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MANUAL OF THE POLICE FORCE
OF THE CITY OF SAINT PAUL,
JULY, 1890

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OFFENSES AGAINST THE CITY ORDINANCES

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1. Driving any public carriage, cab, dray, hackney coach, omnibus or other vehicle without a license.

2. Failure of keepers of private meat markets, of bakers, peddlers of meat, hawkers and peddlers, scavengers, auctioneers, pawnbrokers, public porter or runner, omnibus agent or driver, or baggage driver, keepers of billiard tables and ball alleys, managers of shows, to have a license.

3. Driving a dray, hackney coach, omnibus or other public vehicle without the number being thereon.

4. Driving a hackney coach, omnibus or other public vehicle without the rate of fare, the name of the owner and number of the license posted therein; or driving at night of such vehicle without two lighted lamps.

5. Suffering any public conveyance or dray to remain in any street, square, lane or alley, unattended by its driver.

6. Leaving any horse, mule or oxen in any public place untied, or halting any vehicle on any crosswalk or footway, or driving or riding on the sidewalk.

7. Refusing by drivers of public conveyances, while waiting for employment, to convey any person or persons to any place or places within the city limits, or of public draymen to be employed when not actually engaged.

8. Not inclosing hoistways and not shutting down the traps at close of day.

9. Maintaining any nuisance detrimental to public health; throwing, depositing or leaving in any lane, alley, street, aqueduct, reservoir, river, sewer, square, public park, cemetery or other public place, any vegetable substance, dead animal, fish, shavings, dirt, rubbish, excrement, filth, slops, unclean liquids, hay, straw, ashes, cinders, offal, garbage, swill or other offensive material or substance, or force or discharge into any public or private sewer or drain any steam, vapor or gas.

10. Having cellar doors more than four feet beyond the line of any sidewalk; erecting posts, except for the purpose of supporting awnings or hitching horses, in any alley, public street or place, without municipal permission.

11. Hanging of awning cloths loosely over sidewalks, within less than eight feet thereof, or hanging goods or signs more than three feet from any house or store.

12. Incumbering sidewalks or crosswalks, dumping or removing earth, without municipal perm1ss10n.

13. Driving or riding at a greater speed than six miles an hour.

14. Placing in or upon any street, alley or public place, building material, or digging or tearing up any pavement, side or cross walk, or digging any hole, ditch, drain or sewer, without municipal permission.

15. Driving, leading or backing any horse, mule, ox, cow or other animal, or team, cart or wheel carriage, or draw, push or otherwise propel any handcart, wagon or carriage hand vehicle, except baby carriages, on or along any sidewalk, in any public street, or other public place, except mechanics or their apprentices, drawing or pushing handcarts on the sidewalks of unpaved streets.

16. Hoisting or raising any goods from any street into any building by means of a rope, pulley, tackle or windlass.

17. Playing ball or other games, or running races in public parks, street or alleys.

18. Congregating of boys or disorderly characters in engine houses, or the drinking of spirituous liquors therein.

19. Removing any building into, along or across any street, alley or any other public place, without municipal permission.

20. Swimming or bathing in any waters in or adjoining the City of St. Paul, exposed to public view, or any indecent exposure of person.

21. Willfully, maliciously or negligently injuring any public lamp post or gas light.

22. Obstructing, injuring or destroying any public parks, streets, cemeteries or places, or injuring and defacing the trees and shrubs therein; injuring the grass and flowers therein, or the fence inclosing such public places.

23. Wantonly injuring any side or cross walk, paving or planking.

24. Hanging upon, or placing any article against, or hitching any animal to any public lamp post.

25. Failing to keep combustible materials securely inclosed.

26. Maintaining in any private house, lot or premises any nuisance.

27. Running at large of dogs or sluts at any time of the year, without a good and sufficient muzzle or without collars.

28. Running at huge of any horse, ass, mule, swine, sheep, goat or other cattle, or geese or other domestic fowl.

29. Resisting any person driving or carrying any animal or domestic fowl to the public pound.

30. Making loud or boisterous noise, disturbance, or being guilty of any indecent, immoral or insulting conduct, language or behavior, on wharves, in depots, markets or other public places.

31. Landing upon any public wharf any article or thing calculated to injure or obstruct the same.

32. Selling or offering for sale any wood by the load, without the same having been measured by the wood inspector.

33. Offering for sale or selling any unwholesome food, or making for sale any unwholesome bread, or offering for sale any bread deficient in weight.

34. Failure to weigh or measure all articles of food in public markets.

35. Killing or slaughtering m the public markets.

36. Selling at auction in the public markets, during market hours, any goods, wares or furniture.

37. Failure to keep private meat markets clean, or grocery and provision stores in good condition.

38. Failure of scavengers to remove or empty the contents of any tub, vault, sink, privy or private drain in accordance with municipal regulations.

39. Failure of the owner of any house, store, manufactory, shop or hotel to be provided with a suitable privy.

40. Emptying a privy between June 15th and September 15th, without municipal permission, or at any time except between the hours of 10 P. M. and 3 A. M.

41. Failure to keep livery stables clean.

42. Washing or cleaning any carriage or horse on any street, sidewalk or other public place; or suffering the water used for such purpose to flow over any sidewalk, street or other public place.

43. Suffering green or salted hides to remain on any street, sidewalk or other public place more than one hour.

44. Injuring, defacing or destroying any public building or property; or posting thereon any placard, showbill or advertisement.

45. Selling meat by the carcass or quarter, from any vehicle, by any person, without a license, except farmers, who may sell, or offer for sale, any wholesome meat fatted and killed by them.

46. Failure of pawnbrokers to keep proper sign, or books, in which shall be entered an accurate description of goods, article or thing pawned, or failure to comply with other rules established for their government.

47. Making interments in any place within the city not prescribed by ordinance or resolution of the Common Council.

48. Keeping any house of ill-fame or assignation, or of resort for prostitutes, or disorderly saloon, bar-room, tavern, beer hall, grocery, theatre, room or building of any kind.

49. Keeping open on Sunday of any saloon, store, shop, ordinary, bar-room, beer hall, restaurant, pleasure garden, billiard room, ball alley, grocery, or other place of business or amusement, except drug stores or houses for furnishing meals or lodging for travelers and boarders.

50. Leaving excavations unguarded or unlighted.

51. Leaving a house unnumbered on any street or avenue where the municipal authorities have directed the house to be numbered.

52. Neglecting to remove snow, hail or frozen rain from sidewalks within twenty-four hours after the same has fallen or formed; or if ice has formed, failing to strew thereon salt, sand or ashes.

53. Opening any street reservoir or cistern or fire hydrant, or using any water therefrom without having first procured permission from the proper authority.

54. Failure at a fire to obey any order or direction given by the proper authority.

55. Making or circulating false alarm of fire, or injuring or tampering with any fire alarm telegraph pole, wire or box, or posting placards or painting on any telegraph pole or box.

56. Failure of any person erecting any building within the fire limits of the city to construct the same of materials prescribed by municipal authority.

57. Failure to construct chimneys, put up stovepipes, have chimneys swept or cleaned, or ashes covered, in accordance with municipal regulation.

58. Playing for money, or other valuable thing, with cards, dice, tables, wheels of fortune,. machines, billiards, nine or ten pins, or other instruments or devices whatsoever, in any hotel, grocery, eating house, store, boat, shop, tavern, saloon, bar-room, beer hall, or other public or private building, or in any highway, street, lane, alley, public space, square, or elsewhere.

59. Managing, keeping directing or aiding any lottery for the drawing or depositing of money, or any other property whatever.

60. Constructing any drain or sewer in. any street or public place, within four feet of the curbstone of the sidewalk, except it be the drain or sewer leading to or from a building or lot; for which the same is designed.

61. Placing feeding or watering troughs in any alley, street or public place.

62. Exhibiting any stud horse or bull m any alley, street or public place.

63. Erecting any balcony or balustrade that extends beyond the 1ine of any sidewalk or street, and less than twelve feet from the ground, without municipal permission.

64. Making false representations to strangers or travelers, for the purpose of inducing such strangers or travelers to go and put up at any hotel, tavern or other house of entertainment in the city.

65. Injuri.ng any public drain or sewer, or connecting any private drain with any public drain or sewer without first having procured permission.

66. Lying in wait, lurking or concealed in any building or place, with evil intent.

67. Collecting of crowds in front of churches during service, or collecting of riotous assemblages in any place in the city.

68. Selling or offering for sale, or exhibiting, any indecent or obscene picture, engraving, drawing, book or pamphlet.

69. Occupying buildings for the manufacture of inflammable and explosive substances in the City of St. Paul, without municipal permission.

70. Kindling any fire in any public place. or alley in the thickly populated portions of the city, except for boiling tar, pitch or oil for building or repairing purposes.

71. Exploding any gunpowder, or firing any cannon, gun or pistol, except in accordance with municipal regulation.

72. Failure to keep gunpowder securely stored and in prescribed quantities.

73. Failure Qf public porter or runner, omnibus agent or driver, or baggage driver, to wear a badge, on which conspicuously appear his name and the number of his license.

74. Failure of the owner or occupant of any lot or lots to keep the sidewalks in front of or adjacent to said lot or lots in good repair.

75. Constructing wooden boxes or drains in any paved street, lane or alley.

76. Selling, or offering for sale, poultry from which the entrails, crops and heads have not been removed, or in any manner tying or confining by rope, twine or otherwise, the feet of any calf, sheep, lamb, swine or poultry which may be brought to the city for sale.

77. Confining hogs, cows or cattle in herds, pens, inclosures or otherwise, so as to become offensive to his, her or their neighbor or neighbors.

78. Neglecting to have the house, yard or place used for the slaughtering or killing of any beeves, sheep or animals, within the city limits, provided with a tight plank floor, or paved with brick or stone; such floor or pavement to be so constructed as to carry off into a tub or reservoir, all blood and offal, and at the end of each day when killing has been done on the premises, when any blood, offal or other offensive material or garbage shall have accumulated on the premises, the occupant shall cause the premises to be thoroughly washed and cleaned, and shall also cause the contents of said tub, vessels or reservoirs, and all other offal, garbage and offensive matter on the premises to be conveyed to some place without the city limits, and no such offal, garbage or offensive matter shall be emptied into any public or private drain or sewer within the city limits.

79. Jumping on or off any street car or steam railroad car while in motion.