Burbank Municipal Code Art. 4 Pest Control

A. Insanitary Premises Prohibited: No person shall maintain any building, premises, lot, vehicle or other place in such an insanitary condition as to encourage the breeding or harboring of rats, mice, flies, bedbugs, cockroaches, lice, fleas or vermin therein or thereon.

B. Ratproofing; When Required; How Accomplished: No person shall own, use or maintain any premises, or portion thereof, for a poultry or rabbit slaughterhouse or for the storage, handling, manufacturing, preparation, display or sale of any grain, grain products, food or food products for animal consumption, unless such premises or portion thereof be ratproofed. This requirement shall not apply to premises in existence and being used upon the effective date of this section for the purposes specified herein, unless they are, or hereafter become, harborage for, or infested with, rats or mice, and the Health Officer orders such premises be ratproofed.

C. Rodent Infested Premises And Material; Notice To Exterminate And Ratproof: Whenever any premises becomes infested with rats or mice, or whenever any material becomes infested with rats or mice or whenever any premises or material becomes a harborage for rats or mice, the Health Officer may serve a notice upon the person owning, occupying or using such premises, or the premises upon which such material is located, to proceed at once and to continue in good faith to endeavor to exterminate and destroy the rats or mice on the premises or to elevate the infested material above the ground or floor with a clear and intervening space of at least eighteen inches (18") thereunder. Such notice shall state the method of extermination to be used, whether all or specified portions of the infested premises shall be ratproofed, and shall require compliance therewith within a stated time. No person receiving such notice shall fail, neglect or refuse to comply with the same. [Formerly numbered Section 17-28; renumbered by Ord. No. 3058, eff. 2/21/87; 2336, 2338.]