gcls_citycode_1894_065

Ordinances of the City of Greenville. 55

Sec. 4. The Chief of Police shall appoint six policemen,
one in each ward, who shall be known as sanitary inspectors
for that ward, whose duty it shall be to visit
every lot in his ward at least once a month, and to report
to the Board of Health anything that he may find
which tends to endanger the public health, and in the
course of such inspection to examine all privy vaults
and carry out such instructions as may be given by the
Board.

Sec. 5. All privy vaults shall be cleaned once a year or as
frequently as may be deemed necessary by the Board of
Health, and the contents thereof shall be removed only
in air tight vessels to be approved by the said Board of
Health, and no person shall engage in the business of
emptying the said privy vaults without first obtaining
a license from the said Board of Health.

Sec. 6. The Board of Health may order or cause any
building, excavation, matter, or thing, or sewerage,
drainage or ventilation thereof which shall be regarded by
the said Board as in a condition dangerous or detrimental
to health, to be removed, suspended, altered or
otherwise abated as said Board shall direct, and they may
also order any substance, matter or thing left in any lot,
building, street, alley or other place which said Board
may regard as dangerous or detrimental to life or
health to be speedily removed to some proper place to
be designated by them.

Sec. 7. The said Board of Health may enact such by-laws,
rules and regulations as it may deem advisable in harmony
with the provisions and purposes of this ordinance
and not inconsisten with the Constitution or
laws of this State, and from time to time may amend,
annul or alter the same. They shall also have power to
declare what shall de deemed nuisances injurious to
health and to provide for the removal thereof, and to
make and enforce regulations to prevent the sale of
unwholesome food.