Be it ordained by the Board of Aldermen of the City of Waterbury:

SECTION I. It shall be the duty of the secretary or clerk of every burial ground association in the City of Waterbury to deliver to the Registrar of Deaths and Marriages of the Town of Waterbury, a certificate of the name of the sexton of such burial ground, within the first ten days of October and April in each year, and a like certificate within ten days after the appointment of any new sexton, under a penalty of ten dollars for every neglect so to do, and such certificate shall be recorded by said registrar.

SEC. 2. No person shall dig or open any grave, or cause any grave to be dug or opened, or shall inter or deposit, or cause or procure to be interred or deposited, the body of any deceased person in any such grave or in any vault or tomb in any burial ground or cemetery or churchyard in said city. unless the sexton of such burial place shall have first received

a certificate as provided in the fourth section of this ordinance, under a penalty of ten dollars for every such offense. Any sexton knowingly permitting a breach of this section in any burial ground under his charge shall forfeit and pay a like penalty for every such offense.

SEC. 3. No person shall remove, or assist in removing, any body of a deceased person from said city, or shall bury, or cause, procure or assist in the burial of any body in said city, in any place for which there is not a duly appointed sexton recorded in the books of said registrar, unless a certificate, as provided in the fourth section of this ordinance, shall have been first left with said registrar, and a permit granted by him for such removal or burial, stating the place of removal or burial, under a penalty of ten dollars for every such offense.

SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the physician who attended any deceased person in his last sickness or at the time of decease, to furnish to the friends of such person, on demand, a certificate containing all the information respecting deceased, and in the same form that is now required for the information of said registrar by the laws of this State, under a penalty of ten dollars for every neglect or refusal so to do. In case there was no physician of the deceased, or in case of his, the said physician's, neglect or refusal, the friends of the deceased, or person having charge of the burial, shall procure the certificate of some other physician or substantial inhabitant of said city, which certificate shall also state that there was no physician, or the fact of his refusal. In case where there has been a coroner's inquest, the certificate of the coroner or foreman of the coroner's jury shall be sufficient. Such certificate shall be delivered to the sexton or person in charge of the place of burial, and by him returned to the said registrar within one month, and kept on file at said registrar's office.

SEC. 5. The registrar of said town shall furnish to said sexton, and other persons, blank forms for certificates and returns required by this ordinance. He shall grant the permits required by the fourth section of this ordinance, unless he shall be of the opinion that good ground for refusal exists, in which case he shall follow the advice of the Mayor. He shall pre

pare and publish in a suitable form a monthly abstract of his records of deaths in said city.

SEC. 6. Any person who shall wilfully cause any false certificates to be issued, or shall fraudulently alter any certificate. or shall be guilty of any fraud or deception in procuring or issuing any certificate or permit under this ordinance, or shall wilfully make a false return, shall forfeit and pay a penalty of not less than two nor more than one hundred dollars for every such offense.

SEC. 7. If said registrar shall neglect or refuse to discharge the duties enjoined upon him by this ordinance, the Board of Aldermen shall appoint a registrar of deaths for the rest of said town registrar's term of office, and all the provisions of this ordinance shall apply to the registrar so appointed.

SEC. 8. Every person who shall deposit, or cause to be deposited, any dirt, grass, brush, stones, iron, building materials, or rubbish of any kind, upon any private lot in any burial ground in said city, unless by permission of the owner of said lot, or upon any public lot, or in or upon any of the alleys, paths, borders or other parts of said burial ground not included in a private lot, without the permission of the committee or other person having legal charge of the particular place of such deposit, shall forfeit and pay a penalty of not less than five nor more than fifty dollars for each offense. And every person having made such deposit, or caused the same to be made, and having been notified by the owner or other person having legal charge of the particular place of such deposit, to remove the same, shall forfeit and pay an additional penalty of one dollar for each and every day he shall neglect or refuse so to do.

SEC. 9. Every person who shall climb upon or over the burial ground fence or wall of any public or private burial ground in said city, or upon or over the wall or fence enclosing any lot in such cemetery, or who shall climb upon or stand upon any of the monuments in said cemetery, except in cases of necessity, or who shall wilfully and maliciously mark, de

face, mutilate, destroy, remove or injure any wall, fence or gateway of any burial ground in said city, or of any lot or enclosure in such burial ground, or any turf, tree or shrub, plant, vault, tombstone, monument or ornament in such burial ground, shall forfeit and pay a penalty of not less than five nor more than one hundred dollars for every such offense.

SEC. 10. No person shall ride or drive any horse or horses or horse kind, or carriage or other vehicle upon the turf in any such burial ground, under a penalty of five dollars for every such offense.

SEC. II. Every person guilty of uttering any profane, obscene or threatening language, or of making any disturbing noise in any burial ground in said city, shall forfeit and pay a penalty of not more than fifty dollars for every such offense.

SEC. 12. The directors of any burial ground association in said city may make reasonable rules and regulations for the management of such ground, and for the conduct of individuals while visiting the same, which rules, being approved by the Board of Aldermen, shall be conspicuously posted at or near the entrance to such ground, and any person wilfully violating any such rules shall forfeit and pay a penalty of not more than ten dollars for every such offense.

Passed by Board of Aldermen April 12, 1897. Approved April 13, 1897.

AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO CONTAGIOUS

DISEASES.

Section.

1. Contagious diseases defined.
2. Contagious diseases to be re-
ported to Health Officer by
attending physician within
twenty-four hours. Report
to contain what-

3. Proprietor of hotel, etc., to
report contagious diseases

to

Health Officer within twelve hours.

4. Permit from Board of Health to remove persons sick with contagious disease: carelessly spreading contagious disease prohibited.

5. Child sick with contagious disease not to be permitted to attend school, or any child residing in house without permit from Health Officer.

6. Articles exposed to inspection
shall not be brought into

city without permit from
Health Officer, etc.

Be it ordained by the Board of Aldermen of the City of Waterbury:

SECTION I. Scarlet fever, diphtheria, smallpox or varioloid, typhus fever, cholera and yellow fever, measles, diphtheria and croup, whooping cough, cerebro spinal fever, tyhpoid fever, and also any other disease publicly declared by the Board of Health to be dangerous, are hereby defined to be contagious or dangerous diseases within the meaning of this ordinance.