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. 
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. 
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. 
A polluted well, spring or stream, or the pollution of any body of water which is or may be used for drinking purposes.
D. 
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. 
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. 
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. 
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. 
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.