[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]
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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.