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369a. Any person, company, or corporation, operating cars on the streets of cities or towns, or on the county roads within the state, for the conveyance of passengers, propelled by means of wire ropes attached to stationery engines, or by electricity or compressed air, who runs, operates, or uses any car or dummy, unless each car and dummy, while in use, is fitted with a brake capable of bringing such car to a stop within a reasonable distance, and a suitable fender, or appliance placed in front or attached to the tracks of such dummy or car, for the purpose of removing and clearing obstructions from the track, and preventing any obstacles, obstructions, or person on the track from getting under such dummy or car, and removing the same out of danger, and out of the way of such dummy or car, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Where the board of supervisors of any county, or the city council or other governing body of any city, by ordinance, order, or resolution, prescribes the fender or brake to be used as aforesaid, then a compliance with such ordinance, order, or resolution must be deemed a full compliance with the provisions of this section. 1905-766.

369b. Any officer, agent or conductor of any company or person operating any railroad in this state, who in carrying and transporting cattle, sheep, or swine in car-load lots, confines the same in cars for a longer period than thirty-six consecutive hours, without unloading for rest, water and feeding, for a period of at least ten consecutive hours, is guilty of a misdemeanor. In estimating such time of confinement, the period during which the animals have been confined without such rest on connecting roads from which they are received, must be computed. In case the

owner or person in charge of such animals refuses or neglects to pay for the care and feed of the animals so rested, the company or person operating such railroad may charge the expense thereof to the owner or consignee and retain a lien upon the animals therefor until the same is paid. 1905-672.

369d. Any person who enters upon or crosses any railroad, at any private passway, which is enclosed by bars or gates, and neglects to leave the same securely closed after him, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 1905-766.

369e. Any person who leads, drives, or conducts any beast along the track of a railroad, except where the railroad is built within the limits of a public highway, or who places, or having the right to prevent it, suffers any animal to be placed within the fences thereof for grazing or for other purposes, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

1905-767.

369f. Any person employed upon any railroad as engineer, conductor, baggage-master, brakeman, switchman, fireman, bridgetender, flagman, or signalman, or having charge of the regulation or running of trains upon such railroad, in any manner whatever, who becomes or is intoxicated while engaged in the discharge

of his duties, is guilty of a misdemeanor; and if any person so employed as aforesaid, by reason of such intoxication, does any act, or neglects any duty, which act or neglect causes the death of, or bodily injury to, any person or persons, he is guilty of a felony. 1905-767.

369g. Any person who rides, drives, or propels any vehicle upon and along the track of any railroad, through or over its private right of way, without the authorization of its superintendant or other officer in charge thereof, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 1905767.

370. Anything which is injurious to health, or is indecent, or offensive to the senses, or an obstruction to the free use of property, so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property by an entire community or neighborhood, or by any considerable number of persons, or unlawfully obstructs the free passage or use, in the customary manner, of any navigable lake, or river, bay, stream, canal, or basin, or any public park, square, street, or highway, is a public nuisance. 1874-431.

371. An act which affects an entire community or neighborhood, or any considerable number of persons, as specified in the last section, is not less a nuisance because the extent of the annoyance or damage inflicted upon individuals is unequal. 1874—432.

372. Every person who maintains or commits any public nuisance, the punishment for which is not otherwise prescribed, or who willfully omits to perform any legal duty relating to the removal of a public nuisance, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

372a. It shall be a misdemeanor for any person to discharge mucus from the nose or mouth or spit upon any sidewalk, of any public street or highway or upon any part of any public building or railroad train, street-car, stage, ferry-boat, steamer, boat or other vessel or vehicle used for the transportation of the public. 1907-106.

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373a. Every person who maintains, permits, or allows a public nuisance to exist upon his or her property or premises, and every person occupying or leasing the property or premises of another who maintains, permits or allows a public nuisance to exist thereon, after reasonable notice in writing from health-officer or district attorney to remove, discontinue or abate the same has been served upon such person, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished accordingly; and the existance of such nuisance for each and every day after the service of such notice shall deemed a separate and distinct offense, and it is hereby made the duty of the district attorney to prosecute all persons guilty of violating this section by continous prosecutions until the nuisance is abated and removed. 1903-163.

374. Every person who puts the carcass of any dead animal, or the offal from any slaughter-pen, corral, or butcher-shop into any river, creek, pond, reservoir, stream, street, alley, public highway, or road in common use, or who attempts to destroy the same by fire within one fourth of a mile of any city, town, or village, except it be in a crematory, the construction and operaation of which is satisfactory to the board of health of such city, town, or village; and every person who puts any water-closet or privy, or the carcass of any dead animal, or any offal of any kind, in or upen the borders of any stream, pond, lake, or reservoir from which water is drawn for the supply of any portion of the inhabitants of this state, so that the drainage of such water-closet, privy, carcass or offal may be taken up by or in such stream, pond, lake, or reservoir; or who allows any watercloset, or privy, or carcass of any dead animal, or any offal of any kind, to remain in or upon the borders of any such stream, pond, lake, or reservoir within the boundaries of any land owned or occupied by him, so that the drainage from any such watercloset, privy, carcass, or offal, may be taken up by or in such stream, pond, lake, or reservoir; or who keeps any horses, mules, cattle, swine, sheep, or live-stock of any kind, penned, corralled, or housed on, over, or on the borders of any such stream, pond, lake, or reservoir, so that the waters thereof become polluted by reason thereof; or who bathes in any such stream, pond, lake, or reservoir; or who by any other means fouls or pollutes the waters of any such stream, pond, lake, reservoir, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished as prescribed in section three hundred and seventy seven. 1907-73.

374a. Any person who places, deposits or dumps any garbage, swill, refuse, cans, bottles, paper, or vegetable matter, or the carcass or any dead animal, or the offal from any slaughter-pen or butcher-shop, or any trash or rubbish in or upon the navigable waters of this state, or who places, deposits or loads the same upon any scow, barge, float, hulk, or any steam or sailing vessel, or any vessel of any kind, with intent that the same shall be dumped or deposited therefrom in or upon any of the navigable waters of this state, or of the Pacific Ocean without the state, at any point therein, within twenty miles of any point on the coast line of the state, and any captain, or other person in charge of any scow, barge, float, hulk, or any steam or sailing vessel, or any vessel of any kind, who permits the same to be loaded with any garbage, swill, refuse, cans, bottles, paper, or vegetable matter, or the carcass of any dead animal, or the offal from any slaughter-pen or butcher-shop, or any trash or rubbish, with intent that the same shall be dumped or deposited therefrom in or upon any of the navigable waters of this state, or of the Pacific Ocean without the state, at any point therein, within twenty miles of any point on the coast line of the state, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and no scow, barge, float, hulk, or

any steam or sailing vessel, or any vessel of any kind, upon which any garbage, swill, refuse, cans, bottles, paper, or vegetable matter, or the carcess of any dead animal, or the offal from any slaughter-pen or butcher-shop, or any trash or rubbish has been loaded with the intent that the same shall be dumped or deposited therefrom upon any of the waters of the Pacific Ocean where permitted by this section, shall leave any point within the state unless it shall carry for the entire trip an inspector appointed by the state board of health, or where such point of departure is within a municipality, then by such municipality, and it shall be the duty of such inspector to enforce the provisions of this section, and the captain, or other person in charge of any such scow, barge, float, hulk, steam, sailing, or other vessels, so having without carrying such inspector during the entire trip is guilty of a misdemeanor; provided, however, that this act shall not be construed to affect the discharge of any sewer system. 1911-1420.

375. Every person who makes or keeps gunpowder, nitroglycerine, or other highly explosive substance, within any city or town, or who carries the same through the streets thereof, in any quantity or manner such as is prohibited by law, or by any ordinance of such city or town, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

375a. It is the duty of each and every person, association, joint-stock company, and corporation, manufacturing, storing, selling, transferring, disposing of, or in any manner dealing in, or with, or using, or giving out nitroglycerine, dynamite, vigorite, hercules powder, giant powder, or other high explosive, by whatever name known, to keep at all times an accurate journal, or book of record, in which must be entered, from time to time, as it is made, each and every sale, delivery, transfer, gift, or other disposition made by such person, firm, association, joint-stock company, or corporation, in the course of business or otherwise, of any quanity of such explosive substance. Such journal or record-book must show, in a legible handwriting, to be entered therein at the time, a complete history of each transaction, stating the name and quantity of the explosive sold, delivered, given away, transferred, or otherwise disposed of; the name, place of residence, or business of the purchaser, or transferee; the name of the individual to whom delivered, with his or her address, with a description of such individual sufficient for identification. Such journal or record-book must be kept by the person, firm, association, joint-stock company, or corporation so selling, delivering, or otherwise disposing of such explosive substance, or substances, in his or their principal office or place of business at all times subject to the inspection and examination of the peace-officers, or other police authorities of the state, county, or municipality where the same is situated, on proper demand made therefor. Any failure or neglect to keep such book, or to make the proper entries therein at the time of the transaction, as herein provided, or to

exhibit the same to the peace-officers or other police authorities on demand, is deemed a misdemeanor, and punishable accordingly. In addition to such punishment, and as a cumulative penalty, such person, firm, association, joint-stock company, or corporation so offending, shall forfeit, for each offense, the sum or two hundred and fifty dollars, to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction. The party instituting an action for such forfeiture shall not be entitled to dismiss the same without consent of the court before which the suit has been instituted. Nor shall any judgment recovered be settled, satisfied, or discharged, save by order of such court, after full payment into court, and all moneys so collected must be paid to the party bringing suit. 1905-768. 376. Every master of a vessel subject to quarantine or visitation by the quarantine officer, who refuses or omits:

1. To proceed with and anchor his vessel at the place assigned for quarantine, at the time of his arrival;

2. To submit his vessel, cargo, and passengers to the examination of the quarantine officer, and to furnish all necessary information to enable that officer to determine to what length of quarantine and other regulations they ought, respectively, to be subject; or,

3. To remain with his vessel at the quarantine during the period assigned for her quarantine, and while at quarantine to comply with the regulations prescribed by law, and with such as any health officer, by virtue of authority given him by law, shall prescribe in relation to his vessel, his cargo, himself, his passengers, or crew;

Is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year, or by fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, or both. 1905-769.

377. Every person who is charged with a duty relating to the registration of deaths, under chapter three, title seven, of the act to establish a Poliical Code, approved March Twelfth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, who

1. Willfully fails to keep a register of the name. age, residence,and time of death of a decedent; or,

2. Willfully fails to register with the county recorder a certified copy of such register, as is provided for in said chapter; or,

3. Willfully inters, cremates, or otherwise disposes of any human body, in any city, county, or city and county, without first having obtained a permit, as provided for in said chapter; or,

4. Willfully grants a permit for the interment, cremation or disposition of a dead human body, without the certificate provided for in said chapter; cr,

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