(A) It shall be unlawful for any person to urinate or deposit any human waste on any street, lot, or premises except in an approved sanitary facility. No butcher, fishmonger, huckster, or vendor of merchandise of any kind shall leave any solid waste on the streets, or uncovered by earth, on the lots of the town. All putrid or decayed animals, or vegetable matter, must be removed from all cellars and outbuildings at least once every 48 hours during the months of May, June, July, August, and September, and at least once a week during the other months of the year.
(B) No animal that died by disease or accident, and no meat therefrom, nor any animal or meat therefrom killed while feverish, bruised, disabled, injured with broken bones, or otherwise heavy with young, jaded, or fatigued from long driving or shipping, or killed, or kept, in some building, or in so close proximity with fumes of gas, or disease, or spoiled meat as to become contaminated therefrom, or rendered unwholesome or unhealthy thereby, or manipulated with tools used on diseased, or other dead, carcasses as aforesaid, shall be brought into town, held, or offered for sale as food therein.
(C) Owners of animals dying in the town, weighing less than 40 pounds, shall, upon notice of their death, immediately contact the Public Works Department for removal of same.
(Code 1976, § 9.4) (Ord. 5-90, passed 3-5-1990) Penalty, see § 1-111
Cross-reference:
Animals, Ch. 4; Solid Wastes, Ch. 11.
Statutory reference:
Meat inspection and slaughtering, G.S. Ch. 106, Art. 49B and 49D.