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.
House offal, commonly called "garbage" or "swill," shall be placed
in a suitable watertight receptacle properly covered. Receptacles
used for the storing of house offal shall at all times be kept in
a reasonably clean condition. No metal, glass, crockery or poisonous
substances other than house offal shall be placed in such receptacles.
No person or persons shall place or cause to be placed or left in
or upon any public or private street or way, enclosure or grounds,
or in any body or stream of water, within the limits of this Town,
the body of any dead animal, fowl or any substance or material that
is or may become offensive or cause a nuisance.
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 materials upon any dump unless permitted to do
so by the Board of Health, and all such offensive materials shall
be properly buried or otherwise 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 vehicles 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
unless specially permitted to do so by the Board of Health.