[HISTORY: Adopted by the Common Council of the City of Glenwood
City 12-1-2003 by Ord. No. 2003-02 as §§ 8-1-1 to 8-1-3 and Title 8, Ch. 2,
of the 2003 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
The Common Council may make reasonable and general rules for the enforcement of the provisions of this chapter and for the prevention of the creation of health nuisances and the protection of the public health and welfare and may, where appropriate, require the issuance of licenses and permits. All such regulations shall have the same effect as ordinances, and any person violating any of such regulations and any lawful order of the Council shall be subject to the general penalty provided for in § 1-4 of this Code.
A.
Defined. A health nuisance is any source of filth or cause of sickness.
No person shall deposit or cause to be deposited in any public
street or on any public ground or on any private property not his
own any refuse, garbage, litter, waste material or liquid or any other
objectionable material or liquid. When any such material is placed
on the person's own private property, it shall be properly enclosed
and covered so as to prevent the same from becoming a public nuisance.
A.
Cleanup required. All persons, firms, or corporations delivering,
hauling, disposing, storing, discharging or otherwise handling potentially
polluting substances, solid or liquid, such as, but not limited to,
the following shall immediately clean up any such spilled material
to prevent its becoming a hazard to health or safety or directly or
indirectly causing pollution to the lakes and streams under the jurisdiction
of the City: fuel oil, gasoline, solvents, industrial liquids or fluids,
milk, grease trap and septic tank wastes, sewage sludge, sanitary
sewer wastes, storm sewer catch basin wastes, oil or petroleum wastes.
B.
Notification. Spills or accidental release of hazardous materials
or pollutants at a site or of a quantity or nature that cannot adequately
be cleaned up by the responsible party or parties shall be immediately
reported to the City Clerk-Treasurer so that assistance can be given
by the proper agency.
C.
Financial liability. The party or parties responsible for the release,
escape or discharge of wastes shall be held financially liable for
the cost of any cleanup or attempted cleanup deemed necessary or desirable
and undertaken by the City, or its designated agent, in an effort
to minimize the pollutional effects of the discharged waste.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to
store any potentially polluting substances unless such substances
are stored in such manner as to securely prevent them from escaping
onto the ground surface and/or into any street, sewer, ditch or drainageway,
lake or stream within the jurisdiction of the City of Glenwood City.