(a) The Board of Health shall abate and remove all nuisances within the City. It may, by order, compel the owners, agents, assignees, occupants or tenants of any lot, property, building or structure to abate and remove any nuisance therein, and prosecute such persons for neglect or refusal to obey such orders. The Board of Health may regulate the location, construction and repair of water closets, privies, cesspools, sinks, plumbing and drains.
(b) The Board of Health may regulate the location, construction and repair of yards, pens and stables; the use, emptying, and cleaning of such yards, pens and stables; and of water closets, privies, cesspools, sinks, plumbing, drains or other places where offensive or dangerous substances or liquids are or may accumulate.
(c) When a building, erection, excavation, premises, business, pursuit, matter or thing, or the sewerage, drainage, plumbing or ventilation thereof is, in the opinion of the Board of Health, in a condition dangerous to life or health, and when a building or structure is occupied or rented for living or business purposes and sanitary plumbing and sewerage are feasible and necessary, but neglected or refused, the Board may declare it a public nuisance and order it to be removed, abated, suspended, altered or otherwise improved or purified by the owner, agent or other person having control thereof or responsible for such condition, and may prosecute him for the refusal or neglect to obey such order. The Board may, by its officers and employees, remove, abate, suspend, alter or otherwise improve or purify such nuisance and certify the costs and expense thereof to the County Auditor, to be assessed against the property and thereby made a lien upon it and collected as other taxes.
(Ord. 56(74-75). Passed 11-6-75.)