INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS. Physician, duly licensed to practice medicine within the grounds of the city, and to levy assessment for the cost of a of the city, and the estimate of the city engineer is less than state of Minnesota, of good standing in his profession and any of the improvements mentioned above, upon property benefited lowest bid for said work and material, may reject all proposals shall have been in active practice for at least three years. by such improvement, in the manner and as hereinafter offered and authorize the doing of such work under He shall be styled, "Health Officer." designated. the direction of the Street Commissioner or City Engineer Each member of said department shall be a resident and Expense—How Defrayed.—Section 2. The expense of any without contract or may, in its discretion, from lack of quorum ec or the city at the time of his appointment. They shall improvement mentioned in the foregoing section, except as or any other reason, postpone the consideration and decision be appointed as other officers for the term of one year. otherwise specifically provided in this charter, shall be defrayed oi the whole matter, or any to a future branch thereof, j3- ®^vers Duties.—Section 2. Except as otherwise by an assessment upon the real estate benefited thereby, aehnite time, of which postponement all parties interested shall provided in this charter, the members of said department shall to be levied, enforced and collected in the manner in this be required and deemed to take notice. exercise all the authority and power and shall perform chapter provided provided that when a street or avenue is Such resolution, after the same has been duly adopted by all the duties granted to or imposed upon local boards graded, paved, repaved, graveled or macadamized or the surface the council, shall be signed by the president of the council and (6\h, general laws of the State of Minnesota and of the driveway otherwise permanently improved, the cost 11 attested by the city clerk, and on the next day after the adoption a such laws of said state governing such local boards shall, of so improving the space on such street or avenue occupied thereof the same shall be transmitted by the city clerk so tar as applicable, apply and be in force in this city. by the intersections of driveways shall be paid out of the general the mayor for his approval. If the mayor approves the opecial Powers and Duties.—Section 3. The members of fund of the city, and all the balance of the cost of so same he shall append his signature with the date of his approva +*ai ePar^ment, in addition to the powers and duties men­ improving all streets in said city, being the entire cost of improving thereto and return the same to the city clerk within tioned in section 2, of this chapter, shall have the following such streets less the cost of improving such intersections, nve (5) days, Sundays excepted, from the date of its transmission and additional powers: shall be assessed directly upon the abutting property. to him and if he declines to approve the same he shall, .J^° enjPrcf *he laws of the State and the ordinances of the The cost of so improving all avenues running north and south within said period of five days, Sundays excepted, return the i' uand Prov^s'ons this charter relating to public in said city, less the cost of improving intersections as hereinbefore same to the city clerk with a statement of his objections thereafter ef1^orcement of all such laws, provisions of provided, shall be paid as follows: Two-thirds out of a Presented the council at its next meeting there­ charter, and ordinances they and each of them shall have, to the general fund of the city and the remaining cost of so improving and be vested with, all the powers of police officers of the said north and south avenues, less intersections as city. upon the return of said resolution to the city council without aforesaid, shall be assessed upon the property of one-half of Professional Advice.—1. The health officer shall give to the mayor's approval, the question shall again be put upon the abutting blocks nearest to the avenue so improved, provided the mayor or other city authorities all such professional advice the passage of the same, notwithstanding the objections of the that the same shall be distributed upon the respective and information as they may require, with a view to mayor, and if upon such vote, which shall be taken by a call lots constituting the half of such abutting blocks in such manner the preservation of the public health and whenever he shall of the ayes and noes, two-thirds (,y3) of all the members of as the city council shall, by ordinance or resolution, provide, hear of the existence of any malignant, contagious or pestilential said council shall vote in favor of the adoption of such resolution, regard being had to the benefits accruing to the respective disease, he shall investigate the same and adopt measures the same shall be declared adopted and shall have the lots lying within the area upon which such assessment to arrest its progress. same force and effect as if approved by the mayor. is made. To Make a Circuit of Observation.—2. It shall be the duty If such resolutions, transmitted to the mayor, shall not be Expense Cleaning Streets, Etc.—Section 3. All the expenses of the health officer to make a circuit of observation of every returned by him to the said city clerk within said five days, of improving, repairing and cleaning streets, avenues and highways part of the city and environs, from time to time, and in all uu JxcePted presentation thereof to him, the same 5 after for which no provision is made herein for assessing the cases wherein he may discover the existence of any agent, shall be deemed to be approved by him, and he shall deliver same against property benefited, shall be paid out of the general the presence of which will prove dangerous to tfye health of the same to the city clerk on demand. fund. the city, and there is no ordinance competent for the correction Contracts—How Executed.—Section 9. All contracts authorized One Contract for Various Improvements.—Section 4. Two of the evil, he shall immediately report the same to the by this chapter for any of the improvements therein or more improvements upon one or more streets, either of city council, accompanied by his written opinion of the necessity designated, shall be executed on behalf of the city by the mayor paving, curbing, graveling, macadamizing, grading, or filling, of extraordinary or particular action. and attested by the city clerk. or of constructing retaining walls, grass plats, protection Sites Quarantine Stations.—3. The health officer, by and Lateral Sewer—Paving Contracts.—Section 10. The city fences, area walls, sewers, gutters or drains, or either or any with the approval of the city council, may select such sites, council may, whenever a contract is let for the paving or macadamizing of them, and the building of any number of walks on one or places and boundaries for quarantine stations and purposes, of any of the streets, avenues, or alleys, include in more streets, may be done at the same time under one resolution as may be necessary. such contract, when deemed expedient or necessary, the construction and may be included in one contract if deemed advisable Right to Enter Buildings.—4. For the purpose of carrying and laying, as far as the property line, of all lateral by the city council so to do. out the foregoing requirements, he shall be permitted at ail sewers, water mains and drain connections that may be deemed Plans, Specifications, Etc.—Section 5. Prior to the passage times, from the rising to the setting of the sun, to enter into expedient or necessary, and in such case the cost of such work of any resolution for the doing of any work or the making of any house, store, stable or other building, and to cause the shall be assessed by said council upon the real estate benefited any improvement hereinbefore specified, the expense of which floors to be raised if he shall deem it necessary in order to thereby, and enforced and collected in the manner and under is to be assessed upon property benefited, except as otherwise make a thorough examination of cellars, vaults, sinks or drains, the regulations provided in this chapter for other local improvements specifically provided in this chapter for certain designated in the city. and to cause all privies to be cleaned and kept in good condition, kinds of improvements, the city council shall cause plans and and to cause all dead animals or other nuisances or unwholesome Council Decision Final.—Section 11. In making any improvements specifications of such proposed work, together with an estimate things to be burned or removed or disposed of, as herein authorized, the city council may select patented of a probable expense thereof, to be made by the city he may direct. appliances and material to enter into such construction, engineer, or by such other person as may be employed by the Notices to Abate Nuisances.—5. To serve notice in writing if the cost and maintenance thereof is deemed relatively the council for that purpose, and presented to the city council upon the owner, occupant, or agent of any lot, building or lowest or most satisfactory, all things considered, and the decision for their consideration and approval and the same shall immediately, said council shall be final. premises in or upon which any nuisance may be found, or of upon the approval thereof by said city council, be upon any person who shall have caused such nuisance, requiring filed with city clerk for the inspection of all parties interested. Quarries, Etc.—Section 12. The city council is hereby authorized him to abate the same within a reasonable time and to provide, establish, equip, and maintain, and cause The city council shall then designate a time not less than such notice may be given or served by any officer who may to be operated for the city, under the supervision of the Street twenty (20) days distant, and a place at which it will meet be directed to give the same. Commissioner or City Engineer, municipal quarries for the and act in relation to the doing of the proposed work and the Books for Records.—6. It shall be the duty of the health purpose of providing stone, rock, and macadam for municipal making of the proposed improvement, and direct that notice officer to provide, at the expense of the city, the necessary improvements and uses and suitable works, apparatus and be given by the city clerk of such meeting, and the time, place books for keeping a record of all transactions of the health other facilities for the manufacture, construction and laying and purpose thereof, and that in the meantime sealed proposals of macadam, asphalt, or other kinds of street pavements and department, including the proper registration of births and for the doing of said work and the furnishing of all material sidewalks. deaths, and such other statistical information necessary for therefor, if required, will be received by the city clerk, and such official work, of said department. opened in the presence of the council at such meeting. Whenever any material is furnished by or obtained from any such municipal quarries, works, apparatus or other facilities Visit and Examine the Sick.—7. It shall be the further duty Such notice shall concisely state the location of the proposed and employed in the construction or making of any public of the health officer to visit and examine or cause to be visited work, the general nature of the proposed improvements also improvements provided for in this chapter, the cost of which and examined, all sick persons who shall be reported to him that the said plans, specifications and estimates therefor have is to be assessed upon property benefited thereby, the street as suffering from any infectious or contagious disease, and been so filed with the city clerk, and that all persons interested commissioner or city engineer shall immediately upon the to cause such person to be removed to the hospital or such will be heard at such time and place the said notice shall be completion of said improvement certify the cost of such ma other place as he may think proper, and cause him to be given by publication thereof in the official paper of the city, terial so furnished and employed in the making of said im provided with suitable nurses and attendants at his own expense, at least once in each week for two successive weeks prior to provement, and all work in connection therewith, to the city if he is able to pay for the same, but if not, then at the time designated as aforesaid by the city council. the expense of the city. council, and such certificate shall be placed on file with the Contracts-—All or Part of Work.—Section 6. Any contract city clerk for the inspection of all parties interested the Provide Equipment and Medicines.—8. To provide, under for the making of any improvements designated in this chapter amount so certified shall be deemed a part of the cost of the direction of the city council, furniture, fuel, food, medicine may be for the entire improvement complete and include all the improvement so to be assessed, and an assessment shall and such other articles as may be necessary for the equipment labor, material, machinery, and whatever may be necessary be made therefor, levied and collected in the same manner and maintenance of any hospital for the prevention and for the full completion thereof, or may be for the doing of the as though said work had been performed and said material control of infectious or contagious diseases, among men or work alone, the city furnishing the necessary material therefor, delivered by contract, as hereinbefore provided. animals. To control all such hospitals and to secure the decent as the city council may deem to the best interests of the and prompt burial of bodies of all persons dying at such Stagnant Pools of Water, Etc.—Section 13. Whenever the city and the city council may also, at its discretion, cause the hospitals. board of health shall report to the city council that stagnant making of such improvements by separate contracts for different or impure water stands upon any lot, lots or parcels of land portions thereof or by separate contracts for the labor, Furnish Medicine, Etc., to Indigent Sick.—9. He shall, within the city, thereby creating a nuisance injurious to public material and machinery required for the making of such improvements. when directed by the Poor Committee of the city council or health, said council shall immediately proceed to investigate the board of health, attend any indigent sick person in the In each such instance the notice prescribed by the same, and if it shall determine that a nuisance does exist city, and furnish, at city expense, medicine for such person. section 5 of this chapter, shall contain a distinct statement of by reason of any stagnant or impure water standing upon Penalties.—Section 4. Any person who, without a permit the nature and extent of such separate contracts, and shall any lot, lots or parcels of land, and that the same is injurious from the health officer, shall bury or remove the body of any definitely describe such separate portions of such improvements. to public health, it shall instruct the street commissioner or dead person, or shall leave unburied any such dead body city engineer to prepare and recommend a plan and specifications longer than four days, or who shall fail to bury the body Whenever any machinery or mechanical appliance shall for the abatement of said nuisance, together with an estimate of any person dying of any infectious or contagious disease (form a part of any improvement authorized by this chapter, of the expense, which shall be submitted to said council within twenty-four hours after death when ordered by such the city council may award a contract for the same after taking and filed with the city clerk, the same as other public improvements health officer so to do, or who shall refuse or neglect to abate into consideration the efficiency, duty, cost of operation, designated in this chapter, and if said council any nuisance for the existence of which, as owner, occupant or and maintenance, and the construction, workmanship and operation deems that sufficient real estate can be found benefited to the agent, of the place upon or within which such nuisance exists, generally of the several machines or appliances designated extent of the damages, costs and expense necessary to be incurred he is responsible, after having received a notice from the in the several bids, without regard to the amount of thereby, it shall order the doing of said work in the health officer so to do or who shall neglect to report the such bids. manner hereinbefore provided, and the same proceeding shall occurrence or existence of any birth, death or case of contagious Sprinkling Contracts—Notice.—Section 7. Before any proceedings be had in relation thereto by the city council and other city or infectious disease as provided for in this charter, the are had by the city council for the sprinkling of any ordinances of the city or the laws of the state or who shall officers as in case of other local improvements provided for in of the streets, lanes, alleys, or public grounds, in the city, this chapter, and the cost thereof shall be assessed upon the import or bring into the limits of the city knowingly any the city council shall each year, by'resolution in writing, determine property benefited as hereinafter provided. person or animal sick of contagious or infectious disease, or what territory shall be sprinkled during each year, who shall remove or cause to be removed, without permis Changes and Modifications.—Section 14. If the city council, and may divide such territory into two or more sprinkling districts, sion from the health officer, any placard, announcing any contagious in carrying out any of the provisions of this chapter, should describing the boundary lines of each such district each or infectious disease, attached to any house or building find unforeseen obstacles in grading, excavating, filling, or district so determined shall be designated by number, and or inclosure, by said health officer or his subordinates, or abating nuisances, or in constructing sewers or drains, not thereafter all reference to such district by number in any notice who shall disobey or wilfully avoid quarantine regulations imposed provided for, it may by resolution order such change or modification required by this chapter, or in any other proceedings having by the health officer, or who shall interfere with the in such improvement to meet such unforeseen obstacles, reference therto, shall be deemed a sufficient designation as it may deem equitable and just, upon the recommendation health officer or his subordinates in the exercise of his or such resolution shall be published once in the official paper of of the street commissioner or city engineer in charge of their duty or who shall violate any of the provisions of this the city. charter or the laws of the state, or the ordinances of the city such work, at any time before or after the letting or making The contract price to be paid by the city for the doing of relating to the public health shall, upon conviction, be deemed of any contract to do the same, or at any time while the work such work shall be paid in the first instance by the city, and guilty of a misdemeanor and punished as prescribed by the is in progress, by an affirmative vote of two-thirds of all collected from the owners or occupants of property benefited ordinances of the city, or in case the offense is not punishable the members of the council and any additional expense occasioned in manner to be determined by the city council by ordinance under the ordinances of the city, then as misdemeanors under by such change, addition or modification of the improvement or otherwise, and' if remaining unpaid, to be levied, assessed the criminal laws of the state. may be included in the assessment therefor upon and collected as costs of other local improvements are collected. the property benefited by such improvement, but no additional CHAPTER XV. expense shall be incurred other than may be necessary to overcome Sealed Proposals.—Section 8. At the time and place designated such unforeseen obstacle provided, that if the expense LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS. in the notice prescribed by section 5 of this chapter, required to overcome such unforeseen obstacle will materially Grade Streets, Etc.—Section 1. The city council is authorized an opportunity shall be given by the city council to any and increase the cost which would be incurred in the work, if and empowered to fill, grade, curb, pave, gravel, macadamize all interested parties to be heard for or against the proposed such unforeseen obstacle had not occurred, then the city council and otherwise permanently improve the surface of work designated in such notice and the city clerk shall, in shall have power, by resolution in writing, adopted by an the streets and public ways of the city and to establish grass the presence of the said council, open and read all sealed proposals affirmative vote of two-thirds (2/3) of all the members of the plats on that portion of the same not then deemed necessary which may have been received for the doing of such council, to rescind the contract therefor so far as the uncompleted for public travel to construct, relay, enlarge, and repair sidewalks, work or the furnishing of material, if any, therefor, or both, part of the work is concerned, and may, in its discretion, retaining walls, area walls, gutters, sewers and drains as the case may be, and the city council may then, by an affirmative after such recision, order the work to be re-let as other to build and place protection fences and railings along the vote of a majority of all its members, by resolution work is let under this chapter, and the original contractor in streets and public ways for the safety of pedestrians to abate in writing, accept the most favorable proposal (such proposal such case shall be entitled to be paid for the portion of the nuisances and to drain swamps, marshes and ponds, to fill to be that of the lowest responsible bidder), and by such work done by him, ratably, according to contract price, as the same to build and construct dams and dykes within and resolution authorize the doing of the proposed work or any nearly as the same can be ascertained, and no more. without the limits of the city for the prevention of floods and part thereof, by the person or persons whose proposals shall City to Complete Unfinished Contracts.—Section 15. If, in overflows in the city and to acquire lands and privileges therefor have been accepted or .may reject any or all proposals offered the opinion of the council and the street commissioner or engineer to plant shade or ornamental trees along the streets or such work or any particular part thereof and refuse to authorize in charge, any work under any contract authorized by public ways and to sprinkle the streets and public ",vays and or if it is deemed by said ^council to be to the best interests this chapter, does not proceed each month so as to insure its Bn'fe nit' "'J*. plli