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Deposit of dead animals in streets, rivers, etc. 



Penal Code, Section 374. Every person who puts the carcass of any 

 dead animal, or the oif al from any .slaughter-pen, corral, or butcher .shop 

 into any river, creek, pond, reservoir, stream, street, alley, public high- 

 way, 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 anti operation of which is sati.sfactory to 

 the board of health of such city, town, or village ; and every per.son whO' 

 puts any water-closet or privy, or the carcass of any dead animal, or any 

 offal of any kind, in or upon 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 water-closet or privy, or carcass of any 

 dead animal, or of any offal of any kind, to remain in or upon the 

 borders of any such stream, pond, lake, or reservoir within the bound- 

 aries of any land owned or occupied by him, so that the drainage from 

 which such water-closet, privy, carcass, or offal, may be taken up by or 

 in such stream, pond, lake, or reservoir ; or who keeps any horses, mule.s, 

 cattle, swine, sheep, or live stock of any kind, penned, corraled, or 

 housed on, over, or on the borders of any stream, pond, lake, or reser- 

 voir, 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, 

 or reservoir, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof 

 shall be punished as prescribed in section three .hundred and seventy- 

 .seven. 



