[HISTORY: Adopted by the Common Council of the City of Neillsville as Secs. 6-1-1 through 6-1-6 of the 1985 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II)]
A. 
General duties. The Health Officer, under the supervision of the County Health Department, shall:
(1) 
Make an annual sanitary survey and maintain continuous sanitary supervision over his/her territory.
(2) 
Make a periodic sanitary inspection of all school buildings, restaurants, dairies, grocery stores, and meat markets, and places of public assemblage, and report thereon to those responsible for the maintenance thereof.
(3) 
Promote the spread of information as to the cause, nature and prevention of prevalent diseases and the preservation and improvement of health.
(4) 
Enforce the health laws, rules and regulations of the State Department of Health Services, the state and the City, including the laws relating to contagious diseases contained in Ch. 252, Wis. Stats., and Ch. DHS 145, Wis. Adm. Code.
(5) 
Take steps necessary to secure prompt and full reports by physicians of communicable diseases and prompt and full registration of births and deaths.
(6) 
Keep and deliver to his/her successor a record of all his/her official acts. The recording of vital statistics shall be done by the County Register of Deeds.
(7) 
Make an annual report to the State Department of Health Services and to the Common Council and such other reports as they may request.
B. 
Materials and supplies. The Health Officer shall have authority to procure at the expense of the City all record books, quarantine cards and other materials needed by the Board of Health, except such as are furnished by the State Department of Health Services.
The Board of Health may make reasonable and general rules for the enforcement of the provisions of this chapter and for the prevention of the creation of health nuisances and the protection of the public health and welfare, and may, where appropriate, require the issuance of licenses and permits. All such regulations shall have the same effect as ordinances and any person violating any of such regulations and any lawful order of the Board shall be subject to the general penalty provided for in this Code.
A. 
Defined. A "health nuisance" is any source of filth or cause of sickness.
B. 
Duty to abate. The Health Officer, the Board of Health and the Common Council shall abate health nuisances pursuant to § 254.59, Wis. Stats., which is adopted by reference and made a part of this section.
[Amended 7-22-1997 by Ord. No. 949; at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
A. 
Notice to connect. Wherever sewer and water becomes available to any building used for human habitation, the Building Inspector or his/her designee shall notify in writing the owner, agent or occupant thereof to connect all facilities thereto required by the Building Inspector. The notice required by this section shall direct the owner or his/her agent to connect the building to such main or mains in the manner prescribed by the Building Inspector and to install such facilities and fixtures as may be reasonably necessary to permit passage of sewage incidental to such human habitation into the sewerage system and to furnish an adequate supply of pure water for drinking and prevent creation of a health nuisance. If such person to whom the notice has been given shall fail to comply for more than 10 days after the notice, the Building Inspector shall cause the necessary connections to be made and the expense thereof shall be assessed as a special tax against the property. The owner may, within 30 days after receipt of an invoice for work completed, file a written option with the City Clerk-Treasurer stating that he/she cannot pay the cost of connection in one sum and electing that such sum be levied in five equal annual installments, with interest on the unpaid balance at the current interest rate.
B. 
Abatement of privies and cesspools. After connection to a water main and public sewer, no privy, privy vault or cesspool shall be constructed or maintained upon such lot or parcel and shall be abated upon 10 days' written notice for such abatement by the Building Inspector. If not so abated, the Building Inspector shall cause the same to be done and the cost thereof assessed as a special tax against the property.
C. 
Extension of time. The Board of Health or Common Council may extend the time for connection hereunder or may grant other temporary relief where strict enforcement would work an unnecessary hardship without corresponding public or private benefit.
A. 
Sanitary requirements. All structures, pens, buildings, stables, coops or yards wherein animals or fowl are kept shall be maintained in a clean and sanitary condition, free of rodents, vermin and objectionable odors.
B. 
Animals excluded from food-handling establishments. No person shall take or permit to remain any dog, cat or other live animal on or upon any premises where food is sold, offered for sale or processed for consumption by the general public.
No person shall deposit or cause to be deposited in any public street or on any public ground or on any private property not his/her own any refuse, garbage, litter, waste material or liquid or any other objectionable material or liquid. When any such material is placed on the person's own private property, it shall be properly enclosed and covered so as to prevent the same from becoming a public nuisance.