As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
Whatever is dangerous to life or health, whatever building
or part or cellar thereof is overcrowded or not provided with adequate
means of ingress or egress or is not sufficiently supported, ventilated,
sewered, drained, cleaned out or lighted, and whatever renders soil,
air, water or food impure or unwholesome is declared to be a nuisance
and to be illegal; and every person having aided in creating or contributing
to the same, or who may support, continue or retain any of them shall
be deemed guilty of a violation of this ordinance and shall also be
liable for the expense of the abatement or remedy thereof.
The following penalties shall be uniformly applicable for the various violations of the Fire Prevention and Building Construction provisions enumerated in § 109-19 or 109-20 of the Code of the City of Glens Falls or the General Sanitary Regulations enumerated hereinbelow in §§ 171-2 through 171-18:
A.
First violation of any provision of a section herein: issuance of
a written warning.
B.
Failure to cure a violation within 72 business hours of receipt of
a written warning: a fine of $100.
C.
Continued failure to cure a violation for a period of one week (in
an emergency, 72 hours) or a second violation within a two-year period:
a fine of $250.
D.
Continued failure to cure a violation for a period of 90 days, or
a third violation within a three-year period: a fine of $500.
E.
The above fines shall be imposed cumulatively in the case of continued
violations.
No privy, pit, cesspool or reservoir into which any privy, water
closet, stable, sink or other receptacle of refuse or sewage is drained
shall be constructed or maintained in any situation or in any manner
whereby, through leakage or overflow of its contents, it may cause
pollution of the soil near or about habitations or of any well, spring
or other source of water used for drinking or culinary purposes; nor
shall the overflow from any such reservoir or receptacle be permitted
to discharge into any public place or anywise whereby danger to health
may be caused. No person shall construct a cesspool within the corporate
limits of Glens Falls except by consent of the Board of Health and
under its directions.
Every privy vault shall be cleaned and the contents thereof
removed, buried and covered with earth, and all putrid and decaying
animal and vegetable matter must be removed from all cellars and outbuildings
at least once between the 10th day of April and the 15th day of May
in each year, and as often thereafter as may be necessary to keep
such privy vaults, cellars and outbuildings in a clean and wholesome
condition and free from odor. The contents of any privy or cesspool
shall not be removed between the first day of June and the first day
of November in any year, nor at any time between hours of 5:00 a.m.
and 9:00 p.m., except by consent of the Health Officer or Mayor.
A.
Every owner, occupant or agent of any building now existing adjacent
to a street or public place in which there is a public sewer shall
construct or cause to be constructed a drain to connect each and every
water closet and sink in such buildings with said public sewer within
30 days after notice so to do shall, by order of the Board of Health,
be duly served upon such owner, occupant or agent; and every such
drain, soil pipe, passage and connection shall be at all times adequate
for this purpose and such as shall freely convey and allow to pass
whatever enters or should enter the same. Where a building or premises
are connected with sewers in pursuance of the order of the Board of
Health as above provided, no outdoor or dry closet shall be constructed
or maintained on said premises.
B.
Every building within the City of Glens Falls used in whole or in
part as a dwelling now or hereafter erected upon any land adjacent
or accessible to a street or highway in which a public sewer is located
shall be properly connected with such sewer, and no such building
now or hereafter erected shall be inhabited, occupied or used by any
person or persons before the same shall be connected with a public
sewer as aforesaid.
C.
No vault, privy, drain or cesspool for receiving any excrement, sewage
or slops shall be constructed or maintained on any land within the
City of Glens Falls adjacent or accessible to a public street or highway
in which a public sewer is located.
[Amended 11-7-1928]
A.
No vegetable, animal or other offensive matter, and no offal or refuse
of any kind shall be thrown into any gutters, lanes, streets or alleys,
or upon any yard, lot or piece of land, except that material commonly
used as fertilizers may be applied to land; but such fertilizers shall
not be applied or allowed to remain upon any yard, lot or piece of
land within 100 feet of any habitation between the 20th day of May
and the first day of November in each year. No putrid or decaying
animal or vegetable matter shall be kept in any house, cellar or adjoining
outbuildings for more than 24 hours.
A.
Swill, garbage, waste material from meat markets or night soil shall
not be transported through any of the streets of Glens Falls, except
in watertight receptacles which shall be closely covered during such
transit. Covers shall not be unnecessarily removed or contents or
receptacles unnecessarily exposed during collection. Pails, dippers
or other utensils used shall also be carried without exposure. Collectors
must not permit their wagons to stand upon the streets or in any public
place longer than is necessary to make their collections.
No person or persons shall build or use any slaughterhouse within
the limits of the City of Glens Falls. No cattle, sheep, swine or
other animals shall be slaughtered within the limits of this city.
No meat, fish, bird, fruit or vegetables, milk or anything for
human food or drink, not being fresh or properly preserved, sound,
wholesome and safe for any such use, nor any flesh of animals which
died of disease or which was at the time of its killing in a sickly
or unwholesome condition, nor the carcass or meat of any which was
at the date of its killing less than four weeks old nor any lamb which
was at the date of its killing less than eight weeks old nor any pig
which was at the date of its killing less than five weeks old shall
be brought within the limits of the jurisdiction of this Board and
offered or held for sale as food therein.
Any ice cut from a pond, river or other body of water, either
within or without said city, upon which any person or persons shall
be permitted to walk or skate during the time said ice shall be forming
or after same shall have been formed, or which ice shall be contaminated
or permitted to be contaminated by reason of there being deposited
thereon any spittle or any deleterious substance shall not be brought
within the limits of the jurisdiction of this Board or sold or offered
for sale within such jurisdiction.
No animal affected with any infectious or contagious disease
shall be brought or kept within the limits of the jurisdiction of
this Board of Health except by the permission of said Board; and the
bodies of animals dead of such disease or killed on account thereof
shall not be buried within the limits of the City of Glens Falls,
nor disposed of otherwise than as the Health Officer shall direct.
Veterinary surgeons and all other persons having knowledge of contagious
or infectious diseases in animals are required to report such cases
to the Health Officer within three hours of discovery of same.
No sunken places shall be filled nor made land constructed with
any materials containing an admixture of animal or vegetable matter.
No person or corporation shall erect or maintain any manufactory
or place of business dangerous to life or detrimental to health, or
where unwholesome, offensive or deleterious odors, gases or exhalations
are generated; nor shall any offensive or deleterious waste substances,
gas, tar, sludge, refuse or injurious matter be allowed to accumulate
upon any premises or be thrown or allowed to run into any public waters,
stream, watercourse, street, lot or public place.
Each and every occupant of any building or lot, and each and
every owner of any unoccupied building or lot in or upon which there
shall be anything whatsoever which, in the opinion of the Board of
Health, is injurious to the public health shall forthwith remove,
suppress or prevent the same. Every person who shall deposit, erect
or make in or upon any street, highway or alley anything whatever
which, in the opinion of the Board of Health, shall be or become injurious
to health of any person shall forthwith remove and suppress the same.
[Amended 5-4-1920]
No person shall keep swine within the corporate limits of the
City of Glens Falls.
A.
No person shall spit upon the floors, steps or platforms of any streetcar
or other public conveyance, upon the sidewalks of any street of said
City of Glens Falls or upon the floor or walks of any public hall
or building or on the halls or approaches thereto.
[Added 7-2-1918]
A.
No person, firm or corporation shall sell or deliver meat or meat
products, fish or seafood at retail in the City of Glens Falls without
a license from the Board of Health.
B.
Such license shall not be granted by said Board until after the place
for storing and selling said articles shall be inspected and approved
by the Health Officer. Any such license may be revoked at any time
for cause. Such license shall continue in force until the first day
of July following its issue and shall not be transferable.
[Added 7-2-1918]
The proprietor of each and every bakery in the City of Glens
Falls shall, before offering for sale, selling or delivering any bread
within said city, wrap each and every loaf of bread in a securely
closed, dustproof wrapping.
All complaints not made at a meeting of this Board shall be
made in writing, stating the character of the violation, the nature
of the nuisance, the locality, name of offender, owner or occupant
of tenement or lot and be signed by the person making the complaint.
Such complaint may be sent to the Health Officer or to the Board of
Health. Blanks for such complaints will be furnished by the Health
Officer or by the City Clerk.
