(a) Conditions Conducive to Harboring Rats. The following conditions are declared to be conducive to harboring rats and are hereby declared to be nuisances and prohibited:
(1) Broken walls, floors or foundations, in which there are holes or cracks of a size sufficient to permit a rat to pass through.
(2) Materials, including rubbish, piled, stored or kept on the premises, into, among or under which rats have burrowed or may burrow.
(3) Buildings, foundations of buildings, appurtenances to buildings, or floors, under which rats have burrowed.
(4) Portable buildings, boxes, crates and materials, including rubbish, piled, stored or kept so that they rest directly on the ground surface or less than eight inches above such surface.
(5) Garbage containers without watertight tops, sides and bottoms or without tightly fitting tops or around or under which rats have burrowed or may burrow.
(6) Feeding of wild animals, birds or other wildlife, other than in suitable containers for food, elevated at least forty-eight inches above the ground level.
(Ord. 1943-324. Passed 4-26-43.)
(b) Abatement by Owner. No owner, lessee or occupant of any premises on which any conditions prohibited in subsection (a) hereof exist, shall fail or refuse to abate the same within thirty days after being notified to do so, as hereinafter provided.
(c) Abatement by Municipality. In addition to any of the foregoing provisions of this section, if the owner, lessee or occupant of any premises in the Municipality fails or refuses, within ninety days after receiving notice herein above provided for, to abate the nuisance, it may be abated by the Municipality, through its employees and under the direction of the Chief of Police. The cost of abating any such nuisance shall be charged to the owner of the property affected, and, in default of payment, shall be assessed against such property.
(d) Inspection of Buildings Used for Food or Food Products.
(1) The Municipality shall inspect all buildings and premises used or to be used for the commercial handling, storage, sale, preparation, transmission or disposal of food or food products. Such inspections shall be made under the direction of the Chief of Police.
(2) Such inspections shall be made of all buildings and premises in which is located any grocery, meat market, bakery, dairy, restaurant, drug store, liquor store, saloon or other place in which fruit, vegetables, meat, fish, grain, baked goods, ice cream, dairy products, any combination of any of the foregoing or any food, refreshment or other substance for human consumption, whether liquid or solid, is received, stored, handled, transmitted, prepared, sold or served, for a consideration.
(e) Inspection Report. A report shall be made of each inspection made pursuant to subsection (d) hereof. Each report shall be made in duplicate. One copy shall be filed with the Chief of Police and one shall be given to the occupant of the premises inspected. Each report shall state the condition of the building and premises inspected with respect to each of the conditions purported to be regulated by subsection (a) hereof.
(Ord. 1943-324. Passed 4-26-43.)
(f) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.