[Ord. 303, 4/3/1972, § 1]
1. Eradication shall mean the elimination of rodents or insects and
other pest life from any building, lot or premises through the use
of traps, baiting, fumigation, or any other method of extermination
approved by the Board of Health and subject to applicable laws relating
to poisonous substances and fumigants.
2. Harborage shall mean any condition which provides shelter or protection
for rodents, insects, or other pest life.
3. Person in control shall mean the owner or part owner of a building,
lot or premises, whether an individual, partnership or corporation,
the agent or occupant of a building, lot or premises, or any person
who has the use or custody of the same, or any part thereof, whether
an individual, partnership or corporation.
4. Rat-proofing shall mean the treatment or shielding, with material
impervious to rodent gnawing, of all actual or potential openings
in the exterior and interior walls, ground or first floors, roofs,
foundations, basements, sidewalk gratings and other places that may
be reached by rodents from the ground or by climbing or burrowing.
5. Board of Health shall mean the Board of Health of Fountain Hill or
any officer or authorized representative thereof.
[Ord. 303, 4/3/1972, § 2]
1. All buildings, lots or premises within the corporate limits of Fountain
Hill, shall be kept free from any condition conducive to rodent, insect
and other pest life. The person in control shall not allow the accumulation
of automobiles or trucks without current license plates or a current
inspection sticker, garbage, refuse, or any material which may afford
harborage or provide food for rodents, insects, or other pest life.
2. Whenever conditions inside or under unoccupied buildings provide
extensive harborage for rats the Health Officer is empowered, if said
conditions are not corrected in a period of 60 days after written
notification to the owner, to institute condemnation and demolition
proceedings. The cost of such proceedings is to be borne by the owner.
[Ord. 303, 4/3/1972, § 3; as amended by Ord. 348,
1/4/1982]
1. No person in control shall feed wild birds other than in a suitable,
properly shielded container for the food, installed in such a manner
as to be inaccessible to rodents and to prevent the scattering of
food on the ground.
2. No person shall place food in the open for feeding any animal except
in a container which will prevent the scattering of food upon the
ground. Unconsumed food shall not be allowed to remain where it is
accessible to rodents, insects, or other pest life.
3. When the Health Officer notifies the occupant or occupants of a building
in writing that there is evidence of rat infestation on the premises,
the said occupant or occupants shall immediately institute rat-eradication
measures and shall continuously maintain such measures in a satisfactory
manner until the premises is declared by the Health Officer to be
free of rat infestation. Unless said measures are undertaken within
five days after receipt of notice, it shall be construed as a violation
of the provisions of this Part and the occupant shall be held responsible
therefor.
[Ord. 303, 4/3/1972, § 4]
1. When any building, lot or premises is subject to infestation by rodents,
insects, or other pest life, the person in control shall apply continuous
or repeated eradication measures, as required by the Board of Health,
until there is no evidence of infestation remaining.
2. No building shall be demolished until the Board of Health certifies
the person in control that the building and premises are free from
the infestation of rodents, insects, or other pest life.
[Ord. 303, 4/3/1972, § 5]
1. Whenever conditions inside, outside, or under a building, or on any
lot or premises, provide harborage for rodents, the Board of Health
may require any one or more buildings to be rodent-proofed.
2. The person in control of a building or premises required to be rodent-proofed
shall maintain the rodent-proofing in good repair. No person shall
injure the rodent-proofing. When the rodent-proofing is injured, in
making alterations, installations, additions, or repairs to the building,
the person in control shall restore the rodent-proofing in good condition.
[Ord. 303, 4/3/1972, § 6; as amended by Ord. 348,
1/4/1982]
Any person in control who shall violate any provision or provisions
of this Part shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction,
shall be punished by a fine of not more than $300, and costs, or imprisonment
of not more than one day for each $10 of unpaid balance of fine and
costs. Each day's violation shall constitute a separate offense.
[Ord. 303, 4/3/1972, § 8]
This Part shall take effect immediately upon its passage, the
matter being one of urgency and necessity and the public welfare requiring
it.