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§ 33.0302   Definitions.
   Definitions stated in other chapters of this E.H. Code shall supplement the following:
   PUBLIC NUISANCES. Shall include:
      (1)   Breeding and harborage places for invertebrate and vertebrate vectors under conditions of known public health significance including those for mosquitoes, flies, and rodents, as more specifically set forth at Chapter 8 (Waste Management) and Chapter 9 (Insect, Rodent and Other Vector Control) herein.
      (2)   Accumulations of junk, trash, waste, debris, garbage, rubbish and related materials as set forth more specifically at Chapter 8 (Waste Management) herein and including: scrap metals, scrap lumber, scrap plastic or polymer materials, scrap building materials, scrap pipe or plumbing fixtures, junked appliances or furniture, dismantled, junked, or wrecked motor vehicles, machinery, or equipment or parts thereof, rags, bedding, tree and landscape trimmings, rope, waste oil, batteries, paper, rubber, and similar accumulations under conditions incompatible with their originally intended use or location as set forth more specifically in the planning and zoning laws of this jurisdiction, or otherwise in any manner detrimental to the public health.
      (3)   Hazardous materials which are corrosive, toxic, ignitable, irritants, infectious, strong sensitizers, generate pressure by decomposition or other means or otherwise are present under circumstances that could endanger the public health and safety, as set forth more specifically herein at Chapter 7 (Hazardous Materials and Toxics Control).
      (4)   Incompatible materials unsuitable for commingling where circumstances suggest a likelihood of explosion, spontaneous combustion, chemical reaction, fire, extreme heat, toxic substance formulation or other dangerous reaction so as to endanger the public health and safety, as set forth more specifically herein at Chapter 7 (Hazardous Materials and Toxics Control) and by the fire codes of this jurisdiction.
      (5)   Infectious and related wastes and odors therefrom including from: hospitals and medical facilities, sewers, cesspools, septic tanks, leach lines and fields (whether of individual or multiple ownership), toilets, holding tanks, seepage pits, butcher offal, pet droppings, excrement, urine, laundry water, manure accumulations, dead animals, putrid matter, and similar materials under circumstances endangering the public health and safety, as set forth more specifically herein at Chapter 7 (Hazardous Materials and Toxics Control) and Chapter 8 (Waste Management).
      (6)   Open, unused, or abandoned: buildings, structures, foundations, basements, excavations, swimming pools, wells, ponds, pits, shafts, and similar unfenced, unsealed, or unsecured situations of immediate danger to the public health and safety.
      (7)   Any device, sign, decoration, design, or fence, which is outside of a four-walled and roofed structure and determined to be unlawful by reason of its condition or inappropriate use or location as defined in Title 8 (Development Code) of the San Bernardino County Code or by the development code of this jurisdiction.
      (8)   Any animal, fowl, or bird, wild or domestic, other than cats, dogs, canaries or birds of the psitacinae family, within 70 feet of any school, church, hospital, public place or business, or any residence or dwelling house or other building used for human habitation, other than the personal dwelling of the person owning or controlling such animal, fowl, or bird. The Subdivision shall not apply to accredited laboratories regulated by the State Department of Health Services.
      (9)   Any privy or outhouse: on premises where domestic water under pressure is available; without suitable shelter to afford privacy and protection from the elements; without an automatically self-closing door adequate to exclude flies from the pit; in disrepair; with vaults filled with excreta not regularly and thoroughly disinfected; within 40 feet of any dwelling, residence, school, church, hospital or public place of business, except with the permission of the occupants or operators of such dwelling, residence, school, church, hospital, or public place of business.
      (10)   Any toilet, washroom. or bath or shower room for the use of employees, patrons, or the public where: the floors, walls, ceilings, lavatories, urinals, toilet bowl, bath or showers have accumulations of dirt, filth or corrosion; lavatories are not supplied with soap, individual towels and a receptacle for their disposal; toilet rooms are not provided with toilet paper.
      (11)   Castor bean (Ricinus communis) plants located in unsecured situations. that pose an immediate danger to the public and safety.
      (12)   Any situation or activity which exists, is conducted, maintained, or permitted, known at common-law, in equity jurisprudence, specified at Civil Code §§ 3479 et seq., Penal Code § 370, or elsewhere defined in State law or by the laws of this jurisdiction as a public nuisance and within the authority of DEHS to abate.
      (13)   Graffiti on any residence, rental housing, multi-residential, commercial or industrial building, structure, sidewalk or driveway.
(Ord. 3105, passed - -1986; Am. Ord. 3611, passed - -1995)