right side of said street is in such condition 
 as to be impassable. 
 
 14. Vehicles moving slowly shall keep as close as possible 
 to the curb on the right, allowing more swiftly moving vehicles 
 free passage on their left. 
 
 15. A vehicle meeting another vehicle shall pass on the 
 right. 
 
 16. A vehicle overtaking another vehicle shall pass on the left 
 side of the overtaken vehicle, and shall not pull over to the 
 right until entirely clear of said overtaken vehicle. 
 
 17. ^ A vehicle turning into another street to the right shall 
 turn the corner as near to the right hand curb as possible. 
 
 18. Vehicles overtaking a street car shall pass it on the right. 
 If there is not sufficient space to pass the car on the right, they 
 shall follow the car until there is sufficient space to pass it on the 
 right. 
 
 19. A vehicle turning to the left to enter an intersecting street 
 shall not turn until it shall have passed beyond the center of 
 such intersecting street. 
 
 20. Vehicles crossing from one side of a street to another 
 shall do so by turning to the left so as to head in the same 
 direction as traffic on the street. 
 
 21. No vehicle shall be turned around upon any street within 
 the congested district unless such vehicle shall first proceed to 
 the next cross street and shall then make the turn to the left 
 after reaching the center of said cross street. 
 
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 22. No vehicle shall stop with its left side to the curb within 
 the congested district. 
 
 23. No vehicle, unless in an emergency or to allow another 
 vehicle or pedestrian to cross its path, shall stop in any street, 
 within the congested district, except near the right hand curb 
 thereof, and so as not to obstruct the crossing. 
 
 24. No vehicle shall stand within the intersection of any 
 streets within the congested district, or within ten feet of the 
 intersection of said streets. 
 
 25. At theatres and public gatherings, or under unusual cir- 
 cumstances, vehicles shall stand or move as directed by the 
 police. 
 
 26. No vehicle shall stop or be left in front of the entrance of 
 any theatre, hotel, depot or other entrance to places of conges- 
 tion of traffic for any time longer than sufficient to receive or 
 deliver occupants or goods for, or from, such building, and 
 the driver in charge of such vehicle shall move up promptly 
 to permit others to arrive for like purposes. 
 
 27. No vehicle, except apparatus of fire, police or hospital 
 departments shall be driven through a procession except with 
 the permission of a police officer. 
 
 28. Vehicles shall not stand or travel two or more abreast in 
 any street. 
 
 29. Vehicles shall remain backed up to a curb only long 
 enough to be loaded or unloaded. 
 
 30. Horses attached to vehicles, and the shafts of unhitched 
 vehicles, when backed up to the curb shall be turned at right 
 angles to the vehicle or at as nearly this angle as possible. 
 
 31. When taking up or discharging freight or passengers, 
 vehicles within the congested district shall be headed in the 
 direction of traffic on the right of the roadway. So far as 
 practicable, freight, coal and ice wagons and other heavy traffic 
 should be unloaded from the right side and not from the end of 
 the wagon, and shall be drawn in close to the curb. 
 
 32. No person operating an automobile or motorcycle or 
 motor truck or other motor vehicle, shall permit the motors of 
 
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 the same to operate in such a manner as to visibly emit an 
 unduly great amount of steam, smoke or products of combustion 
 from exhaust pipes or openings. 
 
 33. Every automobile, motor car, motorcycle or motor 
 vehicle, using gasoline or other explosive mixtures as a motive 
 power, shall use a muffler which shall be sufficient to deaden 
 the sound of the explosion, and such muffler shall not be dis- 
 connected or cut out while such automobile, motor car, motor- 
 cycle or motor vehicle, is being operated upon any street, avenue 
 or other public highway within the City of Columbus. 
 
 34. No person driving, riding or operating any motorcycle 
 upon the streets, avenues or public highways of the City of 
 Columbus, shall allow any person to ride upon said motorcycle 
 in front of the person driving, riding or operating said motor- 
 cycle, nor shall he carry any package, bundle or articles on 
 said motorcycle that will obstruct the view of the person driving, 
 riding or operating the said motorcycle, or that shall interfere 
 with his operation, management or control thereof. 
 
 35. In construing this Ordinance, wherever any street or 
 avenue has a center park with a driveway on either side of said 
 center park, each such driveway shall be considered as a street 
 under the terms of this Ordinance. 
 
 36. When vehicles, being operated upon intersecting streets, 
 shall meet at the intersection of said streets, the vehicle which 
 is approaching on the right hand side of the other vehicle shall 
 have the right of way. 
 
 37. Any person violating the provisions of this Section, upon 
 conviction thereof in the Recorder’s Court, shall be sentenced to 
 pay a fine of not less than $1.00 nor more than $50.00, or to serve 
 a term of not less than five nor more than sixty days upon the 
 city chaingang, or other public works of said city, either or both, 
 in the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 693. — (a.) Street Cars Obstructing Traffic. Penalty. — 
 No street car shall stand so as to obstruct passage of vehicles 
 or pedestrians any longer than is necessary to take on and let 
 off passengers. Any person violating any of the provisions of 
 this Section, or causing the same to be done, shall, on conviction 
 
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 in Recorder’s Court, be punished by a fine not exceeding $25.00, 
 or imprisonment or labor on the chaingang not exceeding thirty 
 days, either or both, in the discretion of the Recorder. This 
 Section is not to apply to vehicles of the Fire Department or 
 ambulance when on duty. 
 
 SEC. 694. — Giving Fire Apparatus Right of Way. Penalty. — 
 In the event of an alarm of fire being given the apparatus of the 
 Fire Department shall have the right of way in and upon the 
 streets, lanes, alleys and railroad crossings in responding to 
 any such alarm or being upon such lanes, alleys or railroad 
 crossings. And no person shall obstruct or neglect to make way 
 for any such apparatus h^ing thus in or upon any such street, 
 lane, alley or railroad crossing under a penalty of not less than 
 $5.00 nor more than 50.00 for every offense, or imprisonment for 
 a term not exceeding thirty days for each offense, in the dis- 
 cretion of the Recorder. And it shall be unlawful for any per- 
 son to ride or drive over any hose of the Fire Department or in 
 any manner whatsoever interfere with the officers or members 
 of the Fire Department whilst engaged in the discharge of their 
 duties under a like penalty. 
 
 SEC. 695. — Railroad Cars Left Standing. Regulations. 
 Penalty. — It shall be unlawful for any railroad company, horse 
 car company or electric car company to occupy any of the rail- 
 road tracks within the corporate limits of the City of Columbus, 
 except such freight yards as are now authorized by law, with 
 any freight cars or other cars used for the delivery of freight, 
 except as follows, to-wit: No freight car or other car used for 
 
 the delivery of freight shall remain upon any track upon Broad 
 Street, nor shall any freight be unloaded from or loaded on any 
 cars on Broad Street during the period from two hours after 
 sunrise in the forenoon to one hour before sunset in the after- 
 noon; provided, however, that from April 1, to September 1, the 
 above stated period shall begin at three o’clock after sunrise. 
 Provided, all such said cars used as aforesaid shall be placed 
 on said track immediately opposite the place of business of the 
 consignee. Provided, that the foregoing provisions shall not 
 apply to cars loaded with material for the City of Columbus 
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 road track. No freight car or other car used for the delivery of 
 freight shall remain upon any track on any other streets or ave- 
 nues of said city for a longer period than forty-eight hours. 
 The superintendent of any railroad company, horse car company 
 or electric car company using the tracks upon the streets and 
 avenues of said city for the delivery of freight shall report 
 immediately in writing to the Chief of Police of said city the time 
 when said car is placed upon said track, together with the num- 
 ber and initials of said car, and the point on said street or avenue 
 where said car can be found. And it shall be the duty of the 
 Chief of Police and policemen of said city to enforce the pro- 
 visions of this Section. Any superintendent, manager, engineer, 
 fireman or other officer, agent or employer, of any railroad, 
 whether the same be propelled by steam, electric or horse 
 power, who shall violate any of the provisions of this Section 
 shall, upon conviction therefor in the Recorder’s Court, be fined 
 not more than $50.00 nor less than $1.00, or imprisoned for not 
 more than sixty days, either or both, or any part thereof, in the 
 discretion of the Recorder, for each violation of any provision of 
 of this Section. 
 
 SEC. 696.— Trains and Cars Obstructing Street Crossings. 
 Penalty. — It shall be unlawful for any railroad company using 
 steam, electricity or other power to permit any train of cars, 
 car or engine of said company to remain stationary or standing 
 for longer than the space of three minutes on any street crossed 
 by the railroad track of said company, or to obstruct in any 
 wise said street crossing for a longer time than said three 
 minutes; this is not to apply to incoming or outgoing passenger 
 trains or train unavoidably delayed. And any railroad company 
 violating this Section shall be fined in the sum of not less than 
 $50.00 nor more than $100, in the discretion of the Recorder, to 
 be collected by execution against said company for such viola- 
 tion. In addition to the penalty above provided in this Section, 
 in every case of violation of this Section, the engineer or other 
 person in charge of said train, cars or engine, shall, upon con- 
 viction in the Recorder’s Court, be fined in the sum of not less 
 than $5.00, or imprisoned not longer than ten days, either or 
 both, in the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
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 SEC. 697. — Hitching Horses on Streets. Regulations. Penalty. 
 — No person shall tie or hitch any horse, mule or other animal in 
 any part of the streets so near to the sidewalk or cross-walks as 
 to prevent, hinder or endanger any person from passing over 
 or along any such sidewalk or cross-walk, and any person violat- 
 ing this Section shall be punished by fine of not more than 
 $30.00, or imprisonment not more than sixty days, either or both, 
 in the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 698. — Hitching to Trees and Lamp Posts. Penalty. — No 
 
 person or persons shall tie, fasten or secure any horse, mule 
 or other animal to any lamp post or to any trees or boxing 
 around any tree in the streets of this city. Any person so 
 offending shall be fined in the sum of $2.00 for each offense, and 
 it shall be the duty of the Chief of Police or any policeman to 
 take possession of the animal and detain it until the fine is 
 paid. 
 
 SEC. 699. — Forbidding Hackmen Leaving Vehicles to Solicit. — 
 It shall be unlawful for driver of hacks to leave their vehicles 
 for the purpose of soliciting patronage whether at depots, city 
 wharf, hotels or other public places, and it shall be unlawful for 
 any person on any railroad car within the corporate limits of the 
 city to drum or solicit patronage for any hack. Persons so 
 offending shall, on conviction, be fined not exceeding $30.00, or 
 imprisoned not longer than sixty days, either or both, in the 
 discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 700. — Vehicles or Teams Standing on Certain Streets. 
 Penalty. — The feeding of horses or other stock and the standing 
 of teams, stock or of vehicles for sale is prohibited on First 
 Avenue between Ninth and Tenth and between Eleventh and 
 Twelfth Streets and on Eleventh Street between First and 
 Second Avenues, and any violation of this Section shall subject 
 the offender to a fine not exceeding $5.00 nor less than $2.00, or 
 to work on the chaingang or rock pile not exceeding twenty 
 days, either or both, in the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 701. — Leaving Vehicles in Streets. Penalty. — Any person, 
 firm or corporation shall not leave in the streets of the city any 
 
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 wagon, dray, hack or other vehicle during the night, or upon 
 the Sabbath day, unless the same are in actual use at said period 
 of time, and should any person, firm or corporation be guilty of 
 a violation of this Section, the same shall be punished by fine 
 not exceeding $30.00, or imprisonment not more than thirty 
 days, in the discretion of the Recorder as is now provided by 
 law. 
 
 SEC. 702. — Furniture and Merchandise in Streets. Penalty. — 
 If any stock, furniture, etc., be left in the street, it shall be the 
 duty of the police to take charge of all such stock, furniture, 
 etc., and summons the parties before the Recorder, who shall 
 fine not less than $10.00 and not more than $20.00, or imprison- 
 ment not longer than sixty days, for their failure to remove 
 as hereinafter provided. 
 
 SEC. 703. — Obstructing Streets with Boxes, Vehicles, Etc., 
 Forbidden. Penalty. — No person shall deposit, place or put, nor 
 suffer to be deposited, placed or put, by any person or persons 
 in his or her employ, any vehicles of any description nor any 
 goods, wares, firewood, empty boxes, casks, or other obstruction 
 in any of the streets of this city in such manner as shall obstruct 
 the free passage and use of any street, or annoy any person 
 using any such street; provided, that this Section shall not be 
 so construed as to prohibit the use of the streets for the neces- 
 sary reception or delivery of any firewood, goods, wares or mer- 
 chandise. And any person violating this Section shall be 
 punished by fine of not more than $30.00, or imprisonment not 
 longer than sixty days, in the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 704. — Regulating the Construction of Gates. Penalty. — 
 It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, owning 
 or in charge of, as agent or otherwise, any yard, lot or enclosure, 
 to hang or cause to be hung or allow to be hung any gate, which 
 upon being opened or closed shall swing upon or across any 
 street, sidewalk or any portion thereof in the City of Columbus, 
 and any violations of the provisions of this Section shall be 
 deemed and held to constitute disorderly conduct and subject the 
 offender upon conviction thereof in the Recorder’s Court, to a 
 fine of not more than $5.00, or imprisonment not exceeding five 
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 days, either or both, in the discretion of the Recorder, for each 
 day such gate shall be permitted to remain in violation of this 
 Section. 
 
 SEC. 705. — Prohibiting the Tearing up of Paved Streets. 
 Penalty. — It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corpo- 
 ration to cut, tear up or otherwise injure any pavement con- 
 structed upon any of the streets or avenues of the City of 
 Columbus for the laying of water pipes, gas pipes, or for any 
 other purpose, for a period of five years from the time such 
 pavement is laid or constructed; provided, that such pavement 
 may be torn up to repair pipes already laid in said streets 
 whenever necessary to do so; provided, further, that such pave- 
 ment may be torn up for the purpose of putting in sewer, gas or 
 water connections in buildings by and with the consent and 
 approval of the Street Committee of Council upon proper ap- 
 plication made for that purpose; said pavement to be torn up and 
 removed and also repaired and replaced under the supervision 
 and direction of the Superintendent of Public Works and at the 
 expense of the person or persons having such connection made. 
 Any person violating the provisions of this Section upon con- 
 viction thereof in the Recorder’s Court, shall be punished by a 
 fine of not less than $10.00 nor more than $100, or imprisonment 
 of not less than ten nor more than sixty days, in the discretion of 
 the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 706. — Pavements. Protection of. Penalty. — It shall be 
 unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to cut, tear up or 
 otherwise injure any pavement now or hereafter constructed 
 upon any of the streets or avenues of the city, for the laying of 
 water pipes, gas pipes, or for any other purpose for a period of 
 five years from the time any such pavement is laid or con- 
 structed. Provided, that such pavement may be torn up to 
 repair pipes, cables or conduits already laid in said streets 
 whenever necessary to do so, said pavement to be repaired and 
 replaced by the Superintendent of Pubilc Works, and at the 
 expense of the party or parties having such repairs made. Any 
 person violating the provisions of this Section shall be punished 
 by a fine of not less than $10.00, nor more than $100, and impris- 
 
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 onment of not less than ten nor more than sixty days, in the 
 discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 707. — Danger Signals on Obstructions, Etc. Failure to 
 Place. Penalty. — No person or persons shall place or leave on 
 or in any street, alley, lane, sidewalk or public way of the 
 City of Columbus, any building materials, piles of dirt, sand, 
 lime, wood, trash, debris of any kind, or any boxes of merchan- 
 dise, wheel barrows, wagons, drays, vehicles of any kind or 
 other obstructions of any kind whatsoever, or ditches, sewers, 
 holes or other excavations or obstructions which are or may be 
 calculated to obstruct travel, or the free use of the streets, lanes, 
 alleys, sidewalks, and public ways of the City of Columbus, 
 or which would likely cause injury or damage to any person 
 traveling on or over such street, lane, or alley, sidewalk or public 
 way at night, unless such person so placing or leaving such 
 obstruction shall, during the time such obstruction remains, 
 place or cause to be placed or hung up or fixed securely on a 
 post or otherwise, a lamp or lantern with good and sufficient 
 light therein at each of the two corners of such obstruction or in 
 such manner as clearly and plainly to show the place and extent 
 occupied by such materials or obstructions. The person so 
 placing or leaving or causing to be placed or left, any such 
 obstructions at any of the places aforesaid, or the owners or 
 proprietors of such material, shall light or cause to be lighted 
 such lamp or lantern at or before dark in the evening in such 
 manner as to reasonably suppose it shall continue to burn until 
 day light and said lamp or lantern shall have a red color or 
 covered so as to cast a red light. Any one violating the pro- 
 visions of this Section shall be fined not exceeding .$25.00, or 
 be imprisoned not exceeding thirty days, in the discretion of the 
 Recorder. Provided, further, that this Section shall not apply to 
 that portion of the side park in front of the Seventh Street Public 
 School yard. Provided, further , that the provisions of this Section 
 shall, in no case, apply to vehicles of any kind in daily use; and, 
 provided, further, that this Section shall not apply to any 
 articles of merchandise or implements of trade used by any of 
 the merchants or dealers of the City of Columbus for the purpose 
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 man, or firm, or display of goods, or merchandise, etc., upon the 
 streets of said city when the same are used in a reasonable 
 manner and amount to be judged by the Mayor. Provided, 
 further, that this Section shall in no case apply to tools, imple- 
 ments or materials, the property of the City of Columbus, and 
 temporarily placed in the streets or public ways by employees 
 of said city while engaged in work on said streets or public 
 ways. 
 
 SEC. 708. — Signs Over Sidewalks. Penalty. Regulations as to 
 Electrical or Metal Signs. — It shall be unlawful for any person to 
 hang or to allow to remain hanging or in any manner suspended 
 over any of the sidewalks or streets of Columbus any sign, sign 
 board or other object of like character, other than as hereinafter 
 specified, where if the same shall fall it would fall on such side- 
 walks ‘or street and all property owners, tenants of the same, 
 shall remove from their premises all signs, sign boards, or other 
 objects of like character, other than those hereinafter specified, 
 which are immediately over such sidewalks or streets; provided, 
 however, that this Section shall not apply to signs that are 
 or may be attached securely face to face with the fronts of 
 buildings, nor to signs securely attached to buildings, provided, 
 the lower edge of such signs shall not be less than 9 feet above 
 the sidewalk; and, provided, that the outer edge of said sign or 
 their supports shall not project a greater distance than thirty- 
 six inches beyond the property line, nor to signs placed in 
 position by the City of Columbus for the purpose of designating 
 names of streets and avenues or for the purpose of warning the 
 public of danger nor to signs not more than ten inches square 
 attached for the purpose of warning the public of danger, nor to 
 signs not more than ten inches square attached to trolley poles 
 for the purpose of designating street car stations. 
 
 Provided, further, that it shall be lawful for any person, firm, 
 or corporation to erect and maintain over any sidewalk, across 
 streets, avenues or alleys in the City of Columbus, Georgia, 
 electric illuminating signs as hereinafter prescribed in this 
 Section and for the purpose of this Section an electric illumi- 
 nating sign is hereby declared to be any sign constructed as 
 follows: 
 
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 (1.) Signs of which all or any part of each letter is made 
 of metal, no wood being used in the construction of the electric 
 letter proper, letters being studded in full outline with electric 
 lights. Signs with transparent illuminated letters, or having a 
 border of incandescent lamps, but no sign shall have less than 
 one lamp for every one and one-half square feet of sign surface. 
 To this class of signs may be attached the name of the firm or 
 a brief description of the business which may consist of either 
 raised or printed letters on panels; provided, panels are made 
 a part of the sign rigidly attached thereto and incorporated in 
 the sign, and to, provided, this addition does not come within 
 ten feet of the pavement, as provided in this Section; and, pro- 
 vided, that the entire sign surface of which this addition is to be 
 a part meets the requirements of one lamp for every one and 
 one-half square feet of sign surface. 
 
 (2.) Any solid metal sign with border or electric lights no less 
 than one lamp for every one and one-half square feet of sign 
 surface. All signs to be wired in accordance with the rules 
 of the National Board of Fire Underwriters and in conformity 
 with the rules and regulations of the City of Columbus. 
 
 (3.) Any sign with transparent letters or in itself a trans- 
 parency shall be closed absolutely waterproof on the top side 
 and must be entirely open at the bottom, constructed in a 
 batter of one inch to four inches, and that the entire sign surface 
 shall be constructed as one side of sign, as one lamp serves in 
 this case both sides for illuminating. 
 
 Signs erected by authority of this Section and overhanging any 
 sidewalk must be placed at least ten feet above the sidewalk and 
 may extend twelve feet across same, and no such signs shall com- 
 mence at a greater distance than three feet from building 
 measuring from the side of the sign nearest the building while 
 perpindicular signs may be set from the building to be clear from 
 any window and that both sides of all horizontal and perpen- 
 dicular signs must be equally illuminated where they project over 
 the street or sidewalk as above described and signs erected by 
 authority of this Section must be fully illuminated each and 
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 longer, and on failure to comply with the said Section the city 
 shall cause these signs to be removed at the owner’s expense. 
 All signs erected across streets, alleys or other public highways 
 shall be at least ten feet above the ground and all lamps or arc 
 lamps on arms or otherwise over the sidewalks shall be con- 
 structed as an illuminating sign. 
 
 (d.) All persons, firms or corporations erecting signs under 
 the provisions of this Section shall first obtain a written permit 
 to do so from the proper authorities, Superintendent of Public 
 Works, and the electrical construction of the same to be in- 
 spected and approved by the proper authorized electrical in- 
 spector before being put off the ground. 
 
 (e.) If at any time any of the signs erected under this Section 
 shall become defective, unsafe and dangerous to the public the 
 same shall be repaired or adjusted at the expense of the owner 
 in such manner as may be dictated by the Building Inspector. 
 
 (f.) All persons, firms or corporations erecting, using and 
 maintaining signs shall save the city harmless from all damages 
 arising from erection, use and maintenance of the same. 
 
 (g.) Any person, firm or corporation violating any portion of 
 this Section shall be guilty of disorderly conduct and subject to a 
 fine of from $1.00 to $75.00, or imprisonment of not less than 
 live days or more than sixty days, in the discretion of the 
 Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 709. — Tapping Sewers Regulated. Penalty for Violating. 
 — No person shall tap any main sewer in the City of Columbus or 
 in any manner connect any waste or water pipe, drain or sewer 
 for any purpose without the consent of the Mayor and Council, 
 or of some Committee of Council duly authorized to grant per- 
 mission to tap or connect with such sewer. 
 
 SEC. 710. — Tapping Sewers. Expense of. — No permission to 
 tap or connect with any sewer shall be granted to any person 
 except the said connection shall be made at the expense of 
 the person obtaining such permission, and without the same 
 being done under the supervision of a competent mechanic and 
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 the two preceding Sections shall be fined not exceeding $20.00, 
 or imprisoned not longer than sixty days, either or both, in the 
 discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 711. — Protection of Parks. Injury to Grass and Shrub- 
 bery. Trespassing. Penalty. — It shall be unlawful for any per- 
 son or persons to walk, ride or drive in, upon, over or through, or 
 to engage in the playing of any game of ball or other sports; or 
 drive any cattle or stock of any kind in, over or upon; or to take, 
 cut, abuse or in any way injure or damage any of the trees, 
 fences, grass, flowers or other shrubbery; or to sweep or throw 
 any trash or litter of any kind, or in any manner trespass upon 
 the city park known as the “Court House Park” in said City of 
 Columbus, or upon any of the side parks or center parks to any 
 of the streets or avenues of said city. Provided, however, 
 that any person may walk, ride or drive through any of said 
 parks upon the regular walk ways and driveways for that 
 purpose. And, provided, further, that the provisions of this 
 Section shall not apply to children under ten years of age or 
 nurses with children, nor effect driving or riding over or upon 
 any of the side parks by any person in front of their 
 respective residence for the purpose of ingress or egress into or 
 upon the premises of such person. And, provided, further, that 
 the provisions of this Section shall not apply to any carts or 
 wagons used by the city in delivering dirt, rock or other prop- 
 erty into abutting property or in connection with any grading, 
 curbing, paving or any repairs or other improvements to any of 
 the streets, sidewalks and parks of the city and to drays deliv- 
 ering coal or other property into the court house or other 
 property belonging to the city. 
 
 SEC. 712. — Parks. Protection of. Regulations. Penalties. — 
 Any person who shall pass through or over any of the streets, 
 roads or grounds of the park with any wagon or any vehicle of 
 like kind, except for purpose of health or pleasure, shall be 
 fined not exceeding $10.00, or confined in the guard house or 
 upon the chaingang not exceeding ten days, at the discretion of 
 the Recorder. • 
 
 SEC. 713. — Disorderly Conduct in Parks. — Any person who 
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 limits of the park or so near thereto as to disturb or annoy any 
 visitors within the park, shall be fined not exceeding $25.00, or 
 confined in the guard house or upon the chaingang not exceeding 
 twenty-five days, in the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 714. — Reckless Driving in Parks. Penalty. — Any person 
 who may ride or drive any horse or other animal at a dangerous 
 gait through or over any portion of the park shall be fined not 
 exceeding $5.00, or confined in the guard house or upon the 
 chaingang not exceeding five days, at the discretion of the 
 Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 715. — Injuring or Defacing Property in Park. Penalty — 
 Any person who shall deface, mutilate, injure or destroy any 
 fence, gate or seat or other structure that may be erected in 
 or around or upon any portion of the park, or shall break, 
 injure or destroy any flowers, shrubs or trees growing in or upon 
 the park, or shall injure, deface or destroy any other property 
 connected with, or belonging to the park shall be fined not 
 exceeding $5.00, or confined in the guard house or upon the 
 chaingang not exceeding five days, at the discretion of the 
 Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 716. — Court House Park. Protection of. “City Park.” — 
 The court house square, so far as the rights and interests of the 
 city is concerned, be and the same is hereby set apart and 
 devoted to be known as the “City Park” for the use, benefit 
 and enjoyment of the public, and as the County of Muscogee has 
 an undivided interest in this square, the County Commissioners 
 are hereby invited and requested to join with the city in making 
 such dedication and also furnishing the necessary means for 
 carrying out the objects of this Section. 
 
 SEC. 717. — Appropriations to City Park. — That for the purpose 
 of beautifying and adorning the same, as also is provided for 
 the comfort and enjoyment of the visitors thereto, a sum of not 
 
 exceeding $ is hereby appropriated 
 
 to be expended under the dfrection and supervision of the 
 Street Committee and of such persons as the Committee may 
 see proper to appoint; and if the County Commissioners see 
 
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 proper to act in the premises, then the said Committee is 
 directed to consult and advise with them in making such ex- 
 penditures. 
 
 SEC. 718. — Street Parks. — The Street Committee also is hereby 
 authorized to grant to such citizens as may desire, the privilege of 
 enclosing portions of such streets as may be done without in- 
 convenience to the public to be used as private parks and also 
 to regulate such enclosures and to restrict the same as are now 
 established. Provided, no expense is incurred by the city; and, 
 provided, further, that such enclosures now, or which may here- 
 after be made shall be for the free use and enjoyment of the 
 public with no restrictions except such as may be made or 
 authorized by Council. 
 
 SEC. 719. — Disorderly Conduct in Any Park. — Any person who 
 shall be guilty of any disorderly or indecent conduct within or 
 near any of said parks, or who shall willfully injure any of 
 the fences, gates or seats, trees or shrubs belonging thereto, 
 or shall deface or injure any plant or flowers or grass, when laid 
 out and planted as such, by walking, riding or driving thereon 
 or who shall ride or drive on the walks thereof or who in any 
 other manner shall so act as to annoy the frequenters of said 
 parks or injure any of the property or grounds belonging 
 thereto shall be punished by the Recorder by fine or imprison- 
 ment, or both, in his discretion. 
 
 SEC. 720. — Building Material and Shrubbery in Parks only by 
 Consent of Mayor and Board of Aldermen. — It shall be unlawful 
 for any person or persons to use any part or portion of any of 
 the aforesaid parks for the deposit of building material or to 
 plant thereon any trees, flowers or shrubbery; or to place or 
 put thereon anything for ornamentation without the consent of 
 the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of said City of Columbus, 
 and when by such consent then only by and under the super- 
 vision and direction of the Committee on Parks and Commons 
 and the Superintendent of Public Works. 
 
 SEC. 721. — Rubbish or Trash in Fountain in Park Forbidden. — 
 It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to throw any 
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 at or into the fountain or basin in the court house park, or to 
 injure or in any manner interfere with the fish contained therein. 
 
 SEC. 722. — Penalty for Violating Any of the Preceding Sec- 
 tions. — Any person violating any of the provisions of either of 
 the two preceding Sections shall, upon conviction in the Record- 
 er’s Court, be fined not more than $5.00, or imprisoned on the 
 chaingang not more than ten days, in the discretion of the 
 Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 723. — Discharging Firearms on the Streets. Penalty. — 
 No person shall fire any gun or pistol in any of the streets or 
 sidewalks of the city, or in any of the lots thereof, nor set off 
 any fire crackers or other fire works nor make any fire in any of 
 the streets or sidewalks thereof, unless by permission of the 
 Chief of Police; provided, however, that this Section shall not 
 apply to military companies upon parade, nor be in force upon 
 such public holidays as Council may from time to time designate. 
 Any violation of the foregoing Section shall subject the offender 
 to punishment by fine in the Recorder’s Court not exceeding 
 $50.00, or by imprisonment not exceeding sixty days, in the 
 discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 CHAPTER 7 4. 
 
 THE PUBLIC HEALTH. 
 
 SECTION 724. — Moving “Disease Flags.” Penalty. — It shall 
 be unlawful and disorderly conduct for any person to remove 
 from any place any flag or other signal indicating the* presence 
 of contagious or infectious disease which has been erected by 
 the Sanitary Inspector at the discretion of the City Physician 
 or Board of Health, unless permission for such removal shall 
 first have been obtained from the City Physician or Sanitary 
 Inspector. 
 
 SEC. 725. — Refusing to Allow Posting Flags. — It shall be un- 
 lawful for any person to refuse to allow or obstruct the placing 
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 infectious disease, after the same shall have been ordered erected 
 by the Board of Health or City Physician. 
 
 SEC. 726. — Escaping from Pest House. — It shall be disorderly 
 conduct and unlawful for any person, after having been confined 
 in the pest house, or camp of detention, to leave the same with- 
 out having been discharged by the Board of Health, or the City 
 Physician or other physician in charge. 
 
 SEC. 727. — Penalty. — Any person violating any provision of 
 the three preceding Sections, or either of them, shall, upon con- 
 viction thereof in the Recorder’s Court, be fined not less than 
 $1.00 nor more than $50.00, or confined at hard labor on the 
 public works or streets of the city not less than one nor more 
 than thirty days, either or both, in the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 728. — Nuisances. Curing Hides in City. Penalty. — No 
 person shall cure hides, either by means of salt or otherwise, at 
 any place within the corporate limits of the city, where the 
 same may be offensive to any of the citizens. 
 
 SEC. 729. — Privies and Sinks. — No person shall build, have or 
 keep any privy, nor dig, have, or keep any sink or pit for a privy 
 within four feet of any street or public alley, or within two 
 feet of the boundary of his, her or their lot. No person shall 
 keep or permit any privy upon any of their premises, or of 
 premises under their care or occupancy, in a filthy and offensive 
 condition. 
 
 SEC. 730. — Standing Water and Garbage on Premises. — No per- 
 son shall allow any water to stand in any cellar or upon any 
 part of any premises owned by them, or under their care or 
 occupancy; nor allow any decayed or decaying vegetable or 
 animal matter, or offensive article or thing whatever, to remain 
 upon any such premises, either owned or occupied by them or 
 under their care. 
 
 SEC. 731. — Nuisances. — The existence of any of the things 
 mentioned in the three foregoing Sections and the existence of 
 any matter or thing in the corporate limits of this city, which 
 shall or does tend to the immediate annoyance of the citizens in 
 general, or which may be manifestly injurious to the public 
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 the people, or any considerable portion thereof, shall be and 
 the same is hereby declared to be a nuisance and may be abated 
 as such. 
 
 SEC. 732. — Nuisances Abated. Duties of Recorder’s Court. — 
 Any person complaining of any nuisance shall complain to the 
 Recorder in writing, setting forth particularly the location and 
 nature of the same, and how he or she may be affected thereby, 
 whereupon it shall be the duty of the Recorder to cause the 
 parties creating or permitting such nuisance to be summoned to 
 appear before the Recorder’s Court as in other cases. After 
 hearing the testimony in the case, the Recorder may, in his dis- 
 cretion, order the Chief of Police to proceed within a given time 
 to abate the nuisance in such manner as the Recorder may pre- 
 scribe. 
 
 SEC. 733. — Penalty. — For a violation of either of the five 
 preceding Sections, the person offending shall be punished by 
 fine not exceeding $30.00, or imprisonment not more than sixty 
 days, or both, in the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 734. — Stagnant Water on Premises. Penalty. — It shall be 
 unlawful for any person or persons, between the first day of 
 May and the first day of November to allow any open vessel 
 containing water to be exposed in such manner as that such 
 water will become stagnant and cause the breeding and propa- 
 gation of mosquitoes on premises over which such persons have 
 control, unless such vessel or vessels be covered with wire 
 netting of not less than eighteen wires to the square inch or some 
 other covering which will prevent mosquitoes entering or escap- 
 ing from such vessels; and any person violating the provisions 
 of this Section shall, upon conviction in the Recorder’s Court, 
 be fined not less than $5.00 nor more than $25.00, or be sentenced 
 to the chaingang or confined in jail for not less than ten nor 
 more than thirty days, either or both, in the discretion of the 
 Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 735. — Water Closets and Inspection of. Penalty. — It shall 
 be unlawful for the occupants of any premises in which a water- 
 closet has been placed, or may hereafter be placed, to fail to have 
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 closets; or when such a closet is out of repair and good order, 
 to fail to have same put in repair and good order without 
 delay, unless such delay is unavoidable; or to fail to have at 
 all times toilet paper hanging in the water closet so as to be in 
 view of, and accessible to, any person using such water closets, 
 and only such toilet paper shall be used in such closets. That 
 no person shall be permitted to connect any water closet with 
 any sewer or to use any water closet that may be already so 
 connected unless such water closets and sewer have both con- 
 nection with a water supply, sufficient in the judgment of the 
 Sanitary Inspector, to properly flush both the closet and sewer. 
 That for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this Section, 
 it is hereby made the duty of the Sanitary Inspector to inspect all 
 water closets and their connections as often as he may deem 
 necessary; provided, the same is done in the day time; and he 
 or any police officer shall summons any violator of this Sec- 
 tion before the Recorder. A violation of this Section shall con- 
 stitute disorderly conduct; and any person found guilty thereof 
 in the Recorder’s Court shall be fined not more than $50.00 nor 
 less than $1.00, or imprisonment in the guard house or county 
 jail for not over thirty days, either or both, or any part thereof, 
 in the discretion of the Recorder, for each day such person con- 
 tinues to violate the provisions of this Section. 
 
 SEC. 736. — Sinks and Surface Closets. Regulations. Limits 
 Defined. Penalty. — It shall be unlawful for any person to have, 
 use, keep or maintain a sink, pit or surface closet upon any lot or 
 part of lot fronting a street in which a city sewer is located or 
 may hereafter be located and also within all that area of the City 
 of Columbus embraced within the following boundaries: 
 
 Commencing on the east bank of the Chattahoochee River at 
 the intersection of Sixteenth Street and running thence in the 
 center of Sixteenth Street to a point in said street in the center of 
 the intersection of said street and First Avenue; thence north in 
 the center of First Avenue to a point in the center of the inter- 
 section of First Avenue and Eighteenth Street; thence east in the 
 center of Eighteenth Street to the center of Third Avenue; thence 
 south in the center of Third Avenue to the center of Sixteenth 
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 of Fifth Avenue; thence south in the center of Fifth Avenue to the 
 center of Thirteenth Street; thence east in the center of Thir- 
 teenth Street to the center of Sixth Avenue; thence south in the 
 center of Sixth Avenue to the center of Eleventh Street; thence 
 west in the center of Eleventh Street to a point midway between 
 Fifth and Sixth Avenues; thence south through the block be- 
 tween Fifth and Sixth Avenues to the center of Ninth Street; 
 thence along the center of Ninth Street west to the center of 
 Fourth Avenue; thence south along the center of Fourth Avenue 
 to Seventh Street; thence west in the center of Seventh Street 
 to Second Avenue; thence south along the center of Second 
 Avenue to Fifth Street; thence west along the center of Fifth 
 Street to Front Street; thence north along the center of Front 
 Street to where said street intersects with the Chattahoochee 
 River; thence up said river on the eastern bank to the point of 
 beginning. 
 
 It shall also be unlawful for any person to use, have, or keep 
 a sink, pit or surface closet, on, in, or upon any lot or part of lot 
 within the limits of said city on which there is now or may 
 hereafter be placed a water closet and drain therefor, leading to 
 any street drain or sewer. 
 
 Any person either owning, or renting a lot, violating the 
 provisions of this Section shall, upon conviction thereof in the 
 Recorder’s Court, be fined not more than $100, or punished by 
 imprisonment not more than sixty days, in the discretion of the 
 Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 737. — Chickens and Fowls on Streets. Penalty. — It shall 
 be unlawful for chickens or other domestic fowls to be allowed 
 to run at large on any of the streets, alleys or lanes of the city 
 in all of that territory lying south of Sixteenth Street and 
 North of Eighth Street and west of Sixth Avenue to First Ave- 
 nue, or within one block of Linwood cemetery, and the owners 
 thereof are required to keep them confined and on their own 
 premises. Any person violating the provisions hereof shall, 
 upon cohviction in the Recorder’s Court, be fined not more than 
 $5.00, or be confined in the guard house not over ten days, 
 either or both, in the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
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 SEC. 738. — Requiring Screen Doors at Market to be Kept 
 Closed. Penalty. — It shall be unlawful for the renter of any stall 
 at the meat market or any person in charge of any stall in said 
 meat market to keep open the gates or screen doors of any stall in 
 their charge during market hours, between the tirst day of May 
 and the first day of November of each year. And any person 
 violating the provisions of this Section shall, upon conviction, be 
 fined not less than $1.00 nor more than $5.00, or sentenced to 
 work on the chaingang not less than one nor more than ten days, 
 in the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 739. — Meats from Butcher Pens. Protected by Covers. 
 Penalty. — Butchers and all other parties bringing or conveying 
 fresh meats into this city from butcher pens or other places 
 shall be required to keep same carefully and securely covered 
 with tarpaulins of clean white sheets in order that said meats 
 cannot be reached by sand or flies and for each and every viola- 
 tion of this Section, the offender shall, on conviction, be fined not 
 less than $1.00 nor more than $10.00, or be confined at labor on 
 the city chaingang not less than five nor more than thirty days, 
 in the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 740. — Selling Tainted Fish, Meats, Vegetables and Foods 
 Forbidden. Penalty. — -It shall be unlawful for any person or per- 
 sons to offer for sale or place on counter or such places as they 
 are usually offered for sale, any meats, fish, vegetables or any 
 other articles of food as may be found tainted or unfit for whole- 
 some food. Any person violating this Section shall be fined not 
 less than $1.00 nor more than $30.00, or required to serve not 
 more than twenty days on the chaingang, in the discretion of the 
 Recorder. 
 
 CHAPTER 7 5. 
 
 PROTECTION FROM FIRE. 
 
 SECTION 741. — Combustible Material. Accumulation in Cel- 
 lars, Yards and Alleys Forbidden. Penalty. — It shall be unlaw- 
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 loose straw, paper and any such like material to accumulate in 
 any cellar or building within the city of the premises of back 
 yard adjoining or near any building within the city. When any 
 such accumulation of combustible material shall be found as 
 provided in the above paragraph so as to endanger any building, 
 it shall be the duty of the Chief of the Fire Department or any 
 member of the police force to direct the owner or occupant of 
 such premises to remove the same, and if same shall not be 
 done within a reasonable time, not to exceed three days, upon 
 conviction in the Recorder’s Court of such failure or refusal 
 and of the fact of the existing of such unlawful and dangerous 
 combustible material, such person so convicted shall be fined not 
 less than $1.00 nor more than $50.00, or be sentenced to work 
 on the city chaingang not over sixty days, either or both, in the 
 discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 742. — Oils. Failure to Store. Penalty . — Be it ordained , * 
 That all explosive oils, such as kerosene oil, camphene, etc., 
 which may be brought to the city, shall, by the owner or con- 
 signee thereof, be conveyed to the city store house as soon as 
 practicable after its arrival. Persons desiring of retailing any of 
 the aforesaid oils, shall keep not more than two barrels of each 
 in store at one time — one barrel on tap and one barrel closed. 
 Persons failing or refusing to store said oils, as required, for the 
 space of two days after receipt of same, shall be fined not less 
 than $10.00 for each day they so fail or refuse. 
 
 SEC. 743. — Storage of Paints, Oils, Etc., in Cellars, for Retail- 
 ing. Penalty. — It shall be unlawful for any one within the 
 corporate limits of said city to store paints, oils, varnishes, tur- 
 pentine, benzine, gasoline, or similar articles of inflammable 
 character, for the purpose of selling the same at retail, in any 
 cellar of any store house in said city. Any person or persons 
 violating this Section shall be fined in a sum not exceeding 
 $50.00, or confined upon the public works of said city not exceed- 
 ing thirty days, either or both, in the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 744. — Fire Works. Unlawful Storage of. Penalty. — It 
 shall be unlawful to store or keep on hand, other than at the 
 magazine, any fire works, such as fire crackers, roman candles, 
 
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 sky rockets, torpedoes, or other similar explosives, in quantities 
 greater than .$25.00 in value, between the first day of January 
 and the first day of December, except that persons, firms or cor- 
 porations, who sell such fire works may keep such pt their places 
 of business to supply the retail trade from the fifteenth day of 
 October to the first day of January in each year. The rate of 
 charges for storage of fire works in the city magazine shall be 
 one per cent, upon the value thereof for the first month and half 
 of one per cent for each the second and third months, and one- 
 tenth of one per cent, for each succeeding month the same 
 remains at the magazine.* The keeper of the magazine shall 
 make a monthly report to Council of all sums collected and the 
 amount and value of all fire works stored in the city magazine. 
 For a violation of any of the provisions of this Section, and 
 upon conviction thereof in the Recorder’s Court, the person so 
 convicted shall be punished by a fine of not more than $50.00, 
 or imprisonment and labor on the city chaingang of not more 
 than sixty days, in the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 CHAPTER 7 6. 
 
 THE PUBLIC SAFETY. 
 
 SECTION 745. — Bridges. Rules of Travel. Protection of. 
 Penalties. — No person crossing the bridge with one or more 
 horses or mules or horse or mule and vehicle, shall cause them to 
 go faster than a walk; any person so offending shall, on convic- 
 tion in the Recorder’s Court, be punished by a fine of not less 
 than $20.00 or more than $30.00, or imprisoned not longer than 
 sixty days. 
 
 SEC. 746. — Locomotives and Cars. Permits to Cross. — No car- 
 riage or vehicle of any kind or any locomotive or railroad car 
 which, when empty or loaded, in the whole or in part is of more 
 weight than 8,000 pounds, shall be allowed to pass the bridges 
 without a special permit from the Bridge Committee. Any 
 persons so offending shall, on conviction, be punished by fine not 
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 exceeding $30.00, or imprisoned not more than sixty days, in the 
 discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 747. — Injuring Bridges or Bridge Keeper’s House. — Any 
 person convicted of committing an injury or damage to the 
 bridge or the bridge keeper’s house or any of the appurtenances 
 of the bridge, shall be fined $50.00. Any person putting out any 
 of the lights in the bridge or defacing any part of the bridge or 
 in any way obstructing or hindering the free passage of the 
 same, by stopping any vehicle upon it, or in any other way, shall 
 be fined $20.00, or imprisoned not exceeding sixty days, in the 
 discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 748. — Speed Regulations. Notice Posted. — There shall be 
 posted in a conspicuous place upon said bridge a notice in black 
 letters at each end of the same as follows: “Twenty dollars 
 
 fine for going faster than a walk.” 
 
 SEC. 749. — No Tolls. Bridges Free. — The bridges are hereby 
 made free. 
 
 SEC. 750. — Bridges. Policeman at. — The policeman at each 
 bridge shall watch over the respective bridges and report any 
 repairs needed to the Mayor and Committee on Bridges; and all 
 laws for the protection of said bridges shall remain in force. 
 
 SEC. 751. — Inspection of Bridges. — It shall be the duty of the 
 Superintendent of Public Works, Marshal and Chief of Police to 
 inspect, or cause to be inspected, each bridge once a month and 
 make a report of the condition of said bridges in writing to 
 Council each month. 
 
 SEC. 752. — Driving Over Bridges Faster Than a Walk. Penalty. 
 
 — Any person crossing any bridge across the Chattahoochee 
 River faster than a walk, who is either riding any animal or 
 driving any vehicle shall, upon conviction thereof in the Re- 
 corder’s Court, be fined not more than $20.00 nor less than $1.00, 
 or be confined not more than twenty days, nor less than one day 
 on the public works of the city, either or both, in the discretion 
 of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 753. — Crossing Railroad Trestle. Penalty. — Any’ person 
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 of Columbus shall be guilty of disorderly conduct of which the 
 Recorder’s Court of the City of Columbus shall have juris- 
 diction, and shall be punished by fine not exceeding $30.00, or 
 imprisonment not more than sixty days. The provisions of this 
 Section shall not apply in any case where the railroad authori- 
 ties in pursuance of their respective business make use of either 
 of said trestles. 
 
 SEC. 754. — Prohibiting Crossing Railroad Bridges. Penalty. — 
 
 Any person who may cross or attempt to cross any railway 
 bridge in the City of Columbus shall be guilty of disorderly con- 
 duct, of which the Recorder’s Court of the City of Columbus 
 shall have jurisdiction, and shall be punished by fine not exceed- 
 ing $30.00, or imprisonment not more than sixty days. The 
 provisions of this Section shall not apply in any case where the 
 railroad authorities, in the pursuance of their respective busi- 
 ness, make use of either of said bridges. 
 
 SEC. 755. — Automobiles. Regulating the Use of and Similar 
 Machines Within the City. Penalty. — The term “automobiles” 
 as used in this Section shall include all machines or vehicles 
 known as automobiles, locomobiles, autos, and all other ma- 
 chines and vehicles propelled otherwise than by muscular 
 power, except electric and steam railways or vehicles run upon 
 rails or tracks. All automobiles or other similar machines used 
 upon the streets of the City of Columbus shall be by their 
 respective owners registered in the office of the Clerk of the 
 City Council of Columbus on the first day of January of each 
 year in a book to be kept by said Clerk for that purpose, which 
 registry shall show the style or kind of machine, the name of 
 the owner, and the number assigned to the owner to be attached 
 to or displayed on such automobile which number shall be 
 designated and assigned by the Clerk of Council in each case. A 
 certificate of registry shall be given by said Clerk to such owner 
 for each current year and no automobile or any similar 
 machine shall be operated or used upon the streets of the City 
 of Columbus until the same shall have been registered as herein 
 required, and unless the person so operating said machine shall 
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 attached thereto, the registered number conspicuously shown 
 in figures of not less than three inches in height and three- 
 eighths of an inch in width, which figures shall be so colored 
 as to contrast with the color of the machine and be readily dis- 
 cernable. Automobiles already numbered shall retain the number 
 assigned at previous registration. The owner of each auto- 
 mobile or similar machine shall pay to the Clerk of Council $1.00 
 for each certificate of registration and recording the number of 
 said automobile or similar machine. It shall be the duty of 
 any person or persons using automobiles or similar machine 
 upon the streets of the City of Columbus to proceed carefully 
 and cautiously and to operate, handle, guide and manage said 
 machine so as to avoid damage to persons or property; and the 
 speed of said machine in no event shall exceed ten miles an 
 hour in the fire limits and fifteen miles an hour in other 
 portions of the corporate limits of the City of Columbus and 
 shall be less than said rate when because of the presence of 
 vehicles or persons on the streets, or other cause reasonable 
 prudence and caution shall dictate a slower rate of speed, it 
 being the intent of this Section to prohibit at all times a speed 
 that is rendered careless by the condition existing at the moment, 
 although the speed may be within the maximum limit therein 
 provided. It shall not be lawful for any person to use or pro- 
 pel on any street in the City of Columbus after nighfall any 
 automobiles or similar machines unless such person shall dis- 
 play attached to said machine at least two lighted lamps showing 
 white light visible at least two hundred feet in the direction in 
 which said automobile is proceeding and shall also exhibit one 
 red light in the rear of said machine showing red to the rear 
 and a white light cast upon the number attached to the rear 
 frame of said automobile. 
 
 No person shall operate upon the the streets of the City of 
 Columbus any automobile or similar machine unless said ma- 
 chine is properly equipped with good brakes and signal service. 
 Every person in charge of any automobile or similar machine 
 shall sound a horn or proper signal when approaching street 
 crossings and when turning from one corner to another. Every 
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 and keep to the right hand side of the street and use all reason- 
 able precautions to avoid collisions and injury to persons and 
 property. It shall be unlawful for any person under the age of 
 sixteen years or any intoxicated person or persons under the 
 influence of intoxicants to operate any automobile or similar 
 vehicle on the streets of the City of Columbus. 
 
 No automobile or similar vehicle shall be run on any bridge 
 in the City of Columbus at a greater rate of speed than three 
 miles an hour and should any person operating said automobile 
 or similar machine, while on any bridge or street of the City 
 of Columbus, discover any animal hitched to any vehicle taking 
 fright at the approach of said machine, it shall be the duty of the 
 person operating such machine to bring the same to an imme- 
 diate stop until all danger of accident is averted. It shall like- 
 wise be the duty of any person operating any automobile or simi- 
 lar machine to stop when signaled by any police officer of said 
 city raising his club or when ordered so to do by any police 
 officer of the City of Columbus. 
 
 In case of the operation of any automobile or any similar 
 machine upon the streets of the City of Columbus in violation of 
 any of the foregoing provisions of this Section the person 
 operating the same shall be subject, upon conviction before the 
 Recorder of the City of Columbus, to a fine not to exceed $50.00, 
 and imprisonment not to exceed sixty days, either or both, in the 
 discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 756. — Motorcycles. Riding on Sidewalks Forbidden. 
 Penalty. — It shall be unlawful for any person to ride any 
 bicycle or tricycle which is propelled by a motor of any de- 
 scription upon any sidewalk in the City of Columbus, but it shall 
 be unlawful to ride such vehicles on the driveways of the city 
 without a lamp. And upon conviction any person so offending 
 shall be fined not less than $1.00 nor more than $10.00, or con- 
 fined at labor on the city chaingang not less than five nor more 
 than fifteen days, either or both, in the discretion of the 
 Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 757. — Automobiles Without Horn and Light Forbidden. 
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 for any person to use an automobile, or vehicle of like character 
 upon any street in the city of Columbus unless the same be 
 equipped with a bell or horn and with a lamp or light. It shall 
 also be unlawful for any person to leave such vehicle standing 
 on any street in said city with its motor or engine in motion. 
 And any person violating any provision of this Section shall, 
 on conviction, be fined not less than $1.00 nor more than $10.00, 
 or by confinement at labor on the city chaingang for not less 
 than five nor more than fifteen days, either or both, in the dis- 
 cretion of the Recorder. 
 
 .SEC. 758. — Bicycles. Riding on Certain Sidewalks Prohibit- 
 ed. Regulations. Penalty. — It shall be unlawful for any person 
 to ride a bicycle on any sidewalk in the city embraced in the fol- 
 lowing territory or on any sidewalk paved or hereafter paved: 
 Beginning at the Chattahoochee River and running east along the 
 center of Ninth Street to Second Avenue; thence north along the 
 property line on the west side of Second Avenue to the center 
 of Fifteenth Street; thence west to the river. Also the sidewalks 
 on either side of Twelfth Street between Second and Sixth Ave- 
 nues; also the sidewalks on Hamilton Avenue between Seven- 
 teenth and Twelfth Streets; provided, that this clause shall only 
 apply to persons going south or towards Seventh Street; and 
 upon any of the walks leading through the court house park; 
 and upon Dillingham Street bridge or the sidewalks of Four- 
 teenth Street bridge. 
 
 SEC. 759. — Bicycle Paths. — It shall be unlawful for any person 
 to ride a bicycle on any sidewalk in the City of Columbus where 
 a bicycle path has been or shall hereafter be constructed 
 parallel with and on the same side of the street as is said side- 
 walk. 
 
 SEC. 760. — Bicycles Without Bells or Horns. Penalty. — It shall 
 be unlawful for any person to ride a bicycle on any sidewalk 
 within the corporate limits of the City of Columbus unless the 
 same be equipped with a horn or bell and with a lighted lamp 
 at night, said lamp to be securely attached to the bicycle. 
 
 SEC. 761. — Reckless Riding. — It shall be unlawful for any 
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 reckless manner or at a greater rate of speed than eight miles an 
 hour, or at a greater rate of speed than three miles an hour 
 when meeting or passing pedestrians. 
 
 SEC. 762. — Penalty. — Any person violating either of the above 
 and foregoing Sections shall, on conviction, be fined not exceed- 
 ing $10.00 or less than $1.00, or be confined at hard labor on the 
 city chaingang not exceeding ten days, either or both, in the dis- 
 cretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 763. — Reckless Driving on Streets. Penalty. — No person 
 shall ride or drive in the street in a disorderly manner so as 
 to endanger the person or property of any person in this city. 
 And any person violating this Section shall be punished by fine 
 not exceeding $30.00, or imprisoned not longer than sixty 
 days, either or both, in the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 764. — Fast Driving Near Market. Penalty. — It shall be 
 unlawful for any person or persons, except the drivers of fire 
 apparatus responding to an alarm of fire, to drive or ride any 
 horse or mule faster than a walk on First Avenue between Tenth 
 and Eleventh Streets during market hours; and any person or 
 persons offending against this Section shall, upon conviction in 
 the Recorder’s Court, be punished by fine not to exceed $50.00, 
 or imprisonment not to exceed thirty days. 
 
 SEC. 765. — Excavations in Streets or Holes. Penalty. — No 
 person shall make or cause to be made any hole or excavation 
 in any of the streets nor haul or remove any dirt from any of 
 the streets of this city. And any person violating this Section 
 shall be punished by fine not exceeding $30.00, or imprisonment 
 not more than sixty days, in the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 766. — Cellar Doors. — It shall not be lawful for any per- 
 son or persons to open and keep their cellar doors open except 
 when they are opened for the purpose of putting in or taking 
 out merchandise, etc., and all cellar doors shall be closed at sun- 
 set and if opened afterwards, shall have a light placed at the 
 entrance of the same. It shall be the duty of the Chief of Police 
 and police when they see any violation of this Section to caution 
 the parties, and if not complied with immediately, to sum- 
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 violating this Section shall be liable to a tine not exceeding 
 $10.00, or imprisonment not exceeding twenty days for each 
 offense on conviction in the Recorder’s Court. 
 
 SEC. 767. — Breaking Colts on Streets. Penalty. — Any person 
 who breaks or attempts to break any horse or mule upon the 
 streets shall, upon conviction therefor, be fined not more than 
 $50.00, or imprisoned not more than sixty days, as the Recorder, 
 in his discretion, may inflict. 
 
 SEC. 768. — Discharging Fire Works on Certain Streets. Penalty. 
 — The setting off of any sky rockets, roman candles, large fire 
 crackers, torpedoes or balloons at any place within the cor- 
 porate limits of the city, except north of Fourteenth Street 
 and south of Ninth Street is hereby prohibited during the 
 Christmas holidays, under penalty of fine not exceeding $30.00, 
 or imprisonment not longer than sixty days, at the discretion of 
 the Recorder, and the police are especially instructed to enforce 
 this prohibition. 
 
 CHAPTER 77. 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS. 
 
 SECTION 769. — Building Permits for Erecting, Altering or Re- 
 pairing. Failure. Penalty. — When any person or persons, firm 
 or corporation, shall be desirous of erecting, repairing, changing, 
 or altering any building, buildings or structures within the fire 
 limits of the City of Columbus, as now designated or that may 
 hereafter be designated as fire limits, he, she, they or it shall 
 make application at the office of Inspector of Buildings for a 
 permit for that purpose, and shall furnish said Inspector with a 
 written statement of the proposed location, dimensions and 
 manner of construction of the proposed building or structure 
 and the materials to be used; and with plans and specifications 
 of the proposed building, buildings or structure, which shall be 
 delivered to said Inspector of Buildings and remain in his cus- 
 tody a sufficient length of time to allow the necessary examina- 
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 of said plans and specifications shall be fded in the office of said 
 Inspector of Buildings for record. After which, if it shall appear 
 to said Inspector of Buildings that the laws and Ordinances of 
 the city are complied with, he shall give the permit asked for. 
 
 Applications for permits must be made out in blank forms 
 furnished at the office of the Inspector of Buildings and shall 
 describe and designate the location of the proposed building or 
 structure, the nature and character of building materials to be 
 used, dimensions of joists and timbers and distances apart, 
 number and height of stories, thickness of walls, widths of bear- 
 ing surface of foundations, for what purpose the building, build- 
 ings or structure is designed and such other information as may 
 be desired or required by the said Inspector. Said application 
 must also contain an agreement signed by the owner or owners 
 of the proposed building, buildings or structure, or by his or 
 their architect or agent, stating that he or they will in all respects 
 construct the work in accordance with the detailed statement, 
 plans and specifications accompanying the application and in 
 compliance with the laws and Ordinances of the City of 
 Columbus. 
 
 Any person, firm or corporation who shall fail, refuse or 
 neglect to make application for and secure permits for erecting, 
 repairing, changing or altering, and building buildings or struct- 
 ures as provided in paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Section, shall be 
 fined not less than $2.00 nor more than $20.00, or imprisoned for 
 not longer than ten days, either or both, in the discretion of 
 the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 770. — Regulating the Sale of Cold Storage Eggs. Penalty. 
 — It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to 
 sell or offer for sale cold storage eggs in cases or other recep- 
 tacles unless the same be marked in large letters on said cases 
 or receptacles the words, “Cold Storage Eggs,” each of which 
 said letters contained in the words “Cold Storage Eggs” shall 
 be at least one inch square. 
 
 All persons, firms or corporations who shall sell or offer for 
 sale to the general public cold storage eggs not marked as pre- 
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 Recorder, be fined not less than $5.00 nor more than $100, or 
 sentenced to work on the public works of the city not less than 
 five days nor more than sixty days, either or any part of said 
 punishment to be inflicted by the Recorder, in his discretion. 
 
 SEC. 771. — Regulating Selling Dressed Poultry. Penalty. — 
 It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, except a regis- 
 tered merchant or stall renter at the city market, to sell or offer 
 for sale in said city any dressed poultry, and any violation of 
 this Section shall subject the offender or offenders to a fine not 
 exceeding $50.00, or imprisonment not exceeding thirty days, 
 in the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 772. — Cattle, Hogs, Etc., Olfered for Sale. Regulations. 
 Penalty.— All persons bringing into the City of Columbus for 
 sale, except such as may be only passing through, any cattle, 
 cows, sheep, goats or hogs, shall place the same immediately in 
 the city stock yard before offering such live stock for sale; and 
 no person shall allow any such live stock to be herded or stand 
 on the streets of the city. 
 
 All persons placing such stock or cattle in such city stock yard 
 shall pay to the keeper thereof a fee of eight cents per head for 
 each beef, or hog, and four cents per head for each sheep, or 
 goat, for the first twenty-four hours or fractional part thereof 
 that such stock or cattle may remain in such stock yard, which 
 fee, when so paid, shall give the privilege to the owners of stock 
 of having their stock weighed on the city scales at such stock 
 yards, without further charge therefor, at which place all stock 
 shall hereafter be weighed; and for each twenty-four hours, or 
 fractional part thereof, after the first twenty-four hours that 
 such stock shall remain in such stock yard, one-half of the above 
 specified fees shall be charged therefor; provided, that the terms 
 of this Section shall not apply to those who place their stock 
 in, or offer stock for sale in, any licensed livery or sale stable, 
 or licensed lot, or licensed wagon yard, that also provides a 
 licensed public scales for the weighing of such stock, when- 
 ever the same shall be weighed in such stable, lot, or yard. 
 
 Any person failing to comply with the provisions of this Sec- 
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 a fine of not less than fifty cents or more than $1.00 for each 
 head of stock or cattle so offered for sale not placed in the 
 city stock yard as aforesaid, or be confined in the city guard 
 house or county jail for not more than one day for each head of 
 cattle or stock not so confined, either or both, in the discretion of 
 the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 773. — Waterworks. Interfering With or Injuring the Fix- 
 tures of. Penalty. — Any person who shall, without authority, in 
 any manner interfere with, injure, or remove any of the fixtures 
 or appurtenances of hydrants, pipes or appendages thereto, 
 belonging to the system of waterworks in the City of Columbus, 
 or who shall, without authority, use the water, or suffer others to 
 use it, or shall wantonly or negligently waste the water, or per- 
 mit others to waste the same, or who shall use any of the 
 hydrants or fixtures for hitching posts, shall be guilty of dis- 
 orderly conduct, and upon proof thereof before the Recorder 
 of said city, such offender shall be punished by fine or imprison- 
 ment, or by confinement and labor upon the public works of the 
 city or county, in the discretion of said Recorder; and the police 
 shall be diligent and report every infraction of this Section. 
 
 SEC. 774. — Injuring Fire Apparatus of City. Penalty. — Any 
 person who shall willfully and knowingly injure or damage, in 
 any way, or by any means whatever, any engine, hose, hook, 
 ladder, or any other implement, material, or apparatus of any 
 kind, connected with or used by any fire company in Columbus, 
 Georgia, as a part of their machinery or material for extinguish- 
 ing fires, shall be punished by fine or such other punishment as 
 the Recorder may, in his discretion, inflict. 
 
 $EC. 775. — Injuring Street Lamps. Penalty. — Any person who 
 shall willfully break or injure any lamp or any part thereof, 
 whether public or private property, already set up, or which 
 may hereafter be set up, for the purpose of lighting any of the 
 streets or alleys, or any part thereof, in the City of Columbus, 
 Georgia, or shall extinguish any such lamp or remove the burner 
 therefrom, or who shall knock down or remove any lamp or 
 lamp post from the place where it is fixed, shall, upon convic- 
 tion, be punished by fine or other punishment, or both, in the 
 discretion of the Recorder. 
 
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 SEC. 776. — Fire Hydrants; Penalty for Tampering with. — (a.) 
 It shall be unlawful for any person, other than an officer or an 
 employee of the Columbus Fire Department or the Columbus 
 Sanitary Department or of the Columbus Sprinkling Department 
 or of the Columbus Waterworks Company to open or attempt to 
 open any of the fire hydrants owned or rented by the City 
 Council. 
 
 (b.) It shall be unlawful for any person whomsoever to open 
 or attempt to open any of the said hydrants in any other man- 
 ner than by the use of the regulation fire hydrant wrench. 
 
 (c.) It shall be unlawful for any person whomsoever to 
 tamper with or to leave valve or hose connection open or in 
 anyway damage any of said fire hydrants. 
 
 (d.) Any violation of any of the provisions of this Section 
 shall subject the offender, upon conviction, to a fine not exceed- 
 ing $100, or to imprisonment in the guard house, or to hard labor 
 upon the public works of the city for a time not exceeding sixty 
 days, either or all, in the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 777. — Injuring Public Property or Trees. Penalty. — Any 
 person who shall willfully destroy or injure any of the public 
 pumps, wells or cisterns, or any part thereof, or who shall throw 
 or put any substance in any such pump, well or cistern, or who 
 shall dig up, cut down, remove or injure any tree, post, or en- 
 closure, or any boxing around any tree that has been already 
 planted or erected in or on any street, lane or square in said city, 
 or that may hereafter be erected as aforesaid, shall, upon con- 
 viction, be punished by fine not exceeding $30.00, or imprison- 
 ment not longer than sixty days, either or both, in the diseretjon 
 of the Recorder; and any tree, post or enclosure in any of the 
 streets, whether placed there by the city or by any individual, 
 are hereby . declared public property so far as to extend to 
 them the provisions of this Section. 
 
 SEC. 778. — Injuring Property in Exposition Park. Penalty. — 
 Any person who shall willfully or intentionally break any of the 
 glass or deface or otherwise injure any building or structure in 
 Exposition Park, or who shall remove any part of the fencing 
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 with or injure any of the water piping, or other appurtenances 
 at said park, shall be guilty of a violation of this Section, and on 
 conviction shall be fined not less than $1.00 or more than 
 $25.00, or be imprisoned not less than one day or more than 
 thirty days, either or both, in the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 779. — Forbidding Abuse of Court House. Penalty. — It 
 shall be unlawful for any person to spit on the floors or walls 
 of the court house or to cut or mutilate or post bills or write on 
 any part of the same, or the furniture therein, or to use any por- 
 tion of the same or furniture therein, for any filthy, indecent or 
 improper use. 
 
 Any person who shall be guilty of violating this Section or any 
 portion thereof, shall, upon conviction of the same, be fined not 
 more than $50.00, or imprisoned for not more than thirty days, 
 either or both, in the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 780. — Prohibiting Interference with Electric Light and 
 Power System. — Any person who, without authority, shall in 
 any manner interfere with, injure, add to or remove any wires, 
 fixtures or apparatus, belonging to or attached to the lighting 
 or power system of any electric light or power company, doing 
 business in the City of Columbus, or who, without authority, 
 shall use the electricity or electric current of such company, 
 shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by the Recorder in 
 a sum of not less than $1.00 nor more than $20.00, or imprisoned 
 for not less than one day nor more than thirty days. 
 
 SEC. 781. — Public Schools Protected from Disturbance. Pen- 
 alty. — No person shall be permitted at or near any public or 
 private school house in the City of Columbus, Georgia, to engage 
 by conversation, signs or otherwise, the attention of any of the 
 pupils at said school house, to the disturbance of any of said 
 pupils and to the detriment and discipline of. such schools. 
 
 Any person who may violate the provisions of this Section 
 may be arrested by any officer or member of the police force, 
 and taken before the Recorder’s Court; and such person may, on 
 conviction, be fined in a sum of not more than $20.00, or be im- 
 prisoned not more than thirty days, either or both, in the dis- 
 cretion of the Court. 
 
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 SEC. 782. — Common and River Bank. Protection of. Penal- 
 ties. — (a.) The building or erection of any house, shanty, tent 
 or hut, of any description, or of any enclosure, upon any portion 
 of the common or river bank is hereby forbidden and declared 
 to be a nuisance, and may be removed as such. Any person 
 making or erecting any such building or enclosure shall be 
 punished by tine not exceeding $30.00, or imprisonment not 
 more than sixty days, as the Recorder, in his discretion, may 
 inflict. 
 
 (b.) No person shall place on any portion of the common or 
 river bank the carcass of any dead animal, or on any pretense 
 whatever dig, cut away or carry off any part or portion of the 
 earth from the bank of the river or any part of the commons, 
 or cut down, remove or destroy any timber, trees or shrubbery 
 on said river bank or commons, without permission from 
 Council or the Commissioners of Commons. Every person or 
 persons violating any part of this Section shall be punished by 
 fine not exceeding $30.00, or imprisonment not more than sixty 
 days, either or both, in the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 783. — Camping with Vehicles, Except in Wagon Yards, 
 Prohibited. — No person shall camp with his or her cart or 
 wagon within the corporate limits of the City of Columbus, 
 Georgia, except upon the wagon yards set apart for that purpose; 
 and it shall be the duty of the Chief of Police to order all persons 
 violating this Section to remove beyond said limits or to such 
 wagon yards; and any person or persons refusing to remove 
 when so requested, shall be punished by fine not exceeding 
 $30.00, or imprisonment not more than sixty days. 
 
 SEC. 784. — Regulating Entering of Exposition Park when Ad- 
 mission Fee is Charged. — (a.) It shall be unlawful for any person 
 to enter what is known as the Exposition or Driving Park 
 grounds, unless such person enter at the place and under the 
 conditions prescribed by the management of said grounds. 
 
 (b.) It shall also be unlawful for any person to climb under, 
 through, or upon any outside fence enclosing said grounds or 
 upon any barn, stable or other building situated within said 
 grounds. 
 
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 (c.) For violating the provisions of this Section the penally 
 shall be a fine of not less than $2.00 or more than $25.00, or 
 imprisonment on the city chaingang for not less than five days 
 or more than thirty days, either or both, in the discretion of the 
 Recorder. 
 
 Provided, that this Section shall be in force only on occasions 
 when there are entertainments on said grounds to which an 
 admission fee is charged. 
 
 SEC. 785. — Going on Roofs for Running Wires without Con- 
 sent. Prohibited. Penalty. — It shall be unlawful for any person 
 or persons to go on the roof of any house in the city for the 
 purpose of running wires over or on to such house without first 
 getting the written consent of the owner of said property. Any 
 person who shall violate the provisions of this Section shall, 
 on conviction thereof, be fined not less than $1.00 or more than 
 $10.00, in the discretion of the Recorder, or imprisonment for not 
 less than one and not more than ten days for each offense. 
 
 SEC. 786. — Defacing Property with Advertisements or Other- 
 wise. Forbidden. Penalty. — No person or persons shall tack, 
 paste or otherwise fasten anything upon any fence, wall, tree, or 
 other exposed place within the corporate limits of the City of 
 Columbus, whether private or public property, with a view of 
 advertising, without, in case of private property, first having 
 obtained the permission of the owner so to do, and, in the case 
 of public property, without first having obtained permission 
 from the public authorities. 
 
 Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this 
 Section shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not less 
 than $1.00 nor more than $25.00, or imprisonment for not longer 
 than ten days. 
 
 SEC. 787. — Mayor Authorized to Make Rules Governing Hack- 
 men. — The Mayor of Columbus is hereby invested with full 
 power and authority to make from time to time such uniform 
 rules and regulations governing the conduct and demeanor of 
 public or licensed hackmen or others carrying passengers or 
 baggage for hire or reward as in his judgment is necessary, and 
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 for said hacks or conveyances and to regulate how and in what 
 manner drivers of said hacks shall stand or arrange the same 
 with reference to the several railroad depots, opera houses, 
 hotels, or other public places in said city, and from time io 
 time to alter, amend, or abolish said rules. 
 
 The Mayor shall cause notice of such rules or regulations as he 
 may make or prescribe as well as changes or alterations thereof 
 to be given to the hackmen or drivers by the Chief of Police 
 and also to cause the same to be published in circular or pam- 
 phlet form for the use of such hackmen and may in his dis- 
 cretion cause printed copies of such rules to be posted in a 
 conspicuous place on the inside of each hack or other con- 
 veyance. 
 
 In case any hackman or driver of any public or licensed 
 hack or other conveyance carrying passengers for hire or re- 
 ward or any other person shall violate any of the rules or regu- 
 lations made or prescribed by the Mayor as aforesaid he shall, 
 on conviction thereof before the Recorder’s Court, be punished 
 by a fine of not less than $1.00 nor more than $10.00, or by 
 imprisonment of not less than one nor more than ten days, 
 either or both, in the discretion of the Recorder; and the Mayor 
 and Council may, in its discretion, revoke the license of said 
 hackman. 
 
 SEC. 788. — Hacks. Rates. — For carrying passengers to and 
 from the depot or wharf, or elsewhere in the city, an omnibus 
 or hack may charge twenty-five cents and twenty-five cents for 
 baggage if exceeding fifty pounds. After ten o’clock at night the 
 rates for passengers, except to and from depots and wharf, may be 
 doubled. The owner or driver of any licensed vehicle may, upon 
 agreement, charge seventy-five cents per hour for a one-horse 
 hack, or one dollar per hour for a two-horse hack for the use of 
 tin* whole vehicle. 
 
 Any person refusing to pay the owner or driver the fore- 
 going rates shall be fined not exceeding $5.00; and any driver 
 who shall charge more than the established rates, or who shall 
 fail to keep an engagement to attend upon any passenger, shall 
 be fined not exceeding $10.00, to be collected from the owner of 
 the vehicle. 
 
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 Hpcks and omnibuses shall also be required to carry lighted 
 lamps after dark, and shall keep above rates displayed in their 
 vehicles, under a penalty of a fine in the discretion of the 
 Mayor. 
 
 SEC. 789 . — Car Conductors to Assign Separate Seats to White 
 and Colored Passengers. Penalty. — All conductors, motormen 
 or other employees in charge of any street or electric cars on 
 any line of street railroad in the City of Columbus, Georgia, or 
 within the police limits of same, as defined in this Code, shall 
 be required and are hereby authorized and empowered to 
 assign all passengers to seats or space on the cars under their 
 charge or to remove passengers from one seat or part of car to 
 another seat or part of car, as may in the discretion of said con- 
 ductor, mortorman or other employee, in charge of such car or 
 cars as aforesaid seem best, so as to separate the white and 
 colored races as much as practicable, and shall reserve and set 
 apart spaces for white and colored passengers respectively, to be 
 apportioned according to the usual and ordinary travel by each 
 on the road or line for which the cars are used; and all con- 
 ductors, motormen, or other employees of said street or electric 
 railroad company shall have and are hereby invested with police 
 power to carry out the provisions of this Section, and for a vio- 
 lation of this Section, such conductor, mortorman, or employee 
 of the company shall, on conviction in the Recorder’s Court of 
 said City of Columbus, be fined not less than $1.00 nor more than 
 $100, in the discretion of the Recorder, or to be confined at hard 
 labor upon the public works of said city for not less than one 
 day, nor more than thirty days, either or both, in the discretion 
 of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 790 . — Passengers Refusing Assignments of Seats in Street 
 Cars. Penalty. — Any passenger or passengers refusing to be 
 assigned to seats or space, or to take such seat or space so assign- 
 ed, in accordance with the provisions of the preceding Section, 
 shall be deemed guilty of violating this and the preceding Sec- 
 tion, and such violation shall be held and deemed disorderly 
 conduct, and all persons so violating the same, shall, on con- 
 viction in the Recorder’s Court of the City of Columbus, Geor- 
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 gia, be fined not less than $1.00 nor more than $100, or be con- 
 fined at hard labor upon the public works of said city for not 
 less than one day nor more than thirty days, either or both, 
 in the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 791 . — Duty of Conductors, Etc., to Enforce Two Preced- 
 ing Sections. — It shall be the duty of the conductor and motor- 
 man and other employees in charge of said car or cars (referred 
 to in the two preceding Sections) to see that the regulations 
 prescribed in the said next two preceding Sections of this Code 
 are carried out, under the penalties set forth in said next two 
 preceding Sections, and to this end, it is made the duty of the 
 police to arrest and bring before the Recorder any person or 
 persons violating the same. 
 
 SEC. 792 . — Car Transfers. Unlawful Use of. Penalty. — No 
 transfer ticket or written instrument giving or purporting to give 
 the right of transfer to any person or persons from a street rail- 
 road car or route to a street railroad car operated upon the same 
 or another line of route of said street railroad in said city, shall 
 be issued, sold or given away, except to a passenger lawfully 
 entitled thereto, and by or from duly authorized agent of said 
 street railroad company. And any person other than a duly 
 authorized agent of the aforesaid street railroad company, who 
 shall, in said city, issue, sell, or exchange, or give away such a 
 transfer ticket with intent to have the same used for passage, and 
 any person or persons not lawfully entitled thereto who shall 
 offer for passage such a transfer ticket with intent to have the 
 same used for passage, and any person or persons not lawfully 
 entitled thereto who shall offer for passage such a transfer ticket, 
 shall be guilty of an offense for each and every act, and on con- 
 viction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment not to exceed 
 fifteen days, or fined not exceeding $5.00 nor less than $1.00, 
 either or both, in the discretion of the Recorder’s Court, for each 
 and every such offense. 
 
 SEC. 793 . — Railroad and Street Railroad Fares. Failure to 
 Pay. Penalty. — Any person who shall ride or attempt to ride 
 upon any street car, or other railroad car, in the City of Colum- 
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 the intent to defraud, shall, on conviction therefor, be fined not 
 less than $1.00 nor more than $25.00 and costs, or imprisonment 
 for ten days, one or both, in the discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 794. — Firing of Guns or Pistols on the Commons. Pen- 
 alty. — It shall be unlawful to fire any gun or pistol upon any of 
 the commons or any of the cemeteries; provided, that this 
 Section shall not apply to gun clubs or military companies upon 
 such part of the commons as may by Council be set apart and 
 designated for the use of such gun clubs. 
 
 Any person violating this Section shall be fined not exceeding 
 
 $ 10 . 00 . 
 
 SEC. 795. — Prohibiting the Blowing of Locomotive Whistles in 
 the City. Penalty. — The blowing of a locomotive whistle within 
 the corporate limits of the City of Columbus is forbidden and if 
 any engineer or any other person shall sound or cause to be 
 sounded the whistle of a locomotive within the corporate limits 
 of the City of Columbus such person so offending shall, in the 
 discretion of the Recorder, be fined not less than $1.00 nor more 
 than $20.00, or imprisoned not less than one day nor more than 
 thirty days; provided, that this Section shall not apply in cases 
 where crossings are to be made of other railroad tracks and in 
 other cases where whistles are required to be sounded by the 
 laws of the State of Georgia. 
 
 SEC. 796. — Cruelty to Animals. Penalty. — Any person or per- 
 sons in the City of Columbus, Georgia, who shall cruelly treat, 
 maim, bruise, deprive of necessary sustenance, ill use, or in any 
 manner whatsoever torture or abuse any animal or animals 
 shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine not exceeding 
 $50.00 for each and every offense against the provisions of this 
 Section, or imprisoned not exceeding thirty days, in the discre- 
 tion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 797. — Chickens. Cruelty to Carry Head Down. Penalty 
 — It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to carry or to 
 offer for sale, or to purchase within the city limits, any live 
 fowl or bird with legs tied or untied and suspended head down; 
 and any person violating this Section, upon conviction thereof 
 in the Recorder’s Court, shall pay a fine of not less than $1.00 
 
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 or more than $25.00, or be imprisoned for not less than one day 
 or more than thirty days, either or both, in the discretion of the 
 Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 798 . — Barber Shops Not to Open Sunday. Penalty. — It 
 shall not be lawful for any barber shop to be kept open or do any 
 business on the Sabbath day. 
 
 Any violation of this Section shall subject the offender to a 
 fine of not less than $1.00 nor more than $50.00, in the discretion 
 of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 799 . — Public Meetings. Notice of, to be Given Mayor. 
 Penalty. — Any presiding officer or any other officer or commit- 
 tee of men, or public speaker, who may arrange for and hold 
 any public political meeting, or any other public meeting where- 
 in politics may be pubicly discussed, without giving the Mayor 
 one day’s notice of the time and place of holding such meeting 
 shall be liable, on conviction, to a fine of not exceeding $50.00 
 and costs, or be imprisoned thirty days in the guard house, in the 
 discretion of the Recorder. 
 
 SEC. 800 . — Regulating Planting Trees and Shrubs in Ceme- 
 teries Penalty for Violating. — The planting of all shrubs and 
 all trees, other than flowers, in the cemeteries of the city shall 
 be done only after permission first has been obtained from the 
 Cemetery Company of Council; and shall be done under the 
 supervision and direction of the Sexton of the cemetery where 
 planted. 
 
 A violation of this Section shall subject the offender, upon con- 
 viction thereof before the Recorder, to a fine not to exceed $5.00, 
 or imprisonment not more than ten days, in the discretion of the 
 Recorder. 
 
ARTICLE XII. 
 
 RULES OF COUNCIL— ENACTMENT OF LAWS. 
 
ARTICLE XII. 
 
 CHAPTER 7 8. 
 
 RULES OF COUNCIL. 
 
 SECTION 801. — Rules. — 1. Meeting of Council shall be held 
 regularly on the first Wednesday in each month, at 7:00 o’clock 
 P. M., from October 1st, to June 1st, and at 4:00 P. M., the balance 
 of the year; provided, that the Mayor may convene the Council 
 at any time, for the transaction of special business and in his 
 absence the Mayor pro tern and in his absence any two of the 
 members. 
 
 2. The Mayor and eight members of Council, or in the absence 
 of the Mayor, nine members of Council shall constitute a 
 quorum for the transaction of business. 
 
 3. The Mayor shall preside at all meetings, preserve order and 
 decorum and shall appoint all committees, unless the Council 
 shall otherwise direct, in which case they shall be appointed by 
 ballot. 
 
 4. In the absence of the Mayor, the Mayor pro tem shall 
 preside, and in his absence a chairman shall be appointed by 
 the members of Council, vested with all powers of the Mayor 
 during his absence. 
 
 5. The following order shall be observed in the transaction 
 of business: 
 
 1. — Reading of minutes. 
 
 2. — Unfinished business. 
 
 3. — Reports of standing committees. 
 
 4. — Reports of special committees. 
 
 5. — Reports from officers. 
 
 6. — Trial of special cases. 
 
 7. — Resolutions, ordinances and accounts. 
 
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 6. No member shall address the Council meeting, nor shall 
 speak more than twice on the same subject, without permission 
 from the Mayor, nor on any account when another member has 
 not delivered his sentiments and wished to be heard. 
 
 7. No person not a member of the Council shall be allowed to 
 address the same while in session unless by unanimous consent 
 of the members present, except when arraigned for a violation 
 of the city ordinances. 
 
 8. Every officer whose duty it is made by resolution of 
 Council to report to the regular meeting of Council, shall 
 punctually perform his duty, or be fined at the discretion of 
 Council. 
 
 9. All motions shall be reduced to writing if the Mayor or any 
 member desire it. 
 
 10. A motion to reconsider any of the proceedings of Council 
 will not be entertained, unless it be made by a member who 
 voted with the majority and such motion shall be made at the 
 same' or succeeding meeting. 
 
 11. The Mayor shall dfecide all questions of order, but any 
 member dissatisfied with the decision may appeal to the Council. 
 
 12. Whenever any member shall require it, the yeas and nays 
 of the members present shall be entered on the minutes on any 
 question taken. 
 
 13. All elections shall be by ballot, and a majority of the 
 whole Board shall be necessary to an election, and when a 
 majority is not obtained on the first ballot, the fact shall be so 
 announced by the presiding officer, and the balloting continued 
 until a majority is obtained, or the Council shall otherwise order 
 and direct. 
 
 14. No member of this Board shall be allowed to Vote upon 
 any question in which he is directly or indirectly interested. 
 
 15. All accounts against the city shall be read at a regular 
 meeting of Council unless otherwise ordered, and without action 
 referred to the Committee on Accounts, which committee shall 
 carefully examine the same, and endorse on those found to be 
 correct: “Examined and Approved.” 
 
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 16. A motion to lay any matter on the table for further con- 
 sideration shall be first in order, and on all questions the last 
 amendment, the most distant day, and the largest sum, shall be 
 put first. 
 
 17. A motion for adjournment shall always be in order. 
 
 CHAPTER 79. 
 
 ENACTING LAWS. 
 
 SECTION 802. — Prescribing Enacting Style of Ordinances. — 
 The enacting style of all Ordinances of the City of Columbus 
 shall be: “It is ordained by the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of 
 the City of Columbus as follows.” 
 
 SEC. 803. — Adopting Ordinances. — Every bill shall be read 
 twice, that is, once at two distinct regular meetings of Council, 
 before it passes into an Ordinance unless in cases of emergency, 
 when a bill may be read twice by unanimous consent on the 
 same day and passed. 
 
 SEC. 804. — After the passage of an Ordinance the same shall 
 be signed by the Mayor and be transcribed by the Clerk of 
 Council in the book of Ordinances and published in one of the 
 city papers. 
 

 
 
ARTICLE XIII. 
 
 ADOPTING ORDINANCE— CITY CODE. 
 
ARTICLE XIII. 
 
 ADOPTING ORDINANCE.— CITY CODE. 
 
 SECTION 805. — An Ordinance to be entitled An Ordinance to 
 adopt, approve and make of force certain Rules of Council and 
 a Revised Code of the City of Columbus, and for other purposes: 
 
 It is ordained by the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the 
 City of Columbus, as follows: 
 
 That the foregoing Rules of Council and Revised Code of the 
 City of Columbus, as revised and prepared by G. H. Howard, 
 Attorney at Law, under authority from the Mayor and Council 
 of the City of Columbus, and by them fully examined and 
 approved, be and the same are hereby adopted as the Rules of 
 Council and Code of Laws of the City of Columbus, to be of force 
 and to take effect on the 1st day of July, 1914. 
 
 SEC. 806. — That the Rules of Council now existing and the 
 Ordinances of the city now existing, and not embraced in the 
 Rules of Council and Code of Laws adopted in the preceding Sec- 
 tion, be and the same are hereby repealed, excepting all Ordi- 
 nances authorizing the paving and curbing of streets and side- 
 walks, and all Ordinances and laws incurring indebtedness by 
 the City of Columbus, whether evidenced by outstanding bonds 
 of the city, or otherwise, and also all laws and Ordinances here- 
 tofore passed for the purpose of raising revenue for the support 
 of the government of the City of Columbus, or to discharge and 
 pay off the indebtedness of the city, which shall remain of full 
 force and effect as they are now of force, as fully and effectually 
 as if embraced in the Code of Laws of the City of Columbus, as 
 adopted in the preceding Section. 
 
 Done in regular meeting of Council, this the first day of 
 July, 1914. 
 
 JNO. C. COOK, Mayor. 
 
 M. M. MOORE, Clerk of Council. 
 
ARTICLE XIV. 
 
 ACTS RELATING TO THE COMMONS. 
 
ARTICLE XIV. 
 
 CHAPTER 8 0. 
 
 VESTING TITLE TO COMMONS IN COMMISSIONERS. 
 
 SECTION 807.— (Acts of 1873, Page 127.)— An Act to vest the 
 title to the commons of the City of Columbus in Commissioners, 
 to sell the same, and apply the proceeds to certain purposes. 
 
 Whereas, by reason of the growth of the City of Columbus, 
 the increase of the population and the diversity of pursuits now 
 being introduced in said city, while the demand of an increased 
 area being very urgent; and, whereas, the said commons cannot 
 be sold without a grant from the State authorizing the sale 
 thereof ; 
 
 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of 
 Georgia and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, 
 That from and immediately after the passage of this Act, the 
 title in fee simple to the lands known as the commons of the 
 City of Columbus be, and the same is, hereby vested in H. H. 
 Epping, J. Rhodes Browne, Charles A. Redd, Benjamin F. Cole- 
 man, Columbus C. Coly, Henson S. Estes, James K. Redd, J. 
 Salisbury, Bennett H. Crawford, John Peabody, and the Mayor 
 of the City of Columbus, (who shall be an ex-officio member 
 of the Board of Commissioners) the aforesaid parties to con- 
 stitute a Board of Commissioners, to have and to hold said 
 property in trust, for the purpose hereinafter specified. 
 
 2. That it shall be the duty of the aforesaid Commissioners 
 to have the aforesaid commons surveyed and laid off in lots 
 suitable for building lots; and they are empowered to sell or 
 lease the same, giving title to the same; but shall not sell to any 
 person, except for manufacturing purposes, more than one acre. 
 
 3. That said Commissioners be empowered to reserve or set 
 aside so much of the said commons as they may deem proper, 
 
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 for parks and for school and church purposes; and that all 
 of said commons shall be exempt from any taxes until actually 
 sold or leased. 
 
 4. That it shall be the duty of the said Commissioners, within 
 a reasonable time after each sale, to turn over and account to the 
 City Treasurer of said city for the amount realized from the sale 
 or lease of the same, which sum is to be applied as follows: 
 three-fourths of the same to the payment of the bonded debt 
 of the City of Columbus, and the remaining one-fourth for 
 educational purposes. 
 
 5. That the said Board of Commissioners shall fill, by election 
 or appointment all vacancies that may occur in the said Board 
 from death, removal from the said city, resignation, malfeasance, 
 or otherwise and that said Commissioners shall have and receive 
 no renumeration for any services rendered by them as Com- 
 missioners. 
 
 6. Repeals conflicting laws. 
 
 Approved February 18th, 1873. 
 
 TO AMEND AN ACT IN RELATION TO THE COMMONS OF 
 COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. 
 
 SECTION 808. — (Acts of 1882, Page 269.) — An Act to amend an 
 Act to vest the title to the commons of the City of Columbus in 
 commissioners to sell the same and apply the proceeds to certain 
 purposes, approved February 18, 1873, so as to empower said 
 Commissioners to reserve and set apart at the request of the 
 Mayor and Council certain portions of said commons for railroad 
 purposes. 
 
 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of 
 Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, 
 That from and after the passage of this Act, the third Section of 
 an Act to vest the title to the commons of the City of Columbus 
 in Commissioners, to sell the s&me and apply the proceeds to 
 certain purposes, be so amended as to insert in the third line 
 of said Section between the word “purposes,” and the word 
 “and,” the following words to-wit: “And, at the request of the 
 
CITY OF COLUMBUS, 
 
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 Mayor and Council of the City of Columbus, so much of said 
 commons as they may deem proper for railroad purposes,” and 
 also by adding at the end of said Section Third the following 
 proviso, to-wit: “Provided, however, that any common land, 
 
 so set apart and reserved for railroad purposes, shall not be 
 exempt from taxes, when entered upon and taken possession 
 by the railroad company or companies to which it may have been 
 granted,” so that said Section when so amended shall read as 
 follows: 
 
 “That the said Commissioners be empowered to reserve or set 
 aside so much of the said commons as they may deem proper for 
 parks, and schools, and church purposes; and, at the request of 
 the Mayor and Council of the City of Columbus, so much of said 
 common as they may deem proper for railroad purposes; and 
 that all of said common shall be exempt from taxes until actually 
 sold or leased; provided, however, that any common lands so 
 set apart or reserved for railroad purposes, shall not be exempt 
 from taxes when entered upon and taken possession of by the 
 railroad company or companies to which it may have been 
 granted. 
 
 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all 
 laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same 
 are hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved December 12, 1882. 
 
 AMENDING ACT AS TO TITLE OF COMMONS IN COLUMBUS. 
 
 SECTION 809. — Commissioners May Permit Railroads to Sell 
 or Lease Part of Commons. Disposition of Proceeds. Extension 
 of Streets Through. (Acts of 1887, Page 613.) — An Act to amend 
 an Act entitled an Act to vest the title to the commons of the 
 City of Columbus in Commissioners, to sell the same, and apply 
 the proceeds to certain purposes, approved February 18, 1873, 
 so as to empower said Commissioners at the request of the 
 Mayor and Council of the City of Columbus to grant to railroad 
 companies permission to sell or lease commons lands set apart, 
 
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 or that may be hereafter set apart, to them for railroad purposes, 
 and to prescribe the mode and manner of said sale or lease, and 
 to provide for the disposition of the proceeds arising there- 
 from, and for other purposes. 
 
 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of 
 
 Georgia , That from and after the passage of this Act, the Act 
 entitled an Act to vest the title to the commons of the City of 
 Columbus in Commissioners, to sell the same, and apply the 
 proceeds to certain purposes, approved February 18, 1873, be 
 amended as follows: “That said Commissioners of Commons be 
 
 authorized and empowered upon the request of the Mayor and 
 Council of the City of Columbus, to grant to any railroad com- 
 pany holding commons lands for railroad purposes, or to whom 
 the said Commissioners of Commons, or the said Mayor and 
 Council, may have, or hereafter may set apart such commons 
 lands for railroad purposes, the right, privilege and authority 
 to sell, or lease any portion of said lands so held or set apart, 
 and the said lands so sold or leased, may be conveyed by said 
 railroad companies, and the title thereto be vested in the pur- 
 chasers when sold, and the use and occupation in the lessees 
 when leased; provided, the said railroad companies or either of 
 them will and shall pay into the Treasury of the City of Colum- 
 bus one-half of the purchase money received from the lands so 
 sold, or one-half of each year’s rental for the lease of any of 
 said lands, during the entire period of such lease; and provided, 
 also, that whenever an extension of any one of the public streets 
 of the City of Columbus, if prolonged to the corporate line, 
 would be located through or on any land heretofore set aside for 
 railroad purposes, or which may hereafter be so set aside, the title 
 to so much and such part of said land as is necessary for the 
 extension of said street of same width as the original street, 
 shall not vest in the railroad company, for whose use the same 
 is set aside, nor shall that part of such land as is necessary for 
 such extension of any one of said streets ever be sold or leased. 
 
 2. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in 
 conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved October 24, 1887. 
 
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 COMMONS— CITY OF COLUMBUS. 
 
 SECTION 810.— Columbus, City of. (Acts of 1900, Page 270, 
 et seq.) — An Act to vest the title to the commons of the City 
 of Columbus in Commissioners, to sell the same and apply the 
 proceeds to certain purposes, approved February 18, 1873, by 
 providing that said Commissioners be empowered to sell or lease, 
 giving titles to the same, to so much of Eleventh Street, here- 
 tofore dedicated as a street, lying between Seventh and Ninth 
 Avenues, on the east commons of the City of Columbus, as may 
 not now be used for street purposes. 
 
 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of 
 Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, 
 That from and after the passage of this Act the second Section of 
 an Act to vest the title to the commons of the City of Columbus 
 in Commissioners, to sell the same and apply the proceeds to 
 certain purposes, to be so amended as to add to said Section 
 Second, after the word “acre” the following words, to-wit: 
 “Provided, however, that said Commissioners shall be authorized 
 to sell or lease and make titles to any part of what is known as 
 Eleventh Street, heretofore dedicated for street purposes, lying 
 between Seventh and Ninth Avenues on the east commons of the 
 City of Columbus, which may not be used for street purposes at 
 the time of the passage of this Act,” so that said Section Second, 
 when so amended, shall read as follows: 
 
 “That it shall be the duty of the aforesaid Commissioners to 
 have the aforesaid commons surveyed and laid off in lots suitable 
 lor building lots; and that they are empowered to sell or lease 
 the same, giving title to the same, but shall not sell to any person, 
 except for manufacturing purposes, more than one acre; pro- 
 vided, however, that said Commissioners shall be authorized 
 to sell or lease and make titles to any part of what is known 
 as Eleventh Street, heretofore dedicated for street pur- 
 poses, lying between Seventh and Ninth Avenues, on the east 
 commons of the City of Columbus, which may not be used for 
 street purposes at the time of the passage of this Act.” 
 
 2. Be it enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in con- 
 flict with this Act be, and the same are, hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved December 17, 1900. 
 
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 COLUMBUS, COMMONS, SALE OF. 
 
 SECTION 811. — (Acts of 1901, Page 357.) — An Act to authorize, 
 ratify and confirm a sale by the Commissioners of Commons of 
 the City of Columbus of the portion of Front Street north of 
 Fourteenth Street and the adjoining commons, and a sale by the 
 Mayor and Council of the City of Columbus of lands adjoining 
 as part of commons and of Fourteenth Street, formerly Franklin, 
 and for other purposes. 
 
 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of 
 
 Georgia, That the Commissioners of Commons be, and they are, 
 hereby authorized and empowered to sell at public or private 
 sale the following tract of land, which includes a portion of 
 Front Street north of Fourteenth Street and the adjoining com- 
 mons, described as follows: Commence on the north line of the 
 
 City of Columbus, lot number 35, extend west at a point 30 feet 
 from the northwest corner of said city lot number 35, run due 
 south along a straight line at every point 30 feet from the west 
 lines of city lots numbers 35 and 38 a distance of two hundred 
 and seventy-five feet, more or less, to a point 25 feet north of the 
 two hundred and thirty-five feet, more or less, to a point which 
 would lie on the present west property line of the Muscogee 
 Manufacturing Company, if extended north; thence northeasterly 
 from said point in a straight line to a point one hundred and 
 fifty feet west from the beginning point; thence due east to the 
 beginning point. 
 
 2. Be it further enacted, That the conveyance of said describ- 
 ed land heretofore made on July 30th, 1901, by said Commis- 
 sioners be, and the same is ratified and confirmed and made 
 valid and binding and shall operate to pass a good and sufficient 
 title to the purchaser. 
 
 3. Be it further enacted, That a grant heretofore made, to-wit: 
 On the 15th day of June, 1884, by the Mayor and Council of the 
 City of Columbus to Jonathan Bridges conveying to him a certain 
 tract of land, being a part street and part commons land, lying at 
 thewestern terminus of nowFourteenth Street, formerly Franklin 
 Street, in the City of Columbus, and on the east bank of the Chat- 
 
CITY OF COLUMBUS. 
 
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 tahoochee River, said tract of land being described in said con- 
 veyance as follows, to-wit: ‘‘All of that tract or parcel of land 
 situate, lying and being in the City of Columbus aforesaid, bound- 
 ed on the south by water lot number one on which a factory is 
 now being built, east of Bay Street, and running up the river north 
 one hundred feet from said lot number one, and bounded west 
 by line running one hundred feet north, commencing at the 
 northwest corner of a rock pier built on lot number one,” is 
 confirmed and the title thereto is declared valid and binding in 
 the said named grantee, and in the present and all intermediate 
 holders of said described land. 
 
 4. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in 
 conflict with this Act be, and the same are, hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved November 16, 1901. 
 
 COMMONS— COMMISSIONERS OF. 
 
 SECTION 812. — (Acts of 1901, Page 358.) — An Act to amend an 
 Act vesting the title of the commons of the City of Columbus in 
 Commissioners, and for other purposes, approved February 18, 
 1873, and Acts amendatory thereof, so as to provide an official 
 name for said Commissioners, prescribed the method for con- 
 veyance of title and to authorize the adoption of rules and by- 
 laws and a seal, and the appointment of officers and to confirm 
 the titles heretofore made by said Commissioners, and for other 
 purposes. 
 
 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, That 
 the above recited Act, and the Acts amendatory thereof, be so 
 amended that hereafter said Board shall be known as “Com- 
 missioners of Commons of the City of Columbus.” They shall 
 have the power to adopt rules and regulations and by-laws for 
 their government, designate their officers, elect or appoint the 
 same, adopt and have a common seal, and pass title to land by a 
 two thirds vote of their members, and any act of said named Com- 
 missioners and their successors heretofore performed within the 
 scope of this provision shall be as valid, and binding as if per- 
 formed subsequent to the passage of this Act, and any convey- 
 
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 ance heretofore executed under the authority of said Board and 
 by two-thirds vote thereof, and signed by the president and 
 secretary thereof, shall be valid and binding. 
 
 2. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in 
 conflict with this Act be, and the same are, hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved November 16, 1901. 
 
 COLUMBUS, CITY OF— TO SELL PART OF COMMONS. 
 
 SECTION 813. — Columbus, City of. Commons at Intersection 
 of Cemetery Street and Seventh Avenue. (Acts of 1910, Pages 
 481-482.) — An Act to authorize the sale of part of the commons 
 of the City of Columbus at the intersection of Cemetery Street 
 and Seventh Avenue, known as the Broad Street Methodist par- 
 sonage property, and for other purposes. 
 
 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of 
 
 Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the same, That from and 
 after the passage of this Act, that the trustees of the Broad Street 
 Methodist E. Church, South, at Columbus, Georgia, be, and they 
 are hereby authorized and empowered to sell at public or private 
 sale that part of the commons of said city, situated at the inter- 
 section of Cemetery Street and Seventh Avenue, and of dimen- 
 sions as follows: East line on Seventh Avenue, one hundred and 
 
 twenty (120) feet; west line ninety (90) feet; north and front line, 
 sixty-six (66) feet on Cemetery Street, and southern or rear line 
 sixty (60) feet; containing 15/100 of an acre, more or less. 
 
 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the 
 proceeds derived from the sale thereof, be invested in other 
 property for church purposes. 
 
 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all 
 laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same 
 are, hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved August 3, 1910. 
 
 COLUMBUS, CITY OF— TITLE TO COMMONS. 
 
 SECTION 814. — Columbus, City of. Part of Commons to be 
 Conveyed to City. Public Park. (Acts of 1910, Pages 482, 483, 
 484.) — An Act authorizing the Commissioners of Commons of the 
 
CITY OF COLUMBUS. 
 
 369 
 
 City of Columbus, as created by an Act of the General Assembly, 
 approved February 18, 1873, to convey to the City of Columbus 
 the title in fee simple to certain commons lands, located on the 
 south and east commons, in the City of Columbus, said lands to 
 be used and devoted for a public park and play ground, for the 
 recreation, pleasure and amusement of the general public, as the 
 corporate authorities of the City may direct, and for no other 
 purposes. 
 
 Whereas, The General Assembly, by an Act approved February 
 18, 1873, conveying the title in fee simple to the lands known as 
 the commons of the City of Columbus to certain persons con- 
 stituting a Board of Commissioners, to have and to hold said 
 property in trust for certain purposes in said Act specified; and. 
 
 Whereas, By the terms of said Act the said Commissioners 
 were empowered to have said commons surveyed and laid off 
 into lots, and to set aside so much of said commons as said 
 Commissioners may deem proper for parks; and, 
 
 Whereas, The said Board of Commissioners have reserved and 
 set aside a tract of land in said commons, hereinafter described, 
 for the purpose of a public park, which said tract of land the said 
 Commissioners desire shall be conveyed to the City of Columbus 
 under certain limitations and restrictions, for park purposes, 
 
 Therefore, It is enacted as follows: 
 
 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of 
 Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of same, That 
 the Board of Commons Commissioners of the City of Columbus 
 be, and they are hereby authorized, empowered and directed to 
 convey to the City of Columbus, in Muscogee County, Georgia, 
 the following described tract of land, to-wit: All of that portion 
 of the south and east commons of the City of Columbus lying 
 south of Fourth Street and extending across the Chattahoochee 
 River to the southern boundary of the City of Columbus, which 
 lies east of Fourth Avenue to Tenth Avenue, except that portion 
 of said area which is now enclosed as a part of the colored 
 cemetery; also all that portion of block No. 53 of the south com- 
 mons lying west of what is known as the colored cemetery, 
 which has not been heretofore sold by said Commissioners of 
 Commons. 
 
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 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said 
 commons be conveyed to the City of Columbus, as described in 
 the first Section of this Act, shall be conveyed to said city abso- 
 lutely and unconditionally, in fee simple, but shall be kept open 
 and used only for the piirpose of a public park and play ground, 
 and be devoted to such amusement and pleasure as the corporate 
 authority of the City of Columbus may designate; and that the 
 City of Columbus shall have no power or authority to convey 
 any part or portion of said tract of land described in Section One 
 (1) of this Act without the assent of two-thirds of the qualified 
 voters of said city at a special election to be held for that pur- 
 pose; and that said tract of land when so conveyed shall be used 
 and devoted only for the uses and purposes designated in this 
 Act. 
 
 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all 
 laws or parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same 
 are, hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved August 10, 1910. 
 
GENERAL INDEX 
 
 A. Section. 
 Abatement of Nuisances — 
 Duty. Recorder’s Court. 
 
 732, 733 
 
 General and Special 
 Powers. Charter.... 48 
 Accidents — 
 
 At Rock Quarry. Re- 
 ported to Superintend- 
 ent of Public Works.. 597 
 Accounts — 
 
 Gas and Light. Approv- 
 ed by Chairman of 
 
 each Department 231 
 
 Accumulation — 
 
 Combustible material. 
 Cellars and back 
 yards. Penalty. Duty 
 of Chief of Fire De 
 partment and police.. 741 
 Acts of General Assembly — 
 Relating to the Com- 
 mons. Chapter 79. 
 Adopting Ordinance — 
 
 This Code 805, 806 
 
 Advertisements — 
 
 For bids paving and 
 
 curbing sidewalks 575 
 
 Posting. Regulations. 
 
 Penalty 787 
 
 Affidavit — 
 
 To obtain warrant. See 
 warrant. 
 
 Section. 
 
 Agents and Canvassers — 
 
 License of 243 
 
 Alabama Slings — 
 
 Penalty for using 652 
 
 Aldermen — 
 
 Are ex-officio Justices of 
 the Peace. Charter.. 46 
 Elect officers of city. 
 When and How. Char- 
 ter 23 
 
 Elect officers to fill va- 
 cancies. When. Char- 
 ter 13 
 
 Election of. Rules gov- 
 erning. Charter 10 
 
 Elections by. Mayor 
 votes in case of tie. . . 76 
 
 Elections. Qualifications 
 of voters. Charter... 11 
 May not be member of 
 Board of Trustees 
 
 Public Schools 195 
 
 Number and divisions 
 
 of. Charter 9 
 
 Oath of. Charter 12 
 
 Qualifications. Charter 9 
 Salaries fixed by Mayor 
 and Aldermen. Char- 
 ter 9 
 
 Salaries not to be chang- 
 ed. Charter 9 
 
372 
 
 GENERAL INDEX, 
 
 Section. 
 
 Aldermen — (Continued.) 
 
 See also Mayor and Al- 
 
 dermen. 
 
 See Council. 
 
 Terms of. Charter 9 
 
 Vacancy in office of. 
 Charter 9 
 
 Animals — 
 
 Cruelty to. Penalty.... 797 
 Failure to put in stock 
 
 yard. Penalty 417 
 
 Hitching to trees. Pen- 
 alty 698 
 
 Impounded. Chapter 53. 
 Impounded. Rules and 
 
 fees 558 
 
 Not to run at large. Pen- 
 alty. Charter . . i 48 
 
 Riding, driving or lead- 
 ing on sidewalks. Pen- 
 alty 563, 565 
 
 Running at large. Im- 
 pounded. Penalty.... 667 
 For sale. To be put in 
 
 stock yard 417 
 
 In stock yard. Fees for 417 
 To be slaughtered. Regu- 
 lations 432 
 
 Annexation — 
 
 New territory. How. 
 Charter 2 
 
 Appeals — 
 
 From tax assessors. 
 How made and how 
 determined 223 
 
 Section. 
 
 Appeals — (Continued.) 
 
 In condemnation pro- 
 ceedings for damage. 
 
 Charter 51 
 
 Plumbers to Sanitary 
 
 Committee 512 
 
 Appendix — 
 
 Acts relating to com- 
 mons begin 807 
 
 Appropriation — 
 
 Annual. Public Library 598 
 For 1914. Chapter 35. 
 
 For 1914 257 
 
 For public schools 601 
 
 Arrests — 
 
 By motormen and con- 
 ductors Police District 638 
 By park police in Police 
 
 District 638 
 
 By warrant. Charter. . 46 
 
 Chief of Police may 
 make in county. Char- 
 ter 46 
 
 Made by policemen in 
 Police District. Char- 
 ter 46 
 
 Power of conductors 
 and motormen on 
 street cars to make. . . 619 
 Power of police force as 
 to buildings. Charter 46 
 
 Resisting. Penalty 639 
 
 Ashes and Refuse Matter 
 
 on Streets — 
 
 Penalty 681 
 
 In streets. Penalty.... 187 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 373 
 
 Section. 
 
 Ashes and Refuse Matter 
 on Streets — (Con.) 
 
 In wooden vessels in 
 buildings forbidden 393 
 Assessments — 
 
 Against boats and boat 
 
 companies. Charter.. 23 
 Against railroads for 
 paving streets. Char- 
 ter 26 
 
 For curbing and paving 
 
 sidewalks 573 
 
 For paving and curbing 
 sidewalks. Execu- 
 tions 576 
 
 For paving and curbing. 
 
 When due 579 
 
 Paving and curbing side- 
 walks. General pow- 
 ers. Charter 24, 26 
 
 Paving property sold for 
 
 deeds. Charter 29 
 
 Paving streets and side- 
 walks. How enforced. 
 
 Charter 27 
 
 Property not returned 
 for taxes by Marshal. 233 
 Reductions. Petitions 
 
 for 228 
 
 Repairs of streets and 
 sidewalks. Power. 
 
 Charter 37 
 
 Repairs. Paving and 
 
 curbing sidewalks 576 
 
 Street paving and im- 
 provements. City 
 powers. Charter 26 
 
 Section. 
 
 Assessments — (Continued.) 
 Streets and sidewalks. 
 Liens. Date of. Char- 
 ter 38, 39 
 
 Streets and sidewalks. 
 Paving and repairs. 
 
 Lien enforced 40 
 
 Assessments of Property 
 for Taxation — 
 
 Power of city. Char- 
 ter 1 
 
 Assessments of Taxes — 
 
 See Tax Assessors. 
 
 To be equalized. Pav- 
 ing. Limit. Charter 27 
 
 Assessors — 
 
 See also Tax Assessors. 
 
 See Tax Assessors. 
 
 Assistant Chief Fire De- 
 
 partment — 
 
 Election of 204 
 
 Associated Charities 257 
 
 Attorney — 
 
 See City Attorney. 
 
 Auction Sales — 
 
 Articles removed from 
 
 streets. Penalty 675 
 
 In streets. Regulations. 
 Penalty 676 
 
 Australian Ballot — 
 
 System 210(a) 
 
 Automatic Telephone Com- 
 pany — 
 
 Franchise 603 
 
374 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Section. 
 
 Automobile — 
 
 Dray and hack license 
 1913. Chapter 33. 
 
 License and Registra- 
 
 tion. Penalty 755 
 
 Licenses for 1914 250 
 
 Automobiles — 
 
 Equipment. F a i 1 u r e. 
 
 Penalty 755 
 
 For hire. Subject to 
 call of police and Fire 
 
 Department 250 
 
 Left with engine run- 
 ning. Penalty 757 
 
 Numbered. How. Reg- 
 ulations 250 
 
 Running witout horns 
 and lights. Penalty.. 757 
 Speed limits. Penalty.. 755 
 Use of streets. Regula- 
 tions. Penalty 755 
 
 Awnings in Fire Limits. . 363 
 
 Awnings — 
 
 Over sidewalks. Speci- 
 
 fications 365 
 
 Repairs of 364 
 
 Window or drop 366 
 
 B. 
 
 Bakeries — 
 
 Fly proof vehicles and 
 
 receptacles .......... 504 
 
 Screened against flies. . . 502 
 Ballot Boxes and Lists Re- 
 turned to Clerk Under 
 Seal 216 
 
 Section. 
 
 Ballots — 
 
 May be prepared for 
 voter by managers... 210 
 
 Bank Stock 
 
 Rate of taxes and how 
 returned 234 
 
 Bar Keepers — 
 
 See liquor. 
 
 See saloons and near beer. 
 Bar-rooms — 
 
 General power of city 
 
 over. Charter 42 
 
 See also liquor. 
 
 See saloons. 
 
 Barber Shops — 
 
 Open on Sundays. Pen- 
 
 alty 798 
 
 Bathing in Pond or River 
 in City — 
 
 Penalty 661 
 
 Bawdy or Lewd Houses — 
 Inmates dispossessed. .. .659 
 
 Begging on Streets — 
 
 Penalty 660 
 
 Benzine — 
 
 See explosive oils. 
 
 Bicycles — 
 
 Paths. Regulations.... 759 
 
 Reckless riding. Pen- 
 alty 761 
 
 Riding on certain side- 
 walks. Penalty 758 
 
 Riding without bell or 
 horn and light. Pen- 
 alty 760 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 375 
 
 Section. 
 
 Bills— 
 
 Gas and light. Approved 
 by Chairman of each 
 
 department 231 
 
 Posting on property in 
 city. Penalty 787 
 
 Billiard Rooms — 
 
 Minors forbidden in. . . . 656 
 
 Births and Deaths — 
 
 To be reported to Regis- 
 trar of Vital Statis- 
 tics 197, 198 
 
 Bitches — 
 
 Running at large. Pen- 
 alty 670 
 
 Blowing Locomotive Whis- 
 tles in City — 
 
 Penalty 795 
 
 Boats — 
 
 Wharfage. Port dues, 
 assessments, etc. Gen- 
 eral city powers. Char- 
 ter 23 
 
 See Port Wardens, 
 Wharf, Steamboat. 
 
 Board — 
 
 Hospital keeper may 
 charge for board. 
 
 When 144 
 
 Boarding Moving Trains or 
 Cars — 
 
 Penalty 664 
 
 Board of Education — 
 
 City Treasurer is treas- 
 urer of 94 
 
 Section. 
 
 Board of Education— (Con.) 
 See also public schools. 
 
 See also Board of Trus- 
 tees Public Schools. 
 
 Board of Health — 
 
 Chapter 20. 
 
 Health Officer. Pow- 
 er to make regula- 
 tions. Contagious dis- 
 eases 404 
 
 City Physician and 
 Health Officer ex- 
 
 officio members 184 
 
 Created. Number, pow- 
 ers and duties. Char- 
 ter 42 
 
 Duty as to nuisances. . 191 
 Election, qualification, 
 
 etc. Charter 42 
 
 General duties. Recom- 
 mendations 185 
 
 May require cleaning of 
 lots, yards and cellars 186 
 May use city carts and 
 
 hands 189 
 
 Members serve without 
 
 salary : . . . 192 
 
 Numbers, powers and 
 
 qualifications 184 
 
 Offenders against regu- 
 lations. Penalties . . . .186 
 Power and authority... 186 
 Recommendations as to 
 health. Regulations. 
 Charter 42 
 
376 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Section. 
 
 Board of Health — (Gon.) 
 Records to be kept by. . 184 
 Requisitions on city for 
 lime 189 
 
 Board of Trustees Pub- 
 lic Schools — 
 
 Aldermen ineligible.... 195 
 Numbers, elections, va- 
 cancies 599-602 
 
 Reports to Council.... 600 
 See Public Schools. 
 
 Board of Water Commis- 
 sioners — 
 
 Books to be kept by. . . . 
 
 62 
 
 Chairman. 
 
 Election and 
 
 
 Duties. 
 
 Charter .... 
 
 61 
 
 Compensation of. Char- 
 
 
 ter 
 
 
 67 
 
 Contracts. 
 
 Power as to 
 
 
 Charter 
 
 
 63 
 
 Elections, 
 
 powers and 
 
 
 duties. 
 
 Charter. . . .59-61 
 
 Engineer. 
 
 Charter .... 
 
 63 
 
 May operate system. 
 
 Charter 64 
 
 Number and term of 
 
 Charter 59, 60 
 
 Oath of. Charter 61 
 
 Rates fixed by. Charter. 64 
 Receipts and disburse- 
 ments. Charter 65, 66 
 
 Reports to Mayor and 
 Council. Charter. ... 62 
 
 Subordinate to Mayor 
 and Council. Charter 66 
 Vacancies. How filled. 
 Charter 59 
 
 Section. 
 
 Bonded Debt of City — 
 
 Chapter 30. 
 
 List of outstanding 
 
 bonds 230 
 
 Registration of. Duty 
 of Treasurer 230(a) 
 
 Bond Elections — 
 
 Special registration for. 
 When. Charter 16 
 
 Bond Forfeitures — 
 
 Recorder’s Court 637 
 
 Of City Treasurer. Char- 
 ter 20 
 
 Ordinances. Not re- 
 pealed by Code 229 
 
 Ordinances. Not re- 
 
 pealed by this Code.. 806 
 Bonds — 
 
 Clerks to give. When. 
 
 Charter 20 
 
 City. To be registered. 
 
 Treasurer’s duty. . .230(a) 
 Elections for before is- 
 sue. Charter 73 
 
 General Inspector 128 
 
 Health Officer 139 
 
 Limitations of issue by 
 
 city. Charter 73 
 
 Of City Physician 110 
 
 Of city. Valid and sub- 
 sisting debts 229 
 
 Officers elected by Coun- 
 cil to give 82 
 
 Officers may be required 
 to give by Mayor and 
 Council. Charter. ... 20 
 
GENERAL INDEX, 
 
 377 
 
 Section. 
 
 Bonds — (Continued.) 
 
 Provisions to be made 
 for payment. Charter 73 
 Sanitary Inspector.... 164 
 Sextons to give. When. 
 
 Charter 20 
 
 Waterworks construc- 
 tion. Power to issue. 
 Charter 58 
 
 Books — 
 
 Tax. Marshal to pre- 
 sent to Council. When 236 
 
 Booths— 
 
 For voting. How pre- 
 
 pared 210 
 
 Breaking Colts on Streets — 
 
 Penalty 767 j 
 
 Bridges — 
 
 Authority of Mayor and 
 Aldermen over. Char- 
 ter 50 
 
 Automobiles on. Regula- 
 tions. Penalty 755 
 
 General power of Mayor 
 and Aldermen over. 
 
 Charter 22 
 
 Injuring. Penalty 747 
 
 Inspection of. And re- 
 port Superintendent 
 
 Public Works 751 
 
 Keepers may be appoint- 
 ed for. Charter 50 
 
 Policeman at. Duties.. 750 
 Locomotives and cars 
 on. Permits. Pen- 
 alty 746 
 
 ( 25 ) 
 
 Section. 
 
 Bridges — (Continued.) 
 
 No tolls 749 
 
 Obstructing. Penalty... 747 
 Rules of travel. Going 
 faster than walk. Pen- 
 alty 739 
 
 Speed warning sign out. 748 
 
 And wharf. Appropria- 
 tion for 1913. 
 
 Bridge Keeper’s House — 
 
 Injuring. Penalty 747 
 
 Building Material and Rub- 
 bish on Streets — 
 Regulations. Penalty... 677 
 Permits. Application 
 for. When and how 
 
 made 259 
 
 Failure to obtain. Pen- 
 alty 769 
 
 For buildings in fire 
 
 limits 259 
 
 Form of 259 
 
 General Inspector grants 259 
 General Inspector to re- 
 cord 259 
 
 Building Permits — 
 
 When necessary to pro- 
 cure 259 
 
 Regulations. Chapter 37. . . 
 
 Buildings — 
 
 Accumulation of com- 
 bustible matter in. 
 
 Penalty 683 
 
 Anchors in walls 283 
 
 Appendages of business 
 buildings 310 
 
378 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Section. 
 
 Buildings — (Continued.) 
 Awnings, sheds and ve- 
 randas in fire limits.. 
 
 363, 364 
 
 Backings of iron front. . 288 
 Backings of iron front. . 307 
 
 Bay windows 311 
 
 Bay windows not to pro- 
 ject over sidewalks.. 326 
 
 Boiler Houses 347, 348 
 
 Brick piers 286 
 
 Brick walls and but- 
 tresses 334 
 
 Brick Walls. Regula- 
 tions 302 
 
 Brick walls. Timbers 
 
 in 301 
 
 Business buildings de- . 
 
 fined 267 
 
 Business buildings in fire 
 
 limits 279 
 
 Business. Hose coup- 
 lings and standpipes. 331 
 
 Chimney foundations 293 
 
 Chimneys. Regulations. 280 
 
 Condemned 322, 323 
 
 Cornices, gutters and 
 
 eaves 314 
 
 Doorways and openings 281 
 Doorways. Party walls. 
 
 Permits for 300 
 
 Dwellings in fire limits. 
 
 Regulations 278 
 
 Egress openings in pub- 
 lic halls 352 
 
 Electrical work 276 
 
 Section. 
 
 Buildings — (Continued.) 
 Enveloped in metal. 
 
 When 325 
 
 Fire escapes may be re- 
 quired in 343 
 
 Floor beams and floors 
 
 332, 333 
 
 Floor beams, joists and 
 
 headers 317 
 
 Floor timbers 355 
 
 Floors 318 
 
 Floors under heaters... 346 
 
 Foundations 294 
 
 Four stories and over. 
 
 Fire escapes 341 
 
 Flues 291, 292 
 
 Flues in walls 335 
 
 Glass in skylights 327 
 
 Headers in brick walls. 297 
 Hearths and fireplaces. 319 
 Heating apparatus .. 356, 357 
 
 Hoisting openings 339 
 
 Hollow walls 298 
 
 Inspected where ashes 
 in wooden vessels sus- 
 pected by Chief of 
 Fire Department and 
 
 police 393 
 
 Joists and girders 321 
 
 Joists in brick walls. . . . 320 
 
 Metal columns 287 
 
 Metal columns in brick 
 
 buildings 306 
 
 Metallic leaders 313 
 
 Officers may enter for 
 inspection 350 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 379 
 
 Section. 
 
 Buildings — (Continued.) 
 Partitions in hotels and 
 
 tenements 337 
 
 Party walls 360 
 
 Penalty for violating 
 construction rules.... 358 
 
 Piers 284 
 
 Piers, construction of. . 
 
 303, 304, 305 
 Piers under lintels.... 285 
 
 Piles . 295 
 
 Power company not to 
 connect wire in with- 
 out General Inspec- 
 tor’s certificate 277 
 
 Rafters and sheeting in. 374 
 Repairs and alterations. 351 
 
 Repairs of roofs 372 
 
 Repairs of roofs. Per- 
 mits for 373 
 
 Roofs. Drains 328 
 
 Roofs in fire limits. .289, 290 
 Roofs in fire limits. 
 
 Weather covering 308, 309 
 Roofs of, in certain dis- 
 tricts of city. Materi- 
 als and specifications. 371 
 
 Scuttles to roof 315 
 
 Scuttles to roof 330 
 
 See also public buildings. 
 Sheds and verandas over 
 
 sidewalks 367, 368 
 
 Skylights 312 
 
 Stairways 338 
 
 Stand pipes 316 
 
 Steam pipes 349 
 
 Section. 
 
 Buildings — (Continued.) 
 Unsafe. General Inspec- 
 tor’s duties 322 
 
 Unsafe. Owners of. Pen- 
 alty 324 
 
 Walls on piles 296 
 
 Walls. Temporary sup- 
 ports 299 
 
 Wholesale store and 
 warehouse defined... 268 
 Wood used in walls. 
 
 Regulations 282 
 
 In fire limits. Base- 
 ments 269 
 
 In fire limits. Churches 
 and public halls. Reg- 
 ulations 272 
 
 in fire limits. Corni- 
 ces, gutters and eaves. 329 
 
 Buildings in Fire Limits — 
 
 Cut stone facings 274 
 
 General Inspector ap- 
 proves 336 
 
 Height and regulations 
 
 270, 271 
 
 Height and walls. Reg- 
 ulations 265, 266 
 
 Materials for 263 
 
 Buildings — 
 
 Of brick or stone in fire 
 
 limits. Regulations. 262 
 In fire limits. Party 
 
 walls 275 
 
 In fire limits. Repairs 
 of. Regulations 263 
 
380 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Section. 
 
 Buildings — (Continued.) 
 
 In fire limits. Stores and 
 manufacturing plants. 340 
 In fire limits. Walls. 
 
 Construction of 273 
 
 In fire limits. Wooden 
 condemned. When . . 264 
 
 Building and Loan Asso- 
 ciations — 
 
 Taxation of. Tax re- 
 turns 234 
 
 Bureau of Vital Statistics — 
 Chapter 23. 
 
 Burial Permits — 
 
 Application for 201 
 
 Clerk of Council to issue 201 
 Of paupers 257 
 
 Business — 
 
 Certain lines forbidden 
 
 in fire limits 345 
 
 Certain lines forbidden 
 
 in fire limits : . 369 I 
 
 General power of city 
 over all. Charter. ... 23 
 
 License — See licenses. 
 
 Persons seeking to do, 
 must register and ob- 
 tain license 239 
 
 Tax — See license tax. 
 
 Butcher Pens — 
 
 See slaughter houses. 
 
 Butchers — 
 
 Protect meats from flies. 
 Penalty 739 
 
 C. Section. 
 
 Calcium Carbide — 
 
 See explosive oils. 
 
 i Camping in City — 
 
 Forbidden. Penalty . . . 783 
 
 Canvassers and Agents — 
 
 License of 243 
 
 Carbides — 
 
 See explosive oils. 
 
 | Cars — 
 
 See also street cars. 
 
 Left standing on streets. 
 
 Regulations. Penalty 695 
 Obstructing crossings. 
 
 Penalty 696 
 
 Passengers refusing as- 
 signments of seats. 
 
 Penalty 790 
 
 Separate seats for white 
 and colored passen- 
 gers on. Penalty 789 
 
 Stealing ride on. Pen- 
 alty 793 
 
 Car Transfers — 
 
 Unlawful use of. Pen- 
 alty 792 
 
 Cattle for Sale — 
 
 Required put in stock 
 
 yard 417 
 
 And hogs. Offered for 
 sale. Regulations. Pen- 
 alty 772 
 
 And hogs. To be put in 
 stock yard. Fees. Reg- 
 ulations. Penalty . . . 772 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 381 
 
 Section. 
 
 Cattle for Sale — (Con.) 
 
 And hogs. See also ani- 
 mals and impounding 
 animals. 
 
 Cattle — 
 
 Impounding. Rules and 
 fees 558 
 
 Cellars — 
 
 Accumulation of com- 
 bustible material in. 
 
 Penalty 683 
 
 Accumulation of com- 
 bustible material in. 
 Duties of Chief of Fire 
 Department and police. 
 Penalty 741 
 
 Cellars— 
 
 Storage of paints and 
 oils in. Penalty 743 
 
 Cellar Doors — 
 
 On sidewalks. Steps 561, 562 
 On sidewalks. Permitt- 
 ed on Sixth Avenue. 
 
 When 562 
 
 Left open. Penalty.... 766 
 
 Cemeteries — 
 
 Appropriation for 1913. . 257 
 Bodies not interred in 
 without burial permits. 201 
 
 Burials in 582 
 
 Burials in streets and 
 private lots forbidden 582 
 Cemetery Committee has 
 
 supervision of 593 
 
 Certain streets closed in 591 
 
 Section. 
 
 Cemeteries — (Continued.) 
 Children unattended for- 
 bidden in 589 
 
 Discharging fire arms 
 
 in. Penalty 684 
 
 Dogs forbidden in.... 590 
 Fees of city for burials 
 
 in 592 
 
 General powers of May- 
 or and Aldermen over. 
 Charter 22 
 
 Injuring shrubbery or 
 monuments. Penalty. 585 
 Lots enclosed only with 
 consent Cemetery 
 
 Committee 594 
 
 Mayor may offer reward 
 for persons committ- 
 ing depredations in.. 588 
 
 Pauper burials in 257 
 
 Pauper burials in 587 
 
 Planting shrubbery in. 
 
 Regulations. Penalty. . 800 
 Repairing fences, walls 
 or copings. Permits 
 
 for 595 
 
 Rubbish to be removed 
 
 from 586 
 
 Sales of lots in 583 
 
 See also Sextons. 
 
 Street work. Street Com- 
 mittee’s duty 596 
 
 Superintendent Public 
 Works directs work in 595 
 Vehicles not allowed in, 
 except when 584 
 
382 
 
 GENERAL INDEX, 
 
 Section. 
 
 Cemetery Committee — 
 
 Has supervision of cem- 
 eteries 593 
 
 Cemetery Regulations — 
 Chapter 60. 
 
 Cerebro Spinal Meningitis — 
 Must be reported by 
 physicians and others 
 
 to Health Officer 395 
 
 See also contagious dis- 
 eases. 
 
 Certificates — 
 
 Meat inspection 420 
 
 Charitable Institutions — 
 General powers of city. 
 Charter 22 
 
 Charities — 
 
 See Associated Charities. 
 Charter — 
 
 Charter. Sections 1-75, 
 inclusive. 
 
 General welfare clause. 
 Charter 22 
 
 Charter Powers — 
 
 By previous Acts re- 
 tained. Charter 75 
 
 General. Charter 1 
 
 Chickens — 
 
 Carrying heads down. 
 
 Penalty 797 
 
 And fowls. On certain 
 
 streets. Penalty 737 
 
 Chief of Fire Department — 
 Also see Fire Department. 
 Approves fire escapes. . . 342 
 
 Section. 
 
 Chief Fire Dept. — (Con.) 
 Assistant. Election of. . 204 
 Commander of firemen. 208 
 Duty as to accumula- 
 tions combustible ma- 
 terials in cellars and 
 
 yards. Penalty 741 
 
 Elections of 203 
 
 General control over * 
 
 equipment 208 
 
 General duties 207 
 
 Grants permits for stor- 
 age of explosive oils. 
 
 When 375, 376 
 
 Inspect buildings for 
 
 ashes in wooden ves- 
 
 * 
 
 sels 393 
 
 Inspections by. Stor- 
 age places. Explo- 
 sive oils 383 
 
 May enter buildings for 
 
 inspection 350 
 
 To devote entire time to 
 
 duty 205 
 
 To inspect theatres 385 
 
 To keep fire alarm sys- 
 tem in repair 209 
 
 To make frequent exam- 
 inations of plugs, hy- 
 drants, etc 207 
 
 To notify Mayor of de- 
 fective condition of 
 plugs, hydrants, etc.. 207 
 Chief of Police — 
 
 Duty as to crime and 
 suspected places. 
 Charter 46 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 383 
 
 Section. 
 
 Chief of Police — (Con.) 
 
 Duty as to numbering 
 
 houses 551 
 
 Elected by Police Com- 
 mission. Charter... 13 
 Elected. When and 
 
 how. Charter 15 
 
 Ex-officio constable of 
 county. Also police- 
 man. Charter 46 
 
 Chief of Police and Police- 
 men — 
 
 Failure to obtain war- 
 rants. Penalty. Char- 
 ter 46 
 
 May make arrests in 
 
 county. Charter 46 
 
 Office established. Char- 
 ter 13 
 
 Report to Mayor viola- 
 tions state laws. Char- 
 ter 46 
 
 Shall inspect hacks, 
 drays, automobiles for 
 hire monthly and re- 
 port to Council 250 
 
 Shall raid gambling 
 
 houses. Charter 46 
 
 To inspect theatres.... 385 
 
 Chimneys and Flues — 
 
 See buildings. 
 
 Christmas Holidays — 
 Discharging firearms in 
 certain streets. Pen- 
 alty 787 
 
 Section. 
 
 Churches — 
 
 In fire limits. Construc- 
 tion of 272 
 
 Cisterns and Wells — 
 
 See Chapter 43. 
 
 Open and wells. Nui- 
 sance 412 
 
 See wells and cisterns. 
 
 City — 
 
 Bonds of, to be regis- 
 tered 230(a) 
 
 See also Mayor and Al- 
 dermen. 
 
 Corporate limits of. 
 
 Charter 2 
 
 Corporate limits ex- 
 tended. How. Elec- 
 tion for. Charter.... 2 
 
 City of Columbus — 
 
 Corporate name. Charr 
 
 ter 1 
 
 ‘ May contract for water. 
 
 Charter 69 
 
 May own waterworks. 
 General powers. Char- 
 ter 52-69 
 
 May pledge its credit 
 to schools and chari- 
 table organizations. 
 
 Charter 1 
 
 Limits of for police pur- 
 poses. Charter 3 
 
 Not to become stock- 
 holder in corpora- 
 tions. Charter 3 
 
384 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Section. 
 
 City of Columbus — (Con.) 
 
 Plan not altered. Char- 
 ter 1 
 
 Regulate sale of liquors 
 in police district. 
 Charter , . . 3 
 
 City Attorney — 
 
 Chapter 8 . 
 
 Compensation of 100 
 
 General duties 99 
 
 Office established. Char- 
 ter 13 
 
 City Board of Health — 
 
 See Board of Health. 
 
 City Clerk — 
 
 See Clerk of Council. 
 
 City Employees — 
 
 See also employees. 
 
 City Engineer — 
 
 Duty as to numbering 
 and naming streets.. 554 
 Office established. Char- 
 ter 13 
 
 City Government — 
 Established. Officers of. 
 
 Charter 9 
 
 General powers of 
 Mayor and Aldermen. 
 Charter 22-25 
 
 City Hospital — 
 
 Appropriations for 1913. 257 
 City Physician to admit 
 indigent sick. When. 112 
 
 Section. 
 
 City Hospital — (Con.) 
 
 City Physician to attend 
 
 patients in 114 
 
 City Treasurer collects 
 
 fees due 95 
 
 See hospitals. 
 
 City Limits — 
 
 For police purposes. 
 
 Charter 3 
 
 City Market — 
 
 Fast driving near mar- 
 ket. Penalty 764 
 
 See market. 
 
 City Marshal — 
 
 Chapter 7. 
 
 Administers oath to tax 
 payer making returns. 227 
 Assesses property not 
 returned for taxation. 233 
 Collect all executions. . . 97 
 
 Duty as to license and 
 
 special taxes 96 
 
 Duty as to licenses and 
 
 special taxes 245 
 
 Executions collected by. 97 
 Ex-officio member of 
 
 Tax Assessors 96 
 
 General duties of 96 
 
 Levies tax executions. . 226 
 Shall return tax books 
 to Treasurer when 
 
 closed 225 
 
 To furnish defaulters 
 
 list to Council 225 
 
 To keep record of licen- 
 ses and taxes 96 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 385 
 
 Section. 
 
 City Marshal — (Con.) 
 
 
 To present tax books to 
 
 
 Council. When and 
 
 
 how 
 
 236 
 
 To receive tax returns. 
 
 
 When 
 
 224 
 
 To serve all processes 
 
 
 and orders 
 
 98 
 
 Weekly reports to Treas- 
 
 
 urer 
 
 97 
 
 City Officers — 
 
 
 Number and election of. 
 
 
 Charter 
 
 13 
 
 City Park — 
 
 * 
 
 Park laws applicable to. 
 
 729 
 
 Rubbish and trash in 
 
 
 fountain. Penalty 
 
 734 
 
 Rubbish and trash in 
 
 
 park. Penalty ... .721, 
 
 722 
 
 City Physician — 
 
 
 Chapter 9. 
 
 
 Bonds of 
 
 110 
 
 Duty as to smallpox .... 
 
 113 
 
 Duty as to indigent sick 
 
 
 in city 
 
 115 
 
 Election and term of. . 
 
 101 
 
 Entire time may be re- 
 
 
 quired 
 
 109 
 
 Ex-officio member 
 
 
 Board of Health 
 
 184 
 
 May be removed for 
 
 
 cause 
 
 111 
 
 May have assistant. 
 
 
 When 
 
 101 
 
 Medicines furnished.... 
 
 116 
 
 Office hours 
 
 114 
 
 Section. 
 
 City Physician — (Con.) 
 
 Qualifications 102 
 
 Records to be kept by. . 
 
 116, 117 
 
 Reports by 106 
 
 Special duties.. 103, 104, 105 
 Special reports to Health 
 
 Officer 141 
 
 j To admit patients to hos- 
 pital. When 112 
 
 Go attend patients in 
 
 hospital 114 
 
 To provide assistant. 
 When 108 
 
 : 
 
 To vaccinate free. Char- 
 ter 42 
 
 Vaccinations by 107 
 
 Vaccine matter to be 
 kept by 118 
 
 City Scales — 
 
 Feed stuffs and grain to 
 be weighed on 460 
 
 | City Sexton — 
 
 Also see officers. 
 
 Bond given by. When. 
 Charter 20 
 
 Office Established — 
 
 Charter 13 
 
 City Stables — 
 
 Appropriations for 1913. 257 
 City Stockade — 
 Appropriations for 1913. 257 
 City Stock Yard — 
 
 See stock yards. 
 
386 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Section. 
 
 City Treasurer — 
 
 Chapter 6. 
 
 Also see Officers. 
 
 Also see Treasurer. 
 
 Bond given by. When. 
 
 Charter 20 
 
 Collects money due hos- 
 pital 95 
 
 General duties 92 
 
 Is Treasurer of Public 
 
 School Board 94 
 
 Monthly reports of ac- 
 counts 93 
 
 Office established. Char- 
 ter 13 
 
 Records and deposits 
 
 by 93 
 
 Registration of city 
 bonds. Duty as to. .230(a) 
 To furnish defaulters to 
 Clerk of Council.... 92 
 To keep defaulters list. . 225 i 
 To pay all demands 
 
 against city 93 | 
 
 To pay out tax money. 
 
 How 237 
 
 To receive public school 
 
 fund. Charter 49 
 
 To report defaulters to 
 Council 92 
 
 City Ward — 
 
 Limits defined. Num- 
 ber. Charter 8 
 
 Mayor and Aldermen 
 may add new. Char- 
 ter 8 
 
 Section. 
 
 City Ward — (Continued.) 
 Mayor and Aldermen 
 may change. Char- 
 ter 8 
 
 Claims — 
 
 To property levied on. 
 Trial of. Charter.... 45 
 
 Claims and Court Costs — 
 Appropriations for 1913. 257 
 Clerk of Council — 
 
 Chapter 5. 
 
 Also see Officers. 
 
 Bond given by. When. 
 
 Charter 20 
 
 Deeds and leases signed 
 
 by 90 
 
 Duty as to milk permits 
 
 466, 467 
 
 Duty as to sale of lots 
 
 in cemetery 583 
 
 Duty as to voters list. . . 221 
 
 Duty to issue burial per- 
 mits 201 
 
 Executions. Duty as to 90 
 
 General duties 89 
 
 Issue executions expense 
 of numbering houses. 552 
 Issue tax executions.... 226 
 Licenses. Duty to issue 90 
 Office and office hours. . 91 
 
 Office established. Char- 
 ter 13 
 
 Registrar of vital statis- 
 tics 
 
 196 
 
GENERAL INDEX 
 
 387 
 
 Section. 
 
 Section. 
 
 Clerk of Council — (Con.) 
 
 
 | Clerk of Market— (Con.) 
 
 
 Shall publish voters list. 
 
 
 Office established. Char- 
 
 
 How and when. Char- 
 
 
 ter 
 
 13 
 
 ter 
 
 16 
 
 Shall post regulations.. 
 
 462 
 
 To furnish box for votes 
 
 
 Special reports to Health 
 
 
 to managers 
 
 215 
 
 Officer 
 
 141 
 
 To furnish Chief of 
 
 
 To condemn and destroy 
 
 
 Police with list of 
 
 
 impure meats 
 
 459 
 
 near beer dealers.... 
 
 251 
 
 To forbid smoking and 
 
 
 To furnish copy of milk 
 
 
 lounging 
 
 449 
 
 laws with each milk 
 
 
 To inspect meats sold 
 
 
 permit 
 
 500 
 
 by others than stall 
 
 
 To furnish registration 
 
 
 renters 
 
 459 
 
 list to election mana- 
 
 
 To require gates to stalls 
 
 
 gers. Charter 
 
 17 
 
 kept closed 
 
 155 
 
 To furnish voters lists to 
 
 To require stalls kept 
 
 managers 
 
 221 
 
 clean 
 
 448 
 
 To issue executions for 
 
 
 To weigh feed stuffs and 
 
 
 over due taxes 
 
 238 
 
 grain 
 
 460 
 
 To issue executions for 
 sanitary work. When 
 To keep execution 
 
 170 J 
 
 Clerk at Elections — 
 Appointment and duties. 
 
 213 
 
 docket. Charter 
 
 45 ! 
 
 Clerk of Recorder’s Court. 
 
 632 
 
 To keep registration 
 
 books. Charter 
 
 To serve Board of 
 
 J 
 
 Closets — 
 
 See water closets. 
 
 
 Health when required 
 
 184 
 
 Code — 
 
 
 Clerk of Market — 
 
 
 Ordinance adopting. 805, 
 
 806 
 
 Chapter 16. 
 
 Duty as to opening and 
 
 closing 
 
 Fees for weighing 
 
 443 
 
 460 
 
 Cold Storage Eggs — 
 Regulations. Penalty.. 
 
 Columbus Railroad Com- 
 
 770 
 
 General duties.. 154 and 
 
 438 
 
 pany — 
 
 
 Has general supervision 
 
 
 Chapter 66. 
 
 
 over market 
 
 452 
 
 Conductors and motor- 
 
 
 Inspects meats brought 
 
 
 men. Police powers. . 
 
 619 
 
 to market 
 
 431 
 
 Franchise 617-620 
 
388 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Section. 
 
 Columbus R. R. Co. — (Con.) 
 Obstructing tracks of 
 
 forbidden 618 
 
 Right to propel cars by 
 steam 617 
 
 Combustible Material — 
 Accumulation of in cel- 
 lars and yards. Duties 
 of Chief of Fire De- 
 partment and police. 
 
 Penalty 741 
 
 Matter. Accumulation 
 of. Penalty 683 
 
 Matter. Trash. Accum- 
 ulations in fire limits. 
 Regulations. Penalty 683 
 
 Commissioners — 
 
 Also see Board of Water 
 Commissioners. 
 
 Commissioners of Com- 
 mons — 
 
 Deeds validated. Titles 
 made by confirmed. . 
 
 811, 812 
 
 Power to deed lands to 
 railroads and public 
 
 enterprises 808 
 
 Power, sales, leases rent- 
 als 809, 810 
 
 Power to sell portion 
 at intersection Ceme- 
 tery Street and 
 
 Seventh avenue 813 
 
 Power to sell or lease 
 portion of Eleventh 
 Street 810 
 
 Section. 
 
 Com. of Commons — (Con.) 
 Power to sell portions 
 of Front Street and 
 
 Fourteenth Street 812, 813 
 Power to sell portion in 
 south and east com- 
 mons to city 814 
 
 Title to commons. Pow- 
 ers. Duties 807 
 
 Commitments — 
 
 By Recorder’s Court. 
 Term of. Charter. ... 46 
 
 Committees — 
 
 Matters referred to and 
 
 reports 86 
 
 Mayor ex-officio mem- 
 ber of all 88 
 
 Special powers. Re- 
 pairs 87 
 
 Committees of Council — 
 
 Mayor appoints 801 
 
 Standing 84 
 
 Committee on Fire De- 
 partment — 
 
 Investigate cause of each 
 fire 394 
 
 Committee on Sanitation — 
 Chapter 21. 
 
 Also see Sanitary Com- 
 mittee. 
 
 General and special 
 duties. Reports 193 
 
 Committee on Streets — 
 
 Also see Street Commit- 
 tee. 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 389 
 
 Section. 
 
 Com. on Streets — (Con.) 
 
 Directs General Inspec- 
 tor 135 | 
 
 Directs Superintendent 
 Public Works 126 i 
 
 Superintendent street 
 and sidewalk improve- 
 ments. Charter 30 
 
 Committee on Streets and 
 Sewers — 
 
 Plumbing regulations. 
 Powers and duties . . . 547 j 
 
 Commons — 
 
 Acts of General Assem- 
 
 bly relating to 807 
 
 Acts of Legislature in 
 
 reference to 809-815 
 
 Deeds to. Validated. .812, 813 
 Discharging firearms on. 
 
 Penalty 794 
 
 Leases and rentals 809 
 
 Power of Commission- 
 ers to sell portion in- 
 tersection Cemetery 
 Street and Seventh 
 
 Avenue 813 
 
 Railroad companies. 
 
 Rights to lands 611-616 
 
 Sale of portion of 
 
 Eleventh Street 810 
 
 Sale of portion of Four- 
 teenth and Front 
 
 Streets 811, 812 
 
 Title vested in Commis- 
 sioners 807 
 
 Section. 
 
 Commons — (Continued.) 
 
 Trespassing. Injuries to. 
 Penalty 783 
 
 Commons Commission- 
 ers — 
 
 See Commissioners of 
 Commons. 
 
 Commutation Tax for 
 Streets — 
 
 Executions. How and 
 when issued 235 
 
 Condemnation Powers — 
 
 Also see Mayor and Al- 
 dermen. Charter. ... 51 
 
 Also see streets and 
 public works. Char- 
 ter 51 
 
 See also eminent do- 
 main. 
 
 Condemnation Proceed- 
 ings — 
 
 Damages. How fixed. 
 
 Charier 51 
 
 Waterworks. Construc- 
 tion. Charter 52-69 
 
 Condemnatory Powers of 
 City for Quarantine 
 Purposes. Charter... 42 
 
 Conductors on Street 
 Cars — 
 
 Powers of policemen. 
 
 Arrest 619 
 
 Powers of policemen in 
 police district 638 
 
390 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Section. 
 
 Con’s on St. Cars — (Con.) 
 
 To assign separate seats 
 to white and colored 
 passengers. Penalty. 89 
 To enforce law as to 
 separation of white 
 and colored passen- 
 gers 791 
 
 Contagious Diseases — 
 
 Chapter 41. 
 
 Deaths from to be re- 
 ported to Health Offi- 
 cer 395 
 
 Exclusion of children 
 from public schools.. 403 
 Exposed persons. Per- 
 mits to by Health 
 
 Officer when 398 
 
 Health Officer and Board 
 of Health. Power to 
 
 make regulations 404 
 
 House quarantine. 
 Warning cards. Regu- 
 lations 397 
 
 Infected houses. Cats 
 and dogs kept out. . . . 400 
 Infected houses. Deliv- 
 ery of milk and mer- 
 
 chandise in 399 
 
 Infected houses. Fumi- 
 gated by Sanitary In- 
 spector 402 
 
 Notice to be given 
 
 Health Officer by phy- 
 sicians, nurses and 
 others 395 
 
 Section. 
 
 Contagious Diseases — (Con.) 
 Penalty for violating 
 
 regulations 405 
 
 Prevention of. Regula- 
 tions 395-411 
 
 Pupils excluded from 
 school account of. 
 Readmitted by certifi- 
 cate of Health Officer. 403 
 Quarantine by Health 
 
 Officer. When 396 
 
 Quarantine p e r i o d e s. 
 Rules. Release of 
 
 patients 401 
 
 Quarantine raised. 
 When 402 
 
 Contempt — 
 
 Recorder’s power to 
 punish 636 
 
 Contested Elections — 
 
 Council determines 219 
 
 How and when 218 
 
 Contracts — 
 
 Also see paving, curb- 
 ing, street and side- 
 walks. 
 
 City may contract for 
 water supply. Char- 
 ter 59 
 
 City’s powers. Char- 
 ter 51 
 
 For paving and curb- 
 ing sidewalks. Award- 
 ed. How 575 
 
 Power of city to make. 
 General. Charter 1 
 
GENERAL INDEX, 
 
 391 
 
 Section. 
 
 Conveyances — 
 
 Commissioners of Com- 
 mons. Validated. .811, 812 
 
 Corporate Limits — 
 
 Charter 1 
 
 For police purposes. 
 Charter 3 
 
 Corporate Powers — 
 
 General. Charter 1 
 
 Corporations — 
 
 City not to be stock- 
 
 holder in. Charter... 1 
 
 Costs in Recorder’s 
 Court — 
 
 Paid into Treasury 635 
 
 Council — 
 
 Also see elections, 
 Mayor and Aldermen. 
 Appoints registrars of 
 
 voters 221 
 
 Determines contested 
 
 elections 219 
 
 Elections by. Methods 
 
 of 80 
 
 Elections by. Time of. . 79 
 
 Elects General Inspec- 
 tor 127 
 
 May discharge officers 
 
 for cause 83 
 
 Rules and meetings of. . 801 
 
 Councilmen — 
 
 See Aldermen. 
 
 Section. 
 
 Council — 
 
 Quorum 801 
 
 Receives tax books from 
 
 Marshal 236 
 
 Rules of. Chapter 77... 
 
 Council Committees — 
 
 Mayor appoints 801 
 
 Meetings. Mayor pre- 
 sides 801 
 
 Meetings. Order of busi- 
 ness 801 
 
 Meetings. When held. 
 
 Rules 801 
 
 Court — 
 
 See Recorder’s Court. 
 
 Court House — 
 
 Defacing or injuring. 
 
 Penalty 779 
 
 Park. Laws relating to 
 parks applicable to.716, 717 
 Park. Named City Park 716 
 
 Cow Lots — 
 
 Protected from flies.. 505 
 Cows — 
 
 Diseased. Reported to 
 
 Health Officer 479 
 
 Diseased. Sale of milk 
 from. Penalty. . . .475, 476 
 
 Cream — 
 
 See milk. 
 
 Cream and Ice Cream — 
 
 Pure. Defined 496, 497 
 
 Crittendon Home — 
 Appropriation for 1913. . 257 
 
392 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Section. 
 
 Crossings — 
 
 Also see railroad cross- 
 ings. 
 
 Trains and cars ob- 
 structing. Penalty... 696 
 
 Section. 
 
 Curing Hides in City — 
 Penalty 728 
 
 D. 
 
 Dairies — 
 
 Crossing Trestles — 
 
 Penalty 753, 754 
 
 Cruelty to Animals — 
 
 Penalty 796 
 
 Cruelty to Chickens — 
 
 Carrying head down. 
 
 Penalty 797 
 
 Curbing and Paving — 
 
 Chapter 58. 
 
 Assessments for. Pow- 
 ers of Mayor and Al- 
 dermen. Charter. .. .24-26 
 Assessments for. When 
 
 due 579 
 
 Construction and cost of 573 I 
 Contracts for. Awarded. 
 
 How 575 | 
 
 Property owners pay 
 costs. Assessments 
 
 for 573 
 
 Repairs. Assessments for 577 
 Work done by city or 
 
 by contract 573 
 
 Curbing Sidewalks — 
 
 Regulations 572 
 
 Superintendent Public 
 
 Works fixes lines 572 
 
 Curbing and Paving 
 Sidewalks — 
 
 Assessments for. Exe- 
 
 cutions 576 
 
 By owners. When 578 
 
 Care of milk 485 
 
 Care of milk vessels. . . . 499 
 Delivery of milk. In- 
 fected houses. Regu- 
 lations 490, 491 
 
 Diseased cows. Regula- 
 tions ...475, 476 
 
 Feed of milch cows 477 
 
 How kept 470-474 
 
 Infected premises. No 
 
 sales from 480 
 
 Milk. Preservatives. 
 Adulterations. Regu- 
 lations 494, 495 
 
 Milk for sale. Temper- 
 ature regulations 493 
 
 Milkers. Cleanliness. 
 
 Regulations 478 
 
 Milk to be bottled at 
 
 only 492 
 
 Milkers not to enter in- 
 fected premises 481 
 
 Milk. Time for market- 
 ing 486 
 
 Name of dairy on and 
 
 number 483 
 
 Permits to sell milk. . . . 465 
 Protected from flies. 
 
 Regulations 505 
 
 Pure cream and ice 
 cream defined. . . .496, 497 
 
GENERAL INDEX, 
 
 393 
 
 Section. 
 
 Dairies — (Con.) 
 
 Pure milk defined 487 
 
 Refrigerators. Regula- 
 tions 489 
 
 Sales of impure milk 
 
 forbidden 488 
 
 See also milk. 
 
 Skimmed milk. For 
 sale of. Regulations.. 498 
 Vehicles used by. Reg- 
 ulations 482 
 
 Violating milk regula- 
 tions. Penalty 501 
 
 Damages — 
 
 In condemnation pro- 
 ceedings. How fixed. 
 Charter 51 
 
 Danger Signals — 
 
 O n obstructions i n 
 streets. Failure. Pen- 
 alty 707 
 
 Disease. Refusing to al- 
 low placed. Penalty.. 725 
 Warning of disease. 
 Moving. Penalty 724 
 
 Deaths — 
 
 Be reported by relatives 
 and physicians to Reg- 
 istrar of Vital Statis- 
 tics 197, 198 
 
 Record of to be kept by 
 
 Sextons 199 
 
 Reports of by Sextons to 
 Registrar of Vital Sta- 
 tistics 199 
 
 ( 26 ) 
 
 Section. 
 
 Debt — 
 
 See public debt, bonds, 
 bonded debt. 
 
 General power Mayor 
 and Council over. 
 
 Charter 22 
 
 List of outsanding 
 bonds 230 
 
 Debts of City — 
 
 Evidenced by bonds 
 valid debts 229 
 
 Deeds — 
 
 City. For property sold 
 
 under paving assess- 
 ments. Charter 29 
 
 Clerk of Council to 
 
 sign 90 
 
 Commissioners of Com- 
 mons validated 811 
 
 Defacing or Injuring Court 
 House — 
 
 Penalty 779 
 
 Public property or trees. 
 
 Penalty 777 
 
 Property in parks. 
 
 Penalty 715 
 
 Property. Obscene writ- 
 ing. Penalty 648 
 
 Defaulters — 
 
 See tax defaulters. 
 
 Delivery Wagons — 
 
 Bakery. Fly proof. Reg- 
 ulations 504 
 
 Food products to be 
 screened 506 
 
394 
 
 GENERAL INDEX, 
 
 Section. 
 
 Delivery Wagons — (Con.) 
 Market to have signs. . 450 
 Meats protected from 
 
 flies. Penalty 739 
 
 Milk. Name of dairy on 
 and number 483 
 
 Renters of market stalls 446 
 Depots — 
 
 See also milk depots. 
 
 Diphtheria — 
 
 See contagious diseases. 
 
 To be reported by phy- 
 sicians or others to 
 
 Health Officer 395 
 
 Discharging Fire Arms in 
 Cemeteries — 
 
 Penalty 794 
 
 On commons. Penalty.. 794 
 Or fire works on streets. 
 Regulations. Penalty. 723 
 
 Discharging Fire Works — 
 Christmas holidays. Cer- 
 
 tain streets. Penalty.. 768 
 
 Disease Flags — 
 
 Moving. Penalty 724 
 
 Refusing to allow placed. 
 Penalty 725 
 
 See contagious diseases. 
 
 Disorderly Conduct — 
 
 Chapter 71. 
 
 Penalty 645 
 
 And depredations. All 
 
 parks. Penalty 719 
 
 In parks. Penalty 713 
 
 Section. 
 
 Disorderly Houses — 
 
 Penalty 647 
 
 Mayor or Mayor and Al- 
 dermen may remove 
 inmates. Charter.... 42 
 Disturbing Schools — 
 
 Penalty . . 781 
 
 Dogs — 
 
 Bitches running at large. 
 
 Penalty 670 
 
 Donations — 
 
 Authority of city as to . . 1 
 
 Doors — 
 
 Screen. Left open at 
 
 market. Penalty 738 
 
 Drainage — 
 
 Chapter 44. 
 
 Cost of. Paid by owner. 
 
 How enforced 416 
 
 Of lots. How enforced. 413 
 Of lots. Penalty for 
 failure 414 
 
 Sanitary Inspector’s 
 duty. 
 
 Street Committee’s duty. 413 
 Drays — 
 
 At wharf 182 
 
 General charter. Powers 
 of city over. Char- 
 ter 23 
 
 Hack and automobile 
 licenses for 1913. 
 Chapter 33. 
 
 License for 1913 250 
 
 Numbered. How. Regu- 
 lations 250 
 
GENERAL INDEX 
 
 395 
 
 Section. 
 
 Drays — (Con.) 
 
 Subject to call police 
 and Fire Department. 250 
 
 Dressed Poultry — 
 
 Sale. Regulations. Pen- 
 alty 771 
 
 Driving — 
 
 In streets. Regulations. 
 
 Penalty 693 
 
 Reckless in parks. Pen- 
 alty 714 
 
 On bridges. Regulations. 
 
 Penalty 745-752 
 
 Reckless on streets 763 
 
 Speed limit near mar- 
 ket. Penalty 764 
 
 Drovers — 
 
 Power of city to tax. 
 Charter , 23 
 
 Drunkenness — 
 
 In public places. Pen- 
 alty 640 
 
 Dry Wells — 
 
 See wells and cisterns. 
 Ducks — 
 
 Impounded. Rules and 
 
 fees 558 
 
 Dwellings — 
 
 See buildings. 
 
 Dynamiter- 
 
 Quantity limited 392 
 
 Storage rates 391 
 
 Storage regulations.... 387 
 
 E. Section. 
 
 Education — 
 
 Board of. See Board of 
 Trustees. 
 
 General powers. Mayor 
 and Aldermen over. 
 
 Charter 22 
 
 See also public schools. 
 
 See public schools. 
 Schools. Board of 
 Trustees. 
 
 Eggs— 
 
 Cold Storage. Regula- 
 tions. Penalty 770 
 
 Elections — 
 
 Annexation new terri- 
 tory. How held. Char- 
 ter 2 
 
 Assistant Chief Fire De- 
 partment 204 
 
 Australian ballot system 210 
 
 Ballot boxes and lists 
 returned to Clerk 
 
 sealed 216 
 
 Board of Water Commis- 
 sioners. Charter. . .59, 60 
 Booths. How prepared. 
 
 Marshal’s duty 210 
 
 Box for votes furnished 
 
 by Clerk 215 
 
 By Council. How con- 
 ducted. Rules of . . . . 801 
 By Council. Mayor 
 votes in case of tie. . . 76 
 
 By people. Held at Court 
 
 House 210 
 
 By people. How held. 
 Chapter 25. 
 
396 
 
 GENERAL INDEX, 
 
 Section. 
 
 Elections — (Con.) 
 
 Chief of Fire Depart- 
 ment 203 
 
 Chief of Police by Police , 
 Commission. Charter 13 
 Chief of Police. When 
 and how. Charter... 15 
 Clerks at. Appointment 
 
 and duties 213 
 
 Conduct of officers regu- 
 lated 220 
 
 Contest of, Council de- 
 termines 219 
 
 For bonds. Special regis- 
 tration for. When. 
 
 Charter 16 
 
 For Mayor and Aider- 
 men. Time of hold- 
 ing. Charter 11 
 
 Form of oath for man- 
 agers 217 
 
 Form of returns 215 
 
 General, for city officers 
 by people. Regula- 
 tions 210 
 
 General Inspector by 
 
 Council 128, 129 
 
 How and when con- 
 tested 218 
 
 How contested. 
 
 Chapter 26. 
 
 Managers. Appointment 
 
 of 211 
 
 Managers for to have 
 registration lists. 
 Charter 17 
 
 Section. 
 
 Elections — (Con.) 
 
 Managers. How appoint- 
 ed. Qualifications. 
 
 Charter 18 
 
 Managers make returns 
 and consolidate vote. 
 How. Charter ....... 18 
 
 Managers may swear 
 voters. Oath of. 
 
 Charter 17 
 
 Managers of. Oath 212 
 
 Managers to be fur- 
 nished voters list by 
 
 Clerk 221 
 
 To have voters list 221 
 
 Mayor and Aldermen 
 may establish polling 
 
 places. Charter 11 
 
 Mayor and Aldermen. 
 Qualifications of vot- 
 ers. Charter 10 
 
 Mayor and Aldermen. 
 Qualifications. When 
 and where held. Char- 
 ter 11 
 
 Mayor and Aldermen. 
 Rules governing. Char- 
 ter 10 
 
 Mayor pro tem 77 
 
 Officers by Council. 
 
 Methods of 80 
 
 Officers by Council. 
 
 Time of 79 
 
 Officers of city by May- 
 or and Aldermen. 
 When and how. Char- 
 ter 13 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 397 
 
 Section. 
 
 Elections — (Con.) 
 
 Officers solicting votes 
 
 at. Penalty 220 
 
 Opening and closing of 
 polls. Rules govern- 
 ing 214 
 
 Policemen and lieuten- 
 ants elected by Com- 
 mission. Charter 14 
 
 Qualifications of voters. 
 
 Generally. Charter. . 10 
 
 Results. How declared. 214 
 Tally sheets. How kept. 214 
 To fill vacancies by May- 
 or and Council. When. 
 
 Charter 13 
 
 Votes challenged. Man- 
 ager’s duties 212 
 
 Voters lists to be kept. . 213 
 
 Electrical Works in Build- 
 ings — 
 
 Permits to be obtained. . 276 
 
 Electric Companies — 
 
 Not to connect service 
 wires in buildings 
 without Inspector’s 
 certificate 277 
 
 Electric Light System — 
 Interfering with and in- 
 juring. Penalty 780 
 
 Electric Railway — 
 
 See also Columbus Rail- 
 road Company. 
 
 Section. 
 
 Elevators — 
 
 General Inspector may 
 
 forbid use of 354 
 
 Inspection of 353 
 
 Employees of City Solicit- 
 ing Votes at Elec- 
 tions — 
 
 Penalty 220 
 
 Eminent Domain — 
 
 See also condemnation. 51 
 Quarantine purposes. ... 42 
 
 See also Mayor and Al- 
 dermen. Charter. ... 51 
 
 See also streets, public 
 works, sewers, etc. 
 
 Charter 51 
 
 Water works 52-69 
 
 Enactment of Ordinances 
 
 803, 804 
 
 Encroachments — 
 
 See excavations. 
 
 Engineer — 
 
 See City Engineer. 
 
 Escaping from Pest 
 House — 
 
 Penalty 726 
 
 Excavations — 
 
 In streets. Penalty.... 765 
 See also streets. 
 
 Execution Docket — 
 
 Clerk to keep. Char- 
 ter 45 
 
 Sales. City may be pur- 
 chaser. Charter. , . . . . 45 
 
398 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Section. 
 
 Execution Docket — (Con.) 
 Sales. Law governing. 
 
 Charter 45 
 
 Executions — 
 
 Assessments for curbing 
 and paving sidewalks. 576 
 Assessments for street 
 improvements and re- 
 pairs. Enforced. Char- 
 
 ter 40 
 
 City. Form of and 
 regulations. Charter. 45 
 City Marshal to collect. . 97 
 
 Clerk of Council shall 
 
 issue 90 
 
 Clerk to issue for taxes 
 
 over due 238 
 
 Deeds pursuant to for 
 paving assessments. 
 
 Charter 28 
 
 Expense in numbering 
 
 houses 552 
 
 For paving assessments. 
 How issued and en- 
 forced. Charter 27 
 
 For street tax. How 
 and when issued.... 235 
 For taxes of all kinds. 
 
 Powers. Charter 22 
 
 For work cleaning lots 
 by Sanitary Inspector 170 
 Illegality to, and claims. 
 
 Charter 45 
 
 Marshals. Duty as to. 
 
 Charter 45 
 
 See also tax executions. 
 Transfer of. Charter. . 45 
 
 Section. 
 
 Expenditures — 
 
 Tax money. How and 
 divisions of 237 
 
 Explosive Oils — 
 
 Chapter 38. 
 
 Failure to store. Pen- 
 alty 753 
 
 Not to be stored with- 
 out permit from Chief 
 of Fire Department. . 375 
 Permits for storage. Reg- 
 ulations 379, 380 
 
 Storage. Inspection by 
 Chief of Fire Depart- 
 ment 383 
 
 Storage of. Regulative. 
 
 381, 382 
 
 Storage of. Safety regu- 
 lations 377, 378 
 
 Regulations. Penalty for 
 violating 384 
 
 Exposition Park — 
 
 Entering without pay- 
 ing fees. Penalty... 784 
 
 Keeper of 162 
 
 Express Wagons — 
 
 General power of city 
 over. Charter 23 
 
 F. 
 
 Factories — 
 
 Ice cream. Specifica- 
 tions 497 
 
 False Fire Alarms — 
 
 Penalty 644 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 399 
 
 Section. 
 
 False Fire Alarms — (Con.) 
 Swearing. To register. 
 
 Penalty 221 
 
 Weights and measures 
 at market. Penalty. . 451 
 
 Farmers — 
 
 Meat sold by. Subject 
 
 to inspection 425 
 
 May sell products raised 
 by him to dealers with- 
 out license 464 
 
 Not subject to slaugh- 
 ter house regulations. 
 
 When 425 
 
 Selling at wholesale. 
 Produce and farm pro- 
 
 ducts. Regulations.. 457 
 
 Feeding Stock in Streets — 
 
 Not fastened. Penalty.. 672 
 On, unhitched. Regu- 
 lations. Limits. Pen- 
 
 alty 678 
 
 Feed Stuffs and Grain — 
 Weighed on city scales. 460 
 
 Fees — 
 
 City officers not to re- 
 ceive. Charter 13 
 
 For animals in stock 
 
 yard 417 
 
 For inspections by Gen- 
 eral Inspector 133 
 
 Hacks. Regulations. 
 
 Penalty 788 
 
 Health Officer. Meats.. 419 
 Impounding animals... 558 
 
 Section. 
 
 Fees — (Con.) 
 
 Meat inspections. 
 
 Amounts 421 
 
 Of city for burials in 
 
 cemeteries 592 
 
 Of Clerk of Market 460 
 
 Of Magazine Keeper... 
 
 389, 390, 391 
 
 Of slaughter house own- 
 ers 423, 424 
 
 Port Wardens 180 
 
 See also inspection fee. . 
 
 171, 172 
 
 Stock yards. Cattle and 
 
 hogs 772 
 
 Storage of fire works in 
 
 magazine 744 
 
 Filth- 
 
 See garbage. Streets. 
 Health regulations. 
 
 Finance Committee — 
 
 Approves rent contracts 
 
 for market stalls 441 
 
 Duty as to tax assess- 
 
 ments 223 
 
 Fines — 
 
 From police district. 
 
 Charter 5 
 
 Fire Alarms — 
 
 False. Penalty 644 
 
 Fire Alarm System — 
 
 Injuring. Penalty 644 
 
 Chief’s duty to keep in 
 repair 209 
 
 Fire Apparatus of City — 
 Injuring. Penalty 774 
 
400 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Section. 
 
 Fire Arms — 
 
 Discharging in ceme- 
 
 teries 794 
 
 Discharging on com- 
 mons 794 
 
 Discharging in streets. 
 Regulations. Penalty. 723 
 
 Fire Department — 
 
 Appropriation 1913 257 
 
 Chapter 24. 
 
 Chief of. Election 203 
 
 Chief of. General duties 207 
 
 Chief to command 208 
 
 Committee on. Investi- 
 gate cause of each 
 
 fire 394 
 
 Efficiency of. Investi- 
 gated by Committee on 
 Fire Department each 
 
 fire 394 
 
 General power to estab- 
 lish and maintain. 
 
 Charter 22 
 
 Gongs. Imitating. For- 
 bidden 643 
 
 Have care of equipment 206 
 Inefficiency of, reported 
 by Committee on Fire 
 
 Department 394 
 
 Right of way on streets. 
 
 Penalty 694 
 
 See also Chief of Fire 
 Department. 
 
 Who to compose 202 
 
 Section. 
 
 Fire Escapes — 
 
 Approved by General In- 
 spector and Chief of 
 
 Fire Department 342 
 
 City may require in 
 
 buildings. Charter. . 41 
 
 In certain buildings.... 341 
 May be required in 
 buildings. When and 
 
 how 343 
 
 Owner required to erect. 
 
 When. Penalty 343 
 
 Owner shall keep in re- 
 pair 344 
 
 Fire Hydrants — 
 
 See Hydrants. 
 
 Fire Limits — 
 
 Chapter 36. 
 
 Accumulation of boxes, 
 trash, combustible 
 matter. Regulations. 
 
 Penalty 683 
 
 Awnings and sheds in . . 363 
 Buildings in, approved 
 by General Inspector. 336 
 Buildings. Height and 
 walls. Regulations. . 
 
 265, 266 
 
 Buildings in. Materials 
 
 for 263 
 
 Business buildings. 
 
 Regulations 279 
 
 Certain business forbid- 
 den in 369 
 
 Certain business forbid- 
 den in 345 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 401 
 
 Section. 
 
 Fire Limits — (Con.) 
 
 City may establish. 
 
 Charter 41 
 
 Defined 257 
 
 Dwellings in. Regula- 
 tions 278 
 
 Repairs of buildings in. 
 
 Regulations 263 
 
 See also buildings. 
 
 Wooden buildings in. 
 Condemned by Gen- 
 eral Inspector. When 264 
 
 Firemen — 
 
 Pensions for. When. 
 Charter 70-73 
 
 Fire Regulations — 
 
 Accumulation of com- 
 bustible matter. Reg- 
 
 ulations. Penalty 683 
 
 Power of city as to 
 buildings, etc. Char- 
 ter 41 
 
 See also buildings. 
 
 streets, cellars, yards, 
 combustible material. 
 
 Fires — 
 
 Chapter 40. 
 
 Cause of each investigat- 
 ed by Committee on 
 Fire Department 394 
 
 Fire Works — 
 
 Christmas holidays. Dis- 
 charging on certain 
 
 streets. Penalty 768 
 
 Discharging on streets. 
 Regulations. Penalty 723 
 
 Section. 
 
 Fire Works — (Con.) 
 
 Storage of. Regulations. 
 
 Penalty 744 
 
 Fish and Meats — 
 
 Selling tainted. Pen- 
 alty 740 
 
 Fish Markets — 
 
 Screened against flies.. 502 
 Flags — 
 
 Disease. Refusing to al- 
 
 low placed. Pen- 
 alty 725 
 
 Moving disease. Pen- 
 alty 724 
 
 Flies — 
 
 Protection of foods 
 from. Regulations... 
 
 502-506 
 
 Foods — 
 
 Cold storage eggs. Reg- 
 ulations. Penalty 770 
 
 Dressed Poultry. Reg- 
 ulations. Penalty 771 
 
 See also Sanitary In- 
 spector. 
 
 See pure food regula- 
 tions. 
 
 Selling tainted. Penalty 740 
 
 Food Products — 
 Peddler’swagons screen- 
 ed 506 
 
 Protected from flies 502, 506 
 
 Fountain — 
 
 Rubbish and trash in 
 city park. Penalty.. 721 
 
402 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Section. 
 
 Fowls and Chickens on 
 Certain Streets — 
 
 Penalty 737 
 
 Franchise — 
 
 Automatic Telephone 
 
 Company 603 
 
 Columbus Railroad Com- 
 pany 611-620 
 
 Southern Bell Telephone 
 Company 604-610 
 
 Fruit Parings — 
 
 Garbage and litter. 
 Throwing on side- 
 walks. Penalty 679 
 
 Fruit Stands — 
 
 Broad street forbidden 
 
 except when 688 
 
 Fuel 257 
 
 Fumigation — 
 
 See contagious diseases. 
 Infected houses. 
 
 Furniture and Merchan- 
 dise in the Streets — 
 Regulations. Penalty... 702 
 
 G. 
 
 Gambling Houses — 
 
 Duty of police force to 
 raid. Charter 46 
 
 Gaming House — 
 
 Keeping. Penalty 647 
 
 Garbage in Streets — 
 
 Penalty 187 
 
 Gas and Electric Lights — 
 Appropriations 1913.... 257 
 
 Section. 
 
 Gas and Light Bills — 
 
 Chapter 31. 
 
 Approved by chairman 
 each department 231 
 
 Gas Companies — 
 
 Chapter 68. 
 
 Gasoline — 
 
 See explosive oils. 
 
 Gas Pipes — 
 
 How laid in streets... 627 
 Laid. Approval Super- 
 intendent of Pubic 
 
 Works 627 
 
 Meters. Regulations... 627 
 Openings. Paved streets 569 
 
 i Gates — 
 
 Construction. Regula- 
 tion. Penalty 704 
 
 Geese — 
 
 Impounded. Rules and 
 
 fees 558 
 
 General Inspector — 
 
 Chapter 12. 
 
 Approves buildings in 
 
 fire limits 336 
 
 Approves fire escapes. . 342 
 
 Approves plumbing 
 
 works 512 
 
 Approves plumbing 
 works. Tests. .. .525, 526 
 Condemns frame build- 
 ings in fire limits. . . . 264 
 Condemns unsafe build- 
 ings 322, 323 
 
 Duty as to building 
 permits and fire limits 259 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 403 
 
 Section. 
 
 General Inspector — (Con.) 
 
 Duty as to repair of 
 roofs of buildings. 
 
 Permits 373 
 
 Duty as to unsafe build- 
 ings 322 | 
 
 Duty as to construction 
 
 of theatres 386 (a) j 
 
 Election and term of. . 
 
 128, 129 I 
 
 Fees. Electrical in- 
 spections 133 | 
 
 General and special 
 
 duties 132 
 
 General duties as to 
 
 buildings 261 
 
 Grants. Permits for 
 opening in party walls. 
 
 When 300 
 
 Grants permits for wir- 
 ing and electrical 
 
 work 276 
 
 Inspects all wiring and 
 
 electrical work 276 
 
 Inspects plumbing work 516 
 May be discharged or 
 
 suspended 130 
 
 May enter buildings for 
 
 inspection 350 
 
 May forbid use of ele- 
 vators 354 
 
 May refuse permit for 
 erection of any build- 
 ing in the city 361 
 
 May require erection of 
 fire escapes. When 
 and how 343 
 
 Section. 
 
 General Inspector — (Con.) 
 
 May require strengthen- 
 ing of building walls. 361 
 Office at court house. 
 
 Office hours 134 
 
 Office created 127 
 
 Office may be abolished 131 
 Plumbing plans to be 
 filed with 523 
 
 Powers generally as to 
 erecting and repairing 362 
 Power to condemn and 
 destroy impure meats 
 
 434, 435 
 
 Right to make inspec- 
 tions 524 
 
 Salary and oath of.... 128 
 See also inspection fees. 
 Sewer connections. 
 
 Duties of 517 
 
 Sewers. House connec- 
 tions. Duties 521, 522 
 
 Subject to Committee on 
 
 Streets 135 
 
 To collect fees for in- 
 spections 133 
 
 To inspect elevators 353 
 
 To keep record of per- 
 mits issued 260 
 
 Grain and Feed Stuffs — 
 Weighed on city scales. . 460 
 
 Grocery Stores — 
 
 Screened against flies. . 502 
 
 Gun Powder — 
 
 See powder. 
 
404 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 H. Section. 
 
 Hacks — 
 
 Automobile and vehicle 
 license 1913. 
 
 Chapter 33. 
 
 Failure hackmen to keep 
 engagements. Penalty 
 
 787, 788 
 
 General charter powers 
 
 of city * over. Char- 
 ter 23 
 
 Kept in safe condition. 
 Subject to police in- 
 spection 250 
 
 License for 1913 250 
 
 Numbered. How. Reg- 
 ulations 250 
 
 Rates fixed for. Viola- 
 tions. Penalty 787, 788 
 
 Subject to call of police 
 and Fire Department. 250 
 
 Hackmen — 
 
 Leaving vehicles to so- 
 
 licit. Penalty 699 
 
 Soliciting at depots, 
 wharfs and certain 
 streets forbidden 250 
 
 Rules governing. Mayor 
 may make. Penalty. . 787 
 
 Halls— 
 
 See public halls. 
 
 Hats — 
 
 In theatres. See theatres. 
 
 Hauling — 
 
 Heavy loads on paved 
 
 streets. Regulations. 
 Penalty 680 
 
 Section. 
 
 Health— 
 
 Also see Board of 
 Health. 
 
 Also see Public Health. 
 Public. Nuisances. Stag- 
 nant water, garbage 
 on premises. Penalties 
 
 730, 731 
 
 Health Officer — 
 
 Chapter 14. 
 
 Admits students to 
 school after recovery 
 of contagious diseases. 
 
 When 403 
 
 Assistant to 419 
 
 Bond. Oath. Term. 
 
 Compensation 139 
 
 Certificates. Meat In- 
 spection 420 
 
 Diseased milch cows re- 
 ported to 479 
 
 Duty to establish quar- 
 antine 396 
 
 Directs Sanitary Inspec- 
 tor. When. Fumiga- 
 tion of infected houses 402 
 Establishes quarantine. 
 
 Contagious diseases.. 396 
 Ex-officio memberjBoard 
 
 of Health 184 
 
 Fees of. How paid 419 
 
 Fixes time and place for 
 
 meat inspections 433 
 
 General powers 141 
 
 General and special 
 duties 142 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 405 
 
 Section. 
 
 Health Officer — (Con.) 
 Inspection of meats. 
 Method. When and 
 How. Duty to in- 
 spect 419-426-429 
 
 May be discharged or 
 
 suspended 
 
 
 140 
 
 Office created 
 
 
 139 
 
 Qualifications 
 
 
 140 
 
 Slaughter houses. 
 
 In- 
 
 
 spected by 
 
 
 422 
 
 To be notified of 
 
 con- 
 
 
 tagious diseases 
 
 by 
 
 
 nurses, parents 
 
 or 
 
 
 others 
 
 
 395 
 
 To tag animals to be 
 slaughtered 428 
 
 Health Officer and Board 
 of Health — 
 
 Power to make. Regu- 
 lations. Contagious 
 diseases 404 
 
 Hides— 
 
 Curing in city. Penalty. 728 
 
 Hitching Horses — 
 
 To hydrants. Penalty.. 773 
 To trees and light posts. 
 
 Penalty 698 
 
 Hogs — 
 
 For sale. To be put in 
 
 stock yard 417 
 
 Fdr sale. Stall fed. 
 
 When 436 
 
 Running at large. Im- 
 pounded. Penalty 668 
 
 Section. 
 
 Hogs and Cattle — 
 
 For sale. Regulations. 
 
 Penalty 772 
 
 To be put in stock yards. 
 Fees. Regulations. 
 Penalty 772 
 
 Hog Pens — 
 
 In city. Penalty 188 
 
 Horses — 
 
 Hitching to hydrants. 
 
 Penalty 773 
 
 Hitching to trees and 
 lamp posts. Penalty. 698 
 
 Hitching on streets. Reg- 
 
 ulations. Penalty 697 
 
 Horses and Live Stock — 
 
 For sale on streets. 
 Penalty 700 
 
 Horses and Mules — 
 
 Feeding on streets un- 
 hitched 672 
 
 Feeding on streets. Reg- 
 ulations 678 
 
 Loose on streets. Taken 
 
 up. Penalty 673 
 
 Running at large. Pen- 
 alty 671 
 
 Hospital — 
 
 Also see city hospital. 
 City Physician admits 
 
 indigent patients 112 
 
 City Physician attends 
 
 patients. When 114 
 
 Duty of patients 152 
 
406 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Section. 
 
 Hospital — (Con.) 
 
 Fees collected by Treas- 
 urer of city 95 
 
 Patients discharged for 
 
 cause 153 
 
 General power Mayor 
 and Aldermen over. 
 
 Charter 22 
 
 Visitors to. Regulations 147 
 
 Hospital Committee — 
 
 Power over hospital and 
 quarantine 411 
 
 Hospital Fees — 
 
 Collected by City Treas- 
 urer 95 
 
 Hospital Keeper — 
 
 Chapter 15. 
 
 Attention to patients... 150 j 
 
 Duties at hospital 146 j 
 
 Duty as to furniture and 
 
 supplies 145 
 
 Duties to patients 148 
 
 May charge for board. 
 
 When 144 
 
 General and special 
 
 duties 143 
 
 Reports to City Physi- 
 cian 149 
 
 Salary 144 
 
 Hotels — 
 
 Also see buildings. 
 Solicitors not to enter 
 
 depots. Penalty 250 
 
 Houses — 
 
 See also buildings. 
 
 To be numbered 548 
 
 Section. 
 
 Houses Numbered — 
 
 Duty of Chief of Police. 551 
 Expense of. Executions 552 
 
 How 549, 550 
 
 Hydrants — 
 
 Hitching to. Penalty... 773 
 Injuring or tampering 
 with. Penalty 776 
 
 I. 
 
 Ice Cream — 
 
 Milk used for. Regu- 
 
 lations 493 
 
 Pure. Defined 497 
 
 Ice Cream Factories — 
 
 Specifications for 497 
 
 Idiots and Insane Per- 
 sons — 
 
 Teasing. Penalty 662 
 
 Illegal Registration — 
 
 Punishment 221 
 
 Illegality — 
 
 To executions. Plea and 
 
 trial. Charter 45 
 
 Imitating Fire Depart- 
 ment Gong — 
 
 Penalty 643 
 
 Imitating Police Whistle — 
 
 Penalty 642 
 
 Impersonating Police- 
 man — 
 
 Penalty 641 
 
 Impounding Animals — 
 Chapter 53. 
 
 See also animals. 
 
 Rules and fees 558 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 407 
 
 Section. 
 
 Impounding Animals — (Con.) . 
 
 Chickens. Geese and 
 ducks. Rules and fees 558 
 Improper or Profane Lan- 
 guage over Tele- 
 phone — 
 
 Penalty 663 
 
 Impure Food — 
 
 See pure food regula- 
 tions. 
 
 Indecent Conduct — 
 
 Penalty 646 
 
 Indecent Conduct and 
 Dressing — 
 
 Penalty 650 
 
 Infected Houses — 
 
 See also contagious dis- 
 eases. 
 
 Fumigated by Sanitary 
 
 Inspector 402 
 
 Injuring — 
 
 Court house. Defacing. 
 
 Penalty 779 
 
 Fire apparatus. Penalty 774 
 
 Hydrants. Penalty 776 
 
 Property. Exposition 
 
 Park. Penalty 778 
 
 Public property or trees. 
 
 Penalty 777 
 
 Shrubbery or trees in 
 commons. Penalty.. 782 
 Street lights. Penalty.. 775 
 Water works. Penalty. 773 
 Inspections — 
 
 Bridges. Duty Chief of 
 Police 751 
 
 Section. 
 
 Inspections — (Con.) 
 
 Buildings. See General 
 Inspector. Buildings. 
 Chief of Fire Depart- 
 ment may enter for. 
 
 When 350 
 
 Explosive oils. Storage 
 
 places 383 
 
 Foods by Sanitary In- 
 spector 171, 172 
 
 Meats. Health Officer’s 
 
 certificates 420 
 
 Meats. Health Officer 
 
 makes. Fees 419 
 
 Meats. Sold by farm- 
 ers 425 
 
 Meats. When and how. 
 
 426, 427 
 
 Meats. Time and place 
 fixed by Inspector. . . . 433 
 Meats. Sold outside mar- 
 
 ket stalls 459 
 
 Plumbing. By General 
 
 Inspector 516 
 
 Theatres. By Chief Fire 
 Department 385 
 
 Inspector — 
 
 See Sanitary Inspector, 
 
 Health Officer. Gen- 
 eral Inspector. 
 
 Inspection Fees — 
 
 Buildings 133 
 
 Electrical work. Gen- 
 eral Inspector 133 
 
 Meats 421 
 
 Motors 133 
 
408 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Section. 
 
 Inspection Fees — (Con.) 
 
 Plumbing 133 
 
 Sanitary Inspector. 
 Owners pay 170 
 
 See fees. 
 
 Interest — 
 
 Taxes overdue, bear. . . . 238 
 Intoxication — 
 
 See drunkenness. 
 
 Itinerant Traders — 
 
 License for 242 
 
 J. 
 
 Jumping On and Off Mov- 
 ing Trains — 
 
 Penalty 664 
 
 Jurisdiction — 
 
 See also police district. 
 
 City in police district. . 638 
 Jurisdiction Recorder’s 
 Court — 
 
 See Recorder’s* Court. 
 Recorder’s Court. .. .631-637 
 Nuisances. Recorder’s 
 Court 732, 733 
 
 K. 
 
 Keeper of Hospital — 
 
 See Hospital Keeper. 
 
 Keeper of Magazine — 
 
 See Magazine Keeper. 
 
 Keeping or Storing 
 Liquors — 
 
 Penalty 654 
 
 Kindergarten — 
 
 Appropriation for 1913. 257 j 
 
 Section. 
 
 L. 
 
 Laws — 
 
 Also see Ordinances. 
 
 | Of Georgia relating to 
 
 commons 807 
 
 Relating to commons... 807 
 
 Levy- 
 
 See executions and ex- 
 ecution and sales. 
 
 Lewd or Bawdy Houses — 
 
 I Inmates dispossessed... 659 
 Mayor or Mayor and Al- 
 dermen may remove 
 inmates. Charter. ... 42 
 
 Library — 
 
 See public library. 
 
 License — 
 
 Amount may be prorat- 
 ed. When 248 
 
 Automobiles and similar 
 
 machines. Penalty... 755 
 Business. When due... 239 
 Canvassers and trans- 
 ient agents 243 
 
 City Marshal to require 
 
 payment of 96 
 
 Clerk of Council shall 
 issue 90 
 
 Doing business without. 
 Duty of Marshal and 
 Chief of Police as to. . 239 
 Doing business without. 
 
 Penalty 239 
 
 Drays, hacks and auto- 
 mobiles for year 1913. 250 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 409 
 
 Section. 
 
 License — (Con.) 
 
 Farmers selling produce 
 raised by them to 
 dealers. None requir- 
 ed 464 
 
 Hacks, drays, automo- 
 biles for year 1913. . . . 755 
 Hacks, drays, automo- 
 biles. Payable in ad- 
 vance 250 
 
 Hacks drays, automo- 
 biles. Transferable 
 only by consent of 
 
 Chief of Police 250 
 
 How and when issued. . 239 
 
 Itinerant traders 242 
 
 Liquor. Power of city 
 as to amount. Ter- 
 ritory. Charter 43 
 
 Market stall renters. 
 
 To have 442 
 
 Mayor and Aldermen 
 may revoke all. Char- 
 ter 44 
 
 Meat sellers other than 
 
 stall renters 458 
 
 Milk. Applications for 
 
 to sell 466, 467 
 
 Milk. Copy milk laws 
 
 furnished with 500 
 
 Milk. Issued annually. 
 
 Renewal 467 
 
 Milk. No fees for 468 
 
 Milk. Not exchanged. . 239 
 Milk. Not transferable. 
 Except when 239 
 
 ( 27 ) 
 
 Section. 
 
 License — (Con.) 
 
 Milk. Numbered on de- 
 livery wagon 483 
 
 Milk. To sell 465-467 
 
 Near beer. Chapter 34. 
 Near beer. Amount of 
 tax to sell. Wholesale 
 
 and retail 251 
 
 Near beer. General pro- 
 visions 251 
 
 Near beer. Not issued 
 for price for less than 
 
 one year 251 
 
 Near beer. Not trans- • 
 ferable except when. 251 
 Near beer. Places of 
 
 sale. Defined 251 
 
 Near beer, posted in 
 
 places of business 251 
 
 Near beer. Quantity 
 
 limited 251 
 
 Near beer. Quantity 
 
 regulated 251 
 
 Near beer. When ex- 
 pire 251 
 
 Near beer. Revoked 
 
 when 255 
 
 Near beer. Tax payable 
 
 % in advance 251 
 
 Not exchanged 239 
 
 Peddlers of vegetables, 
 
 fruits, produce and 
 
 provisions 455 
 
 Persons represented by 
 
 agent 241 
 
 Persons subject to pay- 
 ment of. List 240 
 
410 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Section. 
 
 License — (Con.) 
 
 Plumbers 509 
 
 Plumbers. Revoked. 
 
 When 568 
 
 Plumbing work. Appli- 
 cation for 514 
 
 Police district out of 
 
 city. Charter 3 
 
 Record of kept by City 
 Marshal 96 
 
 License Taxes — 
 
 Duty of Marshal and 
 
 police as to 245 
 
 Former Ordinances con- 
 tinue of force 244 
 
 Who are liable 239 
 
 Liens — 
 
 See executions. 
 
 Priority of for city taxes 
 and assessments. Char- 
 ter 45 
 
 Lights — 
 
 Injuring street. Penalty 775 
 
 Light and Gas Bills — 
 Approved by Chairman 
 
 each department 231 
 
 Chapter 31. 
 
 Light and Power Plant — 
 Injuring or interfering 
 
 with. Penalty 780 
 
 Limits — 
 
 City or corporate. Char- 
 ter 2 
 
 City. Police purposes. 
 Charter 3 
 
 Section. 
 
 Limits — (Con.) 
 
 Corporate may be ex- 
 tended. How. Char- 
 ter 2 
 
 Liquors — 
 
 Also see near beer. Also 
 licenses. Also saloons 255 
 
 City may regulate sale in 
 police districts. Char- 
 
 ter 3 
 
 Dealers. Bond and oath. 
 
 Charter 43 
 
 Keeping or storing for 
 
 illegal sales 654 
 
 License to sell may be 
 revoked. Regulations. 
 Charter 43 
 
 Sale of, regulated. Licen- 
 ses for. Territory em- 
 
 braced. Charter 43 
 
 Liquor Licenses — 
 
 Police district. How col- 
 lected. Charter 3 
 
 Power to grant in police 
 district beyond city. 
 Charter 3 
 
 List of Voters Furnished 
 
 Mayor and Council... 221 
 Publication of 221 
 
 Livery Stables — , 
 
 Obstructing sidewalks.. 566 
 
 Loitering — 
 
 Disreptuable women. 
 
 Penalty 658 
 
 On streets. Penalty 653 
 
GENERAL INDEX, 
 
 411 
 
 Section. 
 
 Locomotive Whistles — 
 Blowing in city forbid- 
 
 den. Penalty 795 
 
 Lots — 
 
 Sinks near line. Pen- 
 alty 729 
 
 Lunch Counters and 
 Stands — 
 
 Screened against flies. . . 502 
 
 Lunch Stands — 
 
 Streets and sidewalks. 
 Forbidden 687 
 
 M. 
 
 Magazine Keeper — 
 
 Duties and fees of. .389-391 
 Reports to Council quar- 
 
 terly 390 
 
 Magazine — 
 
 Storage of fire works. 
 Rates 744 
 
 Managers of Elections — 
 
 Appointment of 211 
 
 Duty when votes chal- 
 lenged 212 
 
 Form of oath 217 
 
 Form of returns by 215 
 
 Oath of 212 
 
 Oath of. How taken... 215 
 
 Prepare ballots for 
 
 voters. When 210 
 
 To count votes. How. 214 
 
 To require voters list 
 kept 213 
 
 Section. 
 
 Mgrs. of Elections — (Con.) 
 
 To return ballot boxes 
 and lists of voters to 
 Clerk under seal 216 
 
 Market and Magazine — 
 Appropriations 1913. . . . 257 
 Market Clerk — 
 
 See also Clerk of Mar- 
 ket. 
 
 Clerk has general super- 
 
 vision over 452 
 
 Defacing or injuring. 
 
 Penalty 461 
 
 Delivery wagons to have 
 
 signs 450 
 
 False weights and meas- 
 ures. Revocation of 
 
 License 451 
 
 Gates injured or broken. 
 
 Penalty 156 
 
 General regulations 438 
 
 Hours 439 
 
 Market — 
 
 Mayor and Aldermen. 
 Power to regulate. 
 
 Charter 47 
 
 Meats delivered in clos- 
 ed wagons 430 
 
 Opening and closing 
 
 hours 443 
 
 Power to establish gen- 
 eral regulations. Char- 
 ter 47 
 
412 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Section. 
 
 Section. 
 
 Market — (Con.) 
 
 Cleanliness of salesmen. 447 
 
 To be posted at 462 
 
 Renters of stalls deliv- 
 ery wagons. Number 
 
 regulated 446 
 
 Renters of stalls. Duties 442 
 Renters of stalls. Sur- 
 
 renders possession vio- 
 lation of contract.... 442 
 Renters of stalls. To 
 
 have license 442 
 
 Rent of stalls. Payment 
 of rentals. Rent con- 
 tracts 441 
 
 Screened against flies.. 502 
 Screen doors left open. 
 
 Penalty 738 
 
 See also Clerk of Market. 
 Smoking and lounging in 
 
 forbidden 449 
 
 Stalls in. Rented. How 
 and when. Regula- 
 tions 440 | 
 
 Vendors at other than 
 renters of stalls. Reg- 
 ulations 456 
 
 Market Regulations — 
 
 Chapter 47. 
 
 Market Stalls — 
 
 Sub-renting forbidden 
 
 except when 442 
 
 To be kept clean by 
 
 renters. Clerk’s duties 448 j 
 Use of, regulated. .444, 445 
 
 Marshal — 
 
 Chapter 7. 
 
 Administers oath to tax 
 payer making returns 227 
 Assesses property not 
 returned for taxation. 233 
 
 Collects executions 97 
 
 Duties as to licenses and 
 
 special taxes 245 
 
 Duty as to licenses and 
 
 special taxes 96 
 
 Duty as to executions. 
 
 Charter 45 
 
 Duty as to removing 
 buildings as nuisances. 
 
 Charter 41 
 
 Ex-officio member tax 
 
 assessors 96 
 
 General duties 96 
 
 Is tax receiver 224 
 
 Office established. Sep- 
 arate. Charter 13 
 
 Processes and orders 
 
 served by 98 
 
 Receives tax returns. 
 
 Time of 224 
 
 Record of licenses to be 
 
 kept 96 
 
 Reports weekly to Treas- 
 urer 97 
 
 See also City Marshal. 
 
 See also officers. 
 
 Tax executions levied by 226 
 To deliver tax books to 
 Council. When 236 
 
GENERAL INDEX, 
 
 413 
 
 Section. 
 
 Marshal — (Con.) 
 
 To see tax returns are 
 according to assess- 
 ments 233 
 
 To furnish defaulters list 
 
 to Council 225 
 
 To give bond. When. 
 
 Charter 20 
 
 To turn tax books over 
 to Treasurer when 
 
 closed 225 
 
 Voting booths. To be 
 
 prepared by 210 
 
 Mayor — 
 
 Appoints Council Com- 
 mittees 800 
 
 Appoints election man- 
 agers. When 211 
 
 Chief of Fire Depart- 
 ment to report defec- 
 tive condition of plugs, 
 
 hydrants, etc 207 
 
 Ex-officio member of all 
 
 committees 88 
 
 Ex-officio member of 
 Board of Trustees 
 
 Public Schools 194 
 
 General duties 76 
 
 His powers and duties. 
 
 Charter 19 
 
 May enforce quarantine 
 
 regulations 406-410 
 
 May establish quaran- 
 tine. When and how. 
 
 40ft 407 I 
 
 May make rules govern- 
 ing hackmen. Penalty 786 ■ 
 
 Section. 
 
 Mayor— (Con.) 
 
 May offer rewards for 
 persons committing 
 depredations in ceme- 
 teries 588 
 
 May remove inmates of 
 disorderly or lewd 
 
 houses. Charter 42 
 
 Oath of. Charter 12 
 
 Qualifications of. Char- 
 ter 9 
 
 Salary not changed dur- 
 ing term. Charter... 9 
 Salary to be fixed by 
 Mayor and Aldermen. 
 
 Charter 9 
 
 Term of. Charter 9 
 
 Votes in elections of 
 officers. Case of tie. 
 
 Charter 
 
 Votes only in case of 
 
 tie 76 
 
 Mayor and Aldermen — 
 Authority over bridges. 
 
 Charter 50 
 
 Authority over schools 
 and buildings. Char- 
 ter 49 
 
 Bonds for water works. 
 
 Charter 58 
 
 City government vested 
 
 in. Charter 9, 
 
 Condemnation powers 
 and eminent domain. 
 
 Charter 51 
 
 Contracts. Powers. Char- 
 ter 51 
 
414 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Section. 
 
 Mayor and Aldermen — (Con.) 
 Designate election man- 
 agers. Charter 18 
 
 Election of. Rules gov- 
 erning. Charter 10 
 
 Elections. Qualifica- 
 
 tions of voters. Char- 
 ter 10, 11 
 
 Elect Police Commis- 
 sioners. Charter 14 
 
 Ex-officio Justice of the 
 
 Peace 46 
 
 Fill vacancies in Police 
 Commission. Char- 
 ter 14 i 
 
 Fix number of police 
 
 force. Charter 14 
 
 Fix time of opening and 
 closing polls. Charter 18 
 General powers over 
 streets, bridges, sew- 
 ers, water supply, 
 lights, revenue and 
 general welfare. Char- 
 ter 22, 23, 24 
 
 Jurisdiction over police 
 
 district. Charter 4 
 
 May condemn and de- 
 stroy impure foods. 
 
 Charter 47 
 
 May condemn property 
 for public works. 
 
 Charter 51 
 
 May condemn property 
 for quarantine pur- 
 poses. Charter 42 
 
 Section. 
 
 Mayor and Aldermen — (Con.) 
 May construct water 
 works. Charter. .. .62-69 
 May create other city 
 
 offices. Charter 13 
 
 May pension policemen 
 and firemen. Charter 
 
 20-23 
 
 May remove certain offi- 
 cers. When. Charter. 13 
 May remove officers. 
 When and how. Char- 
 ter 20 
 
 May require bonds of 
 certain officers. Char- 
 ter 20 
 
 May revoke liquor 
 license. Regulations. 
 
 Charter 43 
 
 Power as to fire limits 
 and regulations. Char- 
 ter 41 
 
 Power as to health reg- 
 ulations. Smallpox. 
 Diseases. Charter... 42 
 Power as to liquor and 
 liquor licenses. Char- 
 ter 43 
 
 Power as to paving and 
 curbing sidewalks. As- 
 sessments. Charter.. 24 
 Power as to water 
 
 works. Charter 62-69 
 
 Power over fire limits 
 and fire protection. 
 Charter 41 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 415 
 
 Section. 
 
 Mayor and Aldermen — (Con.) 
 Power over lewd or 
 disorderly houses. 
 
 Charter 42 
 
 Power over various bus- 
 inesses in city. Char- 
 ter 22-25 
 
 Power over Water Com- 
 missioners. Charter.. 66 
 Power over wharf, 
 wharfage, port dues, 
 tolls, etc. Charter... 23 
 Power to enforce quar- 
 antine regulations. 
 
 Charter 42 
 
 Power to establish and 
 maintain market. 
 
 Charter 47 
 
 Power to move car 
 tracks, hydrants, poles, 
 etc. Street works. 
 
 Charter . . . . 34 
 
 Power to regulate ped- 
 dling of food stuffs. 
 
 Charter 47 
 
 Power to remove build- 
 ings, dangerous and 
 nuisances. Charter.. 41 
 Power to require fire 
 escapes in buildings. 
 
 Charter 41 
 
 Power to tax for public 
 schools. Charter. ... 50 
 
 Power to tax horse and 
 mule drovers. Char- 
 ter 23 
 
 Section. 
 
 Mayor and Aldermen — (Con.) 
 Pure food laws may be 
 enacted by. Charter.. 47 
 
 Qualifications. Charter 9 
 
 ! Quarantine regulations. 
 Power as to county. 
 
 Charter 42 
 
 Streets. Power to 
 change parks and 
 driveways. Charter. 31-34 
 Vaccination. General 
 powers as to. Char- 
 ter 42 
 
 Water supply. May 
 contract for. Charter 69 
 
 To be furnished with 
 voters list by Clerk of 
 
 Council 221 
 
 To elect Mayor pro tem. 
 Charter 21 
 
 To purge voters list.... 221 
 
 Mayor and Hospital 
 Committee — 
 
 Power over quarantine. 411 
 
 Mayor and Mayor Pro 
 Tem — 
 
 Chapter 2. 
 
 Mayor Pro Tem — 
 
 Election and duties 77 
 
 Election, powers and 
 duties of. Charter... 21 
 Oath and compensation. 78 
 Mayor’s Court — 
 
 Chapter 70. 
 
 See also Recorder’s 
 Court. 
 
416 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Section. ; 
 
 Mayor’s Court — (Con.) 
 Abatement of nuisance. 732 
 
 Bond forfeitures 739 
 
 Clerk of 632 
 
 Costs paid into the 
 
 Treasury *. . 635 
 
 May punish for con- 
 tempt 636 
 
 See also Recorder’s 
 Court. 
 
 State offenses. Defend- 
 ants bound over 634 
 
 Terms and powers. .632-636 
 
 Meat Inspections — 
 
 Fees of Health Officer.. 419 
 
 Meat Markets — 
 
 Screened against flies.. 502 
 
 Meats and Fish — 
 
 Selling tainted. Penalty 740 
 
 Meats — 
 
 Condemned and confis- 
 
 cated. When, 434 
 
 Condemned by Clerk of 
 Market and destroyed. 
 
 How 459 
 
 Condemned. Destroyed. 
 
 How 435 
 
 Condemned. When and 
 
 how 426 
 
 Delivered to market in 
 
 closed wagons 430 
 
 Examinations by Health 
 Officer. Method of 
 
 conducting 429 
 
 Health Officer to inspect 419 
 
 Section. 
 
 Meats — (Con.) 
 
 Hogs for slaughter. 
 
 Stall fed. When 436 
 
 How inspected and con- 
 demned 426 
 
 Inspected at market by 
 
 Clerk 431 
 
 Inspection. Certificate 
 
 of Health Officer 420 
 
 Inspection fees. 
 
 Amounts 421 
 
 Inspection. Time and 
 place fixed by Inspec- 
 tor 433 
 
 Offering impure for sale. 
 
 Penalty 434 
 
 Peddling on streets regu- 
 lated 453, 454 
 
 Power of city to regu- 
 late sale of and de- 
 stroy. Charter 47 
 
 Protected from flies. 
 
 Penalty 739 
 
 Slaughter house. 
 
 Chapter 46. 
 
 Sold by others than stall 
 
 renters. Inspection 
 
 of 459 
 
 Sold by others than stall 
 
 renters. License 458 
 
 Violations of regulations 
 as to. Penalty 437 
 
 Meat Sellers — 
 
 Other than stall rent- 
 ers 458 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 417 
 
 Section. 
 
 Meetings of Council 801 
 
 Mayor presides 801 
 
 Order of business 801 
 
 Public and political. 
 Notice to be given 
 Mayor 799 
 
 Merchandise and Furni- 
 ture in Streets. — 
 Regulations. Penalty... 702 
 
 Milk and Dairies — 
 
 Chapter 48. 
 
 Adulterated. Defined... 495 
 Bottled at dairies and 
 
 depots only 492 
 
 Care of 485 
 
 Care of vessels 499 
 
 Cream and ice cream. 
 Pure defined 497 
 
 Dairies. How to be kept. 
 
 470-474 
 
 Deliveries into infected 
 houses. Regulated... 
 
 490, 491 
 
 Deliveries into infected 
 houses. Contagious 
 diseases. Regulations 399 
 
 Depots. Cleanliness and 
 
 regulations 484 
 
 Depots. Screened 
 against flies. 502 
 
 Diseased cows. Report- 
 ed to Health Officer.. 479 
 
 Milkers at Dairies — 
 Cleanliness. Regula- 
 tions 478 
 
 Section. 
 
 Milkers at Dairies — (Con.) 
 
 Not to enter infected 
 premises 481 
 
 Milk— 
 
 For sale. Temperature 
 
 regulations 493 
 
 From diseased cows. 
 
 Sale of penalty for 475, 476 
 
 Illegal sales of 469 
 
 Infected premises, no 
 
 sales from 480 
 
 Mayor and Aldermen 
 may regulate sale im- 
 pure. Charter 47 
 
 Preservatives. Allitera- 
 tions. Watering. .494, 495 
 
 Defined 487 
 
 Refrigerators. Regula- 
 tions 489 
 
 Regulations as to. Pen- 
 alty 501 
 
 Sale of impure forbid- 
 den 488 
 
 See also dairies. 
 
 Skimmed. Sale of. Reg- 
 ulations 498 
 
 Time of marketing 486 
 
 Used for ice cream. 
 
 Regulations 493 
 
 Vehicles delivering. 
 Name of dairy and 
 
 number on 483 
 
 Vehicles. Regulations 
 as to 482 
 
418 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Section. 
 
 Milk Permits — 
 
 Copy of milk laws fur- 
 nished 500 
 
 Issued annually. Re- 
 newals 467 
 
 No fees for 468 
 
 To sell 465 
 
 Minors — 
 
 Entering billiard or pool 
 room. Penalty 655 
 
 In saloons. Penalty 655 
 
 Miscellaneous Items — 
 Appropriations 1913.... 257 
 
 Mobile and Girard Rail- 
 road Stock — 
 
 Chapter 67. 
 
 Sale of by city 616-622 
 
 Motion Picture Shows — 
 Wearing hats in. Mana- 
 ger’s duty 665, 666 
 
 See theatres. 
 
 Motorcycles — 
 
 On sidewalks. Penalty. 754 
 Regulations. Riding one 
 in front of driver for- 
 
 bidden 693 
 
 Motormen on Street Cars — 
 Powers of policemen to 
 
 arrest 615 
 
 Powers of police in 
 police district 638 
 
 Moving Picture Shows — 
 
 See theatres. Motion 
 Picture shows. 
 
 Section. 
 
 Moving Trains or Cars — 
 Getting on or off. Pen- 
 alty 664 
 
 Mules and Horses Loose 
 in Streets Taken Up — 
 Penalty 673 
 
 Mules or Horses — 
 
 Running at large. Pen- 
 alty 671 
 
 N. 
 
 Name of Streets — 
 
 See streets. 
 
 Naptha — 
 
 See explosive oils. 
 
 Near Beer Dealer — 
 
 See also saloons. License 
 and Near Beer. 
 
 License revoked for 
 disorderly conduct 
 and violations of law. 255 
 Penalty for violating 
 
 regulations 256 
 
 Near Beer Licenses — 
 
 For 1913. Chapter 34. 
 Amount of. Wholesale. 
 
 Retail 251 
 
 Due in advance 251 
 
 Expire. When 251 
 
 Posted in place of busi- 
 ness 251 
 
 Regulations as to 251 
 
 Retail. Quantity limit 
 of sales 251 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 419 
 
 Section. 
 
 Near Beer License — 
 
 -(Con.) 
 
 
 Revoked. When 
 
 and 
 
 
 how 
 
 
 255 
 
 Time limit of. 
 
 One 
 
 
 year 
 
 
 251 
 
 Transferable. 
 
 When. 
 
 
 Regulations . . . 
 
 
 251 
 
 Wholesale. Quantity 
 
 
 sales limited... 
 
 
 251 
 
 Near Beer Saloons — 
 Locations. Changed only 
 
 Minors forbidden 
 
 in. 
 
 
 Penalty 
 
 
 655 
 
 Women forbidden 
 
 in. 
 
 
 Penalty 
 
 
 657 
 
 Negroes — 
 
 
 
 Separate seats in 
 
 cars. 
 
 
 Penalty 
 
 
 789 
 
 North Highlands Railroad 
 
 
 Company — 
 
 
 
 Laws relating to.. 
 
 ..628-631 
 
 Nuisances — 
 
 
 
 Abatement of. City’s 
 
 
 powers. Charter. 
 
 
 1 
 
 Abatement of. City’s 
 specific powers. Char- 
 ter 48 
 
 Abatement of. Record- 
 er’s Court. Duties. 
 
 Penalties 732, 733 
 
 Buildings. City’s powers 
 to remove. Charter. . 41 
 
 Citizens reports of. 
 Duties Board of Health 191 
 
 Section. 
 
 Nuisances — (Con.) 
 
 Defined and power to 
 
 abate. Charter 48 
 
 Curing hides in city. 
 
 Penalty 728 
 
 Drainage of lots. Ex- 
 pense of owners. Col- 
 lection. How en- 
 forced 416 
 
 Maintaining. Penalty. 
 
 Charter 48 
 
 Open wells and cisterns. 
 
 Abatement of 412 
 
 Premises unclean. Pen- 
 alty 730-734 
 
 Stagnant water. Abate- 
 ment and expense of 
 
 415, 416 
 
 Wells and cisterns. Fill- 
 ed. Expense of 412 
 
 Numbering Houses — 
 
 Method of 548 
 
 See also houses. 
 
 O. 
 
 Oath — 
 
 Aldermen. Charter 12 
 
 Election managers. 
 Form. How taken 212-217 
 
 General Inspector 128 
 
 Health Officer 139 
 
 Mayor. Charter 12 
 
 Mayor Pro Tem. Char- 
 ter 12-78 
 
 Port Wardens 179 
 
 Sanitary Inspector 164 
 
420 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Section, j 
 
 Oath — (Con.) 
 
 Superintendent of Public 
 
 Works 121 | 
 
 Tax Assessors 222 
 
 Tax payer to returns... 227 j 
 
 Voter. Challenged 212 
 
 Voter. Manager may re- 
 quire. Charter form. 17 I 
 
 Voter to register 221 
 
 Water Commissioners. 
 Charter 61 
 
 Obscene Writings — 
 
 Defacing property. Pen- 
 alty 661 
 
 Obscene Language — 
 
 Penalty 646 | 
 
 Over telephone. Penalty 663 
 
 Obstructions — 
 
 Bridges. Penalty 747 I 
 
 Columbus Railroad Com- 
 pany tracks. Penalty. 614 j 
 Crossings. Railroad with 
 trains or cars. Streets. 
 
 Penalty 696 
 
 Car tracks, hydrants, 
 poles, etc. May be re- 
 moved from streets. 
 
 Charter 34 
 
 Sidewalks. Penalty.... 562 
 Sidewalks, boxes, mer- 
 
 chandise, etc. Penalty 
 
 564, 565 
 
 Sidewalks. By livery 
 
 stable keepers 566 
 
 Sewers. Penalty 568 
 
 Streets. Penalty 703 
 
 Section. 
 
 Obstructions — (Con.) 
 
 Streets. Danger signals 
 to be placed. When. 
 
 Penalty 707 
 
 Streets. Power of city 
 as to. Charter 1 
 
 Obstructing Legal 
 Process — 
 
 Penalty 639 
 
 Offi cers — 
 
 See also police and 
 Chief of Police. 
 
 Elected by Council (Gen- 
 eral City Officers) 
 
 Bonds. Charter 20 
 
 Elected by Council. 
 
 Compensation of Char- 
 ter 81 
 
 Elected by Council. Dis- 
 charged. When. Char- 
 ter 83 
 
 Elected by Council. Eli- 
 gible. Who are. Char- 
 ter 80 
 
 Elected by C o u n c il . 
 Time of electing. Char- 
 ter 79 
 
 Improper conduct at 
 elections. Charter... 13 
 Mayor and Council may 
 elect additional. Char- 
 ter 13 
 
 Mayor and Council. Pow- 
 er to remove. Char- 
 ter 13 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 421 
 
 Section. 
 
 Officers — (Con.) 
 
 Mayor and Council may 
 
 increase number. 
 
 Charter 13 
 
 Salaries. Fixed by May- 
 or and Council. Char- 
 ter 13 
 
 Soliciting votes. Pen- 
 alty 220 
 
 Vacancies Mayor and 
 Council may fill. Char- 
 ter 13 
 
 Oils— 
 
 See also explosive oils. 
 Failure to store. Pen- 
 alty 742 
 
 Storage in cellars. Pen- 
 alty 743 
 
 Old Woman’s Home — 
 
 See appropriation 1914. 
 
 Opera Houses — 
 
 Wearing hats in. Pen- 
 alty 665, 666 
 
 Order of Business — 
 
 Council meetings 801 
 
 Ordinance — 
 
 Adopting this Code. .805, 806 
 
 Ordinances — 
 
 Adopting of by Council. 
 
 Method. Charter 78 
 
 Enacting. Style of 802 
 
 How read and adopted 
 
 803, 804 
 
 Signed and approved by 
 Mayor 804, 805 
 
 P. Section. 
 
 Paints and Oils — 
 
 Storage in cellars. Pen- 
 alty 743 
 
 Parks — 
 
 Also see Exposition Park. 
 
 Appropriation for year, 
 
 1913 257 
 
 Building material and 
 shrubbery in. Regula- 
 tions. Penalty 720 
 
 Certajn vehicles in. Pen- 
 alty 711 
 
 Chinaberry, mulberry, 
 and sycamore trees. 
 Forbidden. Penalty.. 692 
 Disorderly conduct. Pen- 
 
 alty 713 
 
 Disorderly conduct and 
 depredations. A 1 1 
 parks. Penalty 719 
 
 Drunkenness at. Penalty 640 
 Injuring or defacing 
 property. Penalty.... 715 
 Policemen. Powers in 
 
 police district 638 
 
 Reckless driving in. 
 Penalty 714 
 
 Rubbish and trash in 
 fountain. Penalty. 721, 722 
 See also Exposition Park. 
 Street parks. How estab- 
 lished 718 
 
 Trespassing. Injuring 
 shrubbery. Penalty.. 711 
 
422 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Section. 
 
 Parks and Squares — 
 
 General powers to es- 
 tablish and maintain. 
 Charter 22 
 
 Passengers — 
 
 Street cars. Refusing 
 assignments of seats. 
 
 Penalty 790 
 
 Street cars. Separate 
 seats for white and 
 colored. Violation. 
 Penalty 789 
 
 Paupers — 
 
 Burial of. Appropria- 
 tions for year, 1913.. 257 
 General powers of May- 
 or and Aldermen. 
 
 Charter 22 
 
 Pavements — 
 
 Also see streets. 
 
 Tearing up for laying 
 pipes. Regulations. 
 Penalty 706 
 
 Paved Streets — 
 
 Hauling heavy material 
 on. Penalty 680 
 
 Tearing up. Penalty... 705 
 Paving — 
 
 Assessments for equaliz- 
 ed. Limit of amount. 
 
 Charter 27 
 
 Assessments. Lien on 
 Property. How en- 
 forced. Charter 28 
 
 Section. 
 
 Paving — (Con.) 
 
 Assessments. Property 
 sold for. Deeds. Char- 
 
 ter 29 
 
 Assessments. When due 579 
 Railroads. Assessments 
 against. Power of city. 
 
 Charter 26 
 
 Resolutions. Not repeal- 
 ed by this Code 806 
 
 Sidewalks. Assessments 
 
 and executions 576 
 
 Sidewalks. Assessments. 
 
 When due 579 
 
 Sidewalks. Bids and 
 
 contracts for 575 
 
 Sidewalks. Done by 
 
 city or contract 574 
 
 Sidewalks. Duty of Sup- 
 erintendent of Public 
 
 Works 574 
 
 Sidewalks. Power of 
 
 Mayor and Aldermen. 
 Assessments. Charter 
 
 24-26 
 
 Paving and Curbing — 
 
 Chapter 58. 
 
 Sidewalks. By owners. 
 When 578 
 
 Peddlers and Itinerant 
 Traders — 
 
 General powers of city 
 
 over. Charter 23 
 
 Peddlers — 
 
 Of meats. Other than 
 stall renters. Meats 
 inspected 459 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 423 
 
 Section. 
 
 Peddlers — (Con.) 
 
 Of meats. Other than 
 stall renters. License. 458 
 Of vegetables, meats, 
 etc. Power of city to 
 
 regulate. Charter 47 
 
 Of vegetables, produce 
 and provisions. 
 
 License 455 
 
 Of produce and provis- 
 ions on streets. Reg- 
 ulations 453, 454 
 
 Protect meat from flies. 
 Penalty 739 
 
 Pellagra — 
 
 Also see contagious dis- 
 eases. 
 
 To be reported by phy- 
 sicians or others to 
 Health Officer 395 
 
 Pensions — 
 
 Firemen and policemen. 
 
 When. Charter 70-73 
 
 Policemen and firemen. 
 When. Charter 70-73 
 
 Perjury — 
 
 See false swearing. 
 
 Permits — 
 
 Also see burial permits. 
 Building. Application 
 
 for 259 
 
 Building. Failure to ob- 
 tain. Penalty 769 
 
 Building. Form of 259 
 
 Building. General In- 
 spector grants 259 
 
 Section. 
 
 Permits — (Con.) 
 
 Building. General In- 
 spector records 259 
 
 Building. In fire limits. 259 
 Cars and locomotives. 
 
 To cross bridges 746 
 
 Doorways. Through 
 
 party walls 300 
 
 Electrical work. Appli- 
 cation to General In- 
 spector 276 
 
 Electrical works. In 
 
 Buildings 276 
 
 Erect buildings. May be 
 refused by General In- 
 spector 361 
 
 Locomotives and cars. 
 
 To cross bridges 744 
 
 Milk. To sell. Copy 
 Milk Ordinance fur- 
 nished with 501 
 
 Milk and cream. To sell 465 
 Milk and cream. To sell. 
 
 Applications for.. 466, 467 
 Plumbing work. Appli- 
 cations for 514 
 
 Repair buildings. Fail- 
 ure to obtain. Pen- 
 alty 769 
 
 Repair of roofs 373 
 
 Repairing fences, walls, 
 or copings in ceme- 
 teries. Duty of Super- 
 intendent of Public 
 
 Works 595 
 
 Sewer connections. Ap- 
 plications 555 
 
424 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Section, j 
 
 Permits — (Con.) 
 
 Sewer connections. 
 Granted by Superin- 
 tendent of Public 
 
 Works 
 
 555 
 
 Signs over sidewalks. 
 
 
 Regulations. Penalty. 
 
 708 
 
 Storage of explosive oils. 
 
 
 Applications for 
 
 376 
 
 Pest House — 
 
 
 Escaping from. Penalty 
 
 726 1 
 
 Physician — 
 
 
 Also see City Physician. 
 
 
 Physicians — 
 
 
 Births and deaths re- 
 
 
 ported to Registrar of 
 
 
 Vital Statistics. .. .197, 
 
 198 
 
 Notify Health Officer. 
 
 
 Contagious diseases. . 
 
 395 
 
 Pits. — Sinks. — Privies — 
 
 
 Regulations and restric- 
 
 
 tions. To be kept 
 
 
 clean. Penalty 
 
 729 
 
 Planting Trees — 
 
 
 In streets. Regulations. 
 
 571 
 
 Plumbers — 
 
 
 License 
 
 509 
 
 License. Revoked. 
 
 
 When 
 
 568 
 
 Must be competent. 
 
 
 License 
 
 513 
 
 Air and vent pipes.. 533, 
 
 534 
 
 Cast iron pipes 
 
 540 
 
 Connections with sew- 
 
 
 Section. 
 
 Plumbers — (Con.) 
 
 Connections with sew- 
 ers 517 
 
 Construction rules and 
 
 regulations 507-548 
 
 Defined 510 
 
 Exhaust pipes . . . 539 
 
 Flush tanks 535-537 
 
 Houses separately con- 
 nected. Regulations. 521 
 
 Joists 541 
 
 Lead pipes and con- 
 nections 542, 543 
 
 Material. Quality. Work- 
 manship 544 
 
 Plans of. Filed with 
 General Inspector. . . . 523 
 Pipe from buildings. 
 Grades 529 
 
 . Regulations. Chapter 50. 
 
 Plumbing Regulations — 
 
 Power of Committee on 
 Streets and Sewers... 547 
 
 Violation. Penalty 546 
 
 Violation of. Penalty... 511 
 Violation of. Penalty.. 515 
 Soil and waste pipes 527, 528 
 Tested and approved. 
 
 General Inspector .525, 526 
 Traps to be ventilated. . . 532 
 Waste pipes in refrig- 
 erators 538 
 
 Plumbing — 
 
 Waste pipes and traps 
 
 530, 531 
 535-537 
 
 ers 
 
 507 
 
 Water closets 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 425 
 
 Section. 
 
 Section. 
 
 Poles — 
 
 
 Police — (Con.) 
 
 
 In streets. Kept in re- 
 
 
 Ex-officio constables of 
 
 
 pair. Penalty 
 
 689 
 
 county. Charter 
 
 46 
 
 In streets. Marked. How. 
 
 
 Failure to make affi- 
 
 
 Penalty 
 
 690 
 
 davit forwarrant. Pen- 
 
 
 In streets. Painted. Pen- 
 
 
 alty. Charter 
 
 46 
 
 alty 
 
 689 
 
 Gambling houses raided 
 
 
 
 
 by. Charter 
 
 46 
 
 Pole Wire Lines — 
 
 
 Impersonating. Penalty 641 
 
 Construction. Regula- 
 
 
 Pensions for. Charter. 70-73 
 
 tion. Penalty 
 
 691 
 
 Powers and duties to ar- 
 
 
 
 
 rest. Charter 
 
 46 
 
 Police — 
 
 
 Powers at parks 
 
 651 
 
 Also see Chief of Police. 
 
 
 Report to Mayor viola- 
 
 
 Accumulation combus- 
 
 
 tions of state laws. 
 
 
 tible material. Cellars 
 
 
 Charter 
 
 46 
 
 and yards. Duty as to. 
 
 
 Subject to call of Sheriff. 
 
 
 Penalty 
 
 754 
 
 Charter 
 
 46 
 
 Appropriations for year 
 
 
 Police Commission — 
 
 
 1913 
 
 257 
 
 Chairman. Election and 
 
 
 City may have in police 
 
 
 powers. Charter 
 
 14 
 
 district out of city. 
 
 
 Created. Charter 
 
 14 
 
 Charter 
 
 6 
 
 Elect Chief of Police. 
 
 
 Inspect buildings for 
 
 
 Charter 
 
 13 
 
 ashes and wooden ves- 
 
 
 Election and number of 
 
 
 sels 
 
 393 
 
 Commissioners. Char- 
 
 
 Inspect saloons 
 
 253 
 
 ter 
 
 14 
 
 Keep sidewalks open. 
 
 
 Powers and duties of. 
 
 
 Failure to obey orders 
 
 
 Charter 
 
 14 
 
 of. Penalty 
 
 567 
 
 Powers over police force. 
 
 
 Licenses and special 
 
 
 Charter 
 
 14 
 
 taxes. Duty as to. . . . 
 
 245 
 
 Qualifications and terms 
 
 
 Special reports to Health 
 
 
 of. Charter 
 
 14 
 
 Officer 
 
 141 
 
 Police District — 
 
 
 Duty as to crimes and 
 
 
 Chapter 71. 
 
 
 suspected places. Char- 
 
 
 City may establish police 
 
 
 ter 
 
 46 
 
 system in. Charter.. 
 
 6 
 
 ( 28 ) 
 
426 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Section. 
 
 Police District — (Con.) 
 
 Fines collected from. 
 
 Charter 5 
 
 Limits defined 651 
 
 No part of city proper. 
 
 Charter 7 
 
 Out of city. City juris- 
 diction over. Charter 4 
 Out of city. Recorder’s 
 jurisdiction over. 
 
 Charter 5 
 
 Power of city over 651 
 
 Three miles beyond 
 limits. Charter 3 
 
 Police Force — 
 
 Mayor and Aldermen fix 
 number of. Charter. 14 
 Power of Commission 
 over. May remove. 
 Charter 14 
 
 Police Whistle — 
 
 Echo whistle adopted. . . 642 
 Imitating. Penalty 642 
 
 Political Meeting — 
 
 Notice to be given May- 
 or. Penalty 799 
 
 Polls— 
 
 Opening and closing at 
 elections. Regulations 214 
 
 Polling Places — 
 
 Mayor and Aldermen fix 
 time for opening and 
 
 closing. Charter 18 
 
 Separate for negroes and 
 whites. Charter 18 
 
 Section. 
 
 Pool Rooms — 
 
 Minors forbidden in. 
 Penalty \ 646 
 
 Port Dues 182 
 
 Port Wardens — 
 
 Duties 178 
 
 Fees of 180 
 
 Oath of 179 
 
 Powers of 179 
 
 Powers over wharf 181 
 
 Records kept by 179 
 
 Wharf. Number and 
 election of 177 
 
 Posting Bills — 
 
 On property. In city. 
 Penalty 786 
 
 Pound — 
 
 See impounding. 
 
 Powder Magazine — 
 
 See magazine. 
 
 Powder — 
 
 Quantity kept by deal- 
 ers. Regulated 388 
 
 Storage rates 391 
 
 Storage regulations 387 
 
 Powers — 
 
 General. Under charter. 
 Charter 1 
 
 Power Companies — 
 
 Service wires in build- 
 ings. Not connected 
 without Inspector’s 
 certificate 277 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 427 
 
 Section. 
 
 Poultry — 
 
 See dressed poultry. 
 
 Precincts — 
 
 See elections. 
 
 Premises — 
 
 Stagnant water and gar- 
 bage on. Penalty 730-734 
 
 Printing and Advertising — 
 Appropriations for year 
 
 1913 257 
 
 Prisoners — 
 
 General powers to care 
 for. Charter 22 
 
 Private Property — 
 
 Public regulations. Chap- 
 ter 63. 
 
 Privies — 
 
 Forbidden certain dis- 
 tricts. Regulations. 
 
 Penalty 736 
 
 Sinks. Pits. Kept clean. 
 Regulations and re- 
 strictions. Penalty... 729 
 
 Process — 
 
 Obstructing legal 639 
 
 Process and Orders — 
 
 City Marshal to serve. . . 98 
 
 Produce- 
 
 Farmers may sell to 
 
 dealers. When 464 
 
 Peddlers of. License... 455 
 Peddling on streets. 
 
 Regulated 453, 454 
 
 Sold by truck farmers. . 457 
 
 Section. 
 
 Profane Language — 
 
 Over telephone. Pen- 
 alty 663 
 
 Property — 
 
 Injuring or defacing. 
 
 Penalty 777 
 
 Private. Public regula- 
 tions. Chapter 63. 
 
 Protection from Flies — 
 (Criminal Code.) Chap- 
 ter 74. 
 
 Provisions — 
 
 Peddlers of. License... 455 
 
 Public Buildings — 
 
 General power of city to 
 erect. Charter 22 
 
 Public Debt — 
 
 Also see bonds and debt. 
 Elections to incur. Pow- 
 
 er. Charter 73 
 
 Increase of by bonds. 
 
 Charter 73 
 
 Limitation of. Charter. 73 
 
 i 
 
 Limitation of bond is- 
 sues. Charter 73 
 
 Ordinances increasing 
 
 not repealed 807 
 
 Tax rate limited. Char- 
 ter 73 
 
 Public Halls— 
 
 In fire limits. Building 
 regulations 272 
 
428 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Section. 
 
 Public Health — 
 
 Also see contagious dis- 
 eases. 
 
 Also see nuisances. 
 
 Contagious diseases. Pro- 
 tection of against. 
 Chapter 41. 
 
 (Criminal Code.) Chap- 
 ter 73. 
 
 Mayor and Aldermen. 
 Power to condemn 
 food stuffs. Charter. 47 
 
 Nuisances. Stagnant 
 water. Garbage on 
 premises. Penalty 730, 731 
 
 Public Indecency — 
 
 Penalty 650 
 
 Public Library — 
 
 Chapter 62. 
 
 Annual appropriation. 
 
 Support of 598 
 
 Donation Andrew Car- 
 negie accepted 598 
 
 Public Meeting — 
 
 Notice to be given May- 
 or. Penalty 799 
 
 Public Property — 
 
 Defacing or injuring. 
 Penalty 777 
 
 Public Safety — 
 
 (Criminal Code.) Chap- 
 ter 75. 
 
 Public Schools — 
 
 Also see Board of Educa- 
 tion. 
 
 Section. 
 
 Public Schools — (Con.) 
 
 Also see schools. 
 
 Appropriations for 601 
 
 Board of Trustees 608 
 
 Board of Trustees. Al- 
 dermen ineligible. . . . 195 
 Board of Trustees. Num- 
 ber. Qualifications. 
 
 Term. Elections 195 
 
 Board of Trustees. City 
 Treasurer is treasurer 
 
 of 94 
 
 Board of Trustees. Pow- 
 ers and duties. Char- 
 ter 49 
 
 Board of Trustees. Re- 
 ports to Council 600 
 
 Board of Trustees. Va- 
 cancies declared. How 602 
 
 Buildings fumigated. 
 Contagious diseases. Ex- 
 clusion of pupils 403 
 
 Contagious diseases. 
 Time of admission of 
 students after recovery 403 
 
 Disturbing. Penalty... 781 
 Fund for. Paid over to 
 
 city. Charter 49 
 
 General regulations. 
 
 Charter 49 
 
 Mayor Ex-officio mem- 
 ber Board of Trus- 
 tees 194 
 
 Power of Mayor and Al- 
 dermen as to. Char- 
 ter 49 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 429 
 
 Section. 
 
 Public Schools — (Con.) 
 
 Tax for. Poll and prop- 
 erty may be levied. 
 
 Charter 49 
 
 Taxation to maintain. 
 
 Charter 49 
 
 Trustees of. To make 
 reports to Council. 
 Charter 49 
 
 Vacancies in Board of 
 Trustees. How filled. 195 
 Whites and colored sep- 
 
 arate. Charter 49 
 
 Public School Fund — 
 
 Paid over to city. Char- 
 ter 49 
 
 Public School Trustees — 
 
 To make reports to 
 Council. Charter. ... 49 
 
 Public Works — 
 
 Also see Superintendent 
 of Public Works. 
 
 City may condemn prop- 
 erty for. Regulations. 
 Charter 51 
 
 Pure Food Regulations — 
 
 Also see cream. 
 
 Also see food products. 
 
 Also see milk. 
 
 Adulterated milk and 
 
 cream 495, 496 
 
 Clerk of market to con- 
 demn and destroy im- 
 pure meats. When 
 and how 459 
 
 Section. 
 
 Pure Food Reg. — (Con.) 
 
 Cold storage eggs. 
 
 Pen- 
 
 alty 
 
 770 
 
 Delivery wagons screen- 
 
 ed from flies. . . . 
 
 506 
 
 Dressed poultry. 
 
 Pen- 
 
 alty 
 
 771 
 
 Duties of Sanitary In- 
 
 spector 
 
 .171, 172 
 
 Foods protected 
 
 from 
 
 flies 
 
 . .502-506 
 
 Hogs for slaughter to be 
 
 stall fed. When 
 
 434 
 
 Meats condemned 
 
 and 
 
 destroyed. When. 
 
 .434, 435 
 
 Power of Mayor and Al- 
 dermen as to. Charter 47 
 
 Selling tainted fish and 
 vegetables and meats. 
 
 Penalty 753 
 
 Violation of. Penalty. . 437 
 
 Q. 
 
 Quarantine — 
 
 Chapter 42. 
 
 Against other places. 
 
 Mayor may establish. 406 
 Contagious diseases. 
 
 Health Officer’s duty. . 396 
 Contagious diseases 
 
 passed. When 402 
 
 Contagious diseases. Re- 
 lease of patients 401 
 
 County. Mayor and 
 Council may establish 
 
 in. Powers 42 
 
 Enforcement of 406-409 
 
430 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Section. 
 
 Quarantine — (Con.) 
 
 Established by Mayor. 
 
 How 406 
 
 General powers over. 
 
 Charter 22 
 
 House. Warning cards. 
 
 Regulations 397 
 
 Limits. Mayor and Hos- 
 pital Committee fix. . . 411 
 Limits. Publication of. 411 
 Modifications by Health 
 
 ■ Officer 398 
 
 Patients escaping from 
 pest house. Penalty. . 726 
 Persons violating. Pen- 
 alty 407-410 
 
 Rules of 398 
 
 Quarry — 
 
 See rock quarry. 
 
 Quorum — 
 
 See Council. 
 
 R. 
 
 Railroad Cars — 
 
 Standing on streets. Reg- 
 ulations. Penalty 695 
 
 Railroad Companies — 
 
 Chapter 65. 
 
 Rights to streets and 
 commons lands. . . .611-616 
 See also Columbus Rail- 
 road Company. 
 
 See also Mobile and Gir- 
 ard Railroad Com- 
 pany. 
 
 Section. 
 
 Railroad Companies — (Con.) 
 See also North High- 
 lands Railroad Com- 
 pany. 
 
 Tracks in streets. 
 
 Railroad Crossings — 
 
 Chapter 54. 
 
 Cars standing on. Reg- 
 ulations. Penalty.... 695 
 Construction and main- 
 tenance 560 
 
 Construction. Duty of 
 Superintendent of Pub- 
 lic Works 560 
 
 Construction regulations 
 as failure to construct. 
 
 Penalty 560 
 
 Flagman station at 13th 
 
 Street. Penalty 559 
 
 Sidewalks and cross- 
 walks 560 
 
 Trains and cars ob- 
 structing. Penalty... 696 
 Railroad Stocks — 
 
 Sale of by city 620-626 
 
 Railroads — 
 
 Assessed for paving and 
 street improvement. 
 
 Charter 26 
 
 Obstructing street car 
 
 tracks forbidden 618 
 
 Paving assessments 
 against. How enforced 26 
 See also railroad cross- 
 ings. 
 
 Tracks. In streets. Reg- 
 ulations 611 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 431 
 
 Section. 
 
 Railroads — (Con.) 
 
 Tracks moved for street 
 work. City’s powers. 
 
 Charter 34 
 
 Trestles. Crossing. Pen- 
 alty 753, 754 
 
 Rates — 
 
 Fixed for hacks. Viola- 
 tions. Penalty 788 
 
 Receiver of Taxes — 
 
 Marshal is. 
 
 See City Marshal. 
 
 See Tax Returns. 
 
 Reckless Driving — 
 
 In parks. Penalty 714 
 
 On streets. Penalty 763 
 
 Riding. Bicycles. Pen- 
 alty 760 
 
 Recorder — 
 
 Chapter 10. 
 
 Jurisdiction over police 
 district out of city. 
 
 Charter 4 
 
 May be removed. Char- 
 ter 44 
 
 Office created, election, 
 term and salary of . . . 119 
 
 Qualifications and term 
 of Charter 44 
 
 Recorder’s Court — 
 
 Chapter 70. 
 
 Abatement of nuisances 
 
 732, 733 
 
 Bond forfeitures 637 
 
 Clerk of 632 
 
 Section. 
 
 Recorder’s Court — (Con.) 
 
 Clerk’s duties 633 
 
 Costs paid into Treasury 635 
 Form of commitments 
 to state courts. Char- 
 ter 46 
 
 Judgments enforced. 
 
 Charter 44 
 
 Jurisdiction and powers. 
 
 Charter 44 
 
 Offenders bound over to 
 state courts. Charter. 46 
 Power of Mayor and Al- 
 dermen to establish. 
 
 Charter 44 
 
 Power to punish for con- 
 tempt 636 
 
 State offenses. Defend- 
 ants bound over 634 
 
 Terms and powers of . . . 631 
 Register — 
 
 Voters entitled to. Char- 
 
 ter 16 
 
 Registered Lists — 
 
 Clerk to furnish to man- 
 agers. Charter 17 
 
 Registrar of Vital Statis- 
 tics — 
 
 Clerk of Council is 196 
 
 To keep records 200 
 
 To keep records of births 
 
 and deaths 198 
 
 Registration Books — 
 
 To be kept open by 
 Clerk. When and 
 how. Charter 16 
 
432 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Section. 
 
 Registration of City 
 Bonds — 
 
 Treasurer’s duty 230(a) 
 
 Registration of Voters — 
 
 Power of city to require. 
 
 Charter 10 
 
 Rules governing 221 
 
 Registration — 
 
 Special for bond elec- 
 tions. Charter 16 
 
 Repairs — 
 
 Sidewalks. Paving and 
 curbing. Assessments 577 
 
 Resisting Officer — 
 
 Penalty 639 
 
 Restaurants — 
 
 Screened against flies... 502 
 
 Rewards — 
 
 See Mayor. 
 
 Riding- — 
 
 Bicycles on certain side- 
 walks. Penalty 758 
 
 Bicycles without bells 
 or horns and lights. 
 
 Penalty 760 
 
 Mortorcycles on side- 
 walks. Penalty 756 
 
 River — 
 
 Bathing in. Regulations 661 
 
 See also boats. 
 
 Rock Quarry — 
 
 Chapter 61. 
 
 Rules governing 597 
 
 Supervisor. Power and 
 duty 597 
 
 Section. 
 
 Roofs — 
 
 Of all buildings in cer- 
 tain districts in city. 
 
 Specifications 371 
 
 Permits for repairs 373 
 
 Rafters and sheathing. . 374 
 
 Repairs of in city 372 
 
 Running wires in with- 
 out consent of. Pen- 
 alty 785 
 
 Rules of Council — 
 
 Chapter 77. 
 
 Rules of Council 801 
 
 Rules Governing Hack- 
 men — 
 
 Mayor may make. Pen- 
 alty 787 
 
 Rules of the Road — 
 
 See also bridges. 
 
 Violation. Penalty 693 
 
 S. 
 
 Salaries — 
 
 Appropriations for year 
 
 1913 257 
 
 General powers of May- 
 or and Aldermen over. 
 
 Charter 22 
 
 None on Board of 
 
 Health 192 
 
 Not to be increased or 
 diminished during 
 
 term 81 
 
 Of officers and employ- 
 es. Mayor and Coun- 
 cil may fix. Charter. . 13 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 433 
 
 Section. 
 
 Section. 
 
 Salaries — (Con.) 
 
 
 Saloons — 
 
 
 Of officers elected by 
 
 
 Minors forbidden in. 
 
 
 Council 
 
 81 
 
 Penalty 
 
 655 
 
 Of officers not to be 
 
 
 No screens, partitions. 
 
 
 changed during terms. 
 
 
 obstructions in 
 
 252 
 
 Charter 
 
 13 
 
 Opening and closing 
 
 
 Of Tax Assessors 
 
 222 
 
 hours 
 
 252 
 
 General Inspector 
 
 128 
 
 See also near beer. 
 
 
 Health Officer 
 
 139 
 
 Subject to inspection by 
 
 
 Health Officer. Ceases 
 
 
 police 
 
 253 
 
 on discharge or sus- 
 
 
 Sunday regulations 
 
 254 
 
 pension 
 
 140 
 
 1 Women not allowed in. 
 
 
 Hospital keeper 
 
 144 
 
 Penalty 
 
 657 
 
 Mayor pro tem 
 
 78 
 
 
 
 Recorder 
 
 119 
 
 Sanitary Committee — 
 
 
 Sanitary Inspector 
 
 163 
 
 Determines appeals. 
 
 
 Street Overseer 
 
 137 
 
 Plumbing 
 
 512 
 
 Superintendent Public 
 
 
 Duty to inspect water 
 
 
 Works 
 
 121 
 
 closets 
 
 735 
 
 Superintendent Public 
 
 
 Sanitary Inspector — 
 
 
 Works suspended on 
 
 
 Chapter 18. 
 
 
 discharge 
 
 123 
 
 Costs incurred. Paid by 
 
 
 Sale— 
 
 
 property owners. 
 
 
 Of railroad stocks by 
 
 
 When 
 
 170 
 
 city 620-626 
 
 Duty as to drainage and 
 
 
 Also see execution sales. 
 
 
 stagnant water 
 
 413 
 
 Auction. In streets. Ar- 
 
 
 Duty as to meats, vege- 
 
 
 ticles removed. Regu- 
 
 
 tables and im p u r e 
 
 
 lations. Penalty. .675, 
 
 676 
 
 foods 
 
 171 
 
 Execution. Law govern- 
 
 
 General and special 
 
 
 ing. Charter 
 
 45 
 
 duties of 
 
 168 
 
 Of food stuffs, meats, 
 
 
 May enter private prop- 
 
 
 vegetables, etc. Power 
 
 
 erty. When 
 
 169 
 
 of city to regulate. 
 
 
 Monthly reports to May- 
 
 
 Charter 
 
 47 
 
 or and Council 
 
 175 
 
 See also execution sales. 
 
 
 Oath and bond of 
 
 164 
 
434 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Section. 
 
 Sanitary Inspector — (Con.) 
 Office created. Term and 
 
 salary of 163 
 
 Office established. Char- 
 ter 13 
 
 Office may be abolished. 167 
 
 Reports to Mayor 168 
 
 Reports to Mayor and 
 
 Board of Health 176 
 
 Salary ceases on suspen- 
 sion or discharge.... 166 
 Special report to Health 
 
 Officer 141 
 
 Suspended or discharg- 
 ed. When 165 
 
 To enforce sanitary 
 
 regulations 174 
 
 To fumigate infected 
 
 houses 402 
 
 To inspect old clothing. 
 
 Reports of 173 
 
 Under direction of May- 
 or and Board of Health 176 
 
 Sanitary Regulations — 
 
 Drainage of stagnant 
 
 water 413 
 
 Duty of Sanitary Inspec- 
 tor to enforce 174 
 
 Residents to keep prem- 
 ises clean. Penalty. . 190 
 See also Committee on 
 Sanitation. 
 
 Stagnant water and gar- 
 bage on premises. .730-734 
 Stagnant water on prem- 
 ises. Penalty 414 j 
 
 Section. 
 
 Sanitary Reg. — (Con.) 
 
 Street Committee. Pow- 
 ers over drainage 415 
 
 Sanitation — 
 
 Appropriations for year 
 1914 257 
 
 Scales — 
 
 See city scales. 
 
 Scarlet Fever — 
 
 Also see contagious dis- 
 eases. 
 
 Reported by physicians 
 or others to Health 
 
 Officer 395 
 
 Schools — 
 
 Appropriations for 601 
 
 Board of Trustees 599 
 
 City may aid. May 
 pledge credit. Char- 
 ter 1 
 
 Disturbing. Penalty 781 
 
 Management of. Char- 
 ter 49 
 
 See also public schools. 
 Screen Doors — 
 
 At market. Left open. 
 
 Penalty 738 
 
 Screens — 
 
 All food products en- 
 closed by 503 
 
 Selling- 
 
 Cold storage eggs. Reg- 
 ulations. Penalty 770 
 
 Tainted fish and meats 
 and other foods. Pen- 
 alty 740 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 435 
 
 Section. 
 
 Sewers and House Connec- 
 tions 5G8 
 
 Sewers — 
 
 Applications for permits 568 
 Appropriations for year 
 1913 257 
 
 Sewer Connections — 
 
 Expense of. Deposit... 568 
 
 Houses separate 521 
 
 Permits. Duty Superin- 
 tendent Public Works. 568 
 Plans. Materials. Pipes. 
 
 Regulations 568 
 
 Sewer — 
 
 Connections with 507 
 
 Connections with. Gen- 
 eral Inspector’s duties 517 
 
 Sewers — 
 
 Committee on. Power 
 over plumbing regula- 
 
 tions 547 
 
 Construction and regula- 
 tions. Charter 56 
 
 House connections. Per- 
 mits. Applications... 568 
 Injury and damage to.. 508 
 Injury and obstructions 568 
 Inspections and tests... 568 
 Old sewers relaid or re- 
 placed. Rules govern- 
 ing 518, 519 
 
 Opening in paved streets 569 
 Power of Mayor and Al- 
 dermen over. Char- 
 ter 
 
 Section. 
 
 Sewers — (Con.) 
 
 See also plumbing regu- 
 lations. 
 
 Size of pipes leading to 
 main. Regulations... 520 
 Tapping. Expense of. 
 
 Penalty 710 
 
 Tapping without per- 
 mission. Regulations. 
 Penalty 709 
 
 Sexton — 
 
 Of Riverdale cemetery. 
 Keeper of Exposition 
 
 Park 162 
 
 Sec also city sexton. 
 
 Sextons — 
 
 Burial permits to be 
 
 kept by 201 
 
 General duties 157 
 
 Have powers of police- 
 men 160 
 
 Pauper burials by 159 
 
 Receive part of lines. 
 
 Certain cases 161 
 
 Records to be kept by. . . 158 
 Reports of repairs and 
 work 157 
 
 Shade Trees — 
 
 See trees. 
 
 Sheds — 
 
 In lire limits 363 
 
 Over sidewalks. Specifi- 
 cations 368 
 
 Shops — 
 
 General power of city 
 over. Charter 
 
 22 
 
 23 
 
436 
 
 GENERAL INDEX, 
 
 Shows — 
 
 Wearing hats, 
 den 
 
 Section. 
 
 Forbid- 
 665 
 
 Shooting — 
 
 On streets. Regulations. 
 
 Penalty 723 
 
 See also discharging fire 
 arms. 
 
 Sidewalks. 
 
 Chapter 55. 
 
 And streets. 
 
 See also houses num- 
 bered. 
 
 Articles tending to soil 
 clothing transporting 
 
 over. Penalty 684 
 
 Bicycles on certain. Pen- 
 alty 758 
 
 Cellar doors. Regula- 
 tions . . . !, 561 
 
 Cellar doors, left open. 
 
 Penalty 766 
 
 Curb lines fixed by Sup- 
 erintendent Public 
 
 Works 572 
 
 Curbing assessments. 
 
 Executions 576 
 
 Foods on. Screened 503 
 
 Fruit parings, garbage, 
 litter on. Penalty.... 679 
 Gates on. Construction. 
 
 Penalty 704 
 
 Hauling slops over. Pen- 
 alty 685, 686 
 
 Lunch stands forbidden 687 
 
 Section. 
 
 Sidewalks — (Con.) 
 
 Motorcycles on. Forbid- 
 
 den 756 
 
 Obstructions of 562 
 
 Obstructing with goods, 
 boxes or otherwise 
 
 564, 565 
 
 Paving and curbing as- 
 
 sessments. Execu- 
 tions 576 
 
 Paving and curbing. 
 When due. Assess- 
 ments. Executions... 579 
 Paving. Bids and con- 
 tracts for 575 
 
 Paving. Duty of Super- 
 intendent of Pubilc 
 
 Works 574 
 
 Paving. Work done by 
 
 city or contract 574 
 
 Police shall keep open . . 567 
 
 Police to keep open. Re- 
 fusal to obey police 
 
 orders. Penalty 567 
 
 Porches, steps, encroach- 
 ments 562 
 
 Power of city to pave. 
 Owners expense. 
 
 Charter 24-26 
 
 Railroad crossings. Duty 
 Superintendent Public 
 
 Works 560 
 
 Repairs. Paving and 
 curbing. Assessments 577 
 Riding, driving, leading 
 animals on. Penalty.. 
 
 563-565 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 437 
 
 Section. 
 
 Sidewalks — (Con.) 
 
 See also streets and side- 
 walks. 
 
 Signs over. Regula- 
 tions. Penalty 708 
 
 Spitting or throwing 
 
 litter on 683 
 
 Width of. Regulations.. 570 
 
 Signals — 
 
 Disease. Moving. Pen- 
 alty 724 
 
 Disease. Refusing to al- 
 low placed. Penalty. 725 
 
 Signs — 
 
 Over sidewalks. Permits 
 to be obtained. Fail- 
 ure. Penalty 708 
 
 Over sidewalks. Regu- 
 lations 708 
 
 Warning of disease. 
 
 Moving. Penalty 724 
 
 Warning of disease. 
 Refusing to allow 
 
 placed. Penalty 725 
 
 Sinks — 
 
 Near streets or line lots. 
 Penalty 729 
 
 See privies. Surface 
 closets. 
 
 Certain districts forbid- 
 den 734 
 
 Skinning — 
 
 Diseased animals. Pen- 
 alty 669 
 
 Section. 
 
 Slaughter House — 
 
 Animals to be slaughter- 
 ed. Regulations. . .432-437 
 Examinations of meats. 429 
 Impure meats condemn- 
 ed and destroyed 434, 435 
 Laws not applicable to 
 farmers. When 425 
 
 Owners. Fees of... 423, 424 
 Regulations. Penalty. . . 437 
 Sanitary regulations.... 422 
 Specifications for 418 
 
 Sleeping — 
 
 On streets or steps. Pen- 
 alty 653 
 
 Sling Shots — 
 
 Penalty for using 652 
 
 Smallpox — 
 
 Duty of City Physician 
 
 as to 113 
 
 Power of Mayor and Al- 
 dermen as to regula- 
 tions. Charter 42 
 
 See also contagious dis- 
 eases. 
 
 See also vaccination. 
 
 To be reported by physi- 
 cians or others to 
 Health Officer 395 
 
 Soliciting Votes — 
 
 Ry officers and em- 
 ployees. Penalty.... 220 
 
 Southern Bell Telephone 
 Company — 
 
 Franchise 604-610 
 
438 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Section. 
 
 Speakings — 
 
 Public. Notice to be given 
 Mayor 799 
 
 Special Taxes — 
 
 Amount may be pro- 
 rated. When 248 
 
 See licenses. 
 
 Who are liable 239 
 
 Who are liable. List of 
 
 for 1913 240 
 
 Automobiles and similar 
 vehicles. Penalty.... 753 
 Bicycles. Regulations. 
 
 Penalty 761 
 
 Driving. Near market. 
 
 Penalty 764 
 
 Driving. Regulations. 
 
 Penalty 763 
 
 Spitting — 
 
 On sidewalks. Penalty. 
 
 Or throwing litter, or 
 in cars, depots. Public 
 places 685 
 
 Sprinkling and Sweep- 
 ing- 
 
 Appropriations 1913 257 
 
 Stables — 
 
 To be protected from 
 
 flies 505 
 
 See also dairies. 
 
 Stagnant Water — 
 
 Drainage of lots. Duty 
 
 Street Committee 413 
 
 Drained from lots. Own- 
 ers pay for. How en- 
 forced 413-416 
 
 Section. 
 
 Stagnant Water — (Con.) 
 
 On premises. Penalty.. 
 
 730-734-414 
 
 Street Committee’s pow- 
 ers 415 
 
 Standing Committees 84 
 
 Matters referred to and 
 
 reports 86 
 
 Mayor Ex-officio mem- 
 ber 88 
 
 Number and changes 
 
 in 85 
 
 Special powers. Repairs 87 
 
 Standing Water — 
 
 Penalty 730-734 
 
 Stationery — 
 
 i Appropriation 1913 257 
 
 | Statistics — 
 
 Births. Deaths reported 
 by physicians and 
 others to Registrar of 
 
 Vital Statistics 197, 198 
 
 See Bureau Vital Statis- 
 
 tics. 
 
 See Registrar Vital Sta- 
 tistics. 
 
 Subject matters for 197 
 
 Stealing Rides — 
 
 Trains or street cars. 
 Penalty 794 
 
 Steamboats — 
 
 Regulations. Charter.. 23 
 
 Stockade — 
 
 See city stockade. 
 
GENERAL INDEX 
 
 439 
 
 Section. 
 
 Stock in Banks — 
 
 See bank stock. 
 
 Stocks — 
 
 Sale of Railroad by city 
 
 616-622 
 
 Stock Yards — 
 
 Cattle. Hogs. For sale 
 
 to be put in 417 
 
 Cattle. Hogs. Fees. 
 Regulations. Penalty 
 
 772-417 
 
 Failure to put animals 
 in. Penalty 417 
 
 Storage- 
 
 Explosive oils. Regula- 
 tions. Penalty 742 
 
 Fire works in magazine. 
 
 Rates 744 
 
 Fire works. Unlawful. 
 
 Penalty 744 
 
 Liquors for illegal sale. 
 Penalty 654 
 
 Stores — 
 
 General powers of city 
 
 over. Charter 23 
 
 See also buildings. 
 
 Street Car Conductors and 
 Motormen — 
 
 Police powers of 619 
 
 Police powers in police 
 
 district 638 
 
 Passengers. Refusing as- 
 signment of seats. Pen- 
 alty 790 
 
 Section. 
 
 Street Cars — 
 
 Separate seats for white 
 and colored. Viola- 
 tion. Penalty 789 
 
 Stealing rides on. Pen- 
 alty 793 
 
 Transfers. Unlawful use 
 of. Penalty 792 
 
 Street Committee — 
 
 Directs work in ceme- 
 teries. When 596 
 
 May enforce drainage of 
 
 lots 415 
 
 See also Committee on 
 Streets. 
 
 To superintend street 
 and sidewalk improve- 
 
 ments. Charter 30 
 
 Street Overseer — 
 
 Chapter 13. 
 
 General and special 
 
 duties 138 
 
 Office created. Subject 
 
 to discharge 136 
 
 Salary 137 
 
 Street Railroads — 
 
 See also Columbus Rail- 
 road Company. 
 
 Crossings. Pavings. As- 
 sessments. Railroads. 
 
 Tracks in streets 611 
 
 Tracks. Regulations... 612 
 
 Streets — 
 
 Act dedicating street to 
 churches. First Bap- 
 tist and St. Luke 581 
 
440 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Section. 
 
 Streets — (Con.) 
 
 Act vesting title. Elev- 
 enth Street (portion) 
 
 in city 580 
 
 Animals not to run at 
 large. Penalty. Char- 
 ter 48 
 
 Appropriations for 1913. 257 
 Ashes and refuse matter 
 in. Regulations. Pen- 
 alty 681 
 
 Ashes. Rubbish or gar- 
 bage in. Regulations. 
 
 Penalty 187 
 
 Auction sales in. Regula- 
 
 tions. Removal 
 
 of 
 
 
 goods. Penalty.. 
 
 .675, 
 
 676 
 
 Bicycles. Reckless 
 
 rid- 
 
 
 ing. Penalty. . . . 
 Breaking colts on. 
 
 Pen- 
 
 761 
 
 alty 
 
 
 767 
 
 Building material. Rub- 
 bish on. Regulations. 
 
 Penalty 677 
 
 Car tracks. Hydrants. 
 Poles. Removed for 
 street work. Power. 
 
 Charter 34 
 
 Changes in parks and 
 driveways ratified. 
 
 Charter 35 
 
 Chickens and fowls in 
 certain sections. Pen- 
 alty 737 
 
 China, mulberry, syca- 
 more trees. Forbid- 
 den. Penalty 692 
 
 Section. 
 
 Streets — (Con.) 
 
 Discharging fire arms 
 and fire works. Regu- 
 lations. Penalty 723 
 
 Driving on. Rules. Regu- 
 lations. Penalty 693 
 
 Drunkenness on. Pen- 
 
 alty 640 
 
 Excavations in. Penalty 765 
 Fast driving near mar- 
 ket. Penalty 764 
 
 Feeding stock in. Reg- 
 ulations 678 
 
 Fire Department has 
 right of way. Penalty 694 
 Flagman to be placed 
 at crossing Thirteenth 559 
 
 Furniture and merchan- 
 
 dise on. Penalty 702 
 
 Gas and water pipes 
 
 laid. How 627 
 
 General powers of city 
 
 over. Charter 22 
 
 Hitching to trees’ and 
 lampposts. Penalty.. 698 
 Lights. Injuring. Pen- 
 alty 775 
 
 Loitering. Penalty 653 
 
 Loose stock on. Pen- 
 alty 671-674 
 
 Lunch stands forbidden. 
 
 Penalty 687 
 
 Names and numbers. 
 
 City Engineers. Duties 
 
 as to 554 
 
 Names and numbers. 
 Rose Hill annex 556 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 441 
 
 Section. 
 
 Section. 
 
 Streets — (Con.) 
 
 Streets — (Con.) 
 
 Names changed 553-557 
 
 Not to be closed. Char- 
 ter 1 
 
 Numbered 554 
 
 Obstructing with boxes, 
 
 etc. Penalty 703 
 
 Obstructions. Danger 
 signals on. Failure. 
 
 Penalty 707 
 
 Paved. Hauling heavy 
 
 loads. Penalty 680 
 
 Paved. Openings in. Reg- 
 ulations 569 
 
 Pavement. Tearing up 
 or injuring. Penalty. 705 
 Pavement. Tearing up 
 for laying pipes. Reg- 
 ulations. Penalty.... 706 
 Paving assessments. 
 
 When due 579 
 
 Paving assessments. 
 Power of city. Char- 
 ter 26 
 
 Peddling produce and 
 provisions. Regula- 
 tions 453, 454 
 
 Poles in. Out of repair. 
 
 Penalty 689 
 
 Poles in. To be mark- 
 ed. Penalty 690 
 
 Power of city over and 
 obstructions and side- 
 walks. Charter. . . .1-24-26 
 Power of city to change 
 and alter Charter. 31-34 
 
 Power of city over side- 
 walks. Charter 24-26 
 
 Railroad cars standing 
 
 on. Penalty 695 
 
 Reckless driving on. 
 
 Penalty 763 
 
 Riding bicycle on with- 
 out horn or bell and 
 
 lights. Penalty 760 
 
 See also streets and side- 
 walks. 
 
 See also railroads. 
 
 Surface closets or sinks 
 
 near. Penalty 729 
 
 Telephone and other 
 poles to be painted. 
 
 Penalty 689 
 
 ! Tax 235 
 
 Trash and rubbish on. 
 
 Hours. Penalty 689 
 
 Tree planting in 571 
 
 Vehicles. Horses. Live 
 stock for sale on. Pen- 
 alty 700 
 
 Vehicles left in at night 
 and Sundays. Penalty 701 
 Work on in lieu of street 
 tax 235 
 
 Street Tax — 
 
 See taxes. 
 
 Streets and Sewers — 
 
 Committee. Power over 
 plumbing. Regula- 
 tions 547 
 
 (29) 
 
442 
 
 GENERAL INDEX, 
 
 Section. 
 
 Streets and Sidewalks — 
 Assessments for repairs. 
 City’s powers. Char- 
 ter 37 
 
 City may grade. Char- 
 ter 36 
 
 Improvements. Superin- 
 tendent Public Works. 
 
 Duties. Charter 30 
 
 Lien for assessments. 
 
 Date of. Charter.. 38, 39 
 Lien for improvements 
 and repairs. How en- 
 forced. Charter 40 
 
 Numbering houses. 
 Chapter 51. 
 
 Paving assessments. 
 Deeds to property sold 
 
 for. Charter 29 
 
 Paving assessments 
 equalized. Limit. Char- 
 ter 27 
 
 Paving assessments. 
 Lien. Enforcement. 
 
 Charter 28 
 
 Superintendent Public 
 Works — 
 
 Chapter 11. 
 
 Approves sewer connec- 
 
 tions. Penalty 568 
 
 Duty as to gas and water 
 
 pipes 627 
 
 Duty as to laborers in 
 City’s employ 125 
 
 Duty as to work and re- 
 pairs in cemetery 595 
 
 Section. 
 
 Supt. Public Works — (Con.) 
 Duty as to railroads. . . . 560 
 Duty as to paving, etc. 
 
 Charter 23-30 
 
 Entire time required. . . 125 
 General duties and pow- 
 ers 124 
 
 General duties as to sew- 
 ers 568 
 
 May be discharged or 
 suspended for cause.. 122 
 
 Oath of 121 
 
 Office created. Term. 
 
 Election of 120 
 
 Office established. Char- 
 ter 13 
 
 Reports to Council 126 
 
 Salary and expense of.. 121 
 Salary suspended on dis- 
 charge 123 
 
 To fix grade and curb 
 lines for pavements. 
 
 When 572 
 
 Under direction Council 
 and Street Committee. 126 
 
 Supervisor of Rock 
 Quarry — 
 
 Duties and powers 597 
 
 To report accidents to 
 Superintendent Public 
 Works 597 
 
 Sunday — 
 
 Barber shops not to 
 open. Penalty 798 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 443 
 
 Section. 
 
 Sunday — (Con.) 
 
 Vehicles left in streets. 
 
 Penalty 701 
 
 Saloons not to open 254 
 
 Surface Closets — 
 
 Forbidden certain dis- 
 tricts. Regulations. 
 Penalty 736 
 
 T. 
 
 Tampering — 
 
 With fire apparatus, hy- 
 drants, etc. Penalty. 776 
 Tapping Sewers — 
 
 Expense of. Failure to 
 
 pay. Penalty 710 
 
 Without permission. Pen- 
 alty 709 
 
 Tax Assessors — 
 
 Appeals from assess- 
 ments 223 
 
 Elections. Terms. Com- 
 pensation 222 
 
 Marshal Ex-officio mem- 
 ber 96 
 
 Oath of 223 
 
 See also assessors. 
 
 Tax Digest — 
 
 Made up and returned 
 by Assessors. When 
 
 and how 224 
 
 Tax Defaulters — 
 
 See taxes. Defaulters. 
 Taxes — 
 
 Advalorem 1913 232 
 
 Advalorem. Rate of. 
 Limited. Charter. ... 73 
 
 Section. 
 
 Taxes — (Con.) 
 
 Assessed. How 222 
 
 Assessments. Reduced. 
 
 Petitions for 228 
 
 Bank stock. Rate and 
 
 return of 234 
 
 Books closed. Marshal’s 
 
 duties 225 
 
 Books delivered to Treas- 
 urer. When 236 
 
 Books. Marshal delivers 
 to Council. When... 236 
 Books. Open and close. 
 
 When 224 
 
 Collected by Treasurer. 92 
 Building and Loan Asso- 
 ciations. Rate and 
 
 returns 234 
 
 Commutation for streets 235 
 Defaulters. Executions 
 against. Charter. . . .22, 23 
 Defaulters. Failure to 
 
 return. Penalty 233 
 
 Defaulters. List fur- 
 nished Council by 
 
 Marshal 225 
 
 Defaulters. List kept by 
 
 Treasurer 225 
 
 Defaulters. Pay interest 238 
 Defaulters. Treasurer re- 
 ports to Clerk and 
 
 Council 92 
 
 Discounts on 238 
 
 Drovers. Power to levy. 
 
 Charter 23 
 
 Due when 238 
 
444 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Section. 
 
 Taxes — (Con.) 
 
 Executions. Clerk is- 
 sues 226 
 
 Executions. Enforced. 
 
 Charter 22 
 
 Executions. Levied by 
 
 Marshal 226 
 
 Executions. Transfer of. 
 
 Regulations. Charter. 45 
 Executions. See also 
 tax executions. 
 
 Failure to make returns. 
 
 Penalty 233 
 
 Funds. How expended. 237 
 General laws. Chapter 
 29. 
 
 General powers. Street, 
 
 occupation, income 
 and other taxes. Char- 
 ter 22 
 
 Incomes. Charter pow- 
 ers to collect 22 
 
 Interest collected on... 238 
 Liens. Priority. Char- 
 ter 45 
 
 Notice published when 
 due by Treasurer.... 92 
 Oath to returns. Form 
 
 of 227 
 
 Occupation. Power to 
 
 collect. Charter 22 
 
 Property subject to 232 
 
 Receiver. Marshal is... 224 
 Returns. Oath of tax 
 
 payer 227 
 
 Returns. Time of mak- 
 ing 233 
 
 Section. 
 
 I Taxes — (Con.) 
 
 Street 235 
 
 See also public schools. 
 
 See also tax assessors. 
 
 Tax Ordinance — 
 
 1914. Chapter 32.. 232-250 
 
 . 
 
 Tax Receiver — 
 
 See Marshal, also taxes. 
 
 Tax Returns — 
 
 See taxes. 
 
 Teasing — 
 
 Idiots and insane per- 
 sons. Penalty 662 
 
 Telephone — 
 
 Improper language over. 
 Penalty 663 
 
 Telephone Companies — 
 Franchise. Automatic 
 
 Telephone Company. 603 
 Franchise. Southern 
 
 Bell Telephone Com- 
 pany 604-610 
 
 Tenements — 
 
 See buildings. 
 
 Theatres — 
 
 Construction and opera- 
 tion of. General In- 
 spector’s duties 386(a) 
 
 Inspection of. Chief 
 Fire Department. .385, 386 
 Managers of, to forbid 
 wearing hats in. Pen- 
 alty 666 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 445 
 
 Section. 
 
 Theatres — (Con.) 
 
 Regulations as to. Pen- 
 alty 386 
 
 Wearing hats in. Pen- 
 alty 665 
 
 Tracoma — 
 
 See contagious diseases. 
 
 Traffic Laws — 
 
 Regulations 693 
 
 Trains — 
 
 Boarding or getting off 
 
 moving. Penalty '664 
 
 Blocking crossings. Pen- 
 alty 694 
 
 Tramps — 
 
 On streets. Penalty . .653- 660 
 
 Transfers — 
 
 Street car. Unlawful use 
 of. Penalty 791 
 
 Treasurer — 
 
 Chapter 6. 
 
 Duties. General 92 
 
 Furnishes defaulters list 
 
 to Clerk 92 
 
 Hospital funds. Re- 
 ceives 95 
 
 Pays demands against 
 
 city 93 
 
 Records kept and depos- 
 ited by 93 
 
 Reports defaulters to 
 
 Council. When 92 
 
 Registration of city 
 
 bonds. Duty as to. .230(a) 
 Reports account monthly 93 
 
 Section. 
 
 Treasurer — (Con.) 
 
 Payments by 237 
 
 Public schools. Treas- 
 urer of Board 94 
 
 Public school fund. Re- 
 ceives. How 49 
 
 Trees — 
 
 Hitching to. Penalty. . 696 
 
 Injuring. Penalty 775 
 
 Planting in cemeteries. 
 
 Regulations 798 
 
 Planting in streets. Reg- 
 ulations 571 
 
 Planting mulberry and 
 china forbidden 690 
 
 Trespass — 
 
 Commons. Injuring trees, 
 
 etc 780 
 
 Parks. Injury to trees 
 and shrubbery. Pen- 
 alty 709 
 
 Trestles — 
 
 Crossing. Penalty . .751. 752 
 
 Truck Farmers — 
 
 May sell dealers. With- 
 out license 464 
 
 Selling products at 
 wholesale 457 
 
 Tuberculosis — 
 
 Reports by physicians 
 and others to Health 
 
 Officer 395 
 
 See also contagious dis- 
 eases. 
 
446 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 V. Section. 
 
 Vacancies — 
 
 Board of School Trus- 
 tees. How filled ..599-602 
 
 Mayor and Council fill 
 offices. When. Char- 
 ter 13 
 
 Vagrancy — 
 
 Penalty 653 
 
 Vaccination — 
 
 Duty of Health Officers. 
 
 Free. Charter 42 
 
 General powers of city 
 
 as to. Charter 42 
 
 Persons failing or refus- 
 ing to submit. Penalty. 
 
 Charter 42 
 
 Physicians failing to re- 
 port those refusing. 
 Penalty. Charter 42 
 
 Vegetables — 
 
 Peddlers. License 455 
 
 Peddling on streets. Reg- 
 ulations 453, 454 
 
 Power of city over sales. 
 
 Charter 47 
 
 Selling tainted. Penalty 740 
 
 Stands on Broad Street. 
 Forbidden. Except. 
 When 688 
 
 Vehicles — 
 
 On bridges. Speed regu- 
 lations. Penalty. .745-693 
 On streets. For sale. 
 
 Penalty 700 
 
 On streets. Rules gov- 
 erning. Penalty 693 
 
 Section. 
 
 Vehicles — (Con.) 
 
 Parks. Reckless driving. 
 
 Penalty 714 
 
 Parks. Regulations.... 712 
 Standing on streets. 
 Nights or Sundays. 
 Penalty 701 
 
 Verandas — 
 
 Over sidewalks. Regu- 
 lations. Specifications 
 
 364-367 
 
 Veto — 
 
 Power of Mayor. How 
 overridden. Charter. 19 
 
 Voters — 
 
 Absent. May register. 
 
 When. Charter 16 
 
 Bond elections. Registra- 
 tion. Charter 16 
 
 Challenged. Duty of 
 
 managers 212 
 
 Entitled to register. 
 
 Who are. Charter... 16 
 Illegal voting. Penalty. 
 
 Charter 17 
 
 List. Clerk furnishes to 
 
 managers 221 
 
 List. Furnished Mayor 
 
 and Council 221 
 
 List. General elections. 213 
 List. To be published. 
 
 Charter 16 212 
 
 List. To be returned to 
 
 Clerk. How 216 
 
 List. Purged. How... 221 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 447 
 
 Section. 
 
 Voters — (Con.) 
 
 List. Registered. Clerk 
 
 to keep. Charter 16 
 
 Oath to register 221 
 
 Oath. When challenged. 
 
 Charter 17 212 
 
 Registrations. When and 
 
 how 221 
 
 Registration. City may 
 
 require. Charter 10 
 
 Registration of. Illegally. 
 
 Penalty 221 
 
 Registrars. Appointed by 
 
 Council 221 
 
 Registrars. Duties 221 
 
 Qualifications. City 
 
 elections. ^Charter. .10, 11 
 Votes — 
 
 Counted by managers. 
 
 How 214 
 
 Officers. Forbidden to 
 solicit. Penalty 220 
 
 Voting Places — 
 
 Opened and closed. 
 
 When. Charter 18 
 
 Separate for whites and 
 negroes. Charter. ... 18 
 
 Vulgar Language — 
 
 Using. Penalty 646 
 
 Over telephone. Penalty 663 
 
 W. 
 
 Wagons — 
 
 See delivery wagons. 
 Drays. 
 
 Section. 
 
 Wagons — (Con.) 
 
 Power of city over and 
 other vehicles. Char- 
 ter 23 
 
 Wagon Yards — 
 
 Vehicles and teams to be 
 kept in. Penalty 783 
 
 Walking — 
 
 Streets with woman of 
 ill fame, or riding. 
 
 Penalty 649 
 
 Wards — 
 
 City. Changed. How. 
 
 Charter 8 
 
 City. Defined. Boun- 
 daries. Charter 8 
 
 City. Established. New 
 may be. Charter 8 
 
 Warning Flags — 
 
 Moving disease. Penalty 724 
 
 Warrants — 
 
 See also arrests. 
 Commitment on. Re- 
 corder’s Court. Char- 
 ter 46 
 
 Failure policemen to 
 make affidavits to ob- 
 tain. Penalty. Char- 
 ter 46 
 
 Form of and affidavit. 
 
 Charter 46 
 
 Mayor or Aldermen may 
 
 issue. Charter 46 
 
 Policemen to obtain 46 
 
448 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Section. 
 
 Watchman — 
 
 See bridge keeper. 
 
 Water — 
 
 City may contract for 
 
 supply. Charter 69 
 
 City may supply. Con- 
 tract for power. Char- 
 
 ter 64 
 
 City’s powers over sup- 
 ply. Charter 22 
 
 Polluting pr diverting. 
 
 Penalty. Charter. ... 68 
 
 Itates. Power of Water 
 Commissioners. Char- 
 ter 64 
 
 Rent. Appropriation, 
 
 1913 257 
 
 Stagnant. On premises. 
 
 Penalty 730-734 
 
 See also stagnant water. 
 Drainage. 
 
 Water Closets — 
 
 Inspection of. Regula- 
 
 tions. Penalty 735 
 
 Kept in sanitary condi- 
 tion. Toilet paper to 
 be kept in. Repairs of. 
 Penalty 735 
 
 Plumbing regulations... 
 
 623, 624 
 
 Water Commissioners — 
 
 Charter 59 
 
 See Board of Water 
 Commissioners. 
 
 Section. 
 
 Water Companies — 
 
 Chapter 68. 
 
 Water Pipes — 
 
 Laid. Approval Super- 
 intendent Public 
 
 Works 627 
 
 Laid. How. In streets. 627 
 Meters. Regulations... 627 
 Openings in paved 
 streets. Regulations. 569 
 
 Waterworks — 
 
 Bonds for construction 
 of. Powers. Charter. 58 
 City may construct. 
 
 Charter 52-69 
 
 City may own and ope- 
 rate. Charter 52-69 
 
 Construction. Power of 
 eminent domain. Char- 
 ter 52-69 
 
 Hitching horses to hy- 
 drants. Penalty 773 
 
 Weights and Measures — 
 
 False at market. Pen- 
 alty 451 
 
 Wells and Cisterns — 
 
 Chapter 43. 
 
 Filled at owners ex- 
 
 pense 412 
 
 Maintaining on prem- 
 ises. Penalty 412 
 
 Open. Nuisance 412 
 
GENERAL INDEX, 
 
 449 
 
 Section. 
 
 Wharf- 
 
 Appropriation for 1913. . 257 
 Drays at. Regulations. 
 
 Penalty 182 
 
 Hackman not to solicit at. 
 
 Penalty 250 
 
 Power of city as to, and 
 
 wharfage 23 
 
 See also Port Wardens. 
 Woman — 
 
 111 fame. Walking or 
 riding with. Penalty. 649 
 
 Y. Section. 
 
 Yards — 
 
 Accumulation of com- 
 bustible matter. Pen- 
 alty. Regulations 683 
 
 Accumulation of com- 
 bustible matter. Duty 
 of Chief Fire Depart- 
 ment and Police. Pen- 
 alty 741 
 
 Stagnant water. Filth or 
 garbage in. Penaltv.. 741 
 
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