(A) Standing or flowing water prohibited unless treated. It shall be unlawful for any person to have, keep, maintain, cause or permit any collection of standing or flowing water in which mosquitoes breed or are likely to breed, unless such collection of water is treated so as to effectively prevent such breeding.
(B) Prohibited containers or places of water accumulation. COLLECTION OF WATER referenced in division (A) shall be held to be those contained in ditches, pools, ponds, excavations, holes, depressions, open cesspools, privy vaults, discarded vehicle tire casing, fountains, cisterns, tanks, shallow wells, barrels, troughs (except horse/cattle troughs in frequent use), urns, cans, boxes, bottles, tubs, buckets, defective house, roof gutters, sinks, flush closets, or other similar water containers.
(C) Methods of treatment. The methods of treatment of any collections of water specified in this section directed to the prevention of mosquitoes shall be approved and may be any one or more of the following:
(1) Screening with wire netting or with any other material which will effectively prevent the ingress and egress of mosquitoes.
(2) Complete emptying every seven days of unscreened containers together with thorough drying and cleaning.
(3) Using an approved larvicide.
(4) Completely covering the surface of water with an oil base product every seven days.
(5) Cleaning and keeping sufficiently free of vegetable growth and other obstructions, and stocking with mosquito-destroying fish.
(6) Proper disposal, removal or destruction of articles likely to hold water.
(D) Evidence of violation. The natural presence of mosquito larvae in standing water shall be evidence that mosquitoes are breeding there, and failure to prevent such breeding within three days after notice by Code Enforcement shall be deemed a violation of this section.
(Ord. 17-1185, passed 4-20-2017; Ord. 19-1229, passed 8-15-2019; Ord. 21-1280, passed 12-2-2021) Penalty, see §
90.99