The following are declared to be public nuisances prejudicial to the public health:
(A) All decayed or unwholesome food offered for sale to the public;
(B) All diseased animals running at large;
(C) Carcasses of dead animals not buried or destroyed within 24 hours after death;
(D) Accumulations of manure, rubbish, garbage, refuse and human and industrial or noxious or offensive waste, except normal storage on a farm, of manure, for agricultural purposes;
(E) Privy vaults or garbage cans which are not fly-tight;
(F) The pollution of any well, cistern, spring, underground water stream, lake, canal or body of water by sewage or industrial wastes, or other substances harmful to human beings;
(G) Dense smoke, noxious fumes, gas and soot or cinders, in unreasonable quantities, or the presence of any gas, vapor, fume, smoke, dust or any other toxic substance on, in or emitted from the equipment of any premises in quantities sufficient to be toxic, harmful or injurious to the health of any employee or to any premises, occupant or to any other person;
(H) Common drinking cups, roller towels, combs, brushes or eating utensils in public or semipublic places not properly sanitized after use;
(I) All infestations of vermin which may be involved in the transmission of communicable disease;
(J) The keeping of animal or fowls in close proximity of residences, schools, hospitals, public or semi-public buildings, playgrounds, parks and other public places, except pet cats and dogs, animals in public or licensed zoos or farm animals, on farms and in laboratories;
(K) To rent or lease quarters for human habitation which are declared unfit for human habitation by the Board of Health;
(L) To allow an abandoned refrigerator or freezer that does not have doors, locks or latches removed to remain upon any premises;
(M) To throw or deposit any offals, refuse, junk or the carcass of any dead animal in any water course, lake, pond, spring, well, common sewer, street or public roadway;
(N) To allow any building, home, mobile home, farm building, shed, fence or other human-made structure to exist in a deteriorated condition which is dangerous to public health, in that the structures may cause or aid in the spread of disease, because of its condition, construction or lack of proper repair, or may cause injury to the public health; and
(O) All other acts, practices, conduct, businesses, occupations, callings, trades, uses of property and all other things detrimental or certain to be detrimental to the health of the inhabitants of the county.
(Prior Code, § 92.24) (Ord. passed 2-11-1980) Penalty, see § 91.99