Sec.19-13-B1. Conditions specifically declared to constitute public nuisances  


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  • The following conditions are specifically declared to constitute public nuisances:

    (a) Bakeries, restaurants and other places where food is prepared or served that are not kept in a clean and sanitary condition; or in which persons who have any communicable disease are employed; or for which suitable toilet facilities are not provided; or in which there is evidence that rats, mice or vermin are present.

    (b) Spoiled or diseased meats, whether exposed and offered for sale or being transported or kept for sale.

    (c) Barns or stables, hogpens, chicken yards or manure piles or accumulations of organic material so maintained as to be a breeding place for flies.

    (d) The discharge or exposure of sewage, garbage or any other organic filth into or on any public place in such a way that transmission of infective material may result thereby.

    (e) Privies not screened against flies in populous districts and privies likely to pollute the ground or surface water from which water supply is obtained.

    (f) Transportation of garbage, night soil or other organic filth except in tight, covered wagons which prevent leakage or access of flies.

    (g) Stagnant water likely to afford breeding places for mosquitoes within a residential district or within a distance of one thousand feet therefrom.

    (h) Bone boiling, fat rendering establishments, or tallow or soap works, or other trades, when they can be shown to affect public health or produce serious offense.

    (i) Buildings or any part thereof which are in a dilapidated or filthy condition which may endanger the life or health of persons living in the vicinity.