Chapter 49. to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to make police regulations for the government of said District
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CHAP. 49.— An Act to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to make police regulations for the government of said District.Jan. 26, 1887. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Police regulations, District of Columbia.Commissioners authorized to make regulations concerning:Pawn brokers, junk dealers, and second-band clothes dealers.Inflammable substances. That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, authorized and empowered to make, modify, and enforce usual and reasonable police regulations in and for said District as follows:
First. For causing full inspection to be made, at any reasonable times, of the places where the business of pawnbroking, junk-dealing, or secondhand clothing business may be carried on. Second. To regulate the storage of highly inflammable substances in the thickly populated portions of the District. Third. To locate the places where licensed venders on streets andStreet venders. public places shall stand, and change them as often as the public interests require, and to make all the necessary regulations governing their conduct upon the streets in relation to such business.
Fourth. To make needful regulations for the orderly disposition ofCarriage stands. carriages or other vehicles assembled on streets or public places, and to require vehicles upon such streets and avenues as they deem necessary to pass along on the right side thereof. 369 Fifth. To establish and regulate tire charges to be made by ownersHack charges. of hacks and hackney carriages of any kind whatsoever. Sixth. To prohibit conducting droves of animals upon such streetsDroves of animals. and avenues as they may deem needful to public safety and good order.
Seventh. To regulate the keeping and running at large of dogs andDogs and fowls. fowls. Eighth. To prohibit the deposit upon the streets or sidewalks ofDeposits on streets and sidewalks. fruit, or any part thereof, or other substance or articles that might litter the same, or cause injury to or impede pedestrians. Ninth. To regulate or prohibit loud noises with horns, gongs, or otherNoises and fireworks. instruments, or loud cries, upon the streets or public places, and to prohibit the use of any fireworks or explosives within such portions of the District as they may think necessary to public safety.
Tenth. To regulate the movements of vehicles on the public streetsPassage of vehicles. and avenues for the preservation of order and protection of life and limb. Eleventh. To prescribe reasonable penalties for the violation of anyPenalties for violations. of the regulations in this act mentioned; and said penalties maybe enforced in any court of the District of Columbia having jurisdiction of minor offenses, and in the same manner that, such minor offenses are now by law prosecuted and punished.
Sec. 2. That the regulations herein provided for shall, when adopted,Regulations to be printed. be printed in one or more of the daily newspapers published in the District of Columbia; and no penalty prescribed for the violation of said regulations shall be enforced until thirty days after such publication. Approved, January 26, 1887.