(a) No owner or occupant of any building or premises shall permit conditions to exist on his property which may allow the building or premises to become a rat harbor. The following enumerated conditions shall not be deemed to be exclusive and are hereby declared to be nuisances as conducive to harboring rats:
(1) Broken building tile in areaways or in walls or foundations of garages.
(2) Building materials or rubbish dumped or stored behind garages.
(3) Garage foundations under which rats have burrowed.
(4) Underground garbage containers around or under which rats have burrowed.
(5) Portable play houses, dog houses, tool sheds and stored building materials resting directly on the ground surface or less than eight (8) inches above such surface.
(6) Garbage containers without watertight bottoms and tight-fitting tops.
(7) Concrete or wooden garage floors so broken that rats can burrow or have burrowed under them.
(8) Compost piles or other areas where material is stored outdoors.
(b) No owner or occupant of any building or premises on which any rat harbor condition exists shall fail or refuse within five (5) days after being notified thereof by a health officer or the Director of Public Safety-Service to abate the same. In addition to any penalty for a violation hereof, such nuisance may be abated by the City in the manner now or hereafter provided by law.
(c) Whoever violates this Section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(Ord. 29-74. Passed 4-1-74.)