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ORDINANCE NO. 8762
An Ordinance to regulate the storage of explosives and regulating com-
bustible materials and rubbish of a combustible nature.
THE CITY OF EUGENE DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation
to keep for sale or storage in any store, building, or other place within tl~e
corporate limits of the City of Eugene any explosives, provided that not to exceed
50 pounds of gun powder, giant powder, and dynamite, not to aggregate to exceed
100 pounds, may be stored or kept for sale within the City limits and such amount
or any portion thereof shall be kept in a box plainly marked on the cover with the
name of the contents, and such box shall be provided with handles for the easy
moving thereof and shall be kept iri such -places within the room of the building as
shall be directed by the Chief Fire Warden.
Section 2. No person, firm, or copporation shall maintain, permit, or allow
any pile of rubbish, boards, old lumber, barrels, old boxes, or other inflammable
material except such as may be prepared for and actually stored for fuel, to be
or remain upon the premises owned by or under the control of such person, firm,
or corporation within the City of Eugene. And any person, firm, or managing officer
of such corporation who shall refuse or neglect for a period of three days to
remove such inflammable materials from said premises, of ter being notified so to
do by the City marshal or chief fire warden, ,shall be punished upon conviction therE
of before the city recorder as directed in Section 3 of this ordinance.
Section 3. Any person violating the provisions of this ordinance, upon
conviction thereof before the city recorder, shall be deemed guilty of a misdem.eanoi
and shall be punished by a fine of not less than X50.00 nor more than w100.00
and, in default of the payment thereof, shall be imprisoned in the city jail one
day for every X2.00 of sucYr fine and costs.
Passed by the Common Council
this 22nd day of February, 1943.
/s/ John Fields
Recor--der Pro Tem
Approved by the Mayor this
23rd day of February, 1943.
/s/ El isha Lame
Mayor