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The Health Commissioner is empowered to make unannounced inspections of the interior and exterior of business buildings to determine full compliance with this chapter, and the Commissioner shall take periodic inspections at intervals of not more than forty-five days of all ratproofed buildings to determine evidence of rat infestation and the existence of new breaks or leaks in their ratproofing. When any evidence is found indicating the presence of rats or openings through which rats may again enter business buildings, the Commissioner shall serve the owners or occupants with notices and/or orders to abate the conditions found.
(Ord. 24-1949. Passed 5-10-49.)
Whenever conditions inside or under occupied business buildings provide extensive harborage for rats, in the opinion of the Health Commissioner, the Commissioner is empowered after due notification in accordance with Section 1747.03 to close such business buildings until such time as the conditions are abated by ratproofing and harborage removal including, if necessary, the installation of suitable concrete floors in basements or replacement of wooden first or ground floors with concrete or other major repairs necessary to facilitate rat eradication.
(Ord. 24-1949. Passed 5-10-49.)
Whenever conditions inside or under unoccupied business buildings provide extensive harborage for rats, in the opinion of the Health Commissioner, the Commissioner is empowered to require compliance with the provisions of Section 1747.03 and, in the event that the conditions are not corrected in a period of sixty days, or within the time to which a written extension may have been granted by the Commissioner, the Commissioner is empowered to institute condemnation and destruction proceedings.
(Ord. 24-1949. Passed 5-10-49. )
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