[1980 Code § 117-55]
The following specific acts, conditions and things are each and all of them declared to constitute public health nuisances and are prohibited:
a. 
Garbage and refuse. Depositing, maintaining or permitting to be deposited or maintained or to accumulate, in or upon any public or private street or thoroughfare or place or in or upon any property or building, any wastewater, sewage, garbage, refuse or excrement; any dead animals; any decaying or putrescible matter; any oyster or clam shells; or any foul, putrid or decaying liquid or substance; or allowing any garbage, refuse or excrement or any other offensive or decomposed solid or fluid matter or substance to leak or escape from any cart, wagon or vehicle or other container in which the same may be conveyed or contained.
b. 
Excremental matter. Permitting any human excrement or material containing human excrement to remain or flow upon any place other than on an approved disposal source.
c. 
Toilet accommodations. Failing to provide any premises with suitable water closets in good working order for all persons living therein.
d. 
Buildings. Permitting any building or portion thereof occupied by human beings to remain in the state of uncleanliness detrimental to the health of the occupants or the public; permitting any building which is inhabited by human beings or which is occupied by human beings for any purpose to be without an adequate supply of potable running water at any time while being occupied; or permitting any filthy or unhealthful condition to exist in the plumbing or plumbing fixtures of or in a building used or occupied by human beings for any purpose, regardless of whether such condition shall be the result of leakage, stoppage or any other cause.
e. 
Stagnant water. Accumulating or permitting to accumulate on any private or public property pools of water, stagnant water or other liquid in an unconfined, uncontrolled or unplanned manner for a period exceeding seven days.
f. 
Insects, larvae and pupae. Maintaining or permitting to be maintained mosquito larvae or pupae in any pool, pond, ditch, stream or any other body of water, rain barrel or other receptacle containing liquid; maintaining or allowing to be maintained any condition which is beneficial to or engenders the breeding of flies, mosquitoes or vermin.
g. 
Vermin or insect exterminators. Selling any poisonous substance, either gaseous, liquid, solid or semisolid for the extermination of vermin or insects, unless such substance is clearly and legibly labeled and so sealed as to make the accidental use of such substance improbable; selling poisonous flypaper or articles containing any poisonous substance to be placed about houses, stores or other buildings for the destruction of flies or other insects by feeding or drinking.
h. 
Odors. The carrying on of any activity in such a manner as to be obnoxious or offensive or which may be attended with unhealthful odors or which may be attended by such conditions as may be detrimental to health.
i. 
Slaughtering. Killing, skinning or dressing of any animal intended for food without permission from the Division of Health.
j. 
Animals. The keeping of horses, donkeys, goats, cows, rabbits, guinea pigs, dogs, cats, roosters or other animals under unsanitary conditions. No person shall maintain or permit to be maintained in any dwelling or on any property more than three dogs or three cats or more than a combination of three dogs and cats in a single-family dwelling and more than two dogs or two cats or more than a combination of two dogs or cats in a single dwelling unit in a multiple-family dwelling. Kittens and puppies shall not be counted in the number of permissible animals until they are six weeks of age. Any person who maintains more than the number of animals limited to his dwelling shall register his animals with the Division of Health within three months of the effective date of this chapter and shall obtain a permit for the keeping of the excess animals over that allowed. A permit shall be issued for each excess animal until the time of his or her death upon a satisfactory inspection of the premises by the Division of Health to ensure that the animals are maintained in a sanitary condition upon the premises. There shall be a presumption that more than five animals in a single residential unit cannot be maintained under sanitary conditions. For the purposes of the enforcement of this section, any person who feeds, shelters or cares for a stray animal shall be considered to be the keeper of the animal.
k. 
Plants. Permitting poison ivy or any other poisonous plant to be or to grow upon any public or private property: permitting any ragweed or other noxious or hurtful weed upon any property, either public or private.
l. 
Patented medicines. Selling or distributing of medicines, remedies, medical literature, cosmetic, curative or prophylactic devices upon the streets or from house to house without permission of the Division of Health.
m. 
Spitting. Spitting upon the floor, steps, platforms or upon the interior of any street or railway car, bus or any other public conveyance or upon the floor or staircase of any part of any building or upon the sidewalks, parks, streets, alleys, lanes or public places.
n. 
Common towels. Supplying or furnishing any roller towel (except such roller towel which can be mechanically adjusted for individual use or except individual towels) or any towel for use by more than one person without intermediate laundering in any hotel, school, house, restaurant, boardinghouse, massage parlor, bakery, clubhouse, washroom, public lavatory or any place where people congregate.
o. 
Public vehicles. Maintaining or permitting to be maintained any bus, automobile or other vehicle used for transportation of the public in an unsanitary condition.
p. 
Food. The keeping of food or drink intended for human consumption which is sold or dispensed to the public in such a manner as to allow flies, dust, dirt or other foreign or injurious contamination to come in contact with it.
[1980 Code § 117-56]
a. 
No person shall permit any privy, vault, cesspool, septic tank or other container to become or remain filled to within one foot of the surface of the surrounding ground.
b. 
No person shall maintain or permit to be maintained on any private or public property any accumulation of wood, rocks, construction material or other debris which is suitable for the harborage of mice, rats or other rodents.
c. 
No person shall permit any well or other supply of water used for drinking or household purposes to become polluted.
d. 
No person shall permit any imperfect, defective, leaking, unclean or filthy sink, water closet, urinal, sump pump, slop basin or other plumbing fixture in any building used or occupied by human beings.
e. 
No person shall permit any garbage, offal scraps, waste food or other putrescible material to be held in a container which is not watertight and insect- and rodentproof or which is uncovered in any store, factory or outside of any building or on any public or private property or in any building or multiple occupancy except in the individual apartment.
f. 
No person shall permit any entry of vehicles engaged in construction, demolition or land development onto a public highway without first washing down the wheels as necessary to remove dirt or while being so loaded that dirt spills or is likely to spill onto public streets during its transportation on such vehicle.
g. 
No person shall harbor or permit to be harbored on any private or public property any mice, rats or other rodents: provided, however, that this section shall not apply to any school, pet shop or other place where rodents are properly confined as pets, experimental animals or for other useful or meaningful purposes.