Whenever a nuisance endangering the public health shall be ascertained to exist on any premises or in any house or other place in the City, the City shall notify in writing any person owning or having control or possession of or, acting as agent for such premises, house or other place that such nuisance exists, and require him or her or them to abate or remove such nuisance within a reasonable time, not exceeding 10 days, to be stated in the notice, and the City shall report its action in every such case to the City Council at the next regular meeting thereafter.
(Ord. 02-01 § 1; Ord. 12-02 § 5)
It shall be the duty of the City, when necessary to preserve the public health, to inspect drains, vaults, cellars, cesspools, water closets, privies and sewers and yards of ground on or in which they may be located, to examine into their condition, and if found dangerous to the public, shall serve upon the owner, occupant or other person having control of the premises, or the agent of such owner, written notice requiring him or her or them to abate or remove the same within a reasonable time, not exceeding 10 days, and report its action in the matter to the City Council at its next regular meeting thereafter.
(Ord. 02-01 § 1; Ord. 12-02 § 6)
Upon the neglect or refusal of any owner, occupant, agent or other person having control of such premises, yard, house or other place, to abate a nuisance required to be abated by the preceding sections such owner, occupant or agent, in addition to the penalty provided by this Code, shall be liable to the City for the cost of such abatement or removal, to be recovered in a civil action in the name of the City, in any court of competent jurisdiction within the County.
(Ord. 02-01 § 1)
No cesspool, privy vault, privy or water closet shall be allowed by the owner or other person in control of the premises upon which the same may be located, to become foul or offensive. When in the opinion of the City, any such cesspool, privy vault, privy or water closet, shall need cleaning or disinfecting, the City shall notify in writing such owner or other person in control of the premises to abate the same by disinfecting or cleaning.
(Ord. 02-01 § 1; Ord. 12-02 § 7)
No offal or garbage nor any dead animal, or any putrid offensive animal, or vegetable matter shall be allowed to remain upon the premises of any person or be placed, in or upon any road, street or highway, or into any standing water or excavation within the City, and it shall be unlawful to bury the carcass of any dead animal so that there shall be less than three feet of earth above such carcass.
(Ord. 02-01 § 1)
A. 
This section shall not apply in any area of the City now or hereafter classified under applicable City zoning ordinances for agricultural uses.
B. 
No person shall permit the accumulation on premises owned by him or her or under his or her control of decaying animal, vegetable or mineral matter, excreta from domestic animals or fowls, or human excreta, in such a manner as is likely to cause excessive breeding of flies. The term “excessive breeding of flies” means the production of flies in such quantity as may endanger the health or interfere with the comfort of persons who occupy property in the neighborhood.
C. 
If the City determines that premises are being maintained in such manner as to cause excessive breeding of flies, the City shall give written notice to the owner or person in control of the premises to abate such conditions. The notice shall be served personally or by certified and first class mail, and shall require that abatement be commenced immediately and completed within such reasonable time as the City shall specify.
D. 
When the City is of the opinion that the excessive breeding of flies is caused in whole or in part by the presence of wet manure, the City may by such written notice require the same to be abated by the removal or treatment thereof in a manner acceptable to the City within 36 hours after delivery of such notice.
E. 
The City shall enforce this section. The City shall have the right to enter upon lands and buildings other than dwellings for the purpose of enforcing this section, and in making such entry shall take reasonable precaution to minimize the spread of disease from any premises.
F. 
Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to authorize any person to maintain a public or private nuisance, or to prevent any proceeding for abatement thereof.
(Ord. 02-01 § 1; Ord. 12-02 § 8)
A. 
Definitions.
1. 
The term “public water supply” means any water supply approved by or under the supervision of a public health agency of the State of California or any political subdivision thereof.
2. 
The term “cross-connection” means the unprotected joining of or connection between any part of a water system used or intended to supply water for drinking purposes and any material or substances that is not safe, wholesome or potable for human consumption.
3. 
The term “auxiliary water supply” means any water supply other than the public water supply.
B. 
It is unlawful after notice or knowledge thereof to cause, establish or maintain a cross-connection on any premises or property.
C. 
It is unlawful after notice or knowledge thereof to cause, establish or maintain an auxiliary water supply on any premises or property which obtains water from a public water supply unless the public water supply is protected by a method approved by the City.
D. 
It is unlawful after notice or knowledge thereof to cause, establish or maintain on any premises or property any material dangerous to health or toxic substance under pressure unless the public water supply on such premises or property is protected by a method approved by the City.
E. 
The City may order the public water supply to any premises or property be discontinued upon finding by the City that the continuation of such supply may endanger the public health.
F. 
The City shall establish written rules and regulations for methods of protecting drinking water supplies.
G. 
The City may establish such rules and regulations as may be necessary for the proper and orderly administration of this section.
(Ord. 02-01 § 1; Ord. 12-02 § 9)