521.11 STAGNANT WATER ON PREMISES.
   (a)    No person, being the owner or occupant of any lot or land within the City, shall make any cellar or other excavation therein, without walling or guarding such excavation so that it shall not become a pond of stagnant water; or cause or permit water to remain and become stagnant upon such lot or land.
(1949 Code §54.70.)
   (b)    Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.