[Adopted 12-11-1942;
amended effective 2-1-1973; 3-3-1974]
Any person or persons owning or having control of any building
or premises shall keep the same in a clean condition and any such
person having control of any building or premises, in or upon which
there is any substance or material, or any condition, which is or
may become a source of danger to the public health or a nuisance,
shall, when ordered by the Board of Health in writing, remove or abate
the same within the time specified in said order.
Any person or persons owning or having control of any premises
abutting on a private way, and having the right to use such private
way, shall, when ordered by the Board of Health, in writing, remove
or abate from that part of said private way adjoining such premises
any substance, material or condition which is or may become a menace
to the public health or a nuisance, and such removal or abatement
shall take place within the time specified in said order.
No person shall remove or transport garbage, offal or other
offensive material through any public street, court, lane or way without
first obtaining a permit from the Board of Health; and provided, further,
that he shall remove and transport the material herein mentioned in
accordance with such reasonable rules and regulations as may be established
by the Board. All such permits shall expire on December 31 of the
year in which they are issued, but may be renewed annually. They may
be revoked by the Board at any time for cause. No person, firm or
corporation shall obtain a permit without first paying to the Clerk
of said Board, for the use of the City, a fee as set from time to
time by the Board of Health. No permit shall be transferred except
with the approval of the Board. Carts or vehicles used for transporting
offensive material shall be watertight and shall be securely covered
with a wood, iron or canvas cover.
No person or persons shall place or cause to be placed or left
in or upon any public or private street or way, enclosure of grounds,
or in any body or stream of water within the limits of this town the
body of any dead animals, fowl, or any substance or material that
is or may become offensive or cause a nuisance, or may tend to obstruct
the flow of any stream.
The owner, agent or lessee of any land or enclosure, used as
a dump, either public or private, shall cause all offensive matter
dumped thereon to be immediately covered, and all other refuse matter
dumped thereon to be kept leveled, and the premises kept in such a
manner as to cause no nuisance during the process of filling. No person
shall dump any offensive material upon any dump unless permitted to
do so by the Board of Health, and all such offensive materials shall
be properly disposed of to the approval of the Board of Health. All
possible care shall be used in preventing the escape of dust and papers
from the dump and from the vehicle used in conveying waste materials
to the dump.
No owner, occupant or agent of any building or premises shall
permit any sewage, garbage, contents or drainage of a privy vault,
cesspool or water closet or sink drain or any other filth to empty
on the surface of the ground or enter into any ditch, brook, stream
or body of water.
A. The owner or other person or persons having control of any existing
building or buildings hereafter erected or converted into a dwelling
to be occupied by one or more families, and from which a public sewer
is accessible, shall, in a manner and within a period of time satisfactory
to the Board of Health, cause such a building to be connected with
such public sewer.
B. The owner or other person or persons having control of any existing
building or buildings hereafter erected or converted into one or more
stores or other places of business, and in which one or more persons
are employed, shall provide sufficient toilet facilities, and wherever
a public sewer is accessible, shall, in a manner and within a period
of time satisfactory to the Board of Health, cause such stores or
other places of business to be connected with such public sewer.
C. No cesspool, permanent privy vault, or other means of sewage disposal
shall hereafter be constructed or installed in this City until a permit
has first been obtained from the Board of Health.
D. All cesspools hereafter constructed shall be of approved material
and, unless otherwise specified by the Board of Health, shall be located
not less than 20 feet from any dwelling, not less than five feet from
line of any street, court or passageway, and not less than five feet
from line of adjoining lot, all measurements being taken from the
nearest outer circumference, and shall be not less than six feet in
depth, measuring from the lower rim of the inlet pipe, not less than
six feet in diameter (inside measurements to a point of drawing in),
and shall be provided with an iron cover and rim laid in cement. Overflow
cesspools may be entirely covered with earth.
E. No permanent privy vault shall be constructed, or maintained on premises
which are provided with a public water supply. All permanent privy
vaults, hereafter constructed, shall be of approved materials and
shall be flyproof, and, unless otherwise specified, shall be located
not less than 20 feet from any dwelling, not less than 20 feet from
the line of an adjoining lot, and not less than 20 feet from the line
of any street, court or passageway, all measurements being taken from
the nearest outer point of the vault.
F. Temporary privy vaults for the convenience of contractors or their
employees may be erected or installed without a permit, but only under
the following conditions. The vault must be at least two feet in depth
and must be so located as to cause no annoyance to persons residing
in the vicinity. The owner, contractor or agent shall cause the contents
thereof to be treated in a sanitary manner, and immediately upon completion
of the contract the contractor shall remove the privy, shall fill
in the vault and leave the premises in a condition satisfactory to
the Board of Health.
G. No indoor toilet or water closet, except that which is provided with
proper means of flushing with water at time of using, where water
is available, shall be hereafter installed on any premises in this
City. Where water is not available for flushing, indoor chemical toilets
of approved material and construction may be installed under special
permit of the Board of Health, if proper provision is made for the
final disposal of the contents thereof.
H. Whenever a water closet, privy vault, cesspool or drain becomes offensive
or obstructed, the owner, agent or occupant of the premises shall
cause the same to be cleaned and made free or otherwise corrected.
I. Every owner, occupant, or agent of premises in which there is any
private sewer, drain, privy vault, or cesspool shall keep the same
in a sanitary condition and shall have every privy vault and cesspool
emptied and cleaned when necessary or at such times as ordered by
the Board of Health. No privy vault or cesspool shall be emptied except
by such parties and in such manner as shall be especially authorized
by the Board of Health. If the owner or occupant fails to comply with
such order, the Board may cause the nuisance, source of filth, or
cause of sickness to be removed, and all expenses incurred thereby
shall be paid by the person who caused or permitted same, if he has
had actual notice from the Board of Health of the existence thereof.
A. No person shall keep within the limits of this City in any building,
or on any premises or tract of land of which he may be the owner,
lessee, tenant, or occupant, any cattle, swine, horses, birds, poultry,
fowl, reptiles or any other animals without a permit from the Board
of Health and then only in such places and manner as it shall direct.
All such permits expire annually on December 31 and may be revoked
by the Board at any time for cause.
B. No person shall keep any bird, fowl, reptiles, swine, cattle, horses,
or any other animals when the Board of Health may deem such keeping
detrimental to the health, or to create a nuisance to the residents
of the neighborhood, or to those who may pass thereby; and said Board
shall have the power to remove or cause to be removed therefrom any
such cattle, swine, horses, birds, poultry, fowl, reptiles, or any
other animals so kept.
C. No person or persons shall keep any birds, fowls, reptiles, swine,
cattle, horses, or any other animals in any part of a dwelling house
or store, nor in any coop or pen within 25 feet of a dwelling house.
No person hereafter shall erect or convert a building, coop, or pen
for the keeping of birds, fowl, or poultry of any kind unless said
building, coop, or pen shall be located not less than 50 feet from
the line of any street, court, or passageway, unless a permit in writing
so specifying shall have been granted by the Board of Health. All
poultry, fowl, or birds shall be kept within said building, coop,
or pen.
D. The owners or persons in control of any buildings or premises in
which any cattle, swine, horses, birds, poultry, fowl, reptiles, or
any other animal are kept shall keep the buildings and premises clean
and free from decaying food, filth, manure, dirt, or stagnant water.
The buildings and pens shall be whitewashed or disinfected and put
in such condition as may be ordered by the Board of Health.
E. The owner or other person or persons having control of any existing
building or buildings hereafter erected or converted into a barn for
the stabling of horses or other domestic animals shall keep their
barns, stables, and yards clean, and shall provide suitable facilities
for the reception of manure and other refuse matter. Wherever a public
sewer is accessible, the Board of Health will decide as to the advisability
of connecting such building with such sewer.
A. The Board of Health may prohibit the exercise of the following trades
or employments: those of slaughtering animals, of rendering animal
matter, of manufacturing fertilizers and soaps, of mixing or storing
of refuse, or vegetable substances, of smoking fish or meat, of refining
oils, of making egg dressing, varnish, glue, gas, gasoline or any
burning fluid, except at the place or places where such trade or employments
are now lawfully established or which may hereafter be assigned by
the Board, such trades or employments being either nuisances or hurtful
to the City, attended by noisome odors or otherwise injurious or dangerous
to the public health.
B. No old rags, old papers or other refuse material shall be brought
into or allowed to remain within any building used as a dwelling if
gathered from any source outside of such building.
C. No person shall sell or offer for sale any secondhand wearing apparel,
bedding, household furniture or household utensils that have been
exposed to any communicable disease, or that is infected with vermin
until the same has been cleansed and disinfected in a manner satisfactory
to the Board of Health.
No person, by himself or by his agent, or as the servant or
agent of any other person, firm or corporation, shall sell, exchange
or deliver, or have in his or their possession with intent to sell,
exchange or deliver, any ice from polluted sources or ice which upon
chemical or bacteriological examination shows evidence of sewage or
other objectionable contamination, or which is visibly polluted or
soiled by dirt, or ice in or upon which there is any visible foreign
matter.