Chapter 8.12
HEALTH VIOLATIONS
Sections:
8.12.010 Permitting offensive cellar, vault, cesspool, privy or sewer.
8.12.030 Keeping putrid fat, grease, meat or undressed hides within city limits.
8.12.040 No privy, vault or cesspool for sewerage to be constructed where sewer is provided.
8.12.050 Manure, offal or garbage – Accumulation prohibited.
8.12.060 Manure, offal or garbage – Permit to dump or deposit within city limits.
8.12.070 Permitting or causing offensive drains, sewers or premises – Penalty.
8.12.010 Permitting offensive cellar, vault, cesspool, privy or sewer.
No person or persons shall suffer or permit any cellar, vault, private drain, cesspool, privy or sewer upon any premises belonging to or occupied by him, her or them within the limits of the city to become nauseous, offensive or injurious to the public health. (Prior code § 9.52.010).
8.12.020 Unlawful discharges.
No distiller, tanner, soap boiler, tallow candler, meat packer, dyer, livery stable keeper, housekeeper or other person shall discharge out of or permit to flow from his premises or their premises, or the premises he or they occupy, any foul or nauseous liquor, slops, or substance whatever into any private ground, street, alley, lane or public ground within the city. (Prior code § 9.52.020).
8.12.030 Keeping putrid fat, grease, meat or undressed hides within city limits.
No person or persons shall keep or cause to be kept any stale, putrid, or stinking fat, grease or meat nor shall any person or persons keep for more than 24 hours any undressed hides unless they are properly salted, except at places where they are to be manufactured within the corporate limits of the city. (Prior code § 9.52.030).
8.12.040 No privy, vault or cesspool for sewerage to be constructed where sewer is provided.
No privy, vault or cesspool for sewerage shall be constructed in any part of the city where a sewer is provided in front of the property line or on a side street not exceeding 150 feet from the property line, or in the alley at the rear of said property line and no connection from any cesspool or privy vault shall be made with any sewer or drain pipe of a building for the purpose of affording surface drainage for the cellar, without proper provision against the access of sewer air into the building. All owners or agents of any property, when notified by the health officer, shall clean out and fill up any cesspool or vault on their property and make proper connection with the sewer. (Prior code § 9.52.070).
8.12.050 Manure, offal or garbage – Accumulation prohibited.
No pile or deposit of manure, offal or garbage or accumulation of any offensive or nauseous substance shall be made or permitted within the limits of the city, nor shall any person or persons or corporation unload, discharge or put upon or along the line of any railroad, street, alley or highway or public place within the city, any manure, offal, garbage or other offensive or nauseous substance. All manure vaults attached to stables or all deposits of manure therewith connected shall be so cared for by the owner of the stable as in no case to become a nuisance. (Prior code § 9.52.080).
8.12.060 Manure, offal or garbage – Permit to dump or deposit within city limits.
No manure, offal, garbage or any vegetable or animal matter or nauseous substance detrimental to the health shall be dumped or deposited in or at any place within the limits of the city except by special permit by the health officer. (Prior code § 9.52.090).
8.12.070 Permitting or causing offensive drains, sewers or premises – Penalty.
Any person or persons who, within the city, suffers or permits or causes any cellar drain, sewer, yard, ground or premises belonging to or controlled by him, her or them to become from any cause nauseous, foul, offensive or injurious to health or indecent or offensive to the senses of any person or disagreeable to adjacent residents or persons, or whoever causes or permits any nauseous or putrid liquor or substance likely to become nauseous, foul, or offensive or putrid to be discharged, thrown or to flow out from any premises owned in whole or in part or controlled by him, her or them or upon any adjacent premises or any public street or alley within the city, or whoever keeps, uses or maintains within the city an open stable, lot, yard, place or premises in which cattle, horses or fowls may be kept confined in any such manner to be nauseous, foul or offensive or from any cause to be an annoyance, or offensive to any community, family or person, or whoever obstructs or closes or causes to be obstructed or closed any public street or alley within the city so as to essentially interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property shall be deemed guilty of creating, keeping and maintaining and suffering or permitting a nuisance and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $25.00 together with the costs of prosecution and the costs and expenses of abatement thereof unless so abated by defendant or defendants or by confinement in the city jail for a period not exceeding 30 days. (Prior code § 9.56.070).