Sec. 372. Nuisances.
(1) The Health Officer shall cause to be inspected all streets,
cellars, yards, lots, privies, and other places which may be, alleged
to be, or likely to become offensive. It shall be the duty
of all police officers to observe at all times the sanitary condition
of their districts, and to report promptly to the Health Officer,
through the Chief of Police, any nuisance or accumulated filth
found to exist in any part of this City. When any such thing
shall be found, which, in the opinion of the Health Officer, is or
is likely to become, injurious to health, the Health Officer shall
require the person causing said nuisance, or the owner or the occupant
of the premises on which such thing is, to correct the
evil forthwith in such manner as he may deem expedient; and
should such person fail to execute the order of the Health Officer,
the said nuisance may be removed by the City Manager at
the cost of the City and such cost, with 20 per centum additional
as a fine shall be collected of such persons as other fines for violation
of City ordinances are collected.
(2) If upon any ground in this City there be found a drain
or running water, the owner thereof, or abutting property owners,
shall be required to keep the same clean, free and unobstructed
from filth, garbage, or vegetation. If stagnant water,
or a marshy place, shall be found upon any premises in the City,
the owner thereof shall be required to drain such stagnant water,
or fill such marsh forthwith upon order of the Health Officer.
Upon failure to comply, the City Manager is hereby authorized
to have such stagnant water drained and such marshy place filled
at the expense of the City, and may collect the expense for so
doing from the owner or occupant of the property with twenty
per centum on such amount as a fine.
(3) No discharge from any bath tub, hydrant, or other water
fixture, shall be permitted to flow into the street, upon the sidewalk,
or upon the premises of an adjoining property owner. Under
no circumstances shall the discharge from a water-closet,
kitchen sink, or slops from a kitchen, be turned in the street.
Any one violating this subsection shall be fined $2.00 for each
day the same may continue after notice from the Health Officer
to abate the same.
(4) If any person after being notified by the Health Officer to
remove anything belonging to him, or any nuisance caused by
him, or to bury or to destroy anything belonging to him, or
found on premises owned or occupied by him, shall fail to do so
for twenty-four hours after such notice, he shall forfeit $2.00
for each hour of such failure after the expiration of said twenty-four
hours; and it shall be the duty of the City Manager to have
the same done at the expense of the City which expense shall be
reimbursed to the City by the person through whose default the
same incurred, together with twenty per centum upon the amount
as a fine.
