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HomeMy WebLinkAbout~Master - Relating to Sanitary Rules, Repealing Certain Sections of Ordinance 566 F � TEMP ORDINA 77J ORDINANCE NO, 24 Permanent Ord. No, (AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING SANITARY RULES AND REGULATIONS, DEFINING CERTAIN NUISANCES AND PROHIBITING SAME, CREATING PROCEDURE FOR THE ABATEMENT THEREOF, PROVIDING FOR THE ASSESS- MENT OF THE COST OF ABATEMENT, REPEALING SUB-SECTIONS 2, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, AND 16 OF SECTION 1, AND SECTIONS 2, 3, 4, AND 15 OF ORDINANCE NUMBER 549, AND SECTIONS 33, 103, 104, 105, 107, AND I109 OF ORDINANCE NUMBER 566 AND ALL OTHER. ORDINANCES OR PARTS 1OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREVdTH AND PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION OF THIS ORDINANCE. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AMES, IOWA: Section 1. Definitions. (a) Person. The, word "person" when used in this ordinance shall mean every natural personas, firm, partnership, association or corporation. (b) Street. The word "street" when used in this ordinance shalt mean the entire width between property lines of every way or place of whatever nature when any part thereof is open to the use of the public, as a matter of right, for the purpose of vehicular traffic. Section 2. Offensive Matter on Streets. It shaft be unlawful for any person to deposit upon any street or other public place of the city or upon the premises of another, any offensive material or substance which will engender offensive odors or sights, or will cause unsanitary conditions. Section 3. Premises Kept Clean. Every person owning or occupying premises in the City of _',.mes is hereby required to keep such premises clean and free from rodents, all offensive material and substances which are likely to engender offensive odors or sights. Section 4. Dirty Water. It shall be unlawful for any per son to al'ow any kitchen or laundry wastes from a sink or drain to run upon the surface of the ground, but such wastes shall be carried away by suitable pipes to a sanitary sewer, or to a septic tank or sump if there is no public sewer available. Section 5. Public Nuisances. The following are hereby declared public nuisance and may be abated in the manner as herein provided. Section 5. 1. Contaminating Water. The corrupting or rendering unwholesome or impure the water of any river, stream or pond is a public nuisanoe. 1 Section 5. 2. Filth remaining in Place. The causing or suffering any offal, filth or noisome substance to be collet-ted or to remain in any place to the prejudice of others is a public nuisance. Section 5. 3. Keeping of Unwholesome Substances. The keeping or permitting to remain on any premises, or the throwing into any stream or on any lot, street, alley or public, ground any dead, putrid or decaying carcasses, flesh, fish or vegetables, deposits of mamure, entrails or other unwholesome substances or filth of any kind is a public nuisance. I Section 5. 4. Substances Offensive or Dangerous to Public Health. The keeping or permitting to remain any slop, filth, offensive or stagnant water or other substances which are offensive or dangerous to the public health, upon any vacant lot or occupied premises of the City of Ames is a public nuisance. Section 5. 5. Keeping of Cattle, Horses, Sheep, or Swine. The keeping of i any cattle, horses, sheep, goats, or swine within the City, except in pens with dry floors or pens free from all filth and standing water, or the keeping of the aforesaid animals in any pen or building within one hundred (100) feet of any i i i well, or within two hundred (200) feet of a dwelling house occupied by a family other than the family of the owner of such animals, except by the consent of the head of such family, and the owner of such dwelling house is a public nuisance. Section 5. 6. Rabbit Hutches, and Poultry Yards. Rabbit hutches or poultry yards within fifty (50) feet of any building used as a dwelling, or any well, is a in public nuisance. Section 5. 7. Buildings in Filthy Condition. A building, or any part thereof, which is in such a filthy or unsanitary condition as to endanger the health of persons living in it, or in its vicinity is a public nuisance. i Section 5. 8. Outside Wate2 Closets and Privies. (a) The maintaining of an outside water closet, privy, or privy vault upon I a property immediately accessible to a sanitary sewer located in a street or alley abutting upon said property is a public nuisance. (b) Any privy vault, cesspool or reservoir into which a privy, water closet, stable, or sink is drained which is within one hundred feet of II any well, spring or other source of water used for drinking or culinary puposes, except it be water tight, is a public nuisance. (c) Any privy vault, reservoir, or cesspool which is not cleaned at least j once a year is a public nuisance. (d) Any privy vault, reservoir, or cesspool which, from the first day of May to the first day of November of each year, is not kept insect proof, or is not thoroughly disinfected by adding to the contents there f twice each month two pounds of copperas or other approved disinfectant per cubic yard of vault dissolved in a pail of water, or the contents be thickly covered with unslaked lime, or other approved disinfectant is a public nuisance. (e) Any privy vault, cesspool, water closet, stable or sink which opens o drains into any stream or ditch or into any drain except the sanitary sewers is a public nuisance. Section 6. Notice to [bate. Whenever any nuisance as defined in this ordinance is found upon any private property the mayor or city council or any agent desig- nated by them may serve or cause to be served upon the owner, agent or occu- pant of the property on which said nuisance is located, or on the person causing or maintaining the same, a notice in writing, by reading such notice to any person, and delivering or offering to deliver to any person a copy requiring any person to abate or remove the same within a specified time from the time of the service of such notice. Section 7. Authority to Abate. If such owner, agent, or occupant or person causing or maintaining such nuisance neglects or fails to abate or remove such nuisance within the time specified from the time of service of such notice for the removal or abatement thereof, the authorized person notifying such owner, agent, occupant or person causing or maintaining such nuisance, shall cause the same to be removed or abated, keeping an actual account of the expenses i incurred for such removal or abatement and filing a verified statement, fully itemized, with the costs, with the city clergy:. Section 8._ Certification of Costs to County Auditor. If the City of Ames shall ` _ pay for the costs of abatement, the amount of the same shall be a debt due the municipality from the owner of said lot or parcel of ground or person causing or maintaining the nuisance. An itemized statement for the amount due shall be presented to the owner, agent or occupant of such lot or parcel of ground or person causing or maintaining the nuisance, and if the same is not paid within twenty days, the amount shall be certified by the citycler, to the county auditor as a special tax against such lot or parcel of ground or the person causing or maintaining the nuisance, and shall be collected the same as other taxes. Section 9. Public Drinking Cups. The use of a common or public drinking cup or receptacle for drinking water in any hotel, restaurant, theater, factory, 1' store, office building, school, public halls, or in any public place in the City of Ames, or the furnishing of such common drinking cup or receptacle for use i any such place, is unlawful. i Section 10. Poisonous Materials. It is unlawful for any person to deposit any poisonous material, and/or thing, in any location readily accessible to any animal or person. Provided, however, that nothing herein shall prohibit the setting out of poison in a prsdent manner on one's own premises for the purpose of exterminating vermin or rodents. Soction 11. Samples of Medicine. It shall be unlawful for any person to distribute or otherwise deposit any sample of any nostrum, pills, or proprietary medicine or any other material of an alleged medical character at any public place, store�' or private premises in the City of Ame s. Section 12. Rules of Board of Health. It shall be unlawful for any person to violate any rule or regulation of the board of health of the City of Ames, after publication of the same, or due notice thereof. I Section 13. Burial of Dead Animals. The owner of any dead animal, within the city who fails, neglects or refuses to burn, bury or dispose of the same within twenty-four (24) hours after having notice thereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Section 14. Spitting in Public Places. It is unlawful for any person to expectoAte or spit upon any sidewalk or upon or against the floor of any public building, hallway, steps, cellarway, stairway, window, public motor bus, or depot platform within the city. Section 15. Burning of Rubber, etc. It shall be unlawful for any person to burn garbage, materials manufactured in whole or part from wool, rubber, leather, or other materials which emit offensive odors during combustion when such burning shall give offense to others occupying premises in the immediate vicinity. Soction" 16. Penalty. In addition to the right of abatement of nuisances herein set forth, any one violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall, upon conviction, be subject to imprisonment not exceeding thirty (30) days or to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100. 00). Section 17. Repeal. Sub-sections 2, 4, g, 9, 10, 1 ', 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16 of S ction 1, and Sections 2, 3, 4, and 5 of Ordinance No. 549, and Sections 88, 103, 104, 105, '07, and 109 of Ordinance No. 566 and all other ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. Section 18. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after the passage and publication as provided by law. Passed this 7th day of February, 1955. �JW. Prather, City Cler_,_ J. P. Lawlor, Mayor Moved by Smith and seconded by Bliss that Temporary Ord. No. 24 be passed on its first reading. Voting Aye: Griffith, Judge, Smith, Bolton and Bliss Voting Nay: None Absent: De Hart Moved by Bliss and seconded by Bolton that the rules governing the passage of ordinances be suspended, the second and third readings omitted, and Temporary OA dinance No. 24 be placed on its final passage. Voting Aye: Griffith, Judge, Smith, Bolton and Bliss Voting Nay: None Absat : De Hart Moved by Judge and seconded by Bolton that Temporary Ordinance No. 24 do now pass. Voting Aye: Griffith, Judge, Smith, Bolton and Bliss Voting Nay: None Absent: De Hart I Mayor Lawlor declared Temporary Ordinance No. 24 duly adopted. I, J. W. Prather, City Clerk of the City of Ames, Iowa, do hereby certify that Ordinance No. 777 was duly and properly adopted by the CityCouncil at a meeting on February 7th, 1955 and published by codifying on the day of t�t J. W. Prather, City Clerk i I I II I I