Chapter 8.15
PUBLIC HEALTH
Sections:
8.15.010 Conditions under which flies breed prohibited.
8.15.020 Depositing debris or allowing drainage on public thoroughfares prohibited.
8.15.030 Nauseous, foul or offensive conditions prohibited.
8.15.050 Pollution of ditches.
8.15.070 Premises to be kept properly cleaned and drained.
8.15.080 Privy, vault, cesspool or well prohibited.
8.15.010 Conditions under which flies breed prohibited.
No owner, tenant or occupant of any premises within the town shall suffer, permit or have upon such premises any cesspool, vault, pit or like place, animal manure, garbage, trash, litter, rags or any other thing in which flies may breed or multiply, unless the same shall be protected so as to prevent the attraction, breeding and multiplying of flies. (Prior code § 10-3-1)
8.15.020 Depositing debris or allowing drainage on public thoroughfares prohibited.
No person shall deposit in or upon or permit to drain into any street, alley or public place of the town from any premises owned or occupied by such person any refuse, slop, filth, garbage or debris of any kind or nature or any matter or thing which is offensive to health, except at such times and places and under such regulations as may be made by the council. (Prior code § 10-3-2)
8.15.030 Nauseous, foul or offensive conditions prohibited.
No person shall suffer or permit any premises owned, leased, occupied, controlled or managed by him, or any cellar, privy, vault, pool, cesspool, water closet, sewer or private ditch or drain therein or thereupon, to become nauseous, foul or offensive to the senses or prejudicial to the public health or comfort. (Prior code § 10-3-3)
8.15.040 Offensive water.
No filthy or offensive water shall at any time be poured, thrown, sprinkled or put in or upon any street, ditch, land, court, square, alley, vacant lot or public place within the town. (Prior code § 10-3-4)
8.15.050 Pollution of ditches.
No person shall pollute or suffer or cause to be polluted any ditches within the town by bathing, washing or washing clothing or any animal, in or about the same, throwing or depositing therein any earth or filthy matter or anything injurious to the health or offensive to the senses or by running into the same any sewerage matter, slops, brewery, bathhouse or kitchen wastes. (Prior code § 10-3-5)
8.15.060 Power to enter.
The police chief or any police officer shall have the power to enter upon all public and private property or premises to make an examination into any nuisance, source of filth or cause or source of sickness or diseases found therein or thereon, and may require the owner or occupant to remove the same at his expense. (Prior code § 10-3-6)
8.15.070 Premises to be kept properly cleaned and drained.
It shall be unlawful for any person owning or conducting, operating or managing any business place, stand, building, establishment, machinery or equipment to fail to keep the same, with the premises whereon the same is located, properly cleaned and drained. (Prior code § 10-3-7)
8.15.080 Privy, vault, cesspool or well prohibited.
No open privy, vault, cesspool or well shall be installed or maintained within the corporate limits of the town. (Prior code § 10-3-8)