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Fort Worth, TX Code of Ordinances
FORT WORTH, TEXAS CODE OF ORDINANCES
OFFICIALS of the CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS
PART I: THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH
PART II: CITY CODE
CHAPTER 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS
CHAPTER 2: ADMINISTRATION
CHAPTER 2.5: RETIREMENT
CHAPTER 3: AIRPORTS AND AIRCRAFT
CHAPTER 4: ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES
CHAPTER 5: AMBULANCES/EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES
CHAPTER 6: ANIMALS AND FOWL
CHAPTER 7: BUILDINGS
CHAPTER 8: CABLE COMMUNICATION SERVICE
CHAPTER 9: COMMUNITY FACILITIES AGREEMENTS
CHAPTER 10: COURTS
CHAPTER 11: ELECTRICITY
CHAPTER 11.5: EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
CHAPTER 12: EMERGENCY REPORTING EQUIPMENT AND PROCEDURES
CHAPTER 12.5: ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND COMPLIANCE
CHAPTER 13: FIRE PREVENTION AND PROTECTION
CHAPTER 14: RESERVED
CHAPTER 15: GAS
CHAPTER 16: HEALTH AND SANITATION
CHAPTER 17: HUMAN RELATIONS
CHAPTER 18: LAKE WORTH
CHAPTER 19: LIBRARIES
CHAPTER 20: LICENSES AND MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 21: RESERVED
CHAPTER 22: MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC
CHAPTER 23: OFFENSES AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
CHAPTER 24: PARK AND RECREATION
CHAPTER 25: RESERVED
CHAPTER 26: PLUMBING
CHAPTER 27: POLICE
CHAPTER 28: PUBLIC UTILITIES
CHAPTER 29: SIGNS
CHAPTER 29.5: SMOKING
CHAPTER 30: STREETS AND SIDEWALKS
CHAPTER 31: SUBDIVISION ORDINANCE
CHAPTER 32: TAXATION
CHAPTER 33: TREES, SHRUBS, ETC.
CHAPTER 34: VEHICLES FOR HIRE
CHAPTER 35: WATER AND SEWERS
CHAPTER 36: RESERVED
APPENDIX A: ZONING REGULATIONS
APPENDIX B: CODE COMPLIANCE
APPENDIX C: RESERVED
CODE COMPARATIVE TABLE
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ARTICLE I: IN GENERAL
§ 16-1 MANUFACTURING ESTABLISHMENTS, REQUIREMENTS AS TO TOILET FACILITIES, SAFETY DEVICES, ETC.
   All manufacturing establishments and other businesses in the city employing more than five employees shall have, accessibly located, sufficient toilet and lavatory facilities. In case as many as two women are employed, a separate toilet and rest room shall be provided for women. Such toilets and rest rooms shall be maintained in a sanitary condition at all times, and no common towel shall be used. Safe drinking water shall be provided and made available in a sanitary manner. Common drinking cups are expressly prohibited. All rooms shall be well-lighted and well-ventilated. Employers shall provide proper safety devices for all machinery which is dangerous to the life or limb of any employee. Seats, benches, tables, machines, etc., shall be of such height and construction that no unnatural or harmful position need be maintained by any workman. All processes or operations which require or give off obnoxious smoke or fumes shall be carried on under a hood provided with such draft as may be necessary to prevent such fumes escaping outside of the hood to the annoyance or detriment of their own employees or others.
(1964 Code, § 19-434)
Cross-reference:
   Licenses and miscellaneous business regulations, see Ch. 20
§ 16-2 PERSONS OPERATING WATER SUPPLIES TO FURNISH ANNUAL LIST OF CUSTOMERS.
   All persons owning or operating water supplies from which water is sold through piping shall furnish to the director of the department of public health once annually a complete list of the names and addresses of all customers so supplied and shall also furnish the name and address of each new customer as added.
(1964 Code, § 19-436)
§ 16-3 COLLECTIONS OF OFFENSIVE SUBSTANCES WITHIN TWO HUNDRED FEET OF WELLS.
   No dry toilet, septic tank, cesspool, insanitary cow lot, horse lot, hog pen or any collection of filth, garbage or other offensive or filthy thing or substance shall be permitted within 200 feet of any well; provided, that if it is evident that pollution is reaching the well from a source farther away than the distance mentioned above, the source of the pollution shall be eliminated.
(1964 Code, § 19-437)
§ 16-4 RAW MILK.
   No person may distribute any unpasteurized milk or unpasteurized milk product to any person not a member of their immediate household without possessing a grade A raw for retail milk permit from the State of Texas. Cheeses produced from grade A raw milk in compliance with state and federal laws and regulations are exempt from this section.
(Ord. 21274-06-2014, § 3, passed 6-3-2014; eff. 6-11-2014)
§§ 16-5—16-10 RESERVED.
Editor’s note:
   Section 1 of Ord. 12274 repealed §§ 16-5 through 16-10. Formerly, said sections pertained to connecting private water supply with city water supply; permits required; cross-connections—standards, inspection, maintenance, permit required, annual permit fees and abatement of hazardous connections; and derived from §§ 19-438.1 through 19-438.6; § 1 of Ord. 8987, adopted December 6, 1983; § 1 of Ord. 10840, adopted May 7, 1991.
§ 16-11 SAMPLES OF WATER.
   The department of public health may take samples of water from any well, any part of the system, or from any bottles of water, for analysis and bacterial and chemical contents of such water shall meet the requirements of the U.S. Public Health Service drinking water standards.
(1964 Code, § 19-439)
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