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)