As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
COMBUSTIBLE RUBBISH
Paper, cartons, boxes and barrels, wood and excelsior, small tree
trimmings, wood furniture which has been broken up, and bedding.
GARBAGE
Waste from the preparation, cooking and serving of food, as well
as market refuse and waste from the handling, storage and sale of food.
HOUSEHOLD PET
Any dog, cat, or other domesticated animal which is kept by its owner
for his or her own personal pleasure, but not dogs used in guiding the blind.
NONCOMBUSTIBLE RUBBISH
Bottles and cans, metal furniture, bedsprings, glass, crockery, mineral
refuse, ashes, sweepings, dirt, leaves, stumps, abandoned automobiles, and
industrial waste resulting from manufacturing processes.
The Health Officer for the Town of Bar Harbor shall perform the duties enumerated in this Code and Chapter
153 of Title 22, Maine Revised Statutes.
The periods of quarantine, isolation, control and observation of a person
who has or is suspected of having a communicable disease shall be those prescribed
from time to time by the State Department of Health.
Every owner or custodian of an animal afflicted with glanders, anthrax,
rabies, trichinosis, foot and mouth disease, tuberculosis, or any other disease
which may be transmitted to human beings, and every veterinarian treating
such animal, shall report the existence of the disease to the Health Officer.
The Health Officer may cause the animal to be isolated and to be given such
care as may be necessary to prevent the transmission of the disease to other
animals or to human beings. No animal afflicted with any of these diseases
shall be allowed upon any highway or in any public place. If an animal having
such a disease dies, its body shall be destroyed under the direction of the
Health Officer in such a manner that the disease shall be prevented from spreading.
No building that is in such a dilapidated condition or state of filthiness
or uncleanness as to endanger the health or life of any person that occupies
it, or that is not furnished with a safe water supply or with toilet facilities,
shall be used as a dwelling or rented for that purpose. The Health Officer
may investigate such dwelling, and if conditions are found to be, in his judgment,
dangerous to health or life, he may declare the building unfit for human habitation.
All eating and lodging places, recreation and overnight trailer camps
shall conform to the rules and regulations as prescribed from time to time
by the state.
No food shall be sold or offered for sale in any grocery, butcher shop,
or fish market or other food shop in which any marked condition of uncleanness
or filthiness exists.