It shall be unlawful for any person to permit to accumulate on any premises, improved or unimproved, or on any open lot or alley in the city any lumber, boxes, barrels, bricks or stones or similar materials that may be permitted to remain thereon, and that may be used as a harborage by rats, unless the same are placed on open racks and elevated not less than 18 inches above the ground with a clear intervening space beneath, to prevent the harborage of rats.
(Prior Code, § 13-23; Ord. of 9-11-1945)