It shall be the duty of the Chief of Police, police officers and those designated to enforce this code, when they deem it necessary in order to secure or preserve the public health, to enter upon the premises or into the house, manufactory, workshop or other place of any person within the City to determine whether any nuisance exists therein, to inspect drains, vaults, cellars, cesspools, water closets, earth closets, cisterns, wells, privy vaults, sewers, yard and grounds of such premises, and to examine the condition of persons inhabiting or working in such places. When satisfied that apartments used for lodging or working therein are damp, ill-lighted, ill- ventilated, improperly constructed, or liable from overcrowding or filth to become infected with infectious, malignant, pestilential or dangerous diseases, or are not properly provided with pure water, and with privies, water closets, sewers, drains or cesspools, such policemen or any of them shall serve a written notice upon the owner, agent, lessee, occupant, tenant or other person in charge of such premises to correct or remove the nuisance or objection therein named, and if such owner, agent, lessee, occupant, tenant or other person in charge of such premises neglects or refuses to obey such notice, the Chief of Police or the Mayor or Director of Public Safety is hereby fully authorized to put the same in proper order at the expense of such owner, agent, lessee, occupant, tenant or other person having charge thereof.
(Ord. 59-08. Passed 7-21-2008.)
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