As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
ENFORCING OFFICIAL
Includes the Health Officer or other official authorized
by the Construction Official to enforce this code and chapter.
PERSON
Includes an individual, firm, corporation, association, society,
partnership and their agents or employees.
It shall be unlawful for the owner or owners who have agreed
to supply heat to any building designed to be occupied or occupied
as a residence by more than two families to fail to supply heat from
the first day of October in each year to the first day of May of the
succeeding year in such manner that the temperature of said building
where one or more persons reside shall always be kept at 68° F.
or above between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m.
It shall be unlawful for any person to make, cause or suffer
or permit to be made or caused upon any premises owned, occupied or
controlled by him or it or upon any public street, alley or thoroughfare
in this municipality any unnecessary noises or sounds by means of
the human voice, or by any other means or methods, which are physically
annoying to persons, or which are so harsh, or so prolonged or unnatural,
or unusual in their use, time and place, as to occasion physical discomfort,
or which are injurious to the lives, health, peace and comfort of
the inhabitants of this municipality or any number thereof.
It shall be unlawful for any person to rent, lease or otherwise
permit the occupancy of any building as a residence or for any person
to reside in any building as its owner which:
A. Is not adequately and properly ventilated;
B. Fails to provide potable water at sufficient pressure and quantity
for each family unit from a public supply approved by the State Department
of Health or a private supply approved by the enforcing official;
C. Does not have plumbing fixtures consisting of a kitchen sink, bathtub
or shower, lavatory and flush toilet connected to the potable water
supply; or
D. Does not have facilities for the discharge of all household liquid
wastes into a public sewerage system approved by the State Department
of Health or into a private sewerage system approved by the enforcing
official.
It shall be unlawful for any person to spit upon any public
sidewalk or upon any part of the interior or exterior of any public
building or public conveyance.
The Construction Official may institute an action at law to recover costs incurred by it in the removal or abatement of any nuisance as declared by §
341-2 of this chapter from any person who shall have caused or allowed such nuisance to exist or from any owner, tenant or occupant of premises who, after notice and notification as herein provided, shall fail to remove and abate the same within the time specified in such notice.
[Amended 12-4-2017 by Ord. No. 2017-3212]
The provisions of this chapter shall be enforced by the Enforcing
Official.
[Amended 8-4-1997 by Ord.
No. 97-2479; 2-6-2017 by Ord. No. 2017-3185]
Any person who violates or neglects to comply with any provision of this chapter or code established herein or notice issued pursuant thereto shall, upon conviction thereof, be liable to the penalties provided in §
1-4 of this Code for each violation.