SUPPLEMENT TO THE REVISED MUNICIPAL CODE OF CHICAGO OF 1905 CONTAINING ALL GENERAL ORDINANCES PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL BETWEEN MARCH 20, 1905, AND SEPTEMBER 25, 1905. LOTTERIES. Passed March 27, 1905. Be it ordained by the city council of the city of Chicago: Section 1. No person shall keep, occupy or use, or permit to be kept, occupied or used, a place, building, room, establishment, table or apparatus for policy playing or for the purchase, sale, exchange, or redemption of what are commonly called lottery tickets or policy tickets. No person shall deliver or receive money or other valuable consideration in playing policy or in aiding in the playing thereof, or for lottery or policy tickets, or for any writing, paper or document in the nature of a bet, wager or insurance upon the drawing or drawn numbers of any lottery or policy game, whether such drawing be real or imaginary. No person, except a public officer, shall have in his possession, custody or control any writing, paper or document representing or being a record of any chance, share or interest in numbers sold, drawn or to be drawn, in what is commonly called policy, or in the nature of a bet, wager or insurance upon the drawing or drawn numbers of any public or private lottery or policy game, whether such drawing be real or imaginary. No person, other than a public officer, shall have in his possession, custody or control any paper, print, writing, numbers, device, policy slip, policy sheet or article of any kind such as is commonly used in carrying on, promoting or playing the game commonly called policy. No person shall sell, offer for sale, vend, barter, exchange, give away, deal in or in any way dispose of or redeem any ticket, order, slip or device of any kind for or representing any number of shares or any interest in any lottery, policy or scheme of chance of any kind or description by whatever name, style or title the same may be denominated or known, and whether located or to be drawn, paid or carried on within or without the limits of the city of Chicago, or whether such purported drawings be real or imaginary. No person shall either publicly or privately, as owner or agent, establish, open, set on foot, carry on, promote, make, draw, or act as "backer" or "vender" for or on account of, any lottery, policy or scheme of chance of any kind or description by whatever name, style or title the same may be denominated or known, whether located or to be drawn, paid or carried on within or without the limits of the city, and whether such drawings be real or imaginary, and no person shall be in any way concerned in any such lottery, policy or scheme of chance as aforesaid. No person who is the owner, lessor, lessee, agent, superintendent, janitor or care-taker of any place building or room shall permit policy playing or the barter, sale, exchange or redemption of what are commonly called lottery or policy tickets or slips or the sale of any chances in alleged drawings in lotteries or policies to be carried on in such place, building or room, whether such drawings be real or imaginary. No person shall patronize, frequent or be found in any place, building, room or establishment kept, occupied or used for policy playing, for policy or lottery drawings, or for the sale of what are commonly called lottery or policy tickets or slips, or in which are kept any paper, prints, writings, numbers, devices, policy slips, policy tickets, policy sheets or article of any kind, such as is commonly used in carrying on, promoting or playing the game or scheme commonly called policy. No person shall write, print, publish, circulate or distribute in any way an account of any lottery, policy or scheme of chance of any kind or description by whatsoever name, style or title the same may be denominated or known, and no person shall write, print, publish, circulate or distribute any book, pamphlet, circular, sheet or paper whatsoever containing or purporting to contain information concerning any lottery, policy or scheme of chance, or where the same is to be or has been drawn, or the prizes therein or any of them or the price of a ticket, or where any such ticket may be or has been ob tained, or any way giving publicity to any such lottery, policy or scheme of chance, whether the drawings therein referred to be real or imaginary. No person shall aid, assist or abet in any manner, or be a party to any of the offenses, acts or matters hereinbefore specified. Section 2. Every person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall upon conviction thereof be subject to a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than two hundred dollars. Section 3. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage, approval and publication. SCAVENGERS. Passed March 27, 1905. Be it ordained by the city council of the city of Chicago: Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation within the city of Chicago to engage in the business of collecting, gathering or transporting butcher's offal, calf skins, hotel or restaurant bones, grease, glue stock, or kindred refuse by wagon, cart or otherwise, or drive any wagon or vehicle for such purpose through the streets, alleys or public places of the city of Chicago without a permit from the commissioner of health. Section 2. Any person, firm or corporation, desiring to engage in such business shall first make written application therefor to the commissioner of health, in which application there shall be set forth the nature of the business to be carried on, and whether the applicant is a firm, copartnership or corporation, with the names and business addresses of members of such firms or officers of such corporations. making such application. The commissioner of health shall thereupon investigate the character and standing of the applicant, and submit to the mayor said application, with his opinion as to the propriety of granting such permit; and if the mayor shall be satisfied that the person or persons mentioned are of good character, reputation and responsibility, and are suitable persons to be trusted with the conduct of such business, he shall cause to be issued to said applicant a license for that purpose. Every applicant for such license shall, before the issue thereof, pay into the city treasury, as an annual license fee, the sum of one hundred dollars. Any license so granted may be revoked upon written notice by the mayor to the holder, whenever, upon the recommendation of the commissioner of health, it shall appear to the mayor that the party so licensed has violated the provisions of this ordinance, or is con ducting said business in violation of any other ordinance of the city of Chicago or law of the state of Illinois. Section 3. All carts, wagons and vehicles used by the person, firm or corporation thus licensed for the collection of such material in bulk shall be provided with tight bodies or boxes, and the sides thereof shall be sufficiently high above the load of contents that no part of the contents shall fall, leak or spill therefrom, and every vehicle so employed shall be covered with a waterproof tarpaulin or heavy canvas cover which shall be kept in a clean, sanitary condition, and which shall always be tightly spread over the top of said vehicle. In all cases where such material is transported in packages, said package, whether it be a box, barrel or can, shall be water tight and closely covered so as to prevent any of the contents from leaking or spilling or falling therefrom, onto any sidewalk, street, alley or public place. Such carts, vehicles, and all implements used in connection therewith must be kept in an inoffensive and sanitary condition, thoroughly washed daily. Section 4. No butcher's offal, calf skins, glue stock, hotel or restaurant bones, grease or kindred refuse shall be permitted to remain in any wagon or vehicle used in its collection or conveyance for any period longer than fifteen hours, and all such material so collected or conveyed, shall be unloaded at some plant within the city limits licensed to utilize such material. No vehicle containing such material shall be permitted to remain or be stored in any public or private barn, building, thoroughfare, alley, or in any other place (except plants licensed to utilize such material) within the limits of the city of Chicago, over night, and the storing of any butcher's offal, calf skin, glue stock, hotel or restaurant bones, grease or kindred refuse in wagons or vehicles upon any premises within the limits. of the city of Chicago shall be deemed, and is hereby declared, a public nuisance. Section 5. During the period beginning with the 1st day of May and ending upon the 15th day of October in each year, no butcher's offal, calf skins, glue stock, hotel or restaurant bones, grease or kindred refuse, shall be collected from said shops, hotels, or restaurants in any street or alley of the city of Chicago in the district bounded on the north by the Chicago river, on the south by 12th street, on the west by the Chicago river, and on the east by Lake Michigan, between the hours of ten o'clock a. M. and 7 o'clock P. M. Section 6. Any person, firm or corporation who violates, disobeys, omits, neglects or refuses to comply, or resists any of the provisions of this ordinance, shall, whenever no other or different penalty is provided, upon conviction be subject to a fine of not less than ten dollars, nor more than twenty-five dollars for each offense, and any person who shall hereafter engage in the business of gathering or conveying butcher's offal, calf skins, glue stock, hotel or restaurant bones, grease or kindred refuse, through or upon any public street or alley within the limits of the city of Chicago, without first having obtained a license as above provided, shall be deemed violating the ordinance and fined not less than ten dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars for each and every day the person, firm or corporation proceeds in violation of this ordinance. Section 7. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the 1st of May, 1905. OPENINGS IN SIDEWALKS. Passed May 22, 1905. Be it ordained by the city council of the city of Chicago: Section 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation owning or using any coal hole, sidewalk lift, outside stairway or other opening in any public sidewalk, to allow the same to remain uncovered or opened, except while the same is actually being used for the purpose of entrance or exit, or for the purpose of introducing or removing any article through such opening. Section 2. Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of section 1 hereof shall upon conviction thereof, be subject to a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than two hundred dollars. Section 3. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage, approval and publication. APPROVAL OF LICENSE BONDS. Passed June 12, 1905. Be it ordained by the city council of the city of Chicago: Section 1. That section 1333 of the Revised Municipal Code of Chicago of 1905, passed March 20th, 1905, be and the same is hereby amended so as to hereafter read as follows: "Section 1333. (License bond-approval of) Any bond given by any person or corporation to the city, under its license ordinances shall before a license is granted, be approved by the city collector or city clerk." Section 2. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict with the provisions of this ordinance be and the same are hereby repealed. CHIC. CODE. 45. |