(A) It shall be unlawful for any person to have, keep, maintain, cause, or permit within the city any collection of standing or flowing water in which mosquitoes breed or are likely to breed, unless the collection of water is treated to prevent breeding.
(B) The collections of water specified in division (a) are those contained in ditches, pools, ponds, excavations, holes, depressions, open cesspools, privy vaults, fountains, cisterns, tanks, shallow wells, barrels, troughs (except livestock troughs in frequent use), urns, cans, boxes, bottles, tubs, buckets, defective house roof gutters, automobile tires, tanks, or flush closets, or other similar water containers.
(C) The city deems the natural presence of mosquito larvae in standing or running water as sufficient evidence that mosquitoes are breeding.
(D) It is unlawful for any person to fail to prevent mosquito breeding within three days after the code enforcement officer gives the person written notice of a violation of this section.
(E) The code enforcement officer shall approve one or more of the following methods of treatment of collections of water to prevent mosquito breeding:
(1) Screening with wire netting of at least 16 meshes to the inch each way or with any other material which will prevent the ingress or egress of mosquitoes;
(2) Emptying of unscreened containers every seven days, together with thorough drying or cleaning;
(3) Application of a larvacide approved by and under the direction of the code enforcement officer;
(4) Covering surface water with kerosene, petroleum, or paraffin oil once every seven days;
(5) Cleaning and keeping ponds and other collections of water sufficiently free of vegetable growth and other obstructions and stocking with mosquito-destroying fish;
(6) Filling or draining ponds or other collections of water to the code enforcement officer's satisfaction or his or her authorized representative; and/or
(7) Removing or destroying tin cans, tin boxes, broken or empty bottles, and similar containers likely to hold water.
(F) The city is authorized to take all necessary measures and costs to prevent or halt the conditions responsible for mosquito breeding and levy a lien against a person's property for all costs incurred by the city if the person responsible for conditions giving rise to the breeding of mosquitoes fails or refuses to take measures necessary to prevent mosquito breeding within three days after the code enforcement officer gives the person due notice.
(G) The code enforcement officer or his other agent may enter any premises within his or her jurisdiction at all reasonable times to enforce this section.
(Ord. 2008-005, passed 8-19-2008; Am. Ord. 2009-013, passed 10-20-2009; Am. Ord. 2018-002, passed 3-20-2018) Penalty, see § 90.999