79.370. Board shall regulate sanitary conditions. - Missouri Statutes

Board shall regulate sanitary conditions.

79.370. The board of aldermen shall have power, byordinance, to secure the general health of the inhabitants of thecity by any measure to regulate, suppress and abateslaughterhouses, slaughtering animals, stockyards, soap and otherfactories, pig pens, cow stables, and other stables and dairies,and to remove the same, and to regulate or prevent the carryingon of any business which may be dangerous or detrimental to thepublic health, or the manufacturing or rendering of articlesobnoxious to the health of the inhabitants; and to passordinances for the prevention of nuisances and their abatement.

(RSMo 1939 § 7176)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 7026; 1919 § 8477; 1909 § 9379