gcls_citycode_1894_002

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NEW ORDINANCES
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AN ORDINANCE Regulating the [torn]
of Streets and Sidewalks in the [torn]
City of Greenville.
Be it ordained by the Mayor
and Aldermen of the City of Greenville, in
council assembled, and by the authority
of the same:

Section 1. That from and after the
passage of this ordinance it shall be
unlawful for any person or persons to
place in any of the streets, sidewalks
or public alleys of the City of Greenville
any empty boxes, empty casks,
wagons, carriages, carts, buggies,
vehicles of any description or obstruction
of any kind without the permission of
the Maypr of said city and the permission
the owner or owners of the
property abutting on the street,
sidewalk or public alley in front of whose
property the said obstruction is sought
to be placed.

Sec. 2. Be it further ordained that
from and after the passage of this
ordinance it shall be unlawful for any
person or persons to drive a dray,
wagon, cart or other vehicle of like
character through the streets faster than a
walk.

Sec. 3. It shall also be unlawful for
any person or persons within the
incorporate limits of the city of
Greenville to run a horse or horses, mule or
other animal in the streets or public
ways or public ways of said city; or ride or drive in
a disorderly manner; or drive, ride, or
place any horse, mule or other animal,
or any kind of wagon, carriage, buggy
or other vehicle on any sidewalk or
on any street which intersects any side
or other walk.

Sec. 4. That from and after the
passage of this ordinance it shall be
unlawful for any person or persons to
throw or deposit any firewood,
shavings, brick-bats, broken or empty bottles
or any refuse matter of any kind
whatsoever in the streets, sidewalks,
public alleys or other public places
within the city of Greenville without s
pecial permission from the Mayor
of said city.

Sec. 5. Be it further ordained by
the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of
Greenville, in council assembled, and
by the authority of the same, that
from and after the passage of this
ordinance it shall be unlawful for any
person or persons to allow their slops
or waste water of any kind to run or
flow on, over or in front of the lot
, lots, or property of another or others
without the permission in writing of
the owner or owners of said lot, lots
or property.

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Sec. 6. All ordinances or parts of
ordinances inconsistent with this
ordinance be, and the same are hereby
repealed.

Sec. 7. Any person or persons
violating the provisions of this ordinance
or either or any of them shall be subject
to a fine, upon conviction by the
Mayor or acting Mayor, not exceeding
Twenty-five Dollars or imprisonment
not exceeding Thirty Days for each
day such violation shall be had.

Done and ratified in Council assembled,
this the 7th day of October,
A. D., 1896.

JAS. T. WILLIAMS
Mayor

W. B. McDaniel,
Clerk and Treasurer

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AN ORDINANCE providing for the
Working of the Prisoners of the City
of Greenville upon the streets of said
city.

Be it ordained by the Mayor and
Aldermen of the City of Greenville, in
council assembled, and by the authority
of the same:

Section 1. That from and after the
passage of this ordinance it shall be
lawful, and the Mayor or acting Mayor
of the city of Greenville, is hereby
authorized and empowered, in his
discretion, to sentence all prisoners
convicted by him, to work upon the streets,
public ways or places of the city of
Greenville in the city chain gang for
the number of days the said prisoner
or prisoners are sentenced to be
confined.

Sec. 2. All ordinances or parts of
ordinances inconsistent with this
ordinance be, and the same are hereby
repealed.

Done and ratifed in Councile assembled
this 6th day of October
A.D., 1896

JAS. T. WILLIAMS,
Mayor

W. B. McDaniel,
Clerk and Treasurer