(a) "Owner or manager" means any person in actual possession of or having charge, care or control of any property within the City, as executor, administrator, trustee, guardian or agent. Such person shall be bound to comply with the provisions of this article to the same extent as the owner, and notice to any such person of any order or decision of the Health Officer, shall be deemed and taken to be a good and sufficient notice as if such person were actually the owner of such property except that whenever an entire premises or building is occupied as a place of business such as a store, factory, warehouse, rooming house, junk yard, lumber yard or any other business under a single management, the person, firm or corporation in charge of such business shall be considered the owner or manager.
(b) "Ratproof container" means a container constructed of concrete or metal, or a container which is lined with metal or other material that is impervious to rats, and openings into the container such as doors shall be tight-fitted to prevent the entrance of rats.
(c) "Ratproofing" means the closing of openings in building foundations and openings under and around doors, windows, vents, and other places which could provide means of entry for rats, with concrete, sheet iron, hardware cloth or other types of ratproofing material approved by the Health Officer.
(d) "Rat harborage" means any place where rats can live and nest without fear of frequent molestation or disturbance.
(e) "Hardware cloth" means wire screening of such thickness and spacing as to afford reasonable protection against the entrance of rats and mice.
(1961 Code Sec. 1107.01)
(1961 Code Sec. 1107.01)
Whenever accumulations of rubbish, boxes, lumber, scrap metal, car bodies or any other materials provide rat harborage, the person owning or in control of such materials shall cause the materials to be removed or the materials shall be so stored as to eliminate the rat harborage. Lumber boxes and similar materials shall be neatly piled. These piles shall be raised at least a foot above the ground. When the owner of the materials cannot be found, after reasonable search, the owner or manager of the premises on which the materials are stored shall be responsible for disposal or proper piling of the materials.
(1961 Code Sec. 1107.02)
(1961 Code Sec. 1107.02)
Whenever rat holes, burrows or other evidences of rat infestation are found on any premises or in any building within the City, it shall be the duty of the owner, manager or agent of the owner of the property to exterminate the rats or cause the rats to be exterminated. Such extermination procedures shall commence no more than twenty-four hours after the receipt of written notice from the Health Officer. Within ten days after extermination, the owner or manager shall cause all of the rat holes or burrows in the ground to be filled with earth, ashes, or other suitable material.
(Ord. 7635. Passed 7-6-82.)
It shall be the duty of the owner or manager of any building in the City, or any building which may be hereafter constructed therein, to make such building reasonably ratproof, to replace broken basement windows, and when necessary to cover the basement window openings with hardware cloth or other suitable material for preventing rats from entering the building through such window openings.
The owner or manager of any premises upon which sheds, barns, coops or similar buildings are located shall eliminate the rat harborages from within and under such buildings by ratproofing, raising the buildings above the ground, or by some other suitable method, or such sheds, barns, coops or other buildings shall be razed. (1961 Code Sec. 1107.05)
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