[HISTORY: Adopted City of Norwalk Common Council 5-15-1957; effective 5-25-1957. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
For the purpose of the ordinance, the terms used herein are
defined as follows:
NUISANCE
Whatever is dangerous to human life or health, and whatever
renders the ground, air, food or water unwholesome and an injury to
human health.
No person shall engage in the disposal of dead animals, bone
boiling, bone cooking, glue making or rendering impure and offensive
animal matter without a permit from the Board of Health.
No rags, bones, scraps or refuse matter shall be brought into
or be stored or kept within the limits of the city except on written
permit issued by the Board of Health, and such Board shall reserve
the right to revoke such permit at any time.
No dwelling or any part thereof, within the city shall be used
in the business of selling, storing, sorting or handling of rags,
without a written permit from the Board of Health, which permit may
be revoked by such Board at any time.
No person shall carry on any trade or business within the city
in such a manner as to be obnoxious and offensive to the inhabitants
of the city or any part thereof, or which may be attended by noisome or unhealthful odors,
or which may be attended by such noise or noises as may be detrimental
to life or health.
The keeping of any house or building or part thereof in such
a state of uncleanliness, or the crowding of persons in any house
or building in such a manner as to endanger the health of the persons
dwelling therein, hereby declared to be a nuisance and is prohibited.
No owner, agent or lessee of any building or any part thereof
shall occupy or let, lease or hire out the same, or any portion thereof,
to be occupied either for domestic or business purposes by any person,
or allow the same to be occupied as a place for anyone to dwell or
ledge or conduct business, where such building, or any part thereof,
is not provided with adequate means of ingress and egress, or is not
sufficiently supported lighted, ventilated, drained, cleansed or provided
with proper water closets.
Any imperfect trap, sink or water closet within any house, or
any other drainage appliance or fixture within any house, from which
there shall arise any foul or noxious gas or odor detrimental to human
health, is hereby declared to be a nuisance.
No building or premises shall be rented, let, leased or occupied,
either for domestic or business purposes, which shall not have a plentiful
supply of pure water suitable for domestic purposes furnished in such
building.
Whenever it shall be decided by the Board of Health that any
building or part thereof is unfit for human habitation by reason of
the number of occupants, want of cleanliness or being in a condition
dangerous to health or life, or likely to be the cause of sickness
among the occupants, and notice of such decision shall have been affixed
conspicuously on the building or any part thereof and personally served
upon the owner, agent or lessee, if the same can be found in the state
requiring all persons therein to vacate such building, or part thereof,
for the reasons stated therein, such buildings or part thereof shall
within 10 days thereafter be vacated or, in case of special emergency,
within such shorter time as may be specified in such notice.
No person shall burn within the city any matter or substance
(other than coal, charcoal, wood, gas or oils) which shall discharge
into the air or cast off any foul, obnoxious, annoying or repulsive
gas, smoke or odors of any kind whatever.
All ponds, pools or collections of still and stagnant water
shall constitute a nuisance.
It shall be the duty of any owner, tenant, lessee or occupant
of any lot, ground, building, house or stable in the city on written
notice from the Board of Health, to forthwith remove therefrom any
rubbish, waste paper, garbage, offal or any offensive matter or thing;
and it shall be the duty of any person, on written notice front such
Board, to abate any nuisances existing on any premises of he may be
the owner, tenant, or occupant.
It shall be unlawful for any person to leave outside of any
building or dwelling in a place accessible to children any abandoned,
unattended or discarded icebox, refrigerator or any other container
of any kind, which has an airtight door or lock which may not be released
for opening from the inside of such icebox, refrigerator or container.
It shall be unlawful for any person to leave outside of any
building or dwelling in a place accessible to children any abandoned,
unattended or discarded icebox, refrigerator or any other container
of any kind, which has an airtight snap lock or other device thereon
without first removing the snap lock or doors from such icebox, refrigerator
or container.
It shall be unlawful for any person, with the intention to prevent
the detection or arrest of any person who is guilty or suspected of
any offense, to give any information regarding any complaint, or any
order to any member of the police force, or any intended action of
any police officer, or of the vicinity, position or approach of any
police officer.
A. No barber shop in the city shall be open for business before 8:00
a.m. or remain open after 6:00 p.m. on any weekday, except on Saturdays
when the hours shall be from 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
B. On day prior to holidays such shops may remain open until 7:00 p.m.
It shall be unlawful for any person in any manner to assist
any person in custody of a police officer or member of the Police
Department to escape or attempt to escape from such custody.
No person shall, without first obtaining a permit from the Fire
Marshal of the City, make or cause to be made within the limits of
the city any outdoor fire, except as provided in this section as follows:
A. Waste other than garbage may be burned in a standard waste burner
with a closed top constructed of brick, plate iron, steel or wire,
located not less than 15 feet from any structure and not less than
three feet from any property line. If such burner is constructed of
plate iron or steel, the same shall be of not less than No. 14 B.W.
gauge and, if of wire, it shall not be less then No. 9 gauge, and
no meshes in any burner shall be larger than one inch.
B. Garbage may be burned only in an appliance or incinerator especially
designed for the disposal of garbage by heat, giving off no obnoxious
odors and being approved by the National Board of Fire Underwriters
or the American Gas Association.
C. Cooking fires may be made in an outdoor fireplace or barbecue pit
of such construction as will confine the fire to such fireplace or
barbecue pit and in such location as does not create a fire hazard.
The permit required by the preceding section may be granted
by the Fire Marshal of the city for any fire not specifically authorized
in such section, at his sound discretion after the following factors
are considered by him:
B. Type and condition of material to be burned.
C. Quantity of material to be burned.
D. Proximity of proposed fire to dwellings and outbuildings.
E. Precautions available for keeping such fire under control.
Application for the permit required under §
71-19 of this Code may be made orally and shall be promptly granted or denied orally. If granted, however, it shall be confirmed in writing.
No person shall be or remain upon the steps or other projection
from any church, hotel, hall or public building, nor in any hall,
space or way leading thereto, so as to obstruct free passage into
and out of the same, or upon any fence or wall surrounding or adjoining
the same.
[Added 4-10-1973]
A. No person shall, without first obtaining a permit from the Fire Marshal
of the city, make any change in the use or layout of any commercial
or industrial structure or portion thereof, or any residential structure
containing more than two dwelling units or portion thereof.
B. The permit required by the preceding subsection shall be granted
by the Fire Marshal after an inspection, conducted under his authority,
of structures, receptacles, vehicles, storage places and types of
contents to be used, if the same constitute no unreasonable hazard
of fire or explosion.
C. All applications for a permit shall be made to the Fire Marshal in
such form as he shall prescribe. An application for a permit shall
be accompanied by such plans as required by the Fire Marshal.
D. Permits shall at all times be kept on the premises designated therein
and shall at all times be subject to inspection by any officer of
the Fire or Police Department. Permits shall not be transferable.