0236 (Nuisance Defined)ORDINANCE NO. a 6
AN ORDINANCE DEFINING A "NUISANCE" AND PROVIDING
A PENALTY THEREFOR.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF OKEECHOBEE, FLORIDA:
Section 1. The commission of any act by an
individual, organization or corporation or the keeping,
maintaining, propagation, existence or permission of any-
thing by an individual, corporation or organization by
which the health or life of an individual, or the health
or lives of individuals may be impaired, or by which or
through which, directly or indirectly, disease may be
caused, is hereby declared to be a nuisance.
__ -Section 2. Wijoever shall erect, establish, canstruct
or maintain, own or lease any building, booth, tent or
place which tends to annoy, impair or injure the health
of the community, or become manifestly injurious to the
morals or manners of the Deople or which shall be frequented
by the classes of people mentioned in Section 856.02
Compiled General Laws of Florida, 1941, or any house or
place of prostitution, assignation, lewdness, or place or
building where games of chance are engaged in violation of
the ordinances of the City of Okeechobee, Florida, shall be
deemed guilty of maintaining a nuisance.
Section 3. Filth, cesspools, offal grabage, foul water
dye - water, refuse from manufactories, stable manure, decayed
an;mal or vegetable matter, or other offensive substance
detrimental to the health, thrown, placed or allowed to
remain in or upon any private premises, street, avenue, alley
sidewalk, gutter, public reservation or open lot within the
corporate limits of the City of Okeechobee, Florida, are
hereby declared nuisances injurious to health.
Section 4. Any person who shall commit, create or
maintain the aforesaid nuisances, or any of them, shall be dn
fined not less than / -Qr4 ) /,Fj2/f Dollars, nor
more than id p_ kN dRea Dollars.
Read in full a first time and by unanimous consent
passed to a second reading.
Read in full a second time and by unanimous consent
passed to a third reading.
Read in full a third time end passed in regular open
session this G day of . A. D. 1949.
Attest:
City Clerk
,Ca
rent City Council
APPROVED by me this day of
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MAYOR