CHAPTER 95: NUISANCES; WEEDS

Section

Nuisances

   95.01   Scope

   95.02   Unclean habitations; definition

   95.03   Orders for abatement or vacation of premises

   95.04   Vacation and abatement hearings

   95.05   Posting notice of vacation

   95.06   Enforcement

   95.07   Hotels and lodging houses

   95.08   Cleaning of premises

   95.99   Penalty

NUISANCES

§ 95.01 SCOPE.

   The provisions of this subchapter shall be enforceable within the city concurrently with the state and federal laws relative to sanitation and health and the ordinances or orders of the Franklin County Health District and shall not be construed as modifying, repealing, limiting or affecting in any manner such laws, ordinances or orders.

('80 Code, § 557.01) (Ord. 35-74, passed 7-1-74) Penalty, see § 95.99

§ 95.02 UNCLEAN HABITATIONS; DEFINITION.

   (A)   Permitting unclean habitations. No person shall lease, let, permit the occupancy of, permit the continuation of the occupancy of, or continue the occupancy of the structure or building or any portion thereof, used for human habitation, unless such structure or building or portion thereof be free from unclean and unsanitary conditions, as defined in division (B) below and unless the provisions of this subchapter are complied with.

   (B)   Unsanitary conditions defined.

      (1)   Any structure or building or any portion thereof used for human habitation, shall be deemed to be in an unclean and unsanitary condition by reason of any portion of such building being infected with a communicable disease or by reason of the absence therein of toilet facilities as required by law or ordinance, or by reason of the known presence of sewer gas therein or thereon.

      (2)   Any structure or building or any portion thereof used for human habitation shall be deemed to be in an unclean and unsanitary condition when unfit for human habitation or in a condition dangerous or harmful to the lives or health of the occupants by reason of the inhabited portion of the house being damp or wet or by reason of such lack of repair, or by reason of such accumulation of dirt, filth, litter, refuse or other offensive or dangerous substances or liquids, or by reason of such defects in or lack of repair of or improper use of the drainage, plumbing or ventilation, or by reason of the existence on the premises of such a nuisance or other condition as is likely to cause sickness among the occupants. Any structure or building or any portion thereof, used for human habitation, which is in such unclean or unsanitary condition is hereby declared to constitute a public nuisance.

('80 Code, § 557.02(a), (b)) (Ord. 35-74, passed 7-1-74) Penalty, see § 95.99