As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
NUISANCE
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.
[Added 6-5-1997 by L.L. No. 4-1997[1]; amended 10-22-1998 by L.L. No. 13-1998]
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.
[1]
Editor's Note: This local law provided that "this schedule of penalties shall replace and amend the particular penalties noted in the individual sections of this chapter." Therefore, the individual penalties in §§ 171-2 through 171-18 have been removed.
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.