A.
Premises
in Unsanitary Condition. No person shall own, use, maintain, cause
or permit another person to use or maintain any building, lot, premises,
vehicle or any other place in such an unsanitary condition as to permit
the breeding or harboring therein or thereon of rats or mice.
B.
Accumulation
of Rubbish. No person owning, using or maintaining any building, lot,
premises, vehicle or other place shall permit or cause or permit another
person to permit the accumulation of any rubbish material that may
serve as a harborage for rats or mice, unless such material is elevated
above the ground or floor with a clear intervening space of at least
eighteen inches thereunder.
C.
Notice
to Exterminate. If any material becomes infested with rats or mice
or becomes a harborage for rats or mice, the health officer may serve
notice upon the owner or person using or occupying the premises on
which such material is located to exterminate such rodents or to elevate
the material above the ground or floor, with a clear intervening space
of at least eighteen inches thereunder. No owner or person using or
occupying such premises and receiving such notice shall fail to comply
with the notice served upon him or her within a reasonable time to
be specified in such notice.
(Prior code § 17-7)
No person shall own, use, maintain, cause or permit another
person to use or maintain any premises or portion thereof for storage,
handling, preparation or sale of any grain or grain products, or for
a poultry or rabbit slaughterhouse, or for the manufacture, preparation,
storage, handling or display of any food or food products for human
or animal consumption unless such building or structure, or portion
thereof, be ratproofed. This requirement shall not apply to premises
in existence and being used on the first day of December, 1949, for
the purposes specified above, unless they are or become a harborage
for or infested with rats or mice and the health officer orders that
such premises be ratproofed.
(Prior code § 17-8)
Ratproofing as required by this chapter shall include the method established by Sections 8.48.040, 8.48.050 and 8.48.060.
(Prior code § 17-9)
All underfloor vents, openings in foundations, roof vents and
skylights shall be screened by use of screening not larger than one-fourth-inch
mesh hardware cloth.
(Prior code § 17-10)
All foundations shall be continuous masonry foundations of the
size and depth required by the Uniform Building Code. Continuous masonry
foundations shall also be required of all buildings excepted by the
Uniform Building Code, unless the building is erected upon a slab
of cement or asphaltic concrete not less than three inches in thickness
and has a concrete curb not less than one foot in depth below the
finished grade running continuously around and under the edges of
such slab; or in lieu of such curb, has an extension of such slab
for a distance of three feet around the outside edges of such building;
or the building is under four hundred square feet in area, having
an eighteen-inch clearance under the floor joists, and is supported
on piers.
(Prior code § 17-11)
A twelve-inch strip of noncorrodible metal lath weighing not
less than three and four-tenths pounds per square yard shall be placed
under wall coverings on both inside and outside faces of all exterior
stud walls at the floor level and also to extend twelve inches under
floor coverings from all exterior stud walls, except that such strip
need not be placed on the outside face when there is maintained a
clearance of eighteen inches under the floor joists or when the exterior
wall covering is stucco.
(Prior code § 17-12)
Whenever any premises becomes infested with rats or mice, the
health officer shall serve upon the owner or person using or occupying
the premises an order in writing to exterminate such rodents and ratproof
such premises. Such order shall state the method of extermination
to be used, whether all or specified portions of such premises shall
be ratproofed, and shall require compliance within a reasonable time
stated in such notice. The owner or person using or occupying such
premises and receiving such notice shall comply with the notice served
upon him or her within the time specified therein.
(Prior code § 17-13)
