Chapter 229. To amend an Act entitled “An Act to regulate, in the District of Columbia, the disposal of certain refuse, and for other purposes,” approved January twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight
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CHAP. 229.— An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to regulate, in the District of Columbia, the disposal of certain refuse, and for other purposes,” approved January twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight. March 20, 1902.[[Public, No. 50](/us/pl/57/50).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That notwithstanding anything District of Columbia. Temporary privies permitted. Vol. 30, p. 231contained in the Act entitled “An Act to regulate, in the District of Columbia, the disposal of certain refuse, and for other purposes,” approved January twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, the health officer of said District may issue permits for the erection and maintenance of temporary privies under such restrictions as may be essential in the judgment of said health officer to prevent nuisance Permitsor danger to public health; and no person shall erect or maintain a temporary privy in said District without a permit from said health officer so to do, or otherwise than in accordance with the terms of such permit.
Penalty for violation Sec. 2. That any person who shall violate or aid or abet in violating any of the provisions of this Act shall lie punished by a line, not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the workhouse of said District for not more than six months, or by both such tine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. All prosecutions under 75this Act shall be in the police court of said District, on information signed by the city solicitor or one of his assistants.
Sec. 3. That all Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions Inconsistent laws repealed. of this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved, March 20, 1902.