This Section is designed to be and is enacted as a police and sanitary regulation for the protection of the public health, and particularly to prevent the propagation and spread of bubonic plague and other established and emerging rodent borne infectious diseases. The term "rodent" as used in this Section shall mean any animal belonging to the Order of Rodentia, such as rats and mice, but shall not include animal(s) kept in compliance with Section 37 of this Code.
(a) Authority of Director. The Director of Public Health, or any agent or inspector appointed by the Director for the purpose, shall have authority, after announcing the purpose of his visit, and shall be permitted to enter any building or premises, or any part thereof, in the City and County during reasonable hours of any day, for the purpose of inspecting the same, and to ascertain whether the provisions of this Section have been complied with by the owner and occupant thereof.
(b) All Buildings to be Free of Rodents. All buildings, places and premises whatsoever in the City and County shall immediately and continuously be kept in a clean and sanitary condition, and free from rodents by the owner and/or the occupant thereof.
(c) Exclusion of Rodents in Buildings. All building and basement walls of all storerooms, warehouses, residences or other buildings within the City and County; all chicken yards or pens, chicken coops or houses, and all barns and stables, shall be so constructed or repaired as to prevent rodents from being harbored underneath the same or within the walls thereof, and all food products or other products, goods, wares and merchandise liable to attract or to become infested or infected with rats, rodents, whether kept for sale or for any other purpose, shall be so protected by the owner or occupant as to prevent rodents from gaining access thereto or coming in contact therewith.
(d) Docks, Etc., Exclusion of Rodents. All public and private docks and wharves in the City and County, wherever located, shall be so protected as to prevent rodents from gaining entrance to such docks or wharves, at either high or low tide, from vessels anchored or moored alongside of such docks or wharves, or from other sources, and all food products stored in docks or wharves shall be so kept and stored as to prevent rodents from gaining access thereto or coming in contact therewith.
(e) Marine Vessels; Rodent Shield; Duty of Vessel Owners.
(1) It shall be unlawful to permit any vessel, steamboat, or other watercraft, except vessels engaged in domestic commerce, to lie alongside of any wharf or dock in the City and County of San Francisco unless the chain, hawser, rope or line of any kind extending from any such vessel to the dock or wharf is equipped with and has properly and securely attached thereto a rodent shield or guard of such design as shall be approved by the Director or a person designated by her or him.
(2) Whenever plague, either the pneumonic or bubonic type, or any other disease transmitted or otherwise caused by rodents, exists in any domestic port, and the Director determines that vessels touching such port may pose a threat to the health and safety of the citizens of the City and County of San Francisco, all vessels engaged in domestic commerce touching at any such port shall comply with the provisions of this Subsection.
(3) It shall be the duty of the owner, agent, master or other officer in charge of any such vessel, steamboat, or other watercraft to comply with this Subsection.
(f) Slaughterhouses, Exclusion of Rodents. All slaughterhouses of every kind and nature and wherever located in the City and County shall be so protected as to prevent rodents from gaining access to the building or buildings thereof, and all holes and openings in the building or basement walls shall be thoroughly stopped with cement or other material approved by the Director of Public Health, and all food products stored in slaughterhouses shall be so kept as to prevent rodents from coming in contact therewith.
(g) Dumping of Waste Matter Prohibited.
(1) No person, firm or corporation shall cause or permit the dumping or placing upon any land, or in any water or waterway, within the City and County, any dead animal, butchers' offal, fish or parts of fish, or any waste vegetable or animal matter whatever.
(2) No person, firm or corporation, whether the owner, lessee, occupant or agent of any premises, shall keep or permit to be kept in any building, area way, or upon any premises, or in any alley, street or public place adjacent to any premises, any waste animal or vegetable matter, dead animals, butchers' offal, fish or parts of fish, swill or any refuse matter from any restaurant, eating place, residence, place of business or other building, unless the same be collected and kept in a tightly covered or closed can or vessel.
(3) No rubbish, waste or manure shall be placed, left, dumped or permitted to accumulate or remain in any building, place or premises in the City and County so that the same shall or may afford food or a harboring or breeding place for rodents.
(Amended by Ord. 125-01, File No. 010269, App. 6/15/2001)
(Amended by Ord. 150-73, App. 4/12/73; repealed by Ord. 125-01, File No. 010269, App. 6/15/2001)
(Amended by Ord. 179-85, App. 4/4/85; repealed by Ord. 125-01, File No. 010269, App. 6/15/2001)
(Amended by Ord. 179-85, App. 4/4/85; repealed by Ord. 125-01, File No. 010269, App. 6/15/2001)
(Amended by Ord. 179-85, App. 4/4/85; Ord. 197-98, App. 6/19/98; repealed by Ord. 125-01, File No. 010269, App. 6/15/2001)
(Added by Ord. 150-73, App. 4/12/73; repealed by Ord. 125-01, File No. 010269, App. 6/15/2001)
(Amended by Ord. 437-84, App. 11/2/84; repealed by Ord. 125-01, File No. 010269, App. 6/15/2001)
(Added by Ord. 150-73, App. 4/12/73; repealed by Ord. 125-01, File No. 010269, App. 6/15/2001)
(Added by Ord. 150-73, App. 4/12/73; repealed by Ord. 125-01, File No. 010269, App. 6/15/2001)
(Added by Ord. 150-73, App. 4/12/73; Ord. 125-01, File No. 010269, App. 6/15/2001)
(Added by Ord. 150-73, App. 4/12/73; repealed by Ord. 125-01, File No. 010269, App. 6/15/2001)
(Added by Ord. 150-73, App. 4/12/73; repealed by Ord. 125-01, File No. 010269, App. 6/15/2001)
(Added by Ord. 150-73, App. 4/12/73; repealed by Ord. 125-01, File No. 010269, App. 6/15/2001)
(Added by Ord. 150-73, App. 4/12/73; repealed by Ord. 125-01, File No. 010269, App. 6/15/2001)
(Added by Ord. 150-73, App. 4/12/73; repealed by Ord. 125-01, File No. 010269, App. 6/15/2001)
(Added by Ord. 150-73, App. 4/12/73; repealed by Ord. 125-01, File No. 010269, App. 6/15/2001)
(Added by Ord. 150-73, App. 4/12/73; repealed by Ord. 125-01, File No. 010269, App. 6/15/2001)