A DIGEST of Ordinances and Resolutions Covering Matters of General Interest to the Public of the City of Scranton Pennsylvania Published by authority of the City of Scranton 1925 Compiled by PHILIP V. MATTES, City Solicitor SCRANTON CITY OFFICIALS, 1925 3 Supt., Bureau of Building Inspection Michael J. Fitzgibbon......Supt., Bureau of Buildings Frank C. Bean Mark F. Cahilin William P. Huester.. M. J. McHugh.. ... Peter J. Rosar. John H. Devine.... Richard V. James.. P. J. Mulherin.. John P. Flynn.. Frank E. Sutch. William A. Schunk. William J. Smith.. H. M. Kerber.. Dr. H. J. Pugh.. Supt.,Bureau of Highways and Sewers Supt., Bureau of Ashes and Garbage Supt., Bureau of Parks Supt., Bureau of Recreation ..Chief Engineer Bureau of Engineering Frank B. Davenport.. Engineer Bureau of Mine-Cave Commission W. P. Boland F. L. Brown William Farrell ..Sealer, Bureau of Weights and Measures ...City Forester ..Secretary to the Mayor City Planning Commission Morgan S. Kaufman Hans Machler R. H. Martin Thomas F. Quinn Samuel Samter Bureau of Recreation Peter J. Dowdell Mrs. E. W. Gearhart E. J. Lynett Mrs. Thomas Murphy William La Fontaine (Ex officio) Mrs. Lester Pollock Sinking Fund Commission A. J. Casey, Chairman D. Walt Wagner Shade Tree Commission Hon. R. W. Archbald Mrs. J. Benj. Dimmick Dr. F. W. Wheelock, President Thomas J. Evans PREFACE This volume has been prepared under the authority of Ordinance 38, 1925, authorizing the City Solicitor "to prepare and publish a volume containing such ordinances as, in his opinion, should be included therein, covering matters of general interest to the public, with an index thereof." In the selection made, such ordinances as are of a local, special or temporary character, which of necessity make up the greater bulk of municipal legislation, have not been included, except that typical examples of the more common forms have been inserted in the Appendix. The territory which now constitutes the City of Scranton and the Borough of Dunmore was formerly embraced within "Providence Township." About the middle of the Nineteenth Century, Providence Township was split up and at various times the four boroughs of Providence, Hyde Park, Scranton and Dunmore were carved out of it. (See Acts of 1849, P. L. 227; 1853, P. L. 764; and decree recorded in Luzerne County in Deed Book 65 page 15). By Act of Assembly of April 23, 1866, P. L. 1034, three of these boroughs, Providence, Hyde Park and Scranton, and the remaining portion of Providence Township were reunited under the name, "City of Scranton." The form of city government was based at first upon the Act of 1866. Later, classed as a third class city, Scranton was governed in turn by the Act of May 23, 1874, P. L. 230 and the Act of May 23, 1889, P. L. 277. By the census of 1900 Scranton had exceeded 100,000 in population and thereupon joined Pittsburgh as a second class city-the only cities of that class in the State. This necessitated further radical read justments in the governmental machinery. Due to the many changes imposed by Acts of Assembly, a large proportion of the ordinances adopted while Scranton was a city of the third class have become obsolete and have been repealed or supplied by later ordinances or state legislation. Prior to 1911 the legislative functions of the City were vested in Councils consisting of two chambers, the Select Council and the Common Council, and ordinances are designated according to the chamber in which they originated. Thus, "Ord. 4 S. C. 1866" is Ordinance, File of the Select Council, No. 4, 1866. By Act of May 31, 1911, P. L. 461, the existing Councils were abolished, |