Cross References — Water system connection distance, housing code adopted in §500.180; sewage disposal at trailer coach parks, §670.130.
State Law Reference — Authority to enact rules additional
to State, RSMo. §192.290.
[Ord. No. 256, §1, 10-10-1956]
There is established a Department of Public Health, the head
of which shall be a director.
[Ord. No. 257 §3, 10-10-1956]
The Health Department shall have general supervision over the public health and shall see that the laws and ordinances in relation thereto are observed and enforced and for that purpose the Enforcement Officer is authorized and empowered, with the approval of the Council to make such rules and regulations consistent with the Charter of the City and the Statutes of the State as will tend to promote or preserve the health of the inhabitants of the City and carry out the purposes and intents of this Chapter. He is empowered to authorize and require any employee or Law Enforcement Officer to enter into and examine premises as provided in Section 225.050 and ascertain the condition thereof so far as the public health may be affected by it and to declare and abate nuisances as herein or by law or ordinance provided.
[Ord. No. 256 §3, 10-10-1956]
A.
The Enforcement
Officer shall have charge of the Administration of Public Health and
Sanitation in the City, and to that end he shall have the authority
and be required to:
1.
See
that laws and ordinances relating to public health and sanitation
are observed and enforced.
2.
Establish
and maintain such activities and clinics as are needed to promote
the public health of the City, including but not limited to:
a.
Control
of communicable diseases.
b.
Control
of rodents and mosquitoes.
c.
Control
of dogs and rabies.
d.
Inspection
of the water supply and water supply facilities, and sewers and sewage
treatment facilities, and plumbing facilities to see that they conform
with established principles of public health.
e.
Control
of refuse collection and disposal.
f.
Control
of public health nuisances.
g.
Control
of milk and food sanitation.
3.
Perform
such other duties with reference to public health and sanitation as
may be prescribed by the City Council.
[Ord. No. 256 §4, 10-10-1956]
The City Council may appoint the County Health Officer as Director
of Public Health, and may contract with the County for the services
of said Officer, and the County Department of Health, to perform the
duties of the Director of Public Health of the City.
[Ord. No. 257 §2, 10-10-1956]
The Enforcement Officer is authorized and empowered to inspect
all buildings, lands, and places as to their conditions for health
and sanitation and when necessary, prevent the use thereof and require
any alterations or changes necessary to make them healthful or sanitary.
[Ord. No. 257 §4, 10-10-1956]
The Enforcement Officer shall keep a record of his acts and
orders and shall file in his office all petitions, documents and papers
belonging thereto. Copies of such records, petitions, documents and
papers when certified by him shall be prima facie evidence in any
court of the facts therein contained.
[Ord. No. 257 §5, 10-10-1956]
All Law Enforcement Officers shall observe the health and sanitary
conditions in the City and shall promptly report to the Enforcement
Officer, through the Chief Law Enforcement Officer, any disease, nuisance
or unsanitary condition.
[Ord. No. 79-89 §§1-7, 12-5-1979]
A.
Regulated. No person shall transport radioactive material
within the City except as herein provided, and it shall be unlawful
for any person to transport radioactive material within the City except
in accordance with the provisions of this Section.
B.
Materials for Which Certificate Required. No later than
two (2) weeks before the date on which the below-listed radioactive
materials may be transported within the City, carriers of said material
must obtain a certificate of emergency transportation from the Administrative
Assistant or his designated representative:
1.
Plutonium
in any quantity and form exceeding two (2) grams or twenty (20) curies,
whichever is less;
2.
Uranium
enriched in the isotope U-235 exceeding twenty-five percent (25%)
of the total uranium content in quantities where the U-235 content
exceeds one (1) kilogram;
3.
Any
of the actinides (i.e., elements with the atomic number 89 or greater)
the activity of which exceeds twenty (20) curies;
4.
Spent
reactor fuel elements or mixed fission products associated with spent
fuel elements, the activity of which exceeds twenty (20) curies;
5.
Any
quantity of radioactive material specified as "large quantity" by
the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 10 CFR 71, "Packaging of Radioactive
Material for Transport", and/or
6.
Any
quantity of uranium mill tailings or other radioactive waste material.
C.
Issuance of Certificate. The Administrative Assistant or
his designated representative shall issue a certificate of emergency
transportation for each and every shipment of the above-mentioned
material only for reasons of urgent public policy or national security
which clearly transcend the public safety and health interests which
inspired this Section.
D.
Exemptions. Those carriers who transport radioactive material
of the nature described above for education, medical or biomedical
research purposes, or for reasons of national security or military
needs, shall be exempt from the provisions of this Section.
E.
Conditions. The Administrative Assistant or his designated
representative in consultation with appropriate authorities in the
Police and Fire Departments shall designate the time, route and other
conditions of transport for any and all carriers issued a certificate
of emergency transportation.
F.
CARRIER OR CARRIERS
CURIE
LARGE QUANTITY RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS
RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL
Definitions. The following shall serve as definitions:
Includes any vehicles used by any private, contract or common
carrier as defined by the Interstate Commerce Act, as amended.
Is an expression of quantity of radiation; a curie is the
quantity of radioactive material which decays such that thirty-seven
(37) billion atoms disintegrate per second.
Are defined in 10 CFR 71, Section 71.4 (d) (3) and 71.4 (f).
Any material or combination of materials which spontaneously
emit ionizing radiation. Materials in which the estimated specific
activity is not greater than .002 microcuries per gram of material,
and in which the radioactivity is essentially uniformly distributed,
are not considered radioactive matter.
[Ord. No. 79-90 §§1-8, 12-5-1979]
A.
Findings of Fact. The City Council finds that uranium tailings
and other radioactive waste material may pose a potential and significant
radiation health hazard to the public and that the protection of the
public health, safety and welfare require that nuclear waste not be
stored or disposed of in the City, in order to prevent radon diffusion
in the environment and other danger from radioactivity in the City,
which is a populous urban area.
B.
Prohibited. The storage of disposal of uranium mill tailings
and other radioactive nuclear waste in the City is hereby prohibited.
C.
Violations Declared Separate Offense. It shall be unlawful
for any person to store or dispose of any nuclear waste within the
City, and each day that any such nuclear waste shall be in the City
shall constitute a separate offense by any person responsible for
such storage or disposal.
D.
Enforcing. The prohibition against the storage or disposal
of nuclear waste in the City shall be enforceable by an action for
injunction or other appropriate judicial relief.
E.
Method of Relief. The City may pursue either or both of
prosecution and civil relief against any person who shall violate
the provisions of this Section.
F.
Exemptions.
1.
Temporary storage. There shall be exempt from the provisions
of this Section the temporary storage by medical facilities of radioactive
waste material until permanent disposal shall be made thereof outside
the City.
2.
Material previously stored or disposed of. This Section
shall not apply to any radioactive waste material which has been stored
or disposed of in the City prior to the effective date hereof (December
5, 1979).
