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SIGNAL HILL, CALIFORNIA MUNICIPAL CODE
PREFACE
Title 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS
Title 2 ADMINISTRATION AND PERSONNEL
Title 3 REVENUE AND FINANCE
Title 4 (Reserved)
Title 5 BUSINESS TAXES, LICENSES AND REGULATIONS
Title 6 ANIMALS
Title 7 (Reserved)
Title 8 HEALTH AND SAFETY
Title 9 PUBLIC PEACE, MORALS AND WELFARE
Title 10 VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC
Title 11 (Reserved)
Title 12 STREETS, SIDEWALKS AND PUBLIC PLACES
Title 13 PUBLIC UTILITIES
Title 14 (Reserved)
Title 15 BUILDINGS AND CONSTRUCTION
Title 16 OIL AND GAS CODE*
Title 17 TRAILER PARKS
Title 18 SUBDIVISIONS*
Title 19 (Reserved)
Title 20 ZONING
Title 21 PUBLIC DEDICATION REQUIREMENTS AND IMPROVEMENT FEES TO BE PAID BY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS
STATUTORY REFERENCES FOR CALIFORNIA CITIES
PRIOR CODE CROSS-REFERENCE TABLE
ORDINANCE LIST AND DISPOSITION TABLE
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8.24.010   Permitting harborages for vermin prohibited.
   It is unlawful for any person to maintain any building, lot, premises, vehicle, or any place in such an insanitary condition as to permit the breeding or harboring therein or thereon of flies, rats, bedbugs, cockroaches, lice, fleas or any vermin. It is unlawful for any person to permit an accumulation of rubbish or material that may serve as a harborage for rats unless such material is elevated not less than eighteen inches above the ground, with a clear intervening space thereunder.
(Prior code § 6.16.060 (Ord. 270 § 6, 1945))
8.24.020   Ratproofing grain storage facilities.
   No person shall use any building or structure or portion thereof for the storage, handling, preparation or sale of any grain or grain products which in the opinion of the health officer is or is likely to become infested with rats, unless such building or structure or portion thereof is ratproofed.
(Prior code § 6.16.020 (Ord. 270 § 2, 1945))
8.24.030   Ratproofing food storage facilities.
   No person shall use any building or structure or portion thereof for a slaughterhouse, packing house or bakery, or for the manufacture, preparation, storage, handling or display of any food or food product for human or animal consumption which, in the opinion of the health officer, is or is likely to become infested with rats, unless such building or structure or portion thereof is ratproofed.
(Prior code § 6.16.040 (Ord. 270 § 4, 1945))
8.24.040   Notices to ratproof buildings.
   A.   When determined by the health officer or his duly authorized representative that any building or structure constitutes a rat harborage, he may serve upon the person in charge or control thereof a notice in writing to ratproof such building or structure, as set forth in Sections 8.24.050 through 8.24.080, within a reasonable time, as stated in such notice.
   B.   When determined by the health officer or his duly authorized representative that it is unnecessary to ratproof such building or structure in its entirety, he may specify in such notice that portion which is to be ratproofed.
(Prior code § 6.16.030 (Ord. 270 § 3, 1945))
8.24.050   Ratproofing specifications generally.
   A.   Rat-proofing as required in this chapter, shall be interpreted to mean a continuous masonry foundation of the size and depth required by the building ordinance and the other requirements for a new building of the same occupancy as regards clearance beneath wood joists, wall covering adjacent to the top foundation, and protection of roof and foundation openings.
   B.   In addition to the other requirements set forth in this chapter, any building or structure or portion thereof used for the storage or handling of any grain or grain product, or of any food or food products for human or animal consumption, except dwellings or apartments, shall be ratproofed as provided in Sections 8.24.060 through 8.24.080.
(Prior code §§ 6.16.050, 6.16.070 (Ord. 270 §§ 5, 7, 1945))
8.24.060   Screening required.
   All underfloor vents, openings in foundations, roof vents, and skylights shall be screened by use of screening of at least one-half inch mesh hardware cloth.
(Prior code § 6.16.080 (Ord. 270 § 7 (part), 1945))
8.24.070   Foundations.
   A.   All foundations, except otherwise provided in this chapter, shall be continuous foundations.
   B.   Buildings erected without a continuous foundation and upon a slab of cement or asphaltic concrete not less than three inches in thickness need not be ratproofed as required, if a concrete curb not less than one foot in depth below finished grade is run continuously around and under the outside edges of such slab.
   C.   Buildings under four hundred square feet in area having an eighteen-inch clearance under the floor joists and supported on piers need not have the required continuous foundation.
(Prior code § 6.16.090 (Ord. 270 § 7 (part), 1945))
8.24.080   Walls.
   A twelve-inch strip of noncorrosive metal lath weighing not less than three quarters of a pound per square yard shall be placed under wall coverings on both the inside and outside of all exterior stud walls and the floor level except that the strip need not be placed on the outside face where there is maintained a clearance of eighteen inches under the floor joists or when the exterior wall covering is stucco.
(Prior code § 6.16.100 (Ord. 270 § 7 (part), 1945))
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