Arcadia Municipal Code Part 1 Offal, Carcasses and Putrid Substances

No person shall permit any dead animal or any putrid or offensive animal or vegetable matter, or excrement from any animal or fowl, to remain or be deposited upon the surface of the ground of any premises owned, controlled or occupied by him in such manner or mode as to become offensive to the senses or to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property by an entire community or neighborhood, or by any considerable number of persons.

The Health Officer or any City employee engaged in the enforcement of any Chapter of this Article shall have the right to enter upon any premises, lot, yard or enclosure for the purpose of inspecting such premises, to ascertain if any nuisance described in Section 5310 shall exist, or if such person has reason to believe any such nuisance exists. Whenever such a nuisance is found to exist in the opinion of such person, he shall notify in writing any person or persons owning or having control of or acting as agent for, or leasing or occupying such premises or other place, to abate or remove such nuisance within a reasonable time to be stated in such notice. Each separate day or any part of a separate day during which such nuisance exists after service of such notice to abate or remove the same shall be deemed a separate and distinct offense.

No person shall keep or maintain, or suffer or permit to be kept or maintained, any animal, rabbit, poultry or domestic fowl in any yard, stable, coop, hutch, corral, shed, building or poultry house in a foul or unsanitary condition.

Any person keeping or maintaining animals, rabbits, poultry or domestic fowl shall cause the manure or droppings therefrom to be removed from the premises at least every ten (10) calendar days, and at such more frequent intervals as may be required by written notice signed by the Manager or the Health Officer, when in the opinion of such person such more frequent removal is necessary to prevent the creation or maintenance of a foul or unsanitary condition on such premises.

Any person keeping or maintaining animals, rabbits, poultry or domestic fowl shall cause the manure or droppings therefrom to be removed from the premises within twenty-four (24) hours after service of a written notice so to do, signed by the Manager or the Health Officer, when in the opinion of such person such droppings are infested with fly larvae or is or are of such quantity as to constitute a menace to the health or welfare of residents in the neighborhood of such premises.

Any notice to remove manure or droppings as hereinabove specified may be served by delivering the same to any person over eighteen (18) years of age at the premises upon which is located the manure or droppings to be removed, or by posting such notice in a conspicuous place on such premises.

The provisions of this Chapter shall not require the removal from the premises of such quantity of manure or droppings as is reasonably necessary for use on the premises as fertilizer for plants, shrubs or other vegetation.

No person shall bury or inhume the carcass of any animal or the body of any dead rabbit, poultry or domestic fowl, or any portion thereof, in such manner that there is less than three (3) feet of soil covering such carcass or body.

No person shall burn, or suffer or permit to be burned, upon any premises owned, occupied or conducted by him, any bone, feathers, offal, flesh, hide or hair.