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CANARV -DEPARTMENT COUIICII �
BLUE - MAYOR GITY OF SAINT PA.UL File NO. �r
Ordindnce Ordinance N 0. t ��(�.�
Presented By
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Referred To Committee: Date
Out of Committee By Date
An or�inance repealing certain obsolete
chapters and sections of the Saint Paul Legislative r
Code pertaining to health and sanitation: Chapters
213, Lunch Wagon� upon Streets; 269, Infected Rooms;
271, New Borns with Sore Eyes; 274, Venereal Diseases;
275, Tenement House Storage; and 277, Public Address
System in Hospitals; and Section� 273.04-273.06,
certain tuberculosis regulations.
THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAINT PAUL DOES OR.DAIN:
Section 1.
That the following listed chapters and sections of the
Saint Paul Legislative Code be and the same hereby are
repealed:
213 - Lunch Wagon� Upon Streets, etc.
26g - Infected Rooms
. . 271, - New Borns With Sore Eye� , �y r.
� 274 - Venereal Diseases a � - .. , ,
- - 27� - Tenement House Storage `
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27'7 - Publie Address System in Hospita�.s
_ 273.,04, 2?3,05 ar�a 273.06, tu`berculo�is regulations
Section 2.
This ordinance shall take effect and be in force 30
days from and after its passage, approval and publication.
COU[VCILMEIV Requested by Department of:
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Levine � Against BY
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T���� > >g�g Form Approved by City torney
Ado��e�by Council.�� Date �CT 4 �
Certified P d^by C ncil ecret'�iry BY
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EXPLANATION O�'" MTNISTRATIVE ORDERS, .
� RESOLUTIO 5 AND ORDINANCES � ����
Date: Sept. 5, 1979 �'C � �,. � w �:s f� �
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TO: MAYOR GEORGE LATIMER ���.yE�s� �
FR: City Attorney _ �
p�; Propos�d ordinance to repeal obsolete chapters of Legislative Gode
pertaining to health and sanitation
ACTI�N REQUESTED: _ :
� Council aetion .
PURPOSE AND R.ATIONALE FOR THIS ;ACTION:
Review of Legislative Code brings attention to obsoletG and
redundant provisions: •
213 - Lu�th Wagons Upon Stre��s - Obsolete, cover�d by food ardinance;�
269 - Infected Rooms - Ubsolete, per Division of Publi� Health.
271 - New Borns with Sor� Eyes - Obaolete, per DivisiQa of Publie Heal�h:.
274 - Venereal Diseas�s� - -0bsolete, unconstitution�l. -
275 - Tenement House Sto�age, ete. - Obsolete, per Div. o� Publi� Health,
27'7 - Publie Address System in Hospita,ls - Neither H�alth Officer
nar Buildin.g Of�ici�l indicates a necessity for sueh an -�
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ordinance. _
, 273.04, 273.05 and 273.06, having to do with disinfeetio� o� .
- premises and placarding o� premises in cases of
tuberculosis - obsole�te. ,:
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ATT�CH�IENT5: :
Proposed ordinance, copies oY ordinanees to be repealed:
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213. LUNCH WAGONS UPON STREETS, ETC.
213.01. Restriction. It shall be un]awful for any person to pre-
pare or serve meals or lunches in or from any wagon, stand or inclo-
sure in or upon any of the streets, alleys or public grounds of the
City of St. Paul. _ � •
(Ordincr„nce Q601, a,pproved July 9, 1906.)
269. INFECTED ROOMS
269.01. Duty of Commissioner. It shall be�the duty of the Com-
missioner of Public Safety of the City of St. Paul, when in his opinion
the caicimine, wall paper or other wall or ceiling covered in any room
has becom�infected with a communicable disease, to order the owner
or occupant of, or the person, persons, firm or corporation in charge
of such room, to remove said calcimine, wall paper or other wall or
ceiling covering, and every such owner or occupant or such person,
firm or corporation in charge of such room, when so notified, shall
immediately remove said calcimine, wall paper or other wall or
� ceiling covering. �
(Ordinance 298.�, passed May 16, 1911..)
271. NEPI BORNS WITH SORE EYES '
271.01. Reports. Every physician, midwife; nurse, or other
person attending any child at birth, or within seven days thereafter,
shall report to the Commissioner of Public Safety, or to one of his
assistants, every case of sore eyes developed by said child within
said time, while so attending the same, and said report shall be made
within twenty-four hours after the first appearance of_ said case
of sore eyes. .
(Ordina.nce.`G97.�, passed Aprr,l 6, 1911.)
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274. VENEREAL DISEASES
274.01. Quarantine. Upon the recommendation of the Com-
missioner of Public Safety, syphilis; gonorrhoea and chancroid are
hereby declared to be contagious and infectious diseases and any
person suffering from any thereof or reasonably suspected of suffer-
ing from any of said diseases shall be subjeet to quarantine and
detention until cured.
274.02. Venereal Hospital. For the purpose of quarantining, de-
ta.ining, treating and curing persons suffering from, or reasonably
suspected of suffering from, any of said diseases, there is hereby
established a venereal hospital in the Workhouse of the City of St.
Paul, to be under the direction, management and control of the
Bureau of Hea,lth of said City.
274.03. Detention of Diseased Persons. Any person known ta
be suffering, or rea.sonably suspected of suffering, from any of said
diseases may be taken up by any health officer or police officer of
said City and taken to and placed in said hospital for examination,
and if found to be infected with any of said diseases, shall be retained
therein for trea.tment until discharged as cured by the health officer
of said City.
(Ordinunce 5068, passed March 13, 1919.) .
275. TENEMENT HOUSE STORAGE, ETC.
275.01. Prohibitions, Sec. I. No tenement or lodging house,
nor any portion thereof, shall be used as a place of storage for any
'w' combustible article or rags, or any article dangerous or detrimental
to health, nor shall any horse, cow, calf, swine, pig, sheep or goat
be kept in such house.
(Ordi�x�nce 1681, approved Ma,y 11, 1893.) ,
� 277. PUBLIC ADDftESS SYSTEMS IN HOSPITALS
2i7.01. Public Address System Required. It shall be unlawful
for any person, partnership, association or corporation to maintain
or operate in the City of St. Paul any hospital, sanatorium, rest
home, nursing home, or boarding home, or other related institution
containing twenty=five or more beds unless such institution shall
the.rein provide, operate, and maintain a public address system for
the safety of the patients cared for.
2 i r.02. Definition. A hospital, sanatorium, rest home, nursing
home, boarding home, or other related institution shall mean any in-
stitution, place, building, or agency in which any accommodation is
maintained, furnished, or offered for the hospitalization of tY�e sick
or injured or the care of any aged or infirm persons receiving chronic
or convalescent care. Nothing herein shall apply to hotels, rooming
houses, or other similar places that furnish onlp board and room
or either to their guests:
(Ordinance 10756, possed March 28, 1956.)
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273.04
LEGISLATIVE CODE
273.04. Disinfection of Premises, In case of the vacation of
any apartments or premises, by death .from tuberculosis, or by the
removal therefrom of a person or persons infected with tuberculosis,
it shall be the duty of the person in charge, or the physician in charge,
to notify the Commissioner of Health aforesaid of such removaI,
�vithin twenty-four hours thereafter, and such apartments or prem-
ises so vacated shall not again be occupied until duly renovated and
disinfected as hereinafter provided.
273.05. Duties of Commissioner. In case of the vaca.tion of any
premises or apartments, as set out in 273.04 the Commissioner of
Public Safety, or one of his health officers, shall immediately visit
- � . said premises and shall order and direct that such premises or apart-
ments, and aIl infected articles therein, be properly and suitably
disinfected.
In case there shall be no remaining occupants in such
or apartments, and the same shall be vacant, then the Commiss oner
of Public Safety shall cause a notice in writing to be served upon
the osvner, or the agent of the owner of such premises or apartments,
ordering the renovation and disinfection of such premises or apar�
ments, under the direction of and in conformity with the regulations
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of the local Department of Health.
273.06. Placarding of Premises. In case any orders or direc-
tions of the Commissioner of Public Safety requiring the disinfection
of any articles, premises. or apartments, as hereinbefore provided,
shall not be complied with within thirty-six (36) hours after such
orders or.directions shali be given, then it shall be the duty of the
Commissioner of Public Safety to cause a placa,rd, in words and form
as follows, to be placed upon the door of the infected premises or
• apartments, to-wit:
NOTICE!
Tuberculosis is a communicahle disease. These apartments have
been occupied by a consumptive, and may have become infected. They
must not be occupied until the order of the Commissioner directin$
their renovation and disinfection has been complied with.
This notice must not be removed under penalty of law, except by
the Commissioner of Public Safety, or an authorized officer.
And such placard shall not be removed until such a time as_the
order or directions of the Commissioner of Public Safety shall have
been complied with, and the removal of such placard authorized by
the Commissioner of Public Safety. ,
(Ordinance 2127, ccpproved Febrrc¢ry .�, 1904.)
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� EXPLANATION O�'� / MINISTR.ATIVE ORDERS, f `�'J U �J
RESOLUTIO S AND ORDINANCES
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Date : 5ept. 5, 1979
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TO: NIAYOR GEORGE LATIMER
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FR: City Attorney , ,.- �,
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pertaining to health and sanitation - -
ACTIO�T REQUESTED: � ��"� �� � � -
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PURPOSE AND R.ATIONALE FOR THIS ACTION. � � �
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" Review o� Legislative Code brings attention to obsolete and
redundant provisions: - - - _
213 - Luni�h Wagons Upon S�treets - Obsolete, covered by food ordinance;
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269 - Infected Rooms - Obsolete, per �Division of Public Health.
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2'71 - New Borns with Sore Eyes - Obsolete, per Division of Public Health.
274 - Venereal Diseases• - Obsoletea uneonstitutional.
2'75 - Tenement House Storage, ete. - Obsolete, per Div. of Public Health.
27'7 - Public Address System in Hospi ta.ls - Neither Health OfSicer
nor Building :0��icial indicates a necessity for such an �
ordina.nce. -
, 273.04, 273.05 and 273.06, having� to do with disinfection of
premises and placarding of premises in cases of -
tuberculosis - obsolete. �
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�1TTACHAIENTS :
Proposed ordinance, copies of ordinances to be repealed.
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3rd —{��� Adopted
Yeas Nays
BUTLER
HUNT
LEVINE �
MADDOX '�+�����
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SHOWALTER �
TEDESCO
PRESIDENT (HOZZA)