[HISTORY: Adopted by the Village Council
of the Village of Ridgewood 8-27-1974 by Ord. No. 1541 as Ch. 16 of the 1974 Code. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
For the purposes of this chapter, the following
words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to
them by this section:
Includes any house, place or establishment intended to be
used or occupied temporarily as living quarters for or by five or
more persons for a period of three or more consecutive days.
Any infectious, contagious or communicable diseases so declared
or defined by law or which have been or may hereafter be declared
as "communicable diseases" by the Division of Health or by the State
Department of Health.
Smoke which is so heavy and thick as to prevent the seeing
of objects through it at the point of emission into the external air
or the equivalent of No. 3 grade of the Ringlemann Smoke Chart, the
standard device used by the United States Bureau of Mines.
The accumulation of animal or vegetable matter, or both,
liquid or otherwise, that tends to decay.
The Health Officer, executive officer or other officer duly
appointed or designated by the Division to assist in the enforcement
of this chapter or supervise work on behalf of the Board.
The separation of a person infected or suspected of being
infected with a communicable disease or a carrier of the infectious
or causative agent of a communicable disease from other persons in
such manner as will prevent the direct or indirect conveyance of the
infectious or causative agent to other persons.
Any condition which is dangerous to human life or health
or that which renders air, water, soil or any type of food hazardous
or injurious to human life or health.
A person licensed as such under the laws of the state.
Includes any public place as well as any restaurant and every
other establishment or place where food or beverage is sold or offered
for sale to the public for consumption on the premises and any camp,
tourist home or public recreation place or any other place of business
where toilet facilities or water for drinking or culinary purposes
is available for the use of the public.
[Amended 10-13-1992 by Ord. No. 2375]
A.
No person shall establish, construct or maintain any
construction camp, labor camp or other temporary living quarters for
working men or any trailer camp or tourist camp.
B.
No person shall establish or maintain any camp or temporary living quarters not specifically prohibited by Subsection A and intended to be occupied by four or more persons for a period of two or more days unless he shall first notify the Division of Health, in writing, of his intention so to do and shall set forth in such writing the exact location of such camp or temporary living quarters, the approximate number of occupants and the purpose for which such camp or living quarters is intended to be used.
C.
Sanitary requirements.
(1)
Every camp or temporary living quarters shall have
adequate provisions for disposal of garbage and waste materials.
(2)
Every such camp or temporary living quarters shall
at all times be kept clean and free from refuse and accumulation and
when vacated shall be left clean and free from any refuse, accumulation
or other condition detrimental to health.
D.
At least two days before any camp shall be vacated,
the owner, manager or person in charge thereof shall notify, in writing,
the Division of Health and in such notice shall specify the time when
such place is intended to be vacated.
A.
The owner, tenant, manager and all other persons maintaining,
operating or in charge or control of any public places shall at all
times keep and maintain every such public place and all parts thereof
in a clean and sanitary condition and open to inspection by the Health
Officer.
B.
Every public place shall contain the following:
(1)
Proper lavatory facilities for the use of persons
patronizing the place.
(2)
A washroom, comfort station or other place of a like
nature.
(3)
A sufficient quantity of toilet tissue.
(4)
Individual towels.
(5)
A sanitary waste receptacle for towels customarily
discarded after usage.
(7)
A mechanical dispenser for liquid or powdered soap
of a type approved by the Division of Health.
D.
Use of cleansing agents containing hydrocyanic acid
or other poisonous ingredients is specifically prohibited.
A.
Every person and every employee of every such person
in either actual or constructive control, maintenance or supervision
thereof shall at all times so maintain, control and supervise all
boilers, furnaces, engines, devices, contrivances, smokestacks and
chimneys located in, passing through or which may be a part of any
house, building, place or premises or vehicle so that the same does
not emit dense smoke or other solids, gasses or fumes that may cause
discomfort or injury to health. This section shall also apply to the
chimney, stacks or exhaust of locomotives, steamrollers, steam shovels,
steam hoisting engines, tar kettles, busses or any other machine,
device or contrivance.
B.
Each and every day or part thereof that such smoke,
solids, gasses or fumes shall be emitted in violation of this section
shall be deemed to be a separate violation unless an extension of
time to continue such violation is granted by the Division of Health
therefor based upon a factually supported claim that extensive alterations
are required for the purpose of complying with the provisions of this
section and based further upon the promise that such alterations will
be made within such time as the Division may determine to be reasonable.
The granting or denial of such extension of time shall at all times
be discretionary with the Division.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Former Art. V, Venereal Diseases,
which immediately followed this section, was deleted 10-13-1992 by
Ord. No. 2375.
A.
The following specific acts or omissions or the maintenance
or allowance of any of the following conditions is hereby prohibited
and is declared to be or to constitute a nuisance:
(1)
Depositing, maintaining or permitting to exist any
foul, decaying, odorous or offensive matter in or upon any lot, yard,
street, house, building, premises or place, whether public or private.
(2)
Maintaining any excavation or any cans, barrels or
other receptacles where water may stagnate or mosquito larvae may
breed.
(3)
Throwing or overflowing of any slops, stable drainage,
liquid filth or septic tank, cesspool or privy contents upon any public
or private property.
(4)
Maintaining any polluted well, spring, stream or supply
of drinking water.
(5)
Taking or allowing of any dog, cat or other animal
to enter any store where food is handled or sold.
(6)
Maintaining any chimney, smokestack, pipe or flue
or any part thereof that is out of repair and so defective as to allow
coal gas or noxious fumes to escape into the building where it is
situated or into any adjacent building.
(7)
Allowing to exist any unclean or unsanitary conditions
in any cellar, room or building or any imperfect plumbing or sewer
appliances or connection from which any foul or noxious odors or liquids
may escape.
(8)
Keeping cattle, poultry or small animals in any building
used as a human habitation, except as to small animals or birds commonly
used as household pets.
(9)
Expectorating upon the steps, halls, floors or other
parts of any public building or upon any sidewalk, crosswalk, street,
park, playground, public conveyance or other public place.
(10)
Maintaining any vehicle used for hire or for a public
conveyance in a dirty or unsanitary condition.
(11)
Permitting a growth of or failing to remove goldenrod,
ragweed and other noxious weeds, poison ivy, poison oak or poison
sumac, contact with or the pollen from which is capable of causing
discomfort or injury to health.
(12)
Burying or causing to be buried any dead animal under
any property, private or public, in the Village without a permit from
the Board.
(13)
Permitting the emission of dust, gasses, cinders,
lint or other particles or dense smoke in sufficient quantities to
cause discomfort or injury to health.
(14)
Maintaining or causing the maintenance or existence
of any offensive matter, foul or noxious odors, gasses or vapors or
any cause of disease or other injury to the health of the inhabitants
of the Village.
(15)
Polluting or permitting to be polluted any spring,
well, cistern or other source of water supply which is used for domestic
or potable purposes or is on the watershed which is the source of
drinking water.
(16)
Maintaining or permitting to exist any manure pile
or manure pit which is not tightly enclosed and covered.
(17)
Maintaining any building which is infested with rats,
mice or other rodents or with insects or other vermin.
(18)
Unnecessary blowing of whistles, sirens and horns and ringing of
bells at any time and the loud playing of radios, bands or music,
after 11:00 p.m. Any radio, band or music shall be deemed to be playing
loudly if the noise from the same is of sufficient volume to disturb
the sleep of persons in the immediate vicinity.
[Amended 6-13-2018 by Ord. No.
3648]
B.
All sunken lots or marsh lands or lots below grade
where stagnant water gathers or is collected are hereby declared nuisances,
and any owner or owners or agent or tenant of any such lot or lots
or lands shall, on written notice from the Division of Health, correct
and abate such nuisance in the manner prescribed by the Division in
such notice.[1]
