It shall be unlawful for any persons to spread, or to cause or permit any agent or employee to spread, any poison for the purpose of killing rats, mice, insects or other vermin, in any public way or public place in the village; and it shall be unlawful for any person to spread, or to cause or permit any agent or employee to spread, any poison for such purpose in any yard, court, passageway or other open place on private premises, or on the outside of any building or structure, or in any place within a building which is open to the general public, or where pet dogs, cats or other domestic animals or fowl have access, without placing the same in a receptacle of such kind or character that it can be reached only by the kind of vermin which the poison is intended to kill, or without placing a wire or other guard about the same in such a way that no child, or domestic animal or fowl, or other harmless creature can reach the same. (1956 Code, Sec. 23-9)