No condition shall be created, nor any existing condition maintained, whereby there will be upon any lot or plot excavations, depressions, pits, holes, gullies or similar depressions which may accumulate and retain surface water and which may become a public hazard or nuisance.
Any such condition shall be properly abated and protected by filling or by providing positive drainage and, where necessary, by the erection of barricades or fencing.
(Ord. 64-24. Passed 3-2-64.)