The following specific acts, conditions and things are each
and all of them declared to constitute public health nuisances and
are prohibited:
A. Garbage depositing.
(1) 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,
offal, excrement, tin cans, any dead animal or part thereof, any decaying
or putrescible matter, any oyster or clam shells, or any foul, putrid
or decaying liquid or substance.
(2) Allowing any garbage or excrement or any other offensive or decomposed
solid or fluid matter or substance to leak or escape from any cart,
wagon, vehicle, or other container in which the same may be conveyed
or contained.
B. Excremental matter. Permitting any human excrement to remain or flow
upon the surface of the ground or to remain or flow in any open ditch
or stream; or burying, plowing under or otherwise disposing of such
excrement or permitting the same to be done within 100 feet of any
stream, well, spring or other source of water used for drinking or
domestic purposes; depositing or permitting to be deposited any such
material in any place where it is likely to gain access to such water
or to appear again above the surface of the ground.
C. Toilet accommodations. Any premises that are not provided with suitable
water closets in good working order for all persons working thereon
or living therein.
D. Buildings.
(1) Permitting any building or portion thereof occupied by human beings
to be or remain in a state of uncleanliness detrimental to the health
of the occupants or of the public.
(2) 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 running water at any time while so occupied.
(3) 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. Insects, larvae, pupae.
(1) Maintaining or permitting to be maintained any pool, pond, ditch,
stream or other body of water or any cistern, rain barrel or other
receptacle containing liquid in which mosquito larvae or pupae may
or do exist.
(2) Maintaining or allowing to be maintained, or to exist any condition
which is beneficial to or engenders the breeding of flies, mosquitoes,
or vermin.
F. Vermin or insect exterminators.
(1) The sale of 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.
(2) The sale of poisonous flypapers or of 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.
(3) The use of any poisonous gas or any poisonous liquid or substance
for the extermination of vermin without first obtaining a permit from
this Board.
G. Smoke. Emission from any premises of any smoke, gases, soot, stench
or other substance in quantity or strength sufficient to cause injury
or damage to health.
H. Slaughtering. Killing, skinning, or dressing of any animal intended
for food without permission from this Board.
I. Plants.
(1) Permitting poison ivy or any other poisonous plants to be or to grow
upon any public or private property within 25 feet of any public sidewalk,
public street, party line or building.
(2) Permitting the flowering of any ragweed or other noxious or hurtful
weed upon any property, either public or private.
J. Patent medicines. The sale or distribution of medicines, remedies,
medical literature, cosmetics, or remedial, curative, or prophylactic
devices upon the streets or from house to house without permission
from this Board.
K. Spitting. Spitting upon the floor, steps, platform or upon the interior
of any street or railway car, bus, or other public conveyance, or
upon the floors, staircases, or any part of any building, or upon
the sidewalks or crosswalks of any street, alley, lane, or public
place.
L. Obnoxious trades. The carrying on of any trade or business in such
a manner as to be obnoxious or offensive or which may be attended
with noisome or unhealthful odors, or which may be attended by such
conditions or noises as may be detrimental to health.
M. Common towels. The supplying or furnishing of any roller towel (except
such roller towel as can be mechanically adjusted for individual use
or except individual paper towels) or of any towel for use by more
than one person without intermediate laundering in any hotel, school,
clubhouse, washroom, or public lavatory or in any place where a number
of people congregate.
N. Public vehicles. Maintaining or permitting to be maintained in an
unsanitary condition any bus, automobile or other vehicle used for
transportation of the public.
O. Food. The keeping of food or drink intended for human consumption,
which is sold or dispensed to the public, in such manner as to allow
flies, dust, dirt or other foreign or injurious contamination to come
in contact with it.
In addition to the preceding section, whatever is detrimental
to health or whatever is potentially injurious or dangerous to health
is hereby declared to be a health nuisance.