Seven persons charged with the violation of the sanitary laws in maintaining improperly constructed outside closets held a hearing this morning before Justice of Peace J.R. Hardy in the courthouse. In each case the defendant was fined and assessed with the costs, and judgement was supported until March 14 contingent upon the law being complied with.
Mr. A.C. Ricks, State sanitary inspector, and Mr. J.T. Sheppard, local inspector, appeared as witnesses, and made statements relative to the alleged violations.
The inspector (inspection?) from which these cases arose was made in June of last year by the inspectors acting under the State board of health.
This action by the authorities was taken under chapter 71 of the public laws of North Carolina, act of 1919, which sets forth the sort of outhouses that must be built and maintained. The law says that if an officer or inspector of the North Carolina State board of health shall find an outhouse located within 300 yards of the residence of the person other than that the owner or tenant thereof, which is not constructed in accordance with the provisions of section three of this act, he shall securely fasten on the said building a notice reading: “Insanitary; unlawful to use,” and if the inspector officer of the said board shall find in the course of his inspection, an outhouse not being maintained in a sanitary manner and in accordance with the reasonable rules and the regulations of the North Carolina State board of health for the maintenance of such outhouses, he shall remove the license from the place and securely fasten on it a notice reading, “Insanitary; unlawful to use.”
The penalty for violation is a fine of not less than $5 nor more than $50 or imprisonment not exceeding 30 days.
From page 5 of the Wilson Times, Tuesday, March 11, 1924
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