Sec. 28. Record of Enumerator and Impounder.-The Dog Enumerator and Public Impounder shall keep a record, in which he shall enter all his official transactions, the time when any animal is impounded, a minute description of the same, where found and by whom redeemed, or when sold, a record of the notice, price paid and to whom sold. Said record shall be legibly written and kept clean, and there shall be no interlineations or erasures in it. It shall be open at all times to the inspection of any person.

Sec. 29. Duty of Humane Officers.--It shall be the duty of each person holding a commission from the Police Authorities of said city as Humane Officer, to make and keep a record of all dogs, male and female, found running at large on his beat without the metallic check or tag certifying that the fees or licenses for the current year for said dogs have been paid in accordance with the provisions of this Article, and to make and keep a record of the names and addresses of all persons on his beat who own, keep or harbor such unlicensed dogs, and to notify such persons that the fees on such dogs for the current year are due and must be paid to the Treasurer of Kansas City, Missouri, in accordance with the provisions of said ordinance; and to make and give to the Dog Enumerator of said city a copy of said records, and to assist in the humane and economic enforcement of all ordinances or laws relating to dogs and other animals.

Sec. 30. Humane Society to Receive Part of Fees.-That in consideration for the services to be rendered as provided in this ordinance, the Treasurer of said Kansas City shall set apart thirty per cent of all moneys received by him as license or registration fees of dogs, both male and female, as provided in this ordinance, as a trust fund for the use of the Humane Sosiety of Kansas City, Missouri, and said amount so set aside shall be appropriated from month to month by ordinance, directing the payment of the same for the benefit of said Humane Society of Kansas City, Missouri.

Provided, however, that should the receipts from licenses of dogs aforesaid for any one month be less than one and one-half times the receipts from said source for the same month in 1905, then in that event the amount to be paid to said Humane Society of Kansas City, Missouri, in full consideration for such services shall be a sum equal to the increase in said receipts for said month over the same month in 1905; and if the said receipts dur

ing any month are less than the receipts during the corresponding month of 1905, then in that event the said Society shall be paid nothing for its said services during that month.

Provided further that twenty per cent of all receipts which shall come into the hands of said Humane Society shall be by it set apart and diverted to a permanent fund to be used only for the payment of necessary expenses incurred by any person for treatment in the Pasteur Hospital, or elsewhere, as a result of having been hurt or bitten within the limits of Kansas City by any mad dog running at large upon the streets, avenue, alleys or other public grounds or thoroughfares of said city. No payment out of said permanent trust fund shall be made except upon a certificate of the City Physician reciting that said treatment is necessary.

Sec. 31. Taking Up Animals.-That any person, firm or corporation taking up or causing to be taken up, any horse, mule, cow, sheep, donkey or other animal found running at large within the limits of Kansas City, shall immediately report the same, giving a description of the animal and the place where the same may be found, to the Police Department, whose duty it shall be to make a record of such reports.

Sec. 32. Penalty. Any person who shall fail within six hours after taking up or causing to be taken up any animal specified herein to comply with the provisions of this Section, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than five dollars ($5.00) nor more than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for each offense.

Sec. 33. Duty of Police Department.-It is hereby made the duty of the Police Department to assist in the enforcement of all ordinances in relation to dogs and other animals.

Sec. 34. Penalty.-Any person violating, failing, neglecting or refusing to comply with any provision, regulation or requirement of this Article shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor where no penalty is especially provided, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than five dollars nor more than five hundred dollars.

Sec. 35. Stove Pipes.-No person shall put up or suffer to be kept up, the pipe of any stove, unless it be conducted into a chimney or flue built of brick or stone. No person shall use a stove pipe, in any house or building, that passes through the roof of the same, or through more than one wooden partition or floor. In case a stove pipe is used that passes through a wooded wall of floor, it shall be separated at least four inches from the woodwork by a perforated ventilator of zinc or tin, or by a soapstone ring, and the joints of the pipe shall be securely fastened together.

Charter, Art. III, Sec. 1, Cl. 20.

Sec. 36. Stoves.-No person shall set up or use a stove, the top or any side of which shall be within two feet of any part of the woodwork of the wall or partition of any building, without protecting such woodwork with a metallic covering, so as to prevent the same from taking fire from such stove.

Sec. 37. Chimney Holes.-No person shall make or keep hole in a chimney for a stove pipe unless there be a sheet-iron or earthen thimble inserted in said chimney, imbedded in mortar, and a tin or sheet-iron stopper, with a flange at least one inch wide outside the chimney, to be used whenever the pipe is removed.

Sec. 38. Zinc Under Stoves.-No person shall use any stove in any house or building, except the same stand on zinc or other non-combustible substance of sufficient size to prevent any danger from fire.

Sec. 39. Ashes.-It shall be the duty of each owner, agent or lessee of every hotel, tenement, boarding house, lodging house, school house, opera house, theater, music hall, factory or office building, to provide a fire-proof room, bin or box for ashes in or about each of said buildings; and no occupant or tenant of any of said buildings, halls or houses shall place or cause or permit to be placed any ashes in or about any of said buildings outside of said fire-proof room, bin or box.

Charter, Art. III, Sec. 1, Cl. 20.

Sec. 40. Hay, Straw, Etc.-No person shall have, put or keep, any hay, straw, cotton, hemp or wood shavings in a stack or pile, without having the same securely covered or enclosed, so as to protect them from flying sparks of fire. Nor shall any owner, agent, lessee or occupant of any building permit, allow or cause to permit or allow any inflammable rubbish such as excelsior, shavings, straw, chips, waste paper, trash and the like. to be or remain in or about said building, unless placed in a metallined and metal-lidded box or bin, which shall be kept locked when not in actual use.

Sec. 41. Candles and Lamps.-No lighted candle or lamp shall be used in any stable, building or other place, where hay, straw, hemp, cotton, flax, rushes, shavings, gun powder or other combustible materials shall be stored or lodged, unless the same is well secured in a lantern.

Sec. 42. Carrying Fire.-No person shall carry fire in or through any street, alley or lot in this city, unless the same be placed in some covered pan or vessel.

Sec. 43. Bonfires.--No person shall burn any combustible matter of any kind, in the open air, in any place whatever, between the hours of six o'clock p. m., and six o'clock a. m.; provided, however, that persons may make bonfires, on proper occasions, having first obtained permission therefor, in writing, from the Chief or the Acting Chief of the Fire Department.

Sec. 44. Fire Crackers, Etc.-No person shall set off or fire off any squibs, crackers, gun powder or fireworks, in any street, alley or other public place, or in any yard, public or private, within the limits of the city, unless by a written permit from the Mayor, and such permit shall specify the object and limit the time of such firing; provided, that this Section shall not be extended to the prohibition of the usual demonstrations on the first of January, the twenty-second of February, the seventeenth of March, the fourth of July and the twenty-fifth of December.

Charter, Art. III, Sec. 1, Cl. 20.

Sec. 45. Dustless Oils.-No person shall use kerosene, benzine, gasoline, naphtha, oils known as dustless oils, or any other oil upon floors for the purpose of cleaning or laying the dust on said floors.

Sec. 46. Smoking in Theaters, Etc.-No person shall smoke, or have about his person lighted any cigar, cigarette, pipe, or stogie in any theater, public hall or place of amusement, during any performance or public meeting therein. Provided, that this Section shall not apply where a smoking room is connected with any such building and such smoking is done in such smoking room; and provided further that this Section shall not be construed to prohibit the use of a cigar, cigarette, pipe or stogie on the stage when used in an act.

Sec. 47. Creation of. There is hereby granted to the Kansas City Insurance Agents' Association, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Missouri, the right to maintain operate and control a Fire Patrol and Salvage Corps co-extensive with the limits of Kansas City, and to do all things needful to the operation, maintenance and control thereof, for a period of thirty years from and after the acceptance of the terms of this ordinance by the said Association, but this franchise shall