§ 34-1. Duties of police.
It shall be the duty of the police to notify any owner, occupant or person in charge of any lot, house, building or other premises of the existence of any nuisance in or upon the lot, house, building or other premises; to order the abatement or removal thereof, and if the nuisance is not abated or removed forthwith to arrest such person and take him before the municipal court for immediate prosecution; to watch for and arrest all persons throwing or permitting to be thrown from their premises into any street, sidewalk, gutter, market place or other public place any filth, excrement or other matter or thing prohibited by ordinance; and in other respects to exercise the utmost diligence in enforcing the ordinances in relation to the sanitary condition of the city.
(Code of Gen. Ords. 1967, § 18.1)