The following are specifically declared to constitute public nuisances and are prohibited within the city limits and within the extraterritorial jurisdiction:
(1) Bakeries, restaurants, food markets, and other places where food is prepared, kept for sale, or served and not kept in a clean, sanitary condition, or in which persons who do not have valid health certificates or who have any communicable disease are employed, or in connection with which suitable sanitary toilet facilities are not provided, or in which there is evidence of insects, flies, rats, mice, or vermin and with food which is accessible to their contamination.
(2) Spoiled or diseased meats or other foods, whether stored or offered for sale or being transported for purpose of sale.
(3) Barns, stables, hogpens, chicken yards, cowlots, manure piles, or any accumulations of organic materials of whatever kind, so maintained as to be breeding places of insects, flies, or mosquitoes or convenient harborage for rats and mice.
(4) The discharge or exposure of sewage, human excreta, wastewater, garbage, or other organic filth into or on any place in such a manner that transmission of disease from the infected material may result, or the placing or maintaining of such materials as tin cans or rubbish of any sort that might constitute a breeding place for mosquitoes or flies or offer a hiding place or protection for rodents.
(5) Privies not protected against flies or privies and cesspools the drainage from which is likely to pollute the soil, surface water, or water supply from which water for public or private consumption is obtained.
(6) All cellars, vaults, drains, pools, privies, sewers, yards, grounds, or premises which have for any cause become foul, nauseous, or not provided with adequate means of ingress or egress or not sufficiently supported, ventilated, sewered, drained, cleaned, or lighted.
(7) The transportation of garbage, human excreta, or other organic waste, except in tight covered wagons or containers which prevent leakage or access to flies.
(8) Stagnant water on private or public premises likely to afford breeding places for mosquitoes.
(9) Hide houses, bone boiling, or rendering establishments, tallow soap work, or other trades deleteriously affecting public health.
(10) All carcasses, all decaying flesh, fish, fowls, fruit, or vegetables, all deposits of manure, all flesh of any kind or description whatever, all filthy or offensive water or slops in any private yard or premises, and all other unwholesome substances when thrown upon or conducted into or upon any street, alley, public ground, or enclosure in such manner as to render such substances unwholesome and offensive or liable to become unwholesome or offensive.
(11) The act of sweeping or depositing any trash, paper, or rubbish into any street, alley, public thoroughfare, or other public place while driving, walking, or by any other means.
(12) The act of burning any substance of any kind which may cause or produce an offensive smell, smoke, or odor capable of annoying persons living in the vicinity or persons passing along the streets, alleys, or public thoroughfares.
(13) The act by any person of permitting or allowing any weeds, filth, or rubbish of any kind to remain on any sidewalk in front of or at the side of any premises owned by such person or in the street to the middle thereof, in front or at the side of any premises owned or controlled by such person, or upon any alley that may be at the rear or side of any lots owned or controlled by such person.
(14) The act of scattering or distributing any advertisements, circulars, handbills, printed or written announcements, or paper of like character, or any medicines, upon the streets, sidewalks, alleys, or within the public buildings or grounds within the city.
(15) The act of conducting or causing to be conducted into any alley or gutter, drain, or public ground, except such articles as are permitted by ordinance, in such manner as to obstruct such passageway.
(16) Buildings, barns, sheds, filling stations, construction camps, junk shops, camp houses, or any part thereof, which are in such a dilapidated or filthy condition as to harbor vermin or endanger the life or health of persons living in the vicinity or the public generally.
(17) Displaying of food in the open air, unless in proper cases constructed so as to protect such food from insects, flies, dust, filth, dogs, rodents, and insects.
(18) Every trade, business, or occupation injurious to the health or comfort of persons who reside in the vicinity, and any can or receptacle containing water or slops suffered to become stagnant or offensive or unwholesome from any cause.
(19) The act of conducting any business or enterprise upon any premises or within any building which through negligence allows paper, paper cups, or any other debris to escape from such premises or building and litter any sidewalk, alley, street, or other public place or private property.
(20) Allowing weeds, grass, or other uncultivated plants to attain a height greater than twelve (12) inches on any lot or tract within the city.
(21) Allowing rubbish, brush, or any other unsightly, objectionable, or unsanitary matter to grow or accumulate on any lot within the city.
Editor's note:
State law reference - Municipal authority to fill, drain, and regulate any place containing stagnant water or any other condition that may produce disease is found in V.T.C.A., Health & Safety, § 342.001; authority to regulate sewers and privies is found in V.T.C.A., Health & Safety, § 342.002; authority to take action and adopt rules to promote health and suppress disease is found in V.T.C.A., Health & Safety Code, § 122.005; authority to regulate weeds and other unsanitary matter is found in V.T.C.A., Health & Safety, §§ 342.003 - 342.004.