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§ 94.31 LITTERING.
   (A)   It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, company or corporation to throw or deposit, or suffer to be thrown or deposited, or suffer or permit any child, servant, member of the family, or any other person under his, her or their control, to throw or deposit any manure, rubbish, slops, putrid or unsound animal or vegetable matter or any filthy, noisome, or unwholesome liquid or slops or substances that are liable to become unwholesome, in, into, or upon any street, lane, alley, sidewalk, gutter, crossing lot, cellar, premises or commons, and it shall also be unlawful for any rank weeds to be allowed to grow on any ground within the corporation of the town.
   (B)   And it shall be unlawful and it shall be a nuisance for any noisome or overflowing vault or non- fly proof privy to exist.
(Ord. passed 3-11-1929) Penalty, see § 10.99
§ 94.32 KITCHEN GARBAGE RECEPTACLES.
   (A)   All kitchens and every place where garbage may accumulate shall be provided with garbage receptacles and the receptacles shall be made of galvanized iron, shall be tightly covered and emptied, cleaned and disinfected, and weeds shall be cut and hauled away at any time upon the written orders of the Health Officer; the Officer is to fix a reasonable time limit in his or her order when the garbage receptacles or vaults shall be emptied, cleaned and disinfected and weeds shall be cut and hauled away; and if any owner or lessee, being duly ordered as herein provided, shall fail or refuse to obey the order, it shall be the duty of the Street Commissioner (or other designated officer) upon written notice form the
Health Officer, to cause the garbage receptacles or vaults to be cleaned, emptied and disinfected, or the weeds to be cut and hauled away, and the Street Commissioner (or other designated officer) shall keep an accurate account of the expense thereof, which shall be paid from the Town Treasury upon the sworn voucher of the Street Commissioner (or other designated officer), and the expenses shall be a lien on the property and collected by law and turned into the Town Treasury.
   (B)   And it shall be unlawful to fill up iod privy vaults or sinks without first emptying same.
(Ord. passed 3-11-1929) Penalty, see § 10.99
§ 94.33 SANITARY SURVEY.
   (A)   The Secretary of the Town Board of Health, who is also Town Health Officer, all deputy health officers and Town Marshal, shall have full power and authority to enter into or upon any street, lot, alley, premises or ground, for the purpose of making a sanitary survey of the same, and if a nuisance or an unsanitary condition is 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 person so offending, in writing, fixing a time limit to abate the nuisance.
   (B)   If the person shall fail or refuse to abate the nuisance within the time specified, it shall be the duty of the Street Commissioner, upon notice of the Health Officer, to cause the same to be abated, keeping an accurate account of the expense thereof, which shall be paid from the Town Treasury upon the sworn voucher of the Street Commissioner, and the expense shall be a lien on the property, and collected as taxes are collected and turned into the Town Treasury.
(Ord. passed 3-11-1929)
§ 94.34 TOWN HEALTH OFFICERS.
   (A)   The Town Health Officer and all deputy health officers he or she may appoint shall have police power and shall be diligent in enforcing this subchapter and in doing what is reasonable and necessary for the protection and preservation of the public health. They shall study the state health laws and the health rules of the State Board of Health and be active in enforcing the same.
   (B)   The vital statistics shall be carefully collected, duly recorded and reported to the State Board of Health for final compilation in the state health reports, by the Town Health Officer; and work done with the recommendations as may seem proper to him or her.
(Ord. passed 3-11-1929)
§ 94.35 ESTABLISHMENT OF QUARANTINE.
   (A)   If at any time the work of prevention of the spread of infectious or contagious diseases is more than can be reasonably expected of the Town Health Officer, he or she may, with the consent of the Mayor, employ one or more intelligent people to act as deputies to establish quarantine, remove patients to the special hospital and conduct disinfections and the deputies shall have all the power of a constable of law.
   (B)   All houses wherein infections and contagious diseases may exist or have existed, shall at the proper time be thoroughly disinfected 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.
   (C)   A complete record of all disinfections, all vaccinations and all other health work done by the Town Health Officer in the minutes of the Town Board of Health.
(Ord. passed 3-11-1929)
§ 94.36 PROTECTIVE PROCEDURES; VISITATION.
   When visiting persons known to be infected with smallpox, diphtheria and scarlet fever, all persons and health officers shall protect their clothing and hair against infection, and shall thoroughly disinfect themselves before coming in contact with the public.
(Ord. passed 3-11-1929) Penalty, see § 10.99
§ 94.37 DUTY OF TOWN MARSHAL.
   It shall be the duty of the Town Marshal at all times to aid the Town Health Officer in the work of enforcing the subchapter upon demand of the Health Officer.
(Ord. passed 3-11-1929)