[ Act No. 1526, August 18, 1906 ]
AN ACT FOR THE PREVENTION AND SUPPRESSION OF ASIATIC CHOLERA.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
Section 1. No farmer, market gardener, or other person or persons shall use any human excreta, excrement, dejecta, or the contents of any water or earth closet, privy, vault, cesspool, latrine, pail, or other receptacle for human feces or urine, as a fertilizer for any land on which is grown any article or product intended for human food or human consumption, or allow any human excrement, excreta, or dejecta to be sprinkled on or applied in any manner or for any purpose to any crop, product, or vegetation growing on said land.
Section 2. Any person violating the provisions of this Act shall, upon conviction, be punished by a line of not less than fifty pesos nor more than two hundred pesos, or by imprisonment for not to exceed six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court, for each offense.
Section 3. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.
Section 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, August 18,1906.
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