Pennsylvania Act 1897-56 — BONE BOILING ESTABLISHMENTS REGULATED

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BONE BOILING ESTABLISHMENTS REGULATED
                   Act of May 19, 1897, P.L. 77, No. 56               Cl. 03
                                  AN ACT

     Granting the permission and regulating the establishment and
        operation of bone boiling establishments and depositories of
        dead animals in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and
        providing for violations of the provisions of this act.

        From and after the passage of this act, bone boiling
     establishments and depositories of dead animals may be
     established and operated in this Commonwealth under the
     following conditions, to wit: That no Establishment for bone
     boiling or depository of dead animals shall be erected and
     operated in any political subdivision within the jurisdiction of
     a county department of health or joint-county department of
     health, unless the permission of the county department of health
     or joint-county department of health is obtained, and the
     establishment shall be conducted in accordance with the
     regulations prescribed by the county department of health or
     joint-county department of health; and that no establishment for
     bone boiling or depository of dead animals shall continue to be
     operated or shall be erected and operated within any city or
     borough which is not within the jurisdiction of a county
     department of health or joint-county department of health,
     unless the permission of the Board of Health of said city or
     borough shall have been obtained, and the said establishment
     shall be conducted in accordance with the regulations prescribed
     by the said Board of Health; and further, in case a bone boiling
     establishment or depository of dead animals exists, or is
     erected and conducted in any township which is not within the
     jurisdiction of a county department of health or joint-county
     Department of Health, the same shall be conducted under the
     supervision and subject to the regulations prescribed by the
     state Department of Health. And every person offending against
     the provisions of this act, shall for every such offense, and
     each month's continuance of the same after notice, forfeit and
     pay to the county in which the offense is committed, if such
     county has established a county Department of Health or is
     within the jurisdiction of a joint-county Department of Health,
     or to the board of health if in a city or borough which is not
     within the jurisdiction of a county department of health or
     joint-county department of health, or to the school board of the
     district or township if in a township which is not within the
     jurisdiction of a county Department of Health or joint-county
     department of health, the sum of fifty dollars, to be recovered
     as debts of that amount are recoverable, and also to be liable
     to indictment at common law for creating and maintaining a
     nuisance.  (1897, May 19, P.L. 77, Sec. 1.  As amended 1951,
     Aug. 24, P.L. 1331, Sec. 1.)