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No person shall himself or by another throw, place, deposit or leave in any street, highway, lane, alley, public place or square or any private place or premises any glass, unbroken or broken, or any matter, stone, earthenware, tacks or other substances of any nature likely to cause injury to travelers or pedestrians, to carriages, automobiles, bicycles or other vehicles, or injure any horse or other animals or which might injure, cut or puncture any pneumatic tire, nor shall any person shall himself or for another throw, place, deposit or leave in any street, highway, lane or alley, public place or square, or in any private place or premises, any animal or vegetable substance, dead animal, fish, shavings, paper, dirt, rubbish, filth, slops, unclean or nauseous water, liquid or gaseous fluids, hay, straw, soot, offal, garbage, swill or any other article or substance whatever.
(Ord. 297, passed 5-8-1939)
Cross-reference:
Duty to keep sidewalks and the like free of litter, see § 30-15
Where information furnished by an individual to the Police and/or Public Works Department has resulted in a fine for unlawful dumping, the City Council may authorize and direct the Finance Director to pay the individual a reward in the amount of 50% of any fine collected from the offender. The Chief of Police, the Director of Public Works and the Chief Legal Officer or their respective designee shall constitute a committee to investigate all claims for such rewards and shall make recommendations for payment or nonpayment of the rewards to the City Council. It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly or willfully to give false information to the police or Department of Public Works relative to illegal dumping. No employee of the City Council, the Police, Public Works or Law Departments shall be entitled to any rewards under this section.
(Ord. 2884, passed 8-8-1983; Ord. 2997, passed 6-23-1986; Ord. 3236, passed 6-28-1993)
(a) No person shall keep, place or have on or in any private house, place of business, lot or premises within the City, any dead carcass, putrid or offensive or unsound beef, pork, fish, hides, skins, bones, horns, stinking or rotten soap grease, tallow, offal, garbage or other animal or vegetable matter or substance which may cause any unwholesome, obnoxious or offensive smell.
(b) No person shall collect or confine any horse, cattle, sheep, hog, fowl or other domestic or undomesticated animal, bird or fowl in pens, cages, stables, coops or otherwise so as to create an unwholesome, unsightly, malodorous, obnoxious or offensive condition except as otherwise allowed by Chapter 9, Article III.
(c) An unwholesome, offensive or obnoxious smell or condition is one that is of such intensity and duration as to be injurious to human, plant or animal life, to health, or to property or to unreasonably interfere with the enjoyment of life and property.
(d) Any person who keeps animals or vegetable matter in such a manner as to violate the terms of this article, shall be deemed to commit the offense of creating a public nuisance by the action and the designated City officials are hereby authorized to enter into and upon the real estate to abate the nuisance, where the owner has been given notice and time to abate and has failed to do so. The cost of abating the nuisance shall be billed to the property owner(s). In the event of failure of the owner or owners to pay the costs, the same may be added to the next ad valorem tax roll delivered to the City Treasurer for collection and collected in manner of ad valorem property taxes.
(e) Violation of subsection (a) or (b) above shall be a civil infraction punishable by a fine of not less than $300.00.
(f) The first time any person keeps vegetable matter in such a manner as to violate subsection (d) above, the violation shall be a civil infraction punishable by a fine of not less than $300.00; provided however, that the fine will be waived if the person presents proof that since being cited for the offense they have completed a course instructing them on the proper keeping of compost material.
(Ord. 297, passed 5-8-1939; Ord. 3346, passed 6-9-1997; Ord. 3770, passed 6-14-2010)
No person shall hereafter maintain or construct a privy or privy vault unless such privy or privy vault be constructed and maintained according to the regulations of the Department of Public Health of the City of Flint, which regulations shall be furnished by the Department of Public Health on application, and no person shall hereafter construct a privy or privy vault without first obtaining from the Department of Public Health of the City of Flint a permit for that purpose; provided further, that temporary privies or toilets for workmen employed on construction work and for use at carnivals, circuses and other traveling tent shows may be used if approved in advance by the Department of Public Health.
(Ord. 297, passed 5-8-1939)
Any cart, wagon or truck or other vehicle used for the purpose of conveying away swill, offal, garbage or excrement shall be perfectly tight and covered so as to prevent the contents from leaking, spilling or becoming offensive because of odor, and no such cart, wagon or vehicle when not actually in use, shall be allowed in any street, lane, alley or public place within the City of Flint.
(Ord. 297, passed 5-8-1939)
The Director of Public Health of the City of Flint shall have the power and it is hereby made his duty to abate all nuisances herein designated which may be injurious to the public health of said City. The Director of Public Health is hereby authorized and directed to cause the removal of all privies and privy vaults not constructed or maintained pursuant to the regulations of said Department of Public Health. Said Director of Public Health and all persons acting under his orders and directions in removing such privies or privy vaults and abating such nuisances shall not be liable to any person constructing or making any such privy or privy vault, for any damages on account of such abatement and removal thereof.
(Ord. 297, passed 5-8-1939)
No distiller, dyer, machinist, manufacturer or other person shall himself or by others, discharge out of or from any stillhouse, dye house, workshop, factory, machine shop, dwelling house, kitchen or other building any foul or nauseous liquid, water or other substance into or upon any highway, street, alley, lane, public space or square, or into any aforesaid road or ground, or deposit or allow to be deposited any refuse, drippings or nauseous liquids or other substances from distributing pipes of gas conductors into any sewer, receiving basin, gutter or other public place within the City, or force or discharge into any public or private sewer or drain, any steam vapor or gas.
(Ord. 297, passed 5-8-1939)
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