The following are specifically declared to constitute public nuisances:
(1) 
Bakeries, restaurants, food markets, and other places where food is prepared, kept for sale or served and not kept in a clean, sanitary condition; or in which persons who have any communicable disease are employed; or in connection with which suitable toilet facilities are not provided; or in which there is evidence of flies, rats, mice, or vermin being present and foodstuffs exposed to them.
(2) 
Spoiled or diseased meats, whether stored or offered for sale or being transported for purposes of sale.
(3) 
Barns, stables, hog pens, chicken yards, manure piles, accumulations of organic materials of whatever kind, or any of them, so maintained as to be breeding places for flies or mosquitoes, or convenient food for rats and mice.
(4) 
The discharge or exposure of sewage, wastewater, garbage, or other organic filth into or on any place in such a manner that transmission of infected material may result thereby, or the placing or maintaining of such materials as tin cans or rubbish of any sort that might constitute a breeding place for mosquitoes or flies, or offer a hiding place or protection for rodents.
(5) 
Privies not screened against flies or privies likely to pollute the soil or surface water from which water supply is obtained.
(6) 
The transportation of garbage, night soil or other organic filth except in tight-covered wagons or containers which prevent leakage or access to flies and the dissemination of odors.
(7) 
Stagnant water on private premises likely to afford breeding places for mosquitoes within the city limits or within the distance of one thousand feet (1,000') therefrom.
(8) 
Hide houses, bone-boiling or rendering establishments or tallow soap works, or other trades deleteriously affecting public health.
(9) 
Buildings, filling stations, construction camps, junk shops, camp houses, or any part thereof which are in such a dilapidated or filthy condition as to endanger the life or health of persons living in the vicinity, or the public generally.
(10) 
Displaying foodstuffs in the open air unless in proper cases constructed so as to protect such foodstuffs from flies, dust, filth, dogs, rodents and insects.
(1995 Code, sec. 6.201; 2009 Code, sec. 6.03.001)
The city health officer, within his jurisdiction, shall examine into all nuisances and sources of filth injurious to public health, may order such nuisances to be abated, and may order to be removed all filth and offending materials which, in his judgment, may endanger the health of the inhabitants, and all expenses for the abatement or removal of such nuisances, filth or material shall be paid by the person responsible for them. When any such filth or nuisance or accumulation of materials as above referred to shall be found on private property, such officer as has jurisdiction shall notify the owner or the occupant of such property to remove or abate the same at his expense within such time as the officer shall direct.
(1995 Code, sec. 6.202; 2009 Code, sec. 6.03.002)
If the owner or occupant of such property shall neglect to remove it or abate it, he shall be fined as provided for in the general penalty provision found in section 1.01.009 of this code, and pay such expense and cost as shall be incurred by such removal or abatement. Any member of the city board of health or its employees may enter all places within the city where there is cause to suspect any nuisance, source of filth or accumulation of materials deleterious to public health.
(1995 Code, sec. 6.203; 2009 Code, sec. 6.03.003)