Ordinances of the City of Greenville

Index to Ordinances

P - Pipes, poles, wires, etc., removed................. 108 Plumbing........................................... 83 Plumbing rules..................................... 89 Policemen, their duties............................ 43 Prisoners.......................................... 110 Public Health...................................... 63 " " ............................ ......... 105 " Park........................................ 52 R - Regulating railroad crossings...................... 51 Riotous and disorderly conduct..................... 49 Rules and Regulations of Police Force.............. 116 S - Sewerage........................................... 81 " how used.................................. 83 " system, parties required to connect....... 99 Springwood Cemetery, penalty of injury thereto..... 61 " " sale of lots.................. 60 Strainers.......................................... 93 Street improvement, special assessment............. 102 " Railway..................................... 40 " " Company............................. 39 " " " ............................. 94 Swapping of horses on streets...................... 59 T - Theft.............................................. 110 V - Vagrants........................................... 79 Vent Pipes......................................... 92 W - Water Company...................................... 67 " " supplement........................... 76 Water and Gas Pipes................................ 87 Water[space]Closets................................ 93 Weights and Measures............................... 64

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[column 1, left side of page] NEW [ORDINANCES] AND AMENDMENTS.

An Ordinance for the regulation and government of Cemeteries for the city of Greenville. Be it enacted by the Mayor and Alderman of the City of Greenville in council assembled and by the authority of the same.

Section 1. All cemeteries now owned or which may be hereafter acquired by the city of Greenville, or the city council of Greenville, wherever situated, are hereby declared to be public burying grounds; and no person or persons, corporation or society, shall establish or locate any other burying grounds within the incorporate limits of the city of Greenville.

Sec. 2. The Mayor of the city of Greenville shall [have] authority and he is [hereby authorized to] appoint a committee of [council, of not] less than three members, one of which shall act as chairman, to be known as the cemetery committee, subject to the ordinances of the city council and such directions [as] council, from time to time, make, shall have the immediate care, control and management of all the cememteries now owned or which may hereafter be owned by the city, and shall superintend and direct the improvement and embellishment of the walks, avenues and grounds and shall provide for the protection of all property, public and private, therein.

Sec 3 The said committee shall also have in charge the sale of lots in said cemeteries, and they are hereby authorized and required to [formulate] and submit to council such rules and regulations, with regard to the care and management of said cemeteries and the sales of lots therein, as they may deem advisable and expedient: and the rules and regulations adopted shall be printed or promulgated, and shall have the same force and effect as an ordinance. But a copy of said rules and regulations shall be kept in the office of the city clerk and treasurer for the inspection of all concerned.

Sec. 4. The cemetery committee shall appoint the necessary superintendents or sextons for the city cemeteries t ogether with the salary or [perquisites]; but before any such appointment shall take effect the committee shall submit the name or names of the person so appointed to council for its approval, and no person or persons shall act as said sexton or superintendent or be entitled to compensation as such until this provision of this ordinance has [cut off]

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Sec. 5. To protect the grounds and [especially] improved lots from injury as well as to insure a proper interment of all bodies. No excavations shall be made for vaults, graves or monuments by any person, other than the sexton in charge, without a written permit from the cemetery committee. It is understood that nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit relatives or friends burying their own dead or acts of charity or benevolence, but in all such cases the work should be done under the supervision of the city sexton.

Sec. 5. No person shall receive a title to a lot in any city cemetery until the same has been paid for. Nor shall any person use or occupy a lot, for which he has not received title, without permission from the cemetery committee

Sec. 6 Every [person riding, driving] or walking in the cemetery shall be responsible for any damage done by him or any animal in his charge to any property in said cemetery, in addition to the penalties provided for by ordinances of council

Sec. 7. All ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent with this ordinance are hereby [repealed].

And any person or persons convicted of violating the provisions of this ordinance orany one of them shall be fined not exceeding fifty dollars or imprisoned not exceeding thirty days, either or both, at the discretion of the mayor.

Done and ratified in Council assembled, this 4th day of February, 1896. [SEAL]

James T. Willials, Mayor

W. B. McDaniel, Clerk and Treasurer

CHARTER.

SEC. 1. - Corporation. SEC. 2. - Name and limits. SEC. 3. - Mayor and Aldermen[.] Time of election. Electors. SEC. 4. - Registration. SEC. 5. - Oath of person registering. SEC. 6. - Regulations affecting the elections. SEC. 7. - Provisions affecting Managers and elections. SEC. 8. - Oath of Mayor and Aldermen. SEC. 9. - Vacancies SEC. 10. - Penalty for refusal to serve. Exceptions. SEC. 11. - Powers of Trial Justices. SEC. 12. - Council meetings. Municipal powers. SEC. 13. - Fire District. SEC. 14. - Nuisances. Board of Health. Firemasters. Parks and Cemeteries. SEC. 15. - Fire department. SEC. 16. - Wards and Aldermen. SEC. 17. - Clerk and Treasurer. Police. SEC. 18. - Street duty. SEC. 19. - Licenses and taxes. SEC. 20. - Other licenses. Taxes. SEC. 21. - Aution sales. SEC. 22. - Shows. SEC. 23. - Enforcement of taxes. Lien. SEC. 24. - Tax ordinance. Payment. Defaulters. SEC. 25. - Assessment of property. SEC. 26. - Guard house. Powder magazines. Forges and foundries. SEC. 27. - Offenders. Working streets as punishment. SEC. 28. - Summons to persons accused. Witnesses. SEC. 29. - Sidewalks. SEC. 30. - Closing and opening streets. Damages. Appeals. SEC. 31. - Right to borrow money. SEC. 32. - Settlement with successors. SEC. 33. - Misfeasance and non-feasance in office. SEC. 34. - Ordinances validated. SEC. 35. - Repealing clause. Public Act. Duration.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represenatives [Representatives] of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this Act all citizens of [this] State, who may have [typed in margin]: Corporation

[resided] twelve months within [this] State and sixty days

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within the corporate limits of the City of Greenville and their successors, are hereby declared to be members of the corporation hereby intended to be created.

[typed in margin]: Name. SEC. 2. That the said persons and their successors shall, [from] and after the passage of this Act, become a body politic and corporate, and shall be known and called by the name of the "City of Greenville," and its [typed in margin]: Limits. corporate limits shall extend on and one-fourth miles in every direction from the Court House as a centre.

[typed in margin]: Mayor and Aldermen. SEC. 3. The said city shall be governed by a Mayor and two Aldermen from each ward, who shall be citizens of the United States for one year and within the corporate limits of said city sixty days and within the corporate limits of said city sixty days immediately preceding their election, and the said Mayor and Aldermen shall be elected on the second Tuesday in September, at an election to [typed in margin]: Day of election. be held on the second Tuesday in September, A.D. 1887, and on the second Tuesday in September in each and every second year thereafter, ten days public notice being previously given, and shall continue in office for [typed in margin]: Electors. two years, or until the election and qualification of their successors. All male inhabitants of said city, citizens of this State, who shall have attained the age of twenty-one years, and shall have resided in the said city sixty days immediately preceding said election, and who have registered as hereinafter provided, shall be entitled to vote for Mayor and Aldermen, paupers and persons under disability for crime excepted: [typed in margin]: First election. Provided, That the first election under this section of [typed in margin]: Present Council continued. this Act shall be held on the second Tuesday in September, 1887: And provided, further, That the Mayor and Alderment now in office shall continue in office until their successors are duly elected and qualified.

[typed in margin]: Registration. SEC. 4. That the City Clerk shall, sixty days immediately preceding the day of said election, open books for the registration of the names of the qualified voters of said city and their occupations, places of residence, at such place as may be designated by the City Council [of]

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said city; the said books to be opened for such registration for thirty days (Sundays and legal holidays excepted) at least five hours per day; and at the close of such registration the said books to remain in the [typed in margin]: Books. custody of the Clerk, and shall be subject to public inspection under such reasonable rules as the said City Council may prescribe.

SEC. 5. The Clerk shall administer to every person [typed in margin]: Oath of person registering. offering to register an oath that he is duly qualified to vote at the election to be held, and that he does truly state his name and occupation and place and residence.

SEC. 6. That the said election shall be held at some [typed in margin]: Conduct of election and declaration of result. one or more convenient public places in said city, designated by the City Council, from six o'clock in the morning until six o'clock in the afternoon of same day; and upon closing the polls the Managers of said election shall forthwith proceed to count the votes and declare the result of the election, giving notice in writing to the persons elected. The Mayor and Aldermen for the time being shall give ten days' public notice of the time and place or places of holding such elections, and shall appoint three members of the said corporation as [typed in margin]: Managers. Managers of said election at each of the places where it may be held; and the said Managers before they open the polls shall take and oath fairly and impartially to conduct the said election; and said Managers, or one of them, shall administer to every person offering to vote at the election an oath that he is duly qualified to vote at such election according to the Constitution and [typed in margin]: Oath of elector. laws of this State and has not voted at such election.

SEC. 7. The Mayor and Aldermen are empowered to [typed in margin]: Provisions affecting Managers and the election. fine any person so appointed as Manager, who refuses to serve, in a sum not exceeding twenty-five dollars, and said Mayor and Aldermen shall have authority to make all necessary ordinances, rules and regulations for the proper, fair and just management and control of said elections.

SEC. 8. That the Mayor and Aldermen, to be elected