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authorized inspector of the Board of Health and immediately report in writing to the City Assessor and Collector whenever such authorized inspector fails to appear at the slaughterhouse and make such inspection.

SEC. 4. No animal, the ownership of which is in dispute, shall be admitted to the slaughterhouse; nor shall any animal remain in the slaughterhouse for over twentyfour hours. No person shall slaughter any animal except an expert butcher regularly assigned to that duty.

SEC. 5. The decision of the authorized inspector of the Board of Health condemning any animal for slaughter, or any meat, as unfit for food, shall be final. No such animal shall be slaughtered, and no such meat shall be cremated at the slaughterhouse.

SEC. 6. There shall be charged and collected for each kilogram of meat, including the tongue, heart, and liver of any animal, a fee of three cents, Mexican currency, and no meat shall be taken from the slaughterhouse until such fee has been paid to the superintendent, or in any transportation other than that authorized by the Municipal Board.

SEC. 7. The slaughterhouse shall be kept at all times in an orderly and sanitary condition and shall be thoroughly cleaned at least once in the morning and once in the evening of each day. The skull and all other discarded parts or contents of any animal shall be removed from the slaughterhouse as soon as practicable after such animal has been slaughtered.

SEC. 8. No person shall resist, obstruct, or molest the superintendent of the public slaughterhouse or any employee therein in the exercise of his duties as superintendent or employee.

SEC. 9. No superintendent or other person in charge of the public slaughterhouse, or employed in or about the same, shall purchase, sell, or be directly or indirectly interested in the purchase or sale of any animal for slaughter, or of any meat taken from such slaughterhouse.

SEC. 10. Any person violating any provisions of this ordinance shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not to exceed one hundred dollars, or imprisonment not to exceed six months, or both, for each offense.

SEC. 11. All ordinances, orders, and regulations and parts thereof inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed and this ordinance shall take effect and be in force on and after the first day of September, nineteen hundred and two.

Enacted August 23, 1902.
Official.

[Ordinance No. 36.]

ARSENIO CRUZ HERRERA,

President.

Acting Secretary.

AN ORDINANCE relating to the sale and supply of electricity and telephone service and the inspection and installation of electric wires, meters, and other apparatus.

Be it ordained by the Municipal Board of the City of Manila, that:

SECTION 1. The senior electrician employed in the Fire Department shall be the City Electrician, and is charged with the supervision of the sale and supply of electricity and telephone service, the inspection and installation of electric wires, meters, and other apparatus, and the enforcement of all laws and ordinances relating thereto. SEC. 2. The City Électrician shall, as frequently as practicable, and at least once in each calendar year, inspect all wires and other apparatus installed or used for generating, containing, conducting, or measuring electricity, or in the sale or supply of electricity or telephone service, shall issue to the owner or user thereof a certificate of the result of such inspection, and shall condemn all such wires or other apparatus as are dangerous or defective, causing those condemned as dangerous to be remedied or removed forthwith at the owner's expense, and notifying the owner or user of any defective nondangerous wire or other apparatus that such wire or apparatus has been condemned and to remedy or remove the same. If the owner or user so notified objects to such condemnation, he may appeal to three arbitrators, one to be named by the City Electrician, one by the owner or user, and one to be chosen by the two arbitrators so named. The owner or user, upon making the appeal, shall deposit ten dollars with the City Electrician, which shall be in full of all costs of such arbitration. If the decision of the arbitrators is favorable to the owner or user, the ten dollars shall be returned to him and the costs of arbitration shall be borne by the city. The arbitrators shall make a written decision in duplicate, under oath,

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whether, in their opinion, the wire or other apparatus is defective, and this decision shall be final and conclusive, and one copy of it shall be given to the owner or user and the other to the City Electrician. If the owner or user shall fail to remedy or remove the condemned wire or other apparatus within ten days after notice, or, in case of appeal, within ten days after the receipt of a copy of an adverse decision thereon by said arbitrators, the City Electrician shall proceed to remedy or remove such wire or other apparatus at the owner's expense, and such expense shall be in addition to any fine or penalty which may be imposed upon the owner or user for violation of the provisions of any law or ordinance.

SEC. 3. No person shall maintain or use any telephone line not having a double circuit excluding the ground, or any wire or conductor in any such line not perfectly insulated or offering a greater resistance than forty-two ohms per kilometer at a temperature of twenty degrees Centigrade.

SEC. 4. No person shall maintain or use any system for supplying electric light, heat, or power unless each conductor is of sufficient area and conductivity to transmit twice the current it is installed to supply at the voltage herein authorized at a temperature of less than sixty-six degrees Centigrade, and is covered with water-· proof material insuring insulation; each circuit is protected at its junction with the next adjacent circuit by a circuit breaker so arranged that its fusion will occur before the adjacent circuit attains a temperature of sixty-six degrees Centigrade; and each conductor, where it passes through a wall or partition or crosses another conductor, is covered with a second insulating wrapper, itself covered by a layer of noncombustible material. And no person shall maintain or use any system for supplying electric light, heat, or power other than for the operation of an electric railway, unless each circuit thereof is cut off from all connection or communication with the ground.

SEC. 5. No person shall maintain or use any system for supplying electric light, heat, or power, the voltage in any circuit of which at any time exceeds three thousand volts, or throughout which secondary grounded wires are not maintained, or which does not conform in all respects to the rules and requirements of the National Board of Fire Underwriters contained in the National Electric Code for the year nineteen hundred and one, as modified by the special provisions of this ordinance. A copy of said National Electric Code for the year nineteen hundred and one shall be certified as official by the secretary of the Municipal Board and filed herewith.

SEC. 6. No person shall maintain or use any wire, meter, or other apparatus in the sale, supply, or use of electricity or telephone service which has not been inspected and certified as correct by the City Electrician.

SEC. 7. No person shall erect or alter any wire, meter, or other apparatus maintained or used in the sale, supply, or use of electricity or telephone service, specifications of which have not first been filed with the City Electrician and his written permit for such erection or alteration obtained. Upon the completion of any such erection or alteration plans thereof shall be filed with the City Electrician by the person to whom the permit was issued.

SEC. 8. Every person maintaining or using any system for supplying electricity shall immediately shut off the current from the whole or any part of such system in time of fire at the direction of the Chief of the Fire Department or any person acting under him; and the Chief of the Fire Department or any person acting under him shall have power, in time of fire, to disconnect such electric currents or circuits and remove such electric wires or other apparatus, as he may deem necessary.

SEC. 9. No person shall maintain any dead wire outside of any building, and the owner of any such wire shall remove the same within ten days from the receipt of a notice so to do from the City Electrician: Provided, That dead telephone wires detached from the building in which the same have been used, and grounded at the nearest pole, may be maintained in as good condition as if they were in use.

SEC. 10. The City Electrician shall inspect and test all new electric meters, and all electric meters disconnected for repairs, before the same shall be connected for use, and, when found correct, shall place on each such meter a certificate of correctness, together with the date of said inspection and test. No electric meter shall be so certified correct which runs irregularly, or which registers over three per cent more or less electric current than actually passes through it. Every person shall, on the first day of each quarter, deliver to the City Electrician a correct list of all electric meters furnished or used for measuring electricity supplied by him, giving the size and number of each meter and its location.

SEC. 11. Upon the application of any consumer for an inspection and test of the meter through which electricity is supplied to him, he shall deposit with the City Electrician the sum of five dollars, United States currency, and take a receipt therefor. The City Electrician shall thereupon notify the person supplying the electricity measured by such meter to disconnect said meter and remove the same to the office

of the City Electrician within five days after the receipt of such notice, and to place in its stead another meter bearing the certificate of the City Electrician. The person so notified shall comply with the direction of such notice within the said period. Should the City Electrician desire to be present in person, or by an assistant, at the time of disconnecting said meter, he shall fix the hour therefor in said notice between eight o'clock antemeridian and five o'clock postmeridian on one of the said five days, at which hour a representative of the said person shall meet the City Electrician with a meter certified correct to be put in place of the one to be removed. Should the City Electrician find such removed meter correct, he shall pay the five dollars, and the amount of any disputed bill, deposited by the consumer to the said person supplying the electricity, and take a receipt therefor; but should said meter be found to be incorrect, the City Electrician shall return said five dollars and the amount of any disputed bill deposited to the consumer and furnish the said person and the said consumer with a certificate of the inspection and test.

SEC. 12. No person other than the City Electrician or his assistant shall deface, alter, or remove any certificate, card, or stamp placed by the City Electrician upon any electric meter, or place upon any such meter a certificate, card, or stamp purporting to be that of the said City Electrician.

SEC. 13. No person supplying electricity shall cut or shut the same off from a consumer because of any dispute as to the correctness of any bill for electricity due from any such consumer to any such person, pending the inspection and testing of the electric meter. Every such person shall readjust any such bill in accordance with the result of such inspection and test by the City Electrician for the time, not exceeding one month, during which said meter has been used. No person supplying electricity shall cut or shut off the current from any consumer so long as such consumer shall comply with all lawful requirements, or without at least two days' notice in writing to such consumer stating the reason for such action: Provided, That such consumer shall deposit the amount of any disputed bill with the City Electrician and apply for an inspection and test of his meter within five days after the receipt by him of the disputed bill for electricity, and the City Electrician shall inspect said meter within five days thereafter; and nothing herein shall be construed as prohibiting any such person from cutting or shutting off the supply of electricity when a consumer is in arrears in the payment of any bill therefor for fifteen days. SEC. 14. Any person supplying electricity shall have the right to furnish each new consumer, and each consumer requiring a new meter, with a meter for measuring such electricity, either by sale or lease, at a price or rental not exceeding that at which such consumer can buy or rent a standard meter in the open market. If the price or rental asked by such person for the meter exceeds such market price or rental, the consumer may purchase or rent a standard meter in the open market and install the same, and such person shall thereafter supply the consumer with electricity measured by the meter so purchased or rented and installed.

SEC. 15. No person supplying electricity or telephone service shall fail to supply such electricity or service to any applicant for the same within fifteen days after the date of his application, and, as between such applicant and other like applicants in the order of the date of his application, up to the limit of the capacity of such person's plant, to be determined by the City Electrician on the application of such person or such applicant: Provided, That the point at which the electricity or service is to be supplied is not more than five hundred feet from any street or other public place upon or along which any conductor or line is maintained or used by such person: And provided further, That where such point is more than one hundred feet from any such street or other public place in the case of electricity, the applicant shall agree in writing to use and pay for sufficient electricity to operate ten sixteencandlepower incandescent lamps until midnight during each night of the first year of such supply.

SEC. 16. No person shall destroy, mutilate, deface, or otherwise injure or tamper with, or tap, or otherwise wrongfully deflect or take any electric current from, any wire or other apparatus installed or used for generating, containing, conducting, or measuring electricity, or in the sale or supply of electricity or telephone service.

SEC. 17. The City Electrician shall keep books in his office in which he shall enter a record of each inspection or test made by him, giving the date, the location of the wires or other apparatus inspected, the name of the person owning or installing the same, the name of the consumer for whom the same were installed, and a general description of the wires or apparatus inspected and the method of such inspection; the number of each electric meter tested, and the method of such test; and all the proceedings of his office. Each certificate of inspection or test made by the City Electrician shall contain the date and result of the inspection or test, the location of the wires or other apparatus tested and the name of the party owning the same or

for whom the test was made, and shall be signed by the City Electrician upon the payment to him of the fees hereinafter provided for and delivered by him to the party entitled to the same.

SEC. 18. The fees for each inspection or test herein provided for shall be as follows:

(a) For each electric dynamo

(b) For each switchboard.

(d) For each electric heating apparatus.

(e) For each electric meter

f) For each arc light..

(g) For from one to ten incandescent lamps

h) For from eleven to twenty-five incandescent lamps For from twenty-six to fifty incandescent lamps.

For from fifty-one to one hundred incandescent lamps (k) For each additional one hundred incandescent lamps. 1) For each electric fan..........

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The same fee shall be charged for each inspection or test of electric wires furnishing electricity to the above-mentioned apparatus as are herein fixed for inspecting or testing the apparatus themselves. Where both the electric wires and the apparatus are inspected or tested at the same time, no charge shall be made for the inspection or test of the apparatus.

SEC. 19. The City Electrician shall deposit with the City Assessor and Collector, on the last day of each month, all fees received by him under the provisions of this ordinance during such month, and shall, at the same time, deliver to the Auditor of the Philippine Archipelago an itemized statement of such fees. All such fees are stated herein in United States currency.

SEC. 20. Any person violating any provision of this ordinance shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not to exceed one hundred dollars or imprisonment not to exceed six months, or both, for each offense.

SEC. 21. Ordinance Numbered Fifteen, enacted by the Municipal Board January eleventh, nineteen hundred and two, entitled "An Ordinance relating to the inspection and installation of electric wires and apparatus," and all ordinances, orders, and regulations, and parts thereof, inconsistent herewith, are hereby repealed, and this ordinance shall take effect and be in force on and after the first day of October, nineteen hundred and two.

Enacted, September 26, 1902.