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".1'\ r , .-, 'jA 1'..::. . r. . . ORDINANCE NO. 744 --l AN ORDINANCE TO PROTECT THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND PROMOTE THE PUBLIC WELFARE OF THE CITY,OF LA PORTE" TEXAS" BY PROHIBITING THE THROW- ING" PLACING" ETC." OF GARBAGE AND TRASH ON STREETS, OR HIGHWAYS" SIDEWALKS AND ALLEYS OF THE CITY OF LA PORTE; REQUIRING THE REMOVAL OF SUCH MATERIAL FROM HIGHWAYS; MAKING IT UNLAWFUL FOR ANY PERSON TO THROW PAPER OR TRASH ON ANY STREET, OR .sIDEWALK; MAKING IT UNLAWFUL TO THROW MANURE" HULLS" PEELINGS" HANDBILLS" ETC." ON SIDEWALKS". STREETS OR OTHER PUBLIC PLACES; PROVIDING THAT ANY PERSON VIOLATING THE TERMS OF THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BE DEEMED GUILTY OF A MISDEMEANOR" AND UPON CONVICTION SHALL BE FINED IN ANY StJ1V.l NOT LESS THAN TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS ($25.00) NOR MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS ($200.00) AND EACH DAY. OF VIOLATION SHiALL BE DEEMED A SEPARATE OFFENSE; DEFINING TERMS; PROVIDING A REPEALING. AND SAVING CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE HEREOF. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LA PORTE" TEXAS" THAT: Section 1. Definitions As used in this Ordinance" unless the context clearly requires otherwise: (1) Vehicle means every device in or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a publiC highway. (2) Garbage means all animal or vegetable matter" such as waste material and refuse from kitchens" resi- dences" grocery stores" butcher shops" restaurants" hotels" rooming and boarding houses" and other deleterious substances and any other matter commonly understood to be garbage. (3) Trash means rubbish" such as feathers" coffee grounds" ashes" tin cans" paper" boxes" glass" grass" shrubs" yard cleanings" grass clippings" leaves and tree trimmings" and any other matter commonly under- stood to be trash. Street or Highway means the entire width between the boundary'lines of every way publiCly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel" (4) 7 I (5) Sidewalk means that portion of a street between the curb lines" or the lateral lines of a roadway" and the adjacent property lines intended for the use of pedestrians. Se:ction 2.' Putting glass" etc." on highways prohibited No' person shall throw or deposit upon any highway any glass bottle" glass" nails" tacks" wire" cans" or any other substance likely to injure any person" animal or vehicle upon such highway.