Upon receipt of any application for the maintenance and operation of a commercial hog ranch and the two affidavits required by this Chapter, the Board of Supervisors shall cause said application, together with the two accompanying affidavits, to be referred immediately to the County Health Department. The applicant shall forthwith upon the request of the County Health Department, if he or she has not previously done so, furnish to the said Health Department a plot plan drawn to scale of the premises proposed to be occupied by said commercial hog ranch, showing the location or the proposed location, the nature and construction character of all buildings, structures, pens, food containers, feeding devices, fences and other information required by the said Department. The County Health Officer shall visit and inspect the site of the proposed commercial hog ranch. The soil character and the final movements and drainage of any effluents or waste from within the area shall be determined. If the County Health Officer is satisfied that the maintenance and operation of a commercial hog ranch as proposed in said application, affidavits and plot plan would not be a menace to public health, safety and general welfare, or animal health, or constitute a potential nuisance in the neighborhood, or constitute a potential water pollution problem, he or she shall, by written report to the Board of Supervisors, recommend that a permit be granted, while if he or she is not so satisfied he or she shall recommend to the Board of Supervisors that a permit not be granted.
Upon receipt of the County Health Officer’s report and recommendation, the Board shall then set a date for a public hearing thereon, which date shall not be less than 15 days from the receipt of the report, and not less than ten days prior to the date of said hearing the Board shall cause notice of said hearing to be given in the community or district in which such commercial hog ranch is proposed by causing to be published not less than one publication stating all essential facts regarding the application and the date of hearing in a newspaper of general circulation in the community or district in which the proposed commercial hog ranch is to be located, and posting not less than two signs headed by the words “Proposed Commercial Hog Ranch” in letters not less than two inches in height along or upon and visible from the State or County highway nearest the premises to which the application refers, specifying the location of the proposed commercial hog ranch and the date of hearing upon the permit application.
(Ord. 457, passed - -1937; Am. Ord. 661, passed - -1950; Am. Ord. 678, passed - -1951; Am. Ord. 732, passed - -1954; Am. Ord. 978, passed - -1962; Am. Ord. 1522, passed - -1969)