(A) It shall be unlawful for any person, persons, company, or corporation to erect, construct, cause, permit, keep, or maintain within the limits of said town, anything whatsoever, which is injurious to health or indecent or offensive to the senses of any of the inhabitants of said town, or any obstruction to the free use of property by any such inhabitant, and any persons or persons maintaining any nuisance above referred to is thereby declared to be the author and mantainor of a nuisance.
(B) It shall be unlawful for any person, persons, company, or corporation to throw, deposit, or suffer to be thrown or deposited, or suffer or permit any child, servant, members of the family, or any other person under his, her, or their control, to throw or deposit any manure, human excrement, urine, rubbish, slops, putrid or unsound vegetable, or any filthy, noisome, or unwholesome liquid or slops or substances that are liable to become unwholesome, in or into or upon any street, lane, alley, sidewalk, gutter, crossing, lot, cellar, premises, or common. It shall be unlawful for anyone to allow rank weeds to grow or to slaughter poultry or animals within the corporation of said town.
(C) All kitchens shall be provided within metal garbage receptacles, which shall be tightly covered and emptied frequently enough to prevent fermentation and bad odors; and garbage receptacles and vaults shall be cleaned, emptied, and disinfected, and weeds shall be cut and hauled away at any time upon the written order of the Health Officer. Said Health Officer shall fix a reasonable time limit in his or her order, where said garbage receptacles or vaults shall be emptied, cleaned, and disinfected and when weeds shall be cut and hauled away. If any owner or lessee, being duly ordered, shall fail or refuse to obey said order, it shall be the duty of the Town Marshal, upon notice from the Health Officer, to cause the garbage receptacles and vaults to be cleaned, emptied, and disinfected or the weeds to be cut and hauled away, and said Town Marshal shall keep an accurate account of the expenses thereof, which shall be paid from the town treasury upon the sworn voucher of the Town Marshal and said expenses shall be a lien on the property and collected by law and turned into the town treasury. It shall be unlawful to fill up vaults or sinks without first emptying the same.
(D) The Secretary of the Town Board of Health, who is also the Town Health Officer, and all Deputy Health Officers, and the Town Marshal and Deputies, shall have full power and authority to enter into or upon any street, lot, alley, premises, or grounds for the purpose of making a sanitary survey of the same, and if a nuisance or any insanitary conditions are found, it shall be the duty of the Town Health Officer, when informed of the existence of the same, to immediately notify the person or persons so offending in writing, fixing the time limit to abate the nuisance. If such person shall fail or refuse to abate the nuisance within the time specified, it shall be the duty of the Town Marshal upon notice of the Health Officer to cause the same to be abated, keeping an accurate account of the expenses thereof, which shall be paid from the town treasury upon the sworn voucher of the Town Marshal, and said expenses shall be a lien on the property and collected as taxes are collected and turned into the town treasury.
(E) If, at any time, the work of the prevention of the spread of infections or contagious disease is more than can be reasonable expected of the Town Health Officer, he or she may, with the consent of the President of the Town Council, employ one or more intelligent men or women to act as deputies to establish a quarantine, remove patients to the special hospital and conduct disinfections. All houses where infections or contagious diseases may exist or have existed, shall, at the proper time, be thoroughly disinfected by formaldehyde, according to the rules of the State Board of Health, by the Health Officer or his or her deputies at the expense of the town, as the work is obviously for the benefit of the people. A complete record of all disinfections, all vaccinations and all other work done shall be kept by the Health Officer in the minute book of the Board of Health.
(F) It shall be the duty of the Town Marshal at all times to aid the Health Officer in the work of enforcing this section upon the demand of said Health Officer.
(Ord. 35, passed 4-15-1912) Penalty, see § 93.99