No person shall create, cause, maintain or permit
to be created or maintained any nuisance or thing whatsoever which
is a hazard or a danger to human health.
No person shall maintain any well or other supply
of water used for drinking or household purposes which is polluted
in any manner that may render such water injurious to health or which
is so situated or constructed that it may become so polluted.
The following specific acts, conditions and
things are each and all of them declared to constitute public nuisances
and a hazard or danger to the health of the public:
A. Excremental matter. Causing or permitting any excrement,
or material containing human excrement, to be deposited, to remain
or to flow over or upon the surface of the ground or in or into any
ditch or stream; or causing or permitting such excremental matter
to be deposited, buried or otherwise disposed of in any place or manner
where it may gain access to any stream, well, lake, spring or other
source of water used for drinking or domestic purposes.
B. Overfull receptacles. Causing or permitting any privy
vault, cesspool, septic tank or other receptacle for human excrement
to become or to remain filled within one foot of the surface of the
surrounding ground.
C. Privies. Any privy or outhouse that is not of substantial
construction or is not flyproof or is not provided with self-closing
seal covers or that does not conform with all rules and regulations
of the Board of Health.
D. Unprotected receptacles. Any privy vault, cesspool,
septic tank or other receptacle for human excrement not constructed
to conform with the provisions of this code and the rules and regulations
of the Board of Health, and the contents of which are not covered
at all times in such a manner as to effectively prevent insects and
animals from gaining access thereto.
E. Toilet accommodations. Any premises that are not provided
with suitable water closets in good working order or privies properly
constructed for all persons working thereon or living therein.
F. Spitting. Spitting upon the floors, staircases or
any part of any building or public place.
G. Cuspidors. The maintaining of any cuspidor or spittoon
that is not thoroughly cleaned and properly disinfected.
H. Obnoxious trades. The carrying on of any trade or
business in such a manner as to be obnoxious or offensive or which
may be attended with noisome or unhealthful odors or which may be
attended by such noise or noises as may be detrimental to health.
I. Common towels. The supplying or furnishing of any
roller towel or of any towel of a size which may suggest its use for
more than one service without intermediate laundering, in any hotel,
schoolhouse, restaurant, boardinghouse, clubhouse, washroom or public
lavatory, or in any place where a number of people congregate.
J. Unclean buildings. Permitting any building or portion
thereof occupied by human beings to be or remain in a state of uncleanliness
detrimental to the health of the occupants or of the public; or permitting
any building which is inhabited by human beings or which is occupied
by human beings for any purpose to be without an adequate supply of
running water at any time while being occupied; or permitting any
filthy or unhealthful condition to exist in the plumbing or plumbing
fixtures of or in a building used or occupied by human beings for
any purpose, regardless of whether such condition shall be the result
of leakage, stoppage or any other cause.
K. Animals. The keeping of swine, goats, cattle, horses,
rabbits, poultry or pigeons, or any of them, and the keeping of dogs
as a business venture, within 200 feet of any food-handling place,
school or hospital, or within 100 feet of the doors or windows of
any building occupied by human beings.
[Amended 11-9-1976 by Ord. No. 76-1]
L. Insects, larvae, pupae. Maintaining or permitting
to be maintained any pool, pond, ditch, stream or other body of water,
or any cistern, privy vault, cesspool, rain barrel or other receptacle
containing liquid, in which mosquito larvae or pupae may or do exist;
maintain or allowing to be maintained any condition to exist which
is beneficial to or engenders the breeding of flies, mosquitoes or
vermin.
M. Public vehicles. Maintaining or permitting to be maintained
any bus, automobile or other vehicle used for transportation of the
public, in an unsanitary condition.
N. Food. The keeping of food or drink intended for human
consumption and to be sold or dispensed to the public, in such manner
as to allow flies, dust, dirt or other foreign or injurious contamination
to come in contact therewith.