[Ord. No. 77, 5-9-1924]
It shall be unlawful to have, keep, maintain, cause or permit within the City and its police jurisdiction any collection of standing or flowing water in which mosquitos breed, or are likely to breed, unless such collection of water is treated so as to effectually prevent such breeding, or to permit high grass or weeds in which mosquitos might harbor or shelter.
[Ord. No. 77, 5-9-1924]
Any prohibited collection of water shall be held to be that contained in ditches, pools, ponds, cisterns, tanks, shallow wells, barrels, troughs (except horse troughs in frequent use), urns, cans, boxes, bottles, tubs, buckets, defective house roof gutters, tanks, or other similar water containers.
[Ord. No. 77, 5-9-1924; Ord. No. 2040-26, 6-2-2026]
The methods of treatment of any collection of water, directed toward the prevention of breeding mosquitos, shall be approved by the Ordinance Officer and may be one or more of the following:
(1) 
Complete emptying every seven days of unscreened containers together with their thorough drying and cleaning.
(2) 
Screening with wire netting of at least 16 mesh to the inch each way or with another material that will prevent the ingress or egress of mosquitos.
(3) 
Using a larvacide approved and applied under the direction of the Ordinance Officer.
(4) 
Covering completely the surface of water with kerosene, petroleum or paraffin oil once in seven days.
(5) 
Cleaning and keeping sufficiently free of vegetation and other obstruction, and stocking with mosquito-destroying fish.
(6) 
Filling and draining to the satisfaction of the Ordinance Officer.
(7) 
Proper disposal by removal or destruction of tin cans, boxes, broken or empty bottles and similar articles likely to hold water.
[Ord. No. 77, 5-9-1924; Ord. No. 2040-26, 6-2-2026]
The natural presence of mosquito larvae in standing or running water shall be evidence that mosquitos are breeding there, and failure to prevent such breeding within 24 hours after notice by the Ordinance Officer shall be deemed a violation of this article.
[Ord. No. 77, 5-9-1924]
Grass, shrubbery, and weeds must be kept cut close to prevent harboring or sheltering of mosquitos as well as to disclose any tin cans, bottles, or any other water receptacles that might be hidden therein.
[Ord. No. 77, 5-9-1924; Ord. No. 2040-26, 6-2-2026]
Should the person responsible for conditions giving rise to the breeding or harboring of mosquitos fail or refuse to take necessary measures to prevent the same within 24 hours after due notice has been given to him or her, the Ordinance Officer is hereby authorized to do so, and all necessary costs incurred by him or her shall be a charge against the property owner or other person offending, as the case may be, and a lien on the property.
[Ord. No. 77, 5-9-1924; Ord. No. 2040-26, 6-2-2026]
For the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this article, the Ordinance Officer may at all reasonable times enter in and upon any premises within his or her jurisdiction.