It is unlawful for any person, except persons under the jurisdiction of the Board of Health, to spread or to cause or permit any agent or employee to spread any poison for the purpose of killing rats, mice, insects, or other vermin in any public way or public place in the city; and it is unlawful for any person to spread or to cause or permit any agent or employee to spread any poison for that purpose in any yard, court, passageway, or other open place on private premises or on the outside of any building or structure, or in any place within a building which is open to the general public, or where pet dogs, cats, or other domestic animals or fowls have access, without placing the poison in a receptacle of the kind or character that it can be reached only by the kind of vermin which the poison is intended to kill, or without placing a wire or other guard about same in a way that no child or domestic animal, domestic fowl, or other harmless creature can reach the same.
(Prior Code, § 93.074) Penalty, see § 93.999