and all city officers in respect to their official duties. He books for keeping a record of all transactions of the health therefor, if required, will be received by the city clerk, and shall personally, or by assistant, attend all the meetings of department, including the proper registration of births and opened in the presence of the council at such meeting the city council and such of its committees or boards as shall deaths, and such other statistical information necessary for Such notice shall concisely state the location of the proposed require his attendance, and no board, department or officer such official work of said department. work the general nature of the proposed improvements also of the city shall have or employ any other attorney in connection Visit and Examine the Sick.—7. It shall be the further duty that the said plans, specifications and estimates therefor have with their official business. of the health officer to visit and examine or cause to be visited been so filed with the city clerk, and that all persons interested Appeals.—Section 4. The city attorney, unless otherwise and examined, all sick persons who shall be reported to him will be heard at such time and place the said notice shall be ordered by the city council, shall have the right to decide as suffering from any infectious or contagious disease, and given by publication thereof in the official paper of the city, whether or not, in any case in which the city is a party in any to cause such person to be removed to the hospital or such at least once in each week for two successive weeks prior tci O court, to take an appeal from any order, judgment or determination other place as he may think proper, and cause him to be the time designated as aforesaid by the city council. of the court, and in case of any such appeal, or in provided with suitable nurses and attendants at his own expense, Contracts All or Part of Work.—Section 6. Any contract case of suing out a writ of error, certiorari, mandamus, attachment if he is able to pay for the same, but if not, then at tor the making of any improvements designated in this chapter or any writ from any court, the city shall not be the expense of the city. 3 may be for the entire improvement complete and include all required to give any bonds, either for costs, supercedeas or Provide Equipment and Medicines.—8. To provide, under abor, material, machinery, and whatever mav be necessarv any other purpose whatever. The city attorney shall notify the direction of the city council, furniture, fuel, food, medicine tor the full completion thereof, or may be for the doing of the the city council of the result of all actions in which the city and such other articles as may be necessary for the equipment work alone, the city furnishing the necessary material thereor, is a party, or in which it is interested. When from absence, and maintenance of any hospital for the prevention and as the city council may deem to the best interests of the sickness or other cause, he shall be unable to attend to any control of infectious or contagious diseases, among men or city and the city council may also, at its discretion, cause the of his official duties he may appoint some one to act in his animals. To control all such hospitals and to secure the decent -n making of such improvements by separate contracts for different place for the time being, but at his own expense. and prompt burial of bodies of all persons dying at such portions thereof or by separate contracts for the labor CHAPTER XII. hospitals. material and machinery required for the making of such improvements. WEIGHMASTER. Furnish Medicine, Etc., to Indigent Sick.—9. He shall, In each such instance the notice prescribed bv Appointment.—Section 1. The city council, at the meeting when directed by the Poor Committee of the city council or section 5 of this chapter, shall contain a distinct statement of of its organization or as soon thereafter as may be, shall appoint the board of health, attend any indigent sick person in the ature and extent of such separate contracts, and shall a city weighmaster whose term of office shall be one city, and furnish, at city expense, medicine for such person. definitely describe such separate portions of such improvements. year. Penalties.—Section 4. Any person who. without a permit Duties.—Section 2. The city weighmaster shall have charge from the health officer, shall bury or remove the body of any Whenever any machinery or mechanical appliance shall and control of all public scales, weights and measures owned dead person, or shall leave unburied any such dead body form a part of any improvement authorized bv this chapter by the citv and all appliances and tests of every kind and longer than four days, or who shall fail to bury the body the citv council may award a contract for the same after taking va nature pertaining to weighing and measuring. It shall be of any person dying of any infectious or contagious disease into consideration the efficiency dutv. cost of operation his duty to perfor mall services in connection with the weighing within twenty-four hours after death when ordered by such and maintenance, and the construction, workmanship and operation and measuring of hay, grain, seed, pork, coal, wood, and health officer so to do, or who shall refuse or neglect to abate generally of the several machines or appliances designated all other gross commodities offered and exposed for sale or any nuisance for the existence of which, as owner, occupant or the several bids, without regard to the amount oi sold in the city, as the city council may from time to time by agent, of the place upon or within which such nuisance exists, such bids. ordinance prescribe and require, and shall receive such compensation he is responsible, after having received a notice from the Sprinkling Contracts—Notice.—Section 7. Before anv proceedings for services rendered as the city council may from health officer so to do: or who shall neglect to report the are had by the city council for the sprinkling of anv time to time prescribe. occurrence or existence of any birth, death or case of contagious of the streets, lanes, alleys, or public grounds, in the citv. 7D CHAPTER XIII. or infectious disease as provided for in this charter, the the city council shall each year, by resolution in writing, determine STREET COMMISSIONER—CITY ENGINEER. ordinances of the city or the laws of the state or who shall what territory shall be sprinkled during each year, Appointment.—Section 1. The city council may at the import or bring into the limits of the city knowingly any and ma} divide such territory into two or more sprinkling districts, meeting for its organization, or within thirty days thereafter, person or animal sick of contagions or infectious disease, or describing the boundary lines of each such district each appoint a street commissioner who shall have, under the direction who shall remove or cause to be removed, without permis district so determined shall be designated by number, and -n of the city council, charge and control of the streets, sion from the health officer, any placard, announcing any contagious theieafter all reference to such district by number in any notice alleys and highways of the city, and shall perform such other or infectious disease, attached to any house or building required by this chapter, or in any other proceedings' having duties as the cita* council may order. The term of office of or inclosure, by said health officer or his subordinates, or refeience therto. shall be deemed a sufficient designation the street commissioner shall be for one year. The city council who shall disobey or wilfully avoid quarantine regulations imposed such lesolution shall be published once in the official paper of by the health officer, or who shall interfere with the may also employ, from time to time, a civil engineer to the city. health officer or his subordinates in the exercise of his or perform such civil engineering for the city as may be necessary, The contract price to be paid by the city for the doing of their duty: or who shall violate any of the provisions of this and when such civil engineer is employed by the city such work shall be paid in the first instance by the city, and charter or the laws of the state, or the ordinances of the citv council he shall be known and designated, during the term collected from the owners or occupants of propertv benefited relating to the public health shall, upon conviction, be deemed O of such employment, as "City Engineer/' and the city council manner to be determined by the city council by ordinance shall prescribe the duties and fix the compensation of such guilty of a misdemeanor and punished as prescribed by the or otherwise, and if remaining unpaid," to be levied, assessed Street Commissioner and City Engineer. ordinances of the city, or in case the offense is not punishable and collected as costs of other local improvements are collected. Duties—City Engineer.—Section 2. The city engineer shall under the ordinances of the city, then as misdemeanors under perform all duties within the scope of his employment that the criminal laws of the state. Sealed Proposals.—Section 8. At the time and place designated may be assigned to him by the city council. in the notice prescribed by section 5 of this chapter, CHAPTER XV. Duties—Street Commissioner.—Section 3. The Street Commissioner an opportunity shall be given by the city council to any and LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS. shall have supervision and general charge of all all interested parties to be heard for or against the proposed Grade Streets, Etc.—Section 1. The city council is authorized work done on any street, highway or alley in the city may work designated in such notice and the city clerk shall, in and empowered to fill, grade, curb, pave, gravel, macadamize direct the manner of performing such work and the manner the presence of the said council, open and read all sealed proposals and otherwise permanently improve the surface of of the construction of all sidewalks, street crossings, bridges which may have been received for the doing of such the streets and public ways of the city and to establish grass or other structures in or upon said streets may suspend any work or the furnishing of material, if any. therefor, or both, plats on that portion of the same not then deemed necessary such work when the construction thereof shall not conform as the case may be, and the city council may then, by an affirmative for public travel: to construct, relay, enlarge, and repair sidewalks, to, and shall take care that the terms of all contracts for vote of a majority of all its members, bv resolution retaining walls, area walls, gutters, sewers and drains any work or construction on behalf of the city, are fully compiled in writing, accept the most favorable proposal (such proposal to build and place protection fences and railings along the with, unless such duties are otherwise assigned to the to be that of the lowest responsible bidder), and by such streets and public ways for the safety of pedestrians to abate City Engineer. resolution authorize the doing of the proposed work or any nuisances and to drain swamps, marshes and ponds, to fill Surveys, Etc.—Section 4. All surveys, profiles, plans and part thereof, by the person or persons whose proposals shall the same to build and construct dams and dykes within and estimates, made by the street commissioner or the city engineer have been accepted or may reject any or all proposals offered without the limits of the city for the prevention of floods and shall be carefully preserved in the office of the city and refuse to authorize such work or any particular part thereof overflows in the city and to acquire lands and privileges therefor clerk and be public records of the city. or if it is deemed by said council to be to the best interests to plant shade or ornamental trees along the streets or of the city, and the estimate of the city engineer is less than CHAPTER XIV. public ways and to sprinkle the streets and public ,vays and the lowest bid for said work and material, may reject all proposals BOARD OF HEALTH. grounds of the city, and to levy assessment for the cost of offered and authorize the doing of such work under Appointment—Qualifications.—Section 1. The health department any of the improvements mentioned above, upon property benefited the direction of the Street Commissioner or City Engineer shall consist of three members, one of whom shall by such improvement, in the manner and as hereinafter without contract or may, in its discretion, from lack of quorum be a physician, duly licensed to practice medicine within the designated. or any other reason, postpone the consideration and decision state of Minnesota, of good standing in his profession and Expense—How Defrayed.—Section 2. The expense of any of the whole matter, or any branch thereof, to a future who shall have been in active practice for at least three years. improvement mentioned in the foregoing section, except as definite time, of which postponement all parties interested shall He shall be styled, "Health Officer." otherwise specifically provided in this charter, shall be defrayed be required and deemed to take notice. Each member of said department shall be a resident and by an assessment upon the real estate benefited thereby, Such resolution, after the same has been duly adopted by elector of the city at the time of his appointment. They shall to be levied, enforced and collected in the manner in this the council, shall be signed by the president of the council and be appointed as other officers for the term of one year. chapter provided provided that when a street or avenue is attested by the city clerk, and on the next day after the adoption General Powers, Duties.—Section 2. Except as otherwise graded, paved, repaved, graveled or macadamized or the surface thereof the same shall be transmitted by the city clerkto provided in this charter, the members of said department shall of the driveway otherwise permanently improved, the cost the mayor for his approval. If the mayor approves the have and exercise all the authority and power and shall perform of so improving the space on such street or avenue occupied same he shall append his signature with the date of his approval all the duties granted to or imposed upon local boards by the intersections of driveways shall be paid out of the general thereto and return the same to the city clerk within of health by the general laws of the State of Minnesota and fund of the city, and all the balance of the cost of so five (5) days, Sundays excepted, from the date of its transmission all such laws of said state governing such local boards shall, improving all streets in said city, being the entire cost of improving to him and if he declines to approve the same he shall, so far as applicable, apply and be in force in this city. such streets less the cost of improving such intersections, within said period of five days, Sundays excepted, return the Special Powers and Duties.—Section 3. The members of shall be assessed directly upon the abutting property. same to the city clerk with a statement of his objections thereto, said department, in addition to the powers and duties mentioned The cost of so improving all avenues running north and south to be presented to the council at its next meeting thereafter. in section 2, of this chapter, shall have the following in said city, less the cost of improving intersections as hereinbefore and additional powers: provided, shall be paid as follows: Two-thirds out of Upon the return of said resolution to the city council without To enforce the laws of the State and the ordinances of the the general fund of the city and the remaining cost of so improving the mayor approval, the question shall again be put upon city, and the provisions of this charter relating to public said north and south avenues, less intersections as the passage of the same, notwithstanding the objections of the health and for the enforcement of all such laws, provisions of aforesaid, shall be assessed upon the property of one-half of mayor, and if upon such vote, which shall be taken by a call this charter, and ordinances they and each of them shall have, the abutting blocks nearest to the avenue so improved, provided of the ayes and noes, two-thirds of all the members of and be vested with, all the powers of police officers of the that the same shall be distributed upon the respective said council shall vote in favor of the adoption of such resolution, city. lots constituting the half of such abutting blocks in such manner the same shall be declared adopted and shall have the Professional Advice.—1. The health officer shall give to as the city council shall, by ordinance or resolution, provide, same force and effect as if approved by the mayor. the mayor or other city authorities all such professional advice regard being had to the benefits accruing to the respective If such resolutions, transmitted to the mayor, shall not be and information as they may require, with a view to lots lying within the area upon which such assessment returned by him to the said city clerk within said five days, the preservation of the public health and whenever he shall is made. Sundays excepted, after presentation thereof to him, the same hear of the existence of any malignant, contagious or pestilential Expense Cleaning Streets, Etc.—Section 3. All the expenses shall be deemed to be approved by him, and he shall deliver disease, he shall investigate the same and adopt measures of improving, repairing and cleaning streets, avenues and highways the same to the city clerk on demand. to arrest its progress. for which no provision-is made herein for assessing the Contracts—How Executed.—Section 9. All contracts authorized To Make a Circuit of Observation.—2. It shall be the duty same against property benefited, shall be paid out of the general by this chapter for any of the improvements therein of the health officer to make a circuit of observation of every fund. designated, shall be executed on'behalf of the city by the mayor part of the city and environs, from time to time, and in all One Contract for Various Improvements.—Section 4. Two and attested by the cit}' clerk. cases wherein he may discover the existence of any agent, or more improvements upon one or more streets, either of the presence of which will prove dangerous to the health of Lateral Sewer—Paving Contracts.—Section 10. The city paving, curbing, graveling, macadamizing, grading, or filling, the city, and there is no ordinance competent for the correction council may, whenever a contract is let for the paving or macadamizing or of constructing retaining walls, grass plats, protection of the evil, he shall immediately report the same to the of any of the streets, avenues, or alleys, include in fences, area walls, sewers, gutters or drains, or either or any city council, accompanied by his written opinion of the necessity such contract, when deemed expedient or necessary, the construction of them, and the building of any number of walks on one or of extraordinary or particular action. and laying, as far as the property line, of all lateral more streets, may be done at the same time under one resolution Sites—Quarantine Stations.—3. The health officer, by and may sewers, water mains and drain connections that be deemed and may be included in one contract if deemed advisable with the approval of the city, council, may select such sites, expedient or necessary, and in such case the cost of such work by the city council so to do. places and boundaries for quarantine stations and purposes, shall be assessed by said council upon the real estate benefited as may be necessary. Plans, Specifications, Etc.—Section 5. Prior to the passage thereby, and enforced and collected in the manner and under Right to Enter Buildings.—4. For the purpose of carrying of any resolution for the doing of any work or the making of the regulations provided in this chapter for other local improvements out the foregoing requirements, he shall be permitted at ail in the city. any improvement hereinbefore specified, the expense of which times, from the rising to the setting of the sun, to enter into Council Decision Final.—Section 11. In making any improvements is to be assessed upon property benefited, except as otherwise any house, store, stable or other building, and to cause the herein authorized, the city council may select patented specifically provided in this chapter for certain designated floors to be raised if he shall deem it necessary in order to appliances and material to enter into such construction, kinds of improvements, the city council shall cause plans and make a thorough examination of cellars, vaults, sinks or drains, if the cost and maintenance thereof is deemed relatively the specifications of such proposed work, together with an estimate and to cause all privies to be cleaned and kept in good condition, lowest or most satisfactory, all things considered, and the decision of a probable expense thereof, to be made by the city of said council shall be final. and to cause all dead animals or other nuisances or unwholesome engineer, or by such other person as may be employed by the things to be burned or removed or disposed of, as Quarries* Etc.—Section 12. The city council is hereby authorized council for that purpose, and presented to the city council to provide, establish, equip, and maintain, and cause for their consideration and approval and the same shall immediately, he may direct. Notices to Abate Nuisances.—5. To serve notice in writing to be operated for the city, under the supervision of the Street upon the approval thereof by said city council, be upon the owner/ occupant, or agent of any lot, building or Commissioner or City Engineer, municipal quarries for the filed with city clerk for the inspection of all parties interested. premises in or upon which any nuisance may be found, or purpose of providing stone, rock, and macadam for municipal The city council'shall then designate a time not less than upon any person who shall have caused such nuisance, requiring twenty (20) days distant, and a place at which it will meet improvements and uses and suitable works, apparatus and him to abate the same within a reasonable time and and act in relation to the doing of the proposed work and the other facilities for the manufacture, construction and laying such notice may be given or served by any officer who may making of the proposed improvement, and direct that notice of macadam, asphalt, or other kinds of street pavements and sidewalks. be directed to give the same. be given by the city clerk of such meeting, and the time, place Books for Records.—6. It shall be the duty of the health and purpose thereof, and that in the meantime sealed proposals Whenever any material is furnished by or obtained from officer to provide, at the expense of the city, the necessary for the doing of said work and the furnishing of all material any such municipal quarries, works, apparatus or other facili- diSS*/ I®, y*