[Added by Ord. #1317, § 5300; Ord. #1367; Ord.
#2062, § 1; Ord. #2071, § 2]
Subject to the amendments, deletions, and additions set forth
in this Chapter, the Public Health Code (Ordinance No. 7583) of the
County of Los Angeles, including rules and regulations of the County
Health Department, as altered and amended and shown in the Public
Health Code, is adopted as the Public Health Code of the City of Compton
for the protection of the public health in the City of Compton. In
adopting the "
Health and Safety Code of the County of Los Angeles,"
the same being Title 11 of the Los Angeles County Code, and the "Public
Health Licenses Code of the County of Los Angeles," the same being
Division 1 of Title 8 of the Los Angeles County Code, the City of
Compton adopts by reference all amendments adopted by the Los Angeles
County Board of Supervisors which pertain to the Public Health Code,
subject to certain amendments, additions and deletions as may hereinafter
be provided.
At least one copy of the Health Code shall be kept on file in
the office of the City Clerk and shall be maintained by the City Clerk
for use and examination by the public.
In the event any provision of Title 8 or Title 11 of the Los
Angeles County Code referenced above conflicts with any provision
of the Compton Municipal Code now or hereinafter enacted, the provision
of the Compton Municipal Code shall prevail over the conflicting County
Code provisions.
[Added by Ord. #1317, § 5301]
The following rules shall govern the interpretation of said
Health Code:
a. Whenever the word "County", or any abbreviation thereof, appears
in said Health Code, it shall be interpreted and deemed to mean the
word "City".
b. Whenever the words "Los Angeles" or any abbreviation thereof, appear
in said Health Code, they shall be interpreted and deemed to mean
the word "Compton".
c. Whenever there is a conflict between any of the provisions of said
Health Code and other laws of the City heretofore or hereafter adopted
relating specifically to the same subject matter, the latter shall
prevail.
d. The definition or regulation of any activity, condition, or structure
in said Health Code shall not be interpreted or deemed to permit or
allow the conduct of any such activity, or the construction or maintenance
of any such condition or structure, as may be otherwise prohibited
or restricted by any other laws of the City heretofore or hereafter
adopted.
[Added by Ord. #1317, § 5302]
Section 385 is hereby added to said Health Code to read as follows:
Sec. 385. Enclosure of Food Establishments. All public eating
places, food establishments, and slaughterhouses shall be completely
enclosed on all sides.
[Added by Ord. #1317, § 5303]
Section 608 of said Health Code is hereby amended to read as
follows:
Sec. 608. Domestic Animals. It shall be unlawful to keep or
maintain a premise, yard, coop, or building in which fowl or animals
are maintained in a foul or unsanitary condition.
[Added by Ord. #1317, § 5304]
Section 801 of said Health Code is hereby amended to read as
follows:
Sec. 801. Dwelling Defined. A building or portion thereof designed
for or occupied exclusively for residential purposes, including one-family,
two-family, and multiple-family dwellings, but not including hotels,
motels, and boarding and lodging houses.
[Added by Ord. #1317, § 5305]
Section 802 of said Health Code is hereby amended to read as
follows:
Sec. 802. Family Defined. An individual, or two or more persons
related by blood or marriage, or a group of not more than five persons,
excluding servants, who are not related by blood or marriage, living
together as a single housekeeping unit in a dwelling unit.
[Added by Ord. #1317, § 5306]
Section 804 of said Health Code is hereby amended to read as
follows:
Sec. 804. Dwelling Unit Defined. Two or more rooms in a dwelling
or apartment hotel designed for or occupied by one family for living
or sleeping purposes and having only one kitchen.
[Added by Ord. #1317, § 5307]
Section 810 of said Health Code is hereby amended to read as
follows:
Sec. 810. Apartment House Defined. A building or portion thereof
occupied, designed, built, or rented exclusively for residential purposes
by three or more families living independently of each other.
[Added by Ord. #1317, § 5308]
Section 812 of said Health Code is hereby amended to read as
follows:
Sec. 812. Hotel Defined. A building designated for or occupied
by individuals who are lodged with or without meals in which there
are six or more guest rooms and in which no provision is made for
cooking in any individual room or suite. Hotel shall include any lodging
house, rooming house, dormitory, Turkish bath, bachelor hotel, studio
hotel, public club, and private club, whether rent is paid in money,
goods, labor or otherwise. Hotel shall not include any jail, hospital,
asylum, sanitarium, orphanage, prison, rest home, detention home,
mental convalescent home, or other building in which human beings
are housed and detained under legal restraint or in which human beings
are maintained under convalescent, mental, or nursing care.
[Added by Ord. #1317, § 5309]
Section 851 of said Health Code is hereby amended to read as
follows:
Sec. 851. Institution Defined. When the work institution is
used alone in this section it shall mean and include homes for the
aged, rest homes, mental convalescent homes, mental institutions,
private or parochial boarding schools, colleges, day nurseries, day
schools, private or parochial day schools and colleges, children's
boarding homes.
[Added by Ord. #1317, § 5310]
Section 853 of said Health Code is hereby amended to read as
follows:
Sec. 853. Mental Institution Defined. Any hospital, asylum,
sanitarium, or other place receiving or caring for one or more insane,
allegedly insane, mentally ill, mentally retarded, alcoholic, epileptic,
or mentally incompetent persons. Any place or facility limiting care
to juveniles below the age of eight years or to persons of any age
having cerebral palsy shall be specifically excluded from this definition.
[Added by Ord. #1317, § 5311]
Section 855 of said Health Code is hereby amended to read as
follows:
Sec. 855. Day Nursery School Defined. Any establishment providing
day or hourly care for children under six years of age, but shall
not include any day nursery maintained by any public school.