(a) No person shall suffer, commit or have upon his premises, whether owned or occupied by him, either one or more of the following unsanitary, fly-producing, disease causing conditions.
(1) Manure which is not securely protected from flies as required by this article.
(2) Any privy, vault, cesspool, sink, pit or other like place which is not securely protected from flies.
(3) Garbage which is not securely protected from flies.
(4) Vegetable waste, trash, litter, rags, or refuse of any kind, nature or description in which flies may breed or multiply.
(b) Every act or thing done, made, permitted, allowed or continued in violation of subsection (a) hereof, is hereby declared to be and shall be deemed a nuisance.
(c) The Health Officer and his assistants shall ascertain and cause all nuisances declared to be such under the provisions of subsections (a) and (b) hereof, to be abated.
(d) The Health Officer shall serve, or cause to be served, a notice in writing upon the owner, occupier or agent of any premises in or upon which any nuisance, declared to be such in subsection (b) hereof, may be found, or upon the person who may have caused such nuisance, requiring him to appear before Council at a time to be fixed in such notice, not more than five days nor less than twenty-four hours from the time of service of such notice, to show cause, if any, why he should not abate such nuisance. At the time fixed in the notice the owner, occupier or agent of the premises, or the person responsible for such nuisance shall be heard.
(e) The failure to give the notice provided for by this section shall not relieve the owner, occupier or agent, or the person responsible for any nuisance, from the obligation to abate such nuisance or from the penalty provided for the creation and maintenance thereof. (1972 Code §10-1-14 to 10-1-18)