All persons engaged in the sale of ice within
the City shall file with the Clerk before the first day of June in
each year a complete written list of the places from which the ice
sold is originally obtained, and the Clerk shall be notified immediately
of any change in the source of supply. No ice shall be sold which
comes from a contaminated source or from a source so situated that
it may become contaminated.
It shall be unlawful for any person to cause
or allow dense smoke to escape or be discharged from any building,
vessel, stationary engine, motor vehicle or place within the City,
except that this provision shall not apply to the discharge of smoke
for a period not exceeding six minutes in any one hour whenever the
successful operation and management of any fire necessarily requires
such discharge. No person shall cause or allow cinders, soot, dust,
gas, steam or offensive odors to escape or be discharged from any
building, vessel, engine, vehicle or place to the detriment or annoyance
of any person.
Whatever is dangerous or detrimental to human
life or health, and whatever renders or is likely to render soil,
air, water or food impure or unwholesome, are declared to be nuisances
and to be illegal. In addition, the following acts, conditions and
things are specifically declared to constitute nuisances:
A.Â
The deposit or accumulation of house refuse, offal,
garbage, excrement, dead animals or other offensive matter upon any
private property; the storage of putrid or decaying animal or vegetable
matter in any house, cellar, outbuilding, vault or other receptacle
(save in properly constructed and duly authorized cesspools or privy
vaults); the overflow of any foul liquids or the escape of any gases
to any extent hazardous to health or offensive to persons living or
passing in the vicinity thereof.
B.Â
Any building or part thereof which is unclean or overcrowded
or not provided with adequate means of ingress and egress or not sufficiently
supported, ventilated, provided with toilet facilities and water,
sewered, drained or lighted.
C.Â
A polluted well, spring or stream, or the pollution
of any body of water which is or may be used for drinking purposes.
D.Â
The discharge of sewage from any house or building
into or upon any street, public place, stream, ditch or other watercourse,
surface or subsurface groundwater drain or stormwater drain.
No manure heap shall be permitted within 75
feet of any dwelling for a period longer than 48 hours. At all times,
stored manure shall be so covered that flies cannot obtain access
to it, or it must be treated effectively with some fly-repelling substance.
Manure pits must be made watertight, kept dry and provided with covers
of wood or iron which must be closed at all times save when the pit
is being charged or emptied. They must not be used as receptacles
for sewage or liquids.
The keeping of hogs or pigs within 300 feet
of any dwelling is forbidden.
No sunken places shall be filled, nor any land
built up, with any materials containing any putrescible animal or
vegetable matter.
It shall be unlawful for any person to divert
or stop the flow of any stream, canal or any other watercourse within
the City without the permission of the Council.
No person shall make any excavation or remove
any topsoil, earth, sand, gravel, rock or other material from any
property in such a manner as to create a condition which is detrimental
or tends to be detrimental to the health or general welfare of the
public. If an excavation or the removal of topsoil, earth, sand, gravel,
rock or other material causes stormwater to accumulate on the premises
or dust to fly which, in the opinion of the Building Inspector, is
detrimental to the public, the Building Inspector may serve a notice
upon the owner of the premises requiring the removal of such condition.
If the person upon whom the notice is served fails to remove the condition
existing within five days after the service of the notice, the Building
Inspector shall cause the condition to be abated, and the cost of
such work shall be assessed upon the property where the condition
existed and shall be enforced and collected in the same manner as
the general City tax and as a part thereof.
[Added 1-19-1949]
A.Â
It shall be the duty of every person who shall have
contracted or undertaken or shall be bound to heat or to furnish heat
for any building or portion thereof occupied as a home or place of
residence of one or more persons, or as a business establishment where
one or more persons are employed, to heat or to furnish heat for every
occupied room in such building or portion thereof so that a minimum
air temperature may be maintained therein as follows: 70º F.
between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 11:00 p.m. and 60º F. between
the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. This section shall not apply
to buildings or portions thereof used and occupied for trades, businesses
or occupations where high or low air temperatures are essential and
unavoidable.
B.Â
For the purpose of this section, whenever a building
is heated by means of a furnace, boiler or other apparatus under the
control of the owner, agent or lessee of such building, such owner,
agent or lessee, in the absence of a contract or agreement to the
contrary, shall be deemed to have so contracted, undertaken or to
be bound to furnish heat in accordance with the provisions of this
section.
C.Â
The term "air temperature" shall mean that temperature
of the atmosphere obtained at the approximate center line of any interior
wall at a point approximately 66 inches above the average floor level
of the room. The term "contract" as used in this section shall be
taken to mean and include a written or verbal contract.
D.Â
The written report of the Health Officer or his duly
authorized representative on questions of fact under this section
shall be presumptive evidence of the facts so stated and shall be
received as such in all courts and places.
[Added 7-16-1969 by Ord. No. 3-1969]
No person shall use dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane,
commonly known as "DDT," or permit the same to be used, within the
City of Rye as a pesticide or sterilant on any tree, bush, shrub or
any other vegetation on soil, on any lake, pond, stream, marsh or
any other water area or in any receptacle.
