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FEES FOR SEARCHES AND TRANSCRIPTS.

87. The Public Registers of Births, Marriages or Deaths, when not in actual use by the officers or clerks of the Bureau of Vital Statistics, may be searched by applicants during the regular office-hours, free of charge.

88. Whenever application is made for a search of the Registers of Births, Marriages or Deaths by any officer or clerk of the Bureau of Vital Statistics, fees shall be paid for such service as follows:

a. For each and every search for the public registry of a death, extending over a period not exceeding one year.....

.... $0 50

b. For each and every search for the public registry of a marriage, extending over a period not exceeding one year.....

c. For each and every search for the public registry of a birth, extending over a period not exceeding one year....

d. For searching any additional year of records.

e. For transcript of any record of a birth, marriage or death (5 cts. per folio and 5 cts. for certificate and seal) ......

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ƒ. The fees for a search for the record of any birth, marriage or death not to exceed.. 2 00 89. Applications for the services of any employés of this department, in searching the records, must be made to the Secretary, and the fees paid to him before such service is rendered. Fees for transcripts of the records shall be paid upon the sealing and delivery of the certificates. The Secretary shall give to applicants for such service an order upon the Register of Records, which shall state the name to be searched for, the year or years, and other necessary particulars, with the amount of fees paid, which orders shall be preserved and filed in the Bureau of Vital Statistics.

90. An account of all fees collected shall be kept in the office of the Secretary, and a monthly report of the same shall be made to the Board. On the first day of each month, the amount of fees collected for the previous month shall be deposited with the City Chamberlain.

THE SANITARY CODE.

THE Sanitary Ordinances adopted by the Department of Health, called the Sanitary Code, and conformed to Article XI. of Chapter 335, of the Laws of 1873, by the Board of Health, June 2, 1873, with the amendments and additional provisions pursuant to Section 82 of said article, added and published to September 1, 1875.

DEFINITIONS OF TERMS.

SECTION 1. That the terms "Board," "this Board," and "said Board," shall be held to mean the "Board of Health of the Health Department of the City of New York;" that the word "Department," wherever used herein, shall be held to mean the Health Department of the City of New York; that the words "person," "owner," "tenant," "lessee," " occupant," "contractor," "party,” “manager,” “Board,” and “officer," shall respectively be held to apply to and include, both jointly and severally, each and all owners, part-owners, tenants, lessees, occupants, managers, contractors, parties in interest, persons, officers, boards, and corporations, who may sustain the relations, or may be in like position of any one or more thereof referred to in any ordinance or regulation; that every order, ordinance, or regulation declared applicable to the built-up portion of New York, shall, so far as the subject-matter thereof is applicable (save as to interments), and so far as this Board has authority to make the same, be held to include and apply to the built-up portions of said city; that every word or phrase anywhere herein defined shall be held to include the same sense wherever used; that the words "city," or "this city," or "said city," whenever used herein, shall be held to mean the city of New York; that the word "regulations" shall be held to include "special regulations" (which latter will be from time to time issued, and will contain more detailed provisions than can be herein conveniently set forth); that the word "permit " shall be construed to mean the permission in writing of this Board, issued according to its by-laws, rules, regulations, and Sanitary Code; and that every "report" herein required shall be held to be a report in writing, signed by the person (and indicating his official position) who makes the same; that the word “light,” or “lighted,” shall be held to refer to natural, external light; and that all words and phrases herein defined shall also include their usual and natural meanings, as well as those herein especially given.

SEC. 2. That the word "street," when used in the Sanitary Code, shall be held to include avenues, sidewalks, gutters, and public alleys; and the words "public place" shall be held to include parks, piers, docks, and wharves, and water and open spaces thereto adjacent, and also public yards, grounds, and areas, and all open spaces between buildings and streets, and in view of such streets; the word "ashes" shall be held to include cinders, coal, and every thing that usually remains after fires; the word "rubbish" shall be held to include all the loose and decayed material and dirt-like substance that attends use or decay, or which accumulates from building, storing, or cleaning; the word "garbage" shall be held to include

every accumulation of both animal and vegetable matter, liquid or otherwise, that attends the preparation, decay, and dealing in or storage of meats, fish, fowl, birds, or vegetables; and the word "dirt" shall be held to mean natural soil, earth, and stone.

SEC. 3. That a "tenement-house" shall be taken to mean and include every house, building, or portion thereof which is rented, leased, let, or hired out to be occupied, or is occupied as the house, home, or residence of more than three families living independently of one another, and doing their cooking upon the premises, or by more than two families upon a floor, so living and cooking, but having a common right in the halls, stairways, yards, waterclosets, or privies, or some of them. A "lodging-house" shall be taken to mean and include any house or building, or portion thereof, in which persons are harbored or received, or lodged for hire for a single night, or for less than a week at one time, or any part of which is let for any person to sleep in for any term less than a week. A "cellar" shall be taken to mean and include every basement or lower story of any building or house of which onehalf or more of the height from the floor to the ceiling is below the level of the street adjoining. The phrase "boarding-house" shall be held to include every building, and every story and portion thereof, which is at any time or usually used, leased, or occupied, or intended so to be, by any number of persons, exceeding ten, as boarders thereat. The word "manufactory" shall be held to include every building, and every story and portion thereof, in which any sort of labor or work is done, which calls for the continual or usual presence of several persons during several hours of the day or night engaged about said work or labor; and the word "saloon" shall be held to include every portion of any building in which the business of selling meals, liquors, drinks, or refreshments of any kind, shall be conducted, and includes "concert-saloons."

SEC. 4. That the term "theatre" shall be held to include the building, rooms, and place where any play, concert, opera, circus, trick of jugglery, show, gymnastic, or other exhibition, masquerade, public dance, drill, lecture, address, or other public or frequent gathering or amusement, are, is, or may be held, given, performed, or take place, and the approach or approaches to and appurtenances thereof.

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SEC. 5. That the word "physician" shall include dentists, and every other person who practises about the cure of the sick or injured, or who has the charge of, or professionally prescribes for, any person sick, injured, or diseased, and any person who pursues the business of, or acts as midwife; that the phrase contagious disease" shall be held to include all persons sick, affected, or attacked by or of a disease of an infectious, contagious, or pestilential nature (more especially, however, referring to the cholera, yellow fever, small-pox, diphtheria, ship, or typhus, typhoid, spotted, relapsing, and scarlet fevers), and also including any new disease of an infectious, contagious, or pestilential nature, and also any other disease publicly declared by this Board dangerous to the public health; and every physician in said city shall at all times cause his or her name, office, and residence, and also his or her kind and class of practice, to be registered within the Bureau of Vital Statistics, and in a manner according to the regulations prescribed by this Board.

SEC. 6. That the word "meat," whenever herein used, includes every part of any landanimal and eggs (whether mixed or not with any other substance); and the word "fish" includes every part of any animal that lives in water, or the flesh of which is not meat; and the word "vegetable" includes every article of human consumption as food, which (not being meat, or fish, or milk) is held, or offered, or intended for sale or consumption, as food for human beings, at any place in said city; and all fish and meat found therein shall be deemed to be therein, and held for such sale or consumption as such food, unless the contrary be distinctly proved.

SEC. 7. That the word "cattle" shall be held to include all animals, except birds, fowl, and fish, of which any part of the body is used as food; the word "butcher" shall be held

to include whoever is engaged in the business of keeping, driving, or slaughtering any cattle, or in selling any meat; the words "private market" shall include every store, cellar, stand, and place (not being part of a public market) at which the business is the buying, selling, or keeping for sale, of meat, fish, or vegetables for human food.

MISFEASANCE AND NONFEASANCE.

SEC. 8. That no person shall carelessly or negligently do, or advise or contribute to the doing of any act or thing dangerous to the life, or detrimental to the health, of any human being; nor shall any person knowingly do, or advise, or contribute to the doing of any such act or thing (not actually authorized by law), except with justifiable motives and for adequate reasons; or shall any person omit to do any act, or to take any precaution, reasonable and proper, to prevent or remove danger or detriment to the life or health of any human being.

OBEDIENCE TO ORDINANCES AND REGULATIONS.

SEC. 9. That every contractor in these ordinances referred to, and every person who has contracted, or undertakes, or is bound to do, or is engaged in doing, any one of those things, in respect of which these ordinances contain provisions or regulations, shall comply with these ordinances, to the extent that any contract, obligation, or duty, requires or permits; and no direction of any contractors or persons shall excuse him for a non-compliance with any of said ordinances.

SEC. 10. That every person shall observe and obey each and every special regulation, and every order of this Board that is or may be made, for carrying into effect any of the ordinances or powers hereinbefore or hereinafter contained, or any law of this State, or otherwise, whether issued directly by the Board, or promulgated by any Bureau charged therewith, as if the same had been herein inserted at length.

ENFORCEMENT OF ORDINANCES.

SEC. 11. That the Inspectors of this Department, and its proper officers and agents, shall make the inspections and examinations required by law; that the Board of Police of the City of New York do execute and cause to be executed all the orders of this Board when so specially ordered; and all persons are hereby forbidden to interfere with or obstruct such inspection, examination, or execution.

SEC. 12. That, except as herein specially or otherwise provided, or as may be hereafter provided, or as is otherwise made necessary by the laws of the State, the Board of Police of the Police Department shall, through its proper officers and men, and as near as may be according to its existing regulations, or amendments to be made thereto, on advice with this Department, and subject to the supervision of this Department, carry into effect and exercise the sanitary powers heretofore exercised by the Board of Police; and that said Board of Police shall keep this Department regularly advised of its action in that behalf, and shall conform to these and all future ordinances, and to all special regulations of this Department.

BILLS OF HEALTH.

SEC. 13. That no person, officer, or Board within said city (except this Board or its proper officers, or proper officers of any Bureau of this Department, and as the regulations prescribed by this Board shall provide), shall grant, sign, or deliver any certificate, or "Bill of Health."

MEDICINES, ADULTERATIONS, AND POISONS.

SEC. 14. That no doctor, druggist, or other person shall make, sell, put up, prepare, or administer any prescription, decoction, or medicine under any deceptive or fraudulent name

direction, or pretense; nor shall any false or deceptive representation be made by any person to any other as to the kind, quality, purpose, or effect of any such or other drug, medicine, decoction, drink, or other article offered or intended to be taken as food or medicine.

SEC. 15. That no poisonous medicine, decoction, or substance shall be held for sale or sold, except for lawful purposes and with proper motives, and by persons competent to give the proper directions and precautions as to the use thereof; nor shall any bottle, box, parcel, or receptacle thereof be delivered to any person unless the same is marked “poison,” nor to any person who the party delivering the same has reason to think intends it for any illegal or improper use or purpose.

SEC. 16. That no person shall make, offer, or have for sale, or keep at any place of sale, any "poisonous, unwholesome, deleterious, or adulterated drugs, medicines, or food," or in respect thereto omit any act or thing required, or do any act forbidden by any law or health regulation of this State applicable in any part of said city.

CONSTRUCTION OF BUILDINGS, VENTILATION, AND DRAINAGE.

SEC. 17. That no person shall hereafter erect, or cause to be erected, or converted to a new purpose by alteration, any building or structure which, or any part of which, shall be inadequate or defective in respect to strength, ventilation, light, sewerage, or of any other usual, proper, or necessary provision or precaution; nor shall the builder, lessee, tenant, or occupant of any such or of any other building or structure (within the right or ability of either to remedy or prevent the same), cause or allow any matter or thing to be or to be done in or about any such building or structure dangerous or prejudicial to life or health.

SEC. 18. That no owner or lessee of any building, or any part thereof, shall lease or let, or hire out the same, or any portion thereof, to be occupied by any person, or allow the same to be occupied as a place in which or for any one to dwell or lodge, except when said buildings or such parts thereof are sufficiently lighted, ventilated, provided, and accommodated, and are in all respects in that condition of cleanliness and wholesomeness, for which this Code or any law of this State provides, or in which they or either of them require any such premises to be kept. Nor shall any such person rent, let, hire out, or allow, having power to prevent the same, to be used as or for a place of sleeping or residence, any portion or apartment of any building which apartment or portion has not at least two feet of its height and space above the level of every part of the sidewalk and curbstone of any adjacent street, nor of which the floor is damp by reason of water from the ground, or which is impregnated or penetrated by any offensive gas, smell, or exhalation prejudicial to health. But this section shall not prevent the leasing, renting, or occupancy of cellars or rooms less elevated than aforesaid, and as a part of any building rented or let, when they are not let or intended to be occupied or used by any person as a sleeping-apartment, or as a principal or sole dwelling apartment.

SEC. 19. That no person, having the right and power to prevent the same, shall knowingly cause or permit any person to sleep or remain in any cellar, or in any place dangerous or prejudicial to life or health, by reason of a want of ventilation or drainage, or by reason of the presence of any poisonous, noxious, or offensive substance or otherwise.

SEC. 20. That no owner, lessee, or keeper of any tenement-house, lodging-house, boarding-house, or manufactory shall cause or allow the same to be overcrowded, or cause or allow so great a number of persons to dwell, be, or sleep in any such house, or any portion thereof, as thereby to cause any danger or detriment to life or health.

SEC. 21. That no person, being the lessee, manager, conductor, or owner of any theatre shall cause, or permit, or allow the same, or any part or appurtenance thereof to be so far overcrowded or inadequate, faulty, or insufficient in respect of strength, ingress or egress,

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