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Owners or occupants of premises are required to keep the same clean. Every person owning or occupying any premises in the corporate limits shall keep the premises free from weeds, trash and all other forms of animal or vegetable refuse which may be dangerous or prejudicial to the public health, or which may constitute a public nuisance. No owner or occupant of any premises shall bury therein any animal or vegetable matter which, upon decaying, may become dangerous or prejudicial to the health or may constitute a nuisance.
(1987 Code, § 8-6-04) Penalty, see § 90.999
No person shall urinate or deposit any human waste of any kind on any street, lot or premises, except in approved sanitary facilities.
(1987 Code, § 8-6-05) Penalty, see § 90.999
No person or occupant of any property shall allow stagnant water to accumulate or remain in cellars or anywhere on his, her or their property.
(1987 Code, § 8-6-06) Penalty, see § 90.999
All person, firms or corporations selling food of any kind or serving prepared meals shall comply with all requirements pertaining thereto of the State Board of Health.
(1987 Code, § 8-6-07) Penalty, see § 90.999
All refuse and debris, remaining both as a result of the repair of any building or of the erection and completion of any building, shall be removed by the property owner within 15 days from the completion of the aforesaid work.
(1987 Code, § 8-6-08) Penalty, see § 90.999
No person shall spit upon or throw hulls, peelings or other litter upon any of the sidewalks of the town.
(1987 Code, § 8-6-09) Penalty, see § 90.999
(A) The following, if found, shall constitute a dwelling unfit for human habitation:
(1) If it is found to exist, within the municipality, the occupation of dwellings which the Board of Aldermen finds to be hazardous to the welfare and dangerous and injurious to the health, safety and morals of the residents of town due to dilapidation, defects increasing the hazards of fire, accidents or other calamities, lack of ventilation, light or sanitary conditions, or due to other conditions rendering the dwellings unsafe or unsanitary; or
(2) It is also found that there exists with the municipality abandoned structures which the Board finds to be hazardous to the health, safety and welfare of the residents of the town due to the attraction of insects and rodents; conditions creating a frequent use by vagrants as living quarters in the absence of sanitary facilities.
(B)
Therefore, it is the intent of this subchapter to provide for the repair, closing or demolition of any such dwellings unfit for human habitation or abandoned structures in accordance with the provisions and procedures set forth by law and minimum residential housing code.
(1987 Code, § 8-6-10) Penalty, see § 90.999
NUISANCES GENERALLY
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