HomeMy WebLinkAbout0721 0R~INANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE relating to the placing of wood, lumber or ~ther material upon any
premises within a certain distance of house used as a residence; and providing pen-
alties for the violation thereof.
The City Council of the City off Bremerton do ordain as follows:
Sac. 1. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to stack, have or maintain,
sny fuel, wood, lumber, ~osts or building material, or any combustible or inflammable
material more than six feet high within eight fee~ of any residence, or building, 'not
his own, used as a residence.
Sec. 2. All stacks of wood, fuel, l~nber, posts, building material or any combust-i
ible or inflammable material now stacked, orpiled or maintained more than six feet
high Within eight feet of any frame building used as a residence, by any person other
than the one who owns said building, used as a residence, is hereby declared to be
maintained unlawfully and to be a public nuisance and a fire nuisance, 'and against
the peace, health, and public welfare of said citY, and the owner ~hereof, or the
person maintaining said nuisance.are hereby commanded to abate such. nuisance by
the ~emoval of such material within l0 days after th'e passage, approval and publica-
tion of this ordinance, and if same are not so removed, the Chief of Police of the
City of Bremertonis hereby directed to take the necessary asistance and remove same.
Sec. 3. Any person or persons violating the provisions of this ordinance shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by
a fine of no~ more than $300, or imprisionment in the city Jail for not more than 90
day~, o~-by bo~h such fine and imprisonment.
Sec. 4. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect five days from and a~ter
i~s passage, approval and publication as provided by law.
Passed by ~he City Council of the City of Bremerton and approved by me this 25th
day of April, 1921.
~ ~0ity 01erk.