(a) Permitting Mosquito Breeding Places.
(1) It shall be unlawful and it is hereby declared a public nuisance for any person to have, keep, maintain, cause or permit within the City any collection of standing or flowing water in which mosquitoes breed, unless such water is treated to effectually prevent such breeding.
(2) Collections of water in which mosquitoes breed are those contained in ditches, ponds, pools, excavations, holes, depressions, open cesspools, fountains, cisterns, tanks, shallow wells, barrels, troughs, urns, cans, boxes, bottles, tubs, buckets, house roof gutters, plastic swimming pools or other water containers. The natural presence of mosquito larvae in standing or running water shall be evidence that mosquitoes are breeding.
(b) Treatment for Control. It shall be the duty of the person responsible for the condition of the premises to treat water which has collected thereon, in which mosquitoes breed, by one or more of the following methods as shall be recommended and approved by the City Manager.
(1) Screening with wire netting of at least sixteen meshes to the inch every way, or with any other material which will effectually prevent the ingress or egress of mosquitoes.
(2) Complete emptying every seven days of unscreened containers together with their thorough drying and cleaning.
(3) Using a larvicide approved by and applied under the direction of the City Manager.
(4) Cleaning and keeping water sufficiently free of vegetable growth and other obstructions, and stocking with mosquito-destroying fish.
(5) Filling or draining to the satisfaction of the City Manager.
(6) Proper disposal, by removal or destruction, of tin cans, tin boxes, broken or empty bottles, and other articles likely to hold water.
(c) Penalty. Whoever violates any of the provisions of this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor and shall be subject to the penalty provided in Section 698.02. A separate offense shall be deemed committed each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues.
(Ord. 2307. Passed 8-26-91.)