In this article:
(1) DIRECTOR means the director of the department designated by the city manager to enforce and administer this article or the director’s designated representative.
(2) FUMIGATION and EXTERMINATION BY FUMIGATION mean the use of hydrocyanic acid gas, cyanogen, chloropicrin, methyl bromide, or any other poisonous, noxious, or dangerous gases or fumes which are liable to affect human beings by causing sickness or death, for the extermination of germs, bacteria, insects, vermin, rats, or other pests in any place of domestic habitation, hotel, apartment hotel, apartment building, tenement building, store, office, hospital, asylum, home, rooming house, place of public assembly, or any other building or place. (Ord. Nos. 3281; 27697)
Any person intending to generate or release hydrocyanic acid gas or other dangerous gases or fumes for fumigation purposes shall, before starting such generation or release of gases, file written notice with the director, the police department, and the fire department of the city at least 24 hours before beginning such fumigation; provided, that any person intending to fumigate a mobile unit such as a boxcar or truck is required to give a written notice only four hours before beginning such fumigation. Such notice, either the four hour notice or the 24 hour notice, must state the following:
(1) The location of the building, mobile unit, or place to be fumigated.
(2) The type of fumigation to be used, including the kind of gas, fumes, and warning agent.
(3) The time such work is to be started and when the building or place is to be reopened. (Ord. Nos. 3281; 11807; 22026; 27697)
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