No owner or occupant of any premises within the city shall maintain
such premises in a vermin- or rat-infested condition or permit such premises
to become infested with vermin or rodents, or create or permit to exist any
condition likely to promote or contribute to infestation.
No building or structure shall be erected, repaired, altered or extended
after the effective date of this chapter unless provision is made for ratproofing
such structure.
No person shall remove, damage or destroy any part of any building or
other appurtenance of improved premises intended to protect such premises
against ingress of rats, or in any other way create a condition by which ingress
of rats is made possible; provided, however, that this section shall not be
applicable where the interference with ratproofing is made necessary in connection
with lawful construction, after which, however, ratproofing shall be restored.
No person shall throw, place or deposit, or permit any person under
his control or employment to throw, place or deposit, any putrid substance,
night soil, filth of any kind, garbage, rubbish, refuse piles, old lumber
or other rat harborage of any unwholesome material in or upon any vacant lot,
alley, lane, sidewalk or street, canal, lake or river, or upon any private
lot or public ground within the city without the written approval of the Health
Department.
No person shall place food in the open for the feeding of any domesticated
fowl, birds or animals except in such containers as will prevent the scattering
of such food upon the ground. After such feeding, such food shall not be allowed
to remain in the open.
No building or structure infested with rodents or insects shall be demolished
unless it has first been treated with an effective fumigating compound before
such demolition begins.