The commission of each and every one of the acts prohibited in this section is hereby declared to be a public nuisance.
(A) Privies and cess pools. No person shall erect a privy or cesspool within 20 feet of any street or dwelling within the corporate limits of the city, nor maintain within said city limits any privy or cess pool that emits any foul or offensive odor.
(B) Manure. No person shall deposit, or permit to be deposited or thrown, in or upon any alley or lot within said city any manure, except for garden use. Any manure for gardens use must be tilled in within ten days.
(C) Rat control. No person shall permit his or her premises or property to get into a condition whereby it becomes a natural harbor or inducement for rats or other rodents. When such condition is found to exist, such person shall be notified and given a reasonable time to abate such condition; and in the event he or she shall refuse or fail to do so, the same may be abated by the city at the expense of such person.
(D) Offensive substances in public places. No person shall throw, drop, deposit, or leave any dead carcass, or portion thereof, of any chicken, animal, or other offensive or unwholesome substance upon any public street, alley, or other public grounds of the city.
(E) Removal of dead chickens, animals, and the like. No occupant of any building or lot in said city shall permit any dead chickens, animals, or other offensive or unwholesome substances whatever to remain in such building or upon such lot for a period exceeding 24 hours, nor shall any person permit any such dead chickens, animals, or other unwholesome substances to remain in or upon any lot or tenement, or between the same and the center of the street or alley adjoining.
(F) Swill and house offal. All keepers of hotels, restaurants, and others accumulating garbage are hereby required to keep and maintain a proper covered receptacle for such garbage and to cause the contents thereof to be regularly removed at least once each week.
(G) Weeds. No owner of any premises within the corporate limits of the city shall knowingly permit any of his or her premises therein to go unkept to the extent that unhealthy growths of weeds or other herbage shall develop there, or that stagnant water should develop into a breeding habitat for mosquitoes.
(H) Corrections. Should an owner of premises within the city permit such unhealthy and unsightly nuisances to develop thereon, either the Board of Health, City Council, or the Mayor may, after giving the owner of such premises due notice of his or her obligation to keep such premises in a clean and healthy condition, and allowing him or her a reasonable time to remedy the condition, cause city employees to enter upon such premises and, at the expense of the owner, correct the same.
(I) Outdoor privies. No person living within the corporate limits city shall permit any outdoor toilet facilities or outhouses of that nature to be erected on his or her premises.
(J) Accumulation of garbage. It shall be unlawful for any person to permit any offal, garbage, or other such offensive matter to be deposited or to accumulate to unhealthy proportions upon any of his or her premises within the corporate limits of the city.
(K) Trash bins. The occupants of every dwelling house or apartment shall provide a suitable and sanitary receptacle in which such occupants shall cause to be deposited all garbage accumulating upon the premises. The immediate vicinity of such garbage cans shall be kept free of garbage and other matter which may become putrid and attract flies.
(L) Depositing garbage on streets. No person shall throw or deposit any ashes, offal, dirt, garbage, junk, or other such offensive matter into the streets, alleys, avenues, or public grounds within the city.
(M) Depositing garbage in sewers. No person shall throw or deposit any feathers, offal, dirt, garbage, or other substance which might tend to clog or obstruct the sewage, into any sewage, pipe, drain, or manhole in the city.
(Prior Code, § 4-2-1) Penalty, see § 94.99
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see SDCL § 9-29-13