Part 2 — RATPROOFING OF STRUCTURES

5220. • STRUCTURES AFFECTED.

No person shall maintain or use any building or structure or portion thereof for a slaughterhouse, packing house or bakery, or for the manufacture, preparation, storage, handling, or display of any food or food product for human or animal consumption or for the storage, handling, preparation or sale of any grain or grain products, which, in the opinion of the Health Officer, is or is likely to become infested with rats, unless such building or structure or portion thereof be ratproofed in accordance with the provisions of this Part.

When determined by the Health Officer that any such building or structure constitutes a rat harborage, he may serve upon the person in charge or control thereof a notice in writing to ratproof such building or structure in accordance with the requirements of this Part, within a reasonable time as stated in such notice. When determined by the Health Officer that it is unnecessary to ratproof such building or structure in its entirety, he may specify in such notice that portion thereof which is to be ratproofed.

No person shall permit an accumulation of rubbish material that may serve as a harborage for rats unless such material be elevated not less than eighteen (18) inches above the ground with a clear intervening space thereunder.