It shall not be lawful, within the limits of the City of Buffalo,
for any person or persons to spit or expectorate upon the floor or
seat or upon any other part of a public conveyance of any kind or
character; neither shall it be lawful to expectorate upon the floor
or other part of any passenger elevator car used in any office building,
store, factory, library, theater or public building or upon the floor
or other place of any office building, store, factory, theater, public
hall, library or any public building where receptacles are provided
for that purpose.
It shall be the duty of all persons in charge of railroads, corporations,
buildings or other places to which this Article applies to post conspicuous
notice of the above and take all necessary and proper steps to secure
observance of this Article.
No person shall spit upon the sidewalk of any street, alley, thoroughfare,
square, park or other public place or upon the floor, walls or seats
of any room, hall, office or other part of any tenement, hotel or
lodging place which is used in common by the guests or inmates thereof
or upon the floor, walls or other part of any store, factory, theater
or other building or room which is used in common by the public or
upon the floor, platform, walls or seats of any depot or railroad
station.
Every corporation, proprietor or other person owning, operating or
controlling any store, factory, theater or other building or room
which is used in common by the public or any depot or railroad station
shall provide a sufficient number of nonabsorbent receptacles for
expectoration and shall provide for the thorough cleansing and disinfection
thereof at least once in 24 hours.
Every corporation, proprietor or other person owning, operating or
controlling any store, factory, theater or other building which is
used in common by the public or any railway car or other public conveyance
or any depot or railway station shall keep permanently posted in each
of said places a sufficient number of notices forbidding spitting.