The Board of Health is hereby authorized and empowered to inspect all buildings, lands, and places as to their condition affecting health and sanitation and, whenever any declared nuisance, or condition prejudicial to the public health is found to exist, the Board of Health shall have the power and the authority to order the owner, occupant, or agent thereof to make such alterations or changes necessary to correct and remove the nuisance, or condition prejudicial to public health, or to take action under Article VIII of the Monroe County Health Code.
The following are declared to be public nuisances prejudicial to public health, but are not inclusive of all conditions or acts that may rise to the creation or continued existence of a nuisance:
(A)
To cause to suffer the carcass of any animal or any offal, filth or noisome substance to be collected, deposited or to remain in any place, to the prejudice of others or carcasses of dead animals or any part of decaying animal matter not buried or destroyed or collected within twenty-four (24) hours after death;
(B)
To throw or deposit any offal or other offensive matter, or the carcass of any dead animal, in any water course, sinkhole, lake, pond, spring, well, or common sewer, street, or public highway;
(C)
To corrupt or render unwholesome or impure the water of any spring, river, stream, pond, or lake to the injury or prejudice of others;
(D)
Accumulations of manure, rubbish, garbage, refuse, junk vehicles, human and industrial or noxious or offensive waste, except the normal storage on a farm of manure for agricultural purposes;
(E)
The housing of animals or fowl fifteen (15) feet from the property line to residences, schools, hospitals, public buildings, playgrounds, parks, and other places, if said animals create sanitary or health problems to persons or property in close proximity to them;
(F)
To allow an abandoned refrigerator that does not have the doors, locks and/or latches removed to remain on any premises;
(G)
To allow any open dug or bored well, sewage lagoon, cistern hole or pit to remain open without suitable protection such as fencing, warning devices, cover or barricade;
(H)
To allow any abandoned building, mobile home, shed or other man-made structure to exist which is dangerous to public health because of its condition, faulty construction or lack of proper repair; or
(I)
To allow the spillage, scatter or loss of refuse from any vehicle used to transport refuse.
(See Chapter 25 – Nuisances)