§ 34-184. Conditions conducive to harborage of rats prohibited.

(a)

Storage of animal feed. All food and feed kept within the city for feeding chickens, cows, horses and other animals shall be kept and stored in rat-free and ratproof containers, compartments or rooms, unless kept in a rat-stopped building.

(b)

Accumulations of garbage or trash. It shall be unlawful for any person to place, leave, dump or permit to accumulate any garbage or trash in any building or premises so that the garbage or trash shall afford food or harborage for rats.

(c)

Accumulations of lumber, boxes, etc. It shall be unlawful for any person to accumulate or to permit the accumulation on any premises and on any open lot any lumber, boxes, barrels, bricks, stones or similar materials that may be permitted to remain thereon and which are rat harborages, unless the materials shall be placed on open racks that are elevated not less than 12 inches above the ground, evenly piled or stacked.

(d)

Remedial measures. Whenever conditions inside or under any building or structure provide such extensive harborage for rats that the director of health deems it necessary to eliminate such harborage, he may require the owner to install suitable cement floors in basements or to replace wooden first or ground floors, or require the owner to correct such other interior rat harborage as may be necessary in order to facilitate the eradication of rats in a reasonable time and thereby to reduce the cost of such eradication.

(Code of Gen. Ords. 1967, § 18.122)