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1329. Public Nuisance-Any person who maintains or commits any public nuisance, the punishment for which is not otherwise prescribed, or who wilfully omits to perform any legal duty relating to the removal of a public nuisance, is guilty of a misdemeanor. (2517, R. L. 1910.)

A house or place kept for the purpose of enabling persons to place bets or wagers upon horse races is a common gambling house, a nuisance per se. 4a, 587.

1330. Infectious Diseases-Any person who shall inoculate himself or any other person or shall suffer himself to be inoculated with smallpox, syphilis or gonorrhoea and shall spread or cause to be spread to any other persons with intent to or recklessly be responsible for the spread of or prevalence of such infectious disease, shall be deemed a felon, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not more than five years or less than two years. (2518, R. L. 1910.)

1331. Exposing Contagious Disease-Any person who wilfully exposes himself or another person, being affected with any contagious disease, in any public place or thoroughfare, except in his necessary removal in a manner not dangerous to the public health, is guilty of a misdemeanor. (2540, R. L. 1910.)

1332. Intoxicated Person Not to Prescribe Medicine-Any person not a physician while in a state of intoxication who shall prescribe any poison, drug or medicine to another person, shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not more than one year or by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars. (2519, R. L. 1910.)

1333. Contagious Disease Among Animals-Any person who shall suffer to run at large, or who shall keep in any place where other animals can have access to or become infected by them, any horse, mare, mule, ass, ox, bull, cow, sheep or other domestic animals owned by him, or in his care or possession, and known by him, or good reason to believe such animal to be infected by glanders, farcy, or Texas mange, or other infectious or contagious disease, or who shall bring into this State any diseased cattle, shall be punished, upon conviction of the same, by imprisonment in the county jail not more than one year or by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars. (2520, R. L. 1910.)

1334. Disposition of Animals Dying of Contagious Diseases -It shall be the duty of the owner of any domestic animal of the State of Oklahoma, which may hereafter die of any contagious or infectious disease, either to burn the carcass thereof or bury the same within twenty-four hours after he has notice or knowledge of such fact, so that no part of such carcass shall be nearer than two and one-half feet of the surface of the soil: Provided, that all hogs dying of any disease shall be burned. It shall further be unlawful to bury any such carcass as mentioned in this section in any land along any stream or ravine, where it is liable to become exposed through erosion of the soil, or where such land is at any time subject to overflow. Owner, as used in this section, shall mean and include any person having domestic animals in his possession, either by reason of ownership, rent, hire, loan, or otherwise, and shall be subject to all the pains and penalties of this article. (2521, 1910.)

For information and proof, Kern, et al. v. State, 4 Okla. Cr. 484; Tobin v. State, 4 Okla. Cr. 412.

1335. Leaving Carcass in Certain Places-It shall be unlawful for any person to leave or deposit, or cause to be deposited or left, the carcass of any animal, whether the same shall have died from disease or otherwise, in any well, spring, pond or stream of water; or leave or deposit the same within one-fourth of a mile of any occupied dwelling or of any public highway, without burying the same as provided in the preceding section of this article. (2522, R. L. 1910.)

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1336. Violation a Misdemeanor-Any person who violates the two preceding sections shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. (2523 R. L. 1910.)

1337. Slaughter Houses-If any owner or occupier of any slaughter house or any premises where hogs, beeves or other animals are slaughtered, shall permit the same to remain unclean, to the annoyance of the citizens of this State, or any of them, every person so offending shall be fined upon conviction for every such offense in any sum not less than five nor more than twenty-five dollars, and if said nuisance be not removed within five days thereafter, it shall be deemed a second offense against the provisions of this section. (2524 R. L. 1910.)

1338. Selling or Buying Carcass-If any person shall barter, sell or dispose of the carcass of any swine or other domestic animals, infected with cholera or other infectious diseases at the time of death, to any person for the purpose of manufacturing the same into lard, soap or for any purpose; or if any person shall buy or otherwise obtain the carcass of any swine or other domestic animals infected with cholera or other infectious diseases at the time of death, for manufacturing purposes as aforesaid or any other purpose except that of burial or burning, he shall be fined in any sum not to exceed fifty dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail not more than thirty days. (2525 R. L. 1910.)

1339. Selling or Driving on Highway-It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or otherwise dispose of any live swine that is infected with cholera or any other contagious disease; or to drive any such swine on the public highways after any such person or persons have received knowledge of any such contagious diseases. (2526 R. L. 1910.)

1340. Violation a Misdemeanor-Any person violating the provisions of the preceding section shall be fined in any sum not to exceed fifty dollars or be imprisoned in the county jail not more than thirty days. (2527 R. L. 1910.)

1341. Throwing Gas Tar into Public Water-Any person who throws or deposits any gas tar, or refuse of any gas house or factory, into any public waters, river or stream, or into any sewer or stream emptying into any such public waters, river or stream, is guilty of a misdemeanor. (2528 R. L. 1910.)

1342. Quarantine Regulations-Any person who, having been lawfully ordered by any health officer to be detained in

quarantine and not having been discharged, leaves the quarantine grounds or wilfully violates any quarantine law cr regulation, is guilty of a misdemeanor. (2529 R. L. 1910.)

1343. Apothecary Liable for Negligence-Every apothecary or every person employed as clerk or salesman by an apothecary, or otherwise carrying on business as a dealer in drugs or medicines, who in putting up any drugs or medicines, wilfully, negligently or ignorantly omits to label the same, or puts any untrue label, stamp or other designation of contents upon any box, bottle or other package containing any drugs or medicines, or substitutes a different article for any article prescribed or ordered, or puts up a greater or less quantity of any article than that prescribed or ordered, or otherwise deviates from the terms of the prescription or order which he undertakes to follow, in consequence of which human life or health is endangered, is guilty of a misdemeanor. L. 1910.)

(2530 R.

1344. Laying Out Poisons-Whoever shall, except in a safe place on his own premises, lay out strychnine or other poison, is guilty of a misdemeanor. (2531 R. L. 1910.)

1345. Ferries Must Be Licensed-Any person who maintains any ferry for profit or hire upon any waters within this State without having first obtained a license, is guilty of a misdemeanor. And any license or lease granted by the board of county commissioners of the proper county shall be exclusive to the lessee or licensee for a distance of two miles from the place where such ferry is located, up and down such stream either way; and any person who shall ferry, transport or carry or attempt to ferry, transport or carry any passengers, goods, chattels or merchandise, or who shall have, keep or maintain any scow, skiff or boat for the purpose of ferrying, transporting or carrying any passengers, goods, chattels or merchandise upon any water of this State within a distance of two miles of any licensed ferry, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and may be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or thirty days' imprisonment in the county jail, or by both fine and imprisonment; when such ferry is upon waters dividing two counties, the offenders may be prosecuted in either county. (2534 R. L. 1910.)

1346. Ferry Bond Violated-Any person who having entered into a bond or obligation, as provided by his ferry charter or any general law on the subject of ferries, to keep and attend a ferry violates the condition of such bond or obligation, is guilty of a misdemeanor. (2535 R. L. 1910.)

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Failure to Ring Bell of Locomotive-Any person in charge, as engineer, of a locomotive engine, who omits to cause a bell to ring or a steam whistle to sound at the distance of at least eighty rods from the place where the track crosses, on the same level, any traveled public way, is punishable by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding sixty days. (2536 R. L. 1910.)

1348. Refusing to Aid at Fires-Any person who, at any burning of a building is guilty of any disobedience to lawful orders of any public officer or fireman, or of any resistance to or interference with the lawful efforts of any fireman or company of firemen to extinguish the same, or of any disorderly conduct calculated to prevent the same from being extinguished, or who forbids, prevents or dissuades others from assisting to extinguish the same, is guilty of a misdemeanor. (2533 R. L. 1910.)

1349. Railroad Repair Tracks to Be Sheltered-It shall be unlawful for any railroad corporation, or other person, who owns, controls or operates any lines of railroad in the State to build, construct or repair railroad equipment without first erecting and maintaining at every division point a building or shed over the repair tracks, same to be provided with a floor where such construction or repair is permanently done, so as to provide that all men employed in the construction or repair of cars, trucks, and other railroad equipment, shall be under shelter during snows, sleet, rain and other inclement weather. (3777 R. L. 1910.)

1350. Penalty-Every person or corporation, or manager, superintendent, foreman or agent of any person or corporation, who shall fail or refuse to comply with the provisions of the preceding section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, and each day that said person or corpora tion or its manager, superintendent, foreman or agent shall refuse or fail to comply with the provisions of said section shall constitute a separate and distinct violation thereof: (3778 R. L. 1910.)

1351. Repairing of Steam Boilers-It shall be unlawful for any railroad company or any other person, firm or corporation, using steam boilers, to command, order or permit by themselves or their agents any of their employees to enter any steam boiler, fire-box, or smoke chamber thereto, for the pur

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