Board of health, local board of health, and department of health.
The board of health of the city.
Disinfection.
The exercise of such specific measures for each disease, each infectious discharge, each infected article, bedding, clothing, books, and any other infected article as will render it innocuous and harmless.
Food.
Any article used by man for food or drink, or beverage, and every ingredient in such article, and all confectionery.
Health officer.
The health officer of the city.
Isolation.
The removal of a person from his own residence or temporary place of abode to such place as the city health officer may direct, and detention in such place from which the public is excluded, or detention in such party’s own residence or temporary place of abode under conditions approved by the health officer so that the public is excluded therefrom and safeguarded free from such communicable disease.
Owner of premises.
Any person controlling any premises in the city, by lease, rental agreement, or otherwise, shall be deemed, under the provisions herein, the owner of such property or premises.
Person.
Means either singular or plural, and also means any corporations, companies, societies, firms or associations.
Quarantine.
The segregation of persons having, or suspected of having, or having been exposed to any communicable disease, in such place and under such conditions as will prevent the direct or indirect conveyance of the infectious agent to anyone else. The period of quarantine or isolation or prevention of contact with others shall be designated in each individual case. The city health officer shall place, or cause to be placed, a warning card or placard on all places housing a case of any infectious disease listed as placardable by the rules and regulations of the department of state health services, this placard to be exposed until ordered removed by the city health officer.
(1995 Code, sec. 6.101; 2009 Code, sec. 6.01.001)
The owner of any premises in the city shall keep such premises free from accumulation of garbage, rubbish, rags, tin cans, paper, empty barrels, boxes or any other material which, because of its character, condition or improper storage, may invite the breeding or collection of flies, mosquitoes or rodents, or which may in any manner prejudice public health, or which may prejudice public comfort. The proper keeping of premises above referred to, and in the manner specified, shall be done at the owner’s or operator’s expense.
(1995 Code, sec. 6.401; 2009 Code, sec. 6.01.006)
No material, cinders, ashes or waste products of any character from any mill, factory, or slaughterhouse, rendering or fertilizing works, junk establishment, common carriers, or any other industries or utilities shall be allowed to escape or be stored or deposited so as to cause a pollution or contamination of the surrounding atmosphere or land or water, or in any manner so as to be injurious to the public health or comfort of adjoining property owners.
(1995 Code, sec. 6.403; 2009 Code, sec. 6.01.007)
No person shall permit any vacant, abandoned property owned or controlled by him to be or remain in such condition as to permit or invite the creation of a nuisance or other abuses prejudicial to the public health or comfort.
(1995 Code, sec. 6.406; 2009 Code, sec. 6.01.008)
(a) 
Declaration of nuisance.
Any pool, well, or spring of water within the city containing Bacillus coli germs or bacteria is declared a public nuisance and dangerous and inimical to the public health, and any person maintaining or allowing to be maintained any such well, pool or spring of water on premises owned or controlled by him shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
(b) 
Abatement.
If at any time it shall develop, upon examination, that any well, pool or spring of water within the city is contaminated with Bacillus coli, and same shall be reported by the city health officer, the chief of police shall instruct the person owning or controlling said property upon which said well, pool or spring of water is located to close up and fill in said well, pool or spring of water so that same can no longer be used for drinking or domestic purposes; and in case said person owning or controlling said premises on which is located said well, pool, or spring of water fails immediately so to cover over, fill in or close up said well, pool, or spring of water, then the chief of police shall file complaints against such person owning or controlling said premises, in the municipal court, and shall report the condition of said well, together with the recommendations of the city health officer, to the next meeting of the city council, and if, upon a hearing of the facts, the city council shall deem it for the best interests of the public health, and to prevent the spreading of disease, that said well, pool, or spring of water shall be closed up, filled in or covered over, then it shall so instruct the chief of police to cover up, fill in or close up said well, pool, or spring of water, and the cost thereof shall be charged to the person owning or controlling said property, and may be collected by suit in any court of competent jurisdiction.
(1995 Code, secs. 6.601, 6.602; 2009 Code, sec. 6.01.009)
(a) 
Common towels and drinking cups shall not be displayed in any public washroom, hotel, rooming house, or store, or, in fact, by any individual or collection of individuals in public business, for the use of guests, business associates, or the public generally.
(b) 
Any public building, restaurant, theater, school house, store, or any other place of public assemblage providing drinking water shall provide for their guests either individual drinking cups or sanitary drinking fountains. All drinking fountains must be approved by the city health officer.
(1995 Code, secs. 6.801, 6.802; 2009 Code, sec. 6.01.010)
Sufficient and suitable toilet accommodations, well-lighted and ventilated, and separated for each sex, shall be provided at all public buildings, filling stations, camps and all places of public assemblage, and they must be kept in a thoroughly clean and sanitary condition.
(1995 Code, sec. 6.305; 2009 Code, sec. 6.01.011)