For the purpose of this article, the following definition shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
Collections of Water.
Those contained in ditches, pools, ponds, excavations, holes, depressions, open cesspools, privy vaults, fountains, cisterns, tanks, shallow wells, barrels, troughs (except horse troughs in frequent use), urns, cans, boxes, bottles, tubs, buckets, defective house roof gutters, tanks or flush closets or other similar water containers.
(1995 Code of Ordinances, Title IX, Chapter 97, Section 97.25)
It shall be unlawful to have, keep, maintain, cause or permit within the city, any collection of standing or flowing water in which mosquitoes breed or are likely to breed, unless such collection of water is treated so as effectually to prevent such breeding.
(1995 Code of Ordinances, Title IX, Chapter 97, Section 97.26)
The method of treatment of any collections of water directed toward the prevention of breeding of mosquitoes shall be approved by the accredited code enforcement officer, and may be any one or more of the following:
(1) 
Screening with wire netting of at least 16 meshes to the inch each way or with any other material which will effectually prevent the ingress or egress of mosquitoes.
(2) 
Complete emptying every seven days of unscreened containers, together with their thorough drying or cleaning.
(3) 
Using a larvicide approved and applied under the direction of the code enforcement officer.
(4) 
Covering completely the surface of the water with kerosene, petroleum or paraffin oil once every seven days.
(5) 
Cleaning and keeping sufficiently free of vegetable growth and other obstructions, and stocking with mosquito-destroying fish.
(6) 
Filling or draining to the satisfaction of the code enforcement officer.
(7) 
Proper disposal, by removal or destruction, of tin cans, tin boxes, broken or empty bottles and similar articles likely to hold water.
(1995 Code of Ordinances, Title IX, Chapter 97, Section 97.27)
The natural presence of mosquito larvae in standing or running water shall be evidence that mosquitoes are breeding therein, and failure to prevent such breeding within three days after notice by the code enforcement officer shall be deemed a violation of this article.
(1995 Code of Ordinances, Title IX, Chapter 97, Section 97.28)
Should the person responsible for conditions giving rise to the breeding of mosquitoes fail or refuse to take necessary measures to prevent the same within three days after due notice has been given to him, the code enforcement officer is authorized to do so, and all necessary cost incurred by him for this purpose shall be a charge against the property owner or other person offending, as the case may be.
(1995 Code of Ordinances, Title IX, Chapter 97, Section 97.29)
(a) 
For the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this article, the code enforcement officer, or his duly accredited agent, acting under his authority, may at all reasonable times enter in and upon any premises within his jurisdiction.
(b) 
Any person or persons charged with any of the duties imposed by this article failing, within the time designated by this article, or within the time stated in the notice of the code enforcement officer, as the case may be, to perform such duties, or to carry out the necessary measures to the satisfaction of the code enforcement officer, shall be deemed guilty of a separate violation of this article.
(1995 Code of Ordinances, Title IX, Chapter 97, Section 97.30)