Chapter 6.08 — NUISANCES

It is a nuisance, and it is unlawful, for any person or agent to allow any vacant or unoccupied building to remain open and of easy access to trespassers or to allow the same to become a habitation of vagrants or to become infested with vermin or rodents, or to become a menace to health.

(Prior code § 3701)

It is a nuisance, and it is unlawful, to establish, conduct, maintain or operate or cause or permit to be established, conducted or operated any business, factory, yard, establishment or other place which will generate into or pollute the atmosphere with any unwholesome, offensive, or deleterious gas, fumes, dust, smoke, or odors, or to allow offensive odors to be emitted from offal, garbage or any animal or vegetable matter. (Prior code § 3702)

It is a nuisance, and it is unlawful, to maintain any premises upon which there is stagnant or still water or a marshy condition which harbors and breeds mosquitoes or other poisonous or objectionable insects.

(Prior code § 3703)

It is a nuisance, and is unlawful, to make, cause or suffer, or permit to be made or caused upon any premises any unnecessary noises or sounds which are physically annoying to persons of ordinary sensitiveness or which are so harsh or so prolonged or unnatural or unusual in their use, time, or place as to occasion physical discomfort. (Prior code § 3704)

It is a nuisance, and it is unlawful, to allow or permit any fowls or birds to run at large upon any public street, avenue, alley or place or to allow or permit the same to run at large or trespass upon any private property. (Prior code § 3712)

It is a nuisance and it is unlawful, to keep any animals, fowls or birds, wild or domestic, within twenty feet of any building, school, church, hospital, or any residence or dwelling house or other buildings used for the habitation of human beings. (Prior code § 3713)

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City of Palm Springs, CA § 6.08.070

PALM SPRINGS CODE

§ 6.08.120

It is a nuisance, and it is unlawful, to allow or permit upon any street, avenue, alley, public place or upon any unenclosed premises any animal or fowl that is suspected of, or that is known to have been exposed to, or that is known to have, any disease which may be communicated to human beings.

(Prior code § 3714)

It is a nuisance, and it is unlawful, to keep or permit to be kept on any premises any wild or domestic animals, fowls, or birds, when such premises or the animals, fowls or birds are offensive, obnoxious, filthy or in an unsanitary condition. (Prior code § 3715)

It is a nuisance, and it is unlawful, for any owner possessor or the person responsible for the death thereof on whose premises same may be, to fail to cause any dead animal or part thereof, within six hours after the death of same, to be buried so that there is at least three feet of soil above said carcass, or to be disposed of in some other sanitary manner; provided, however, that this section shall not apply to animals slaughtered for and fit for human food. (Prior code § 3721)

It is a nuisance, and it is unlawful, to permit any part of the contents of any private vault, cesspool, septic tank, water closet, urinal, pipe, sewer line, or any sewage, effluent, night soil, slop water, or any other filthy water, matter, or substance, to flow or discharge upon the ground or upon the surface of any lot or premises or in any public street or other public place. (Prior code § 3722)

It is a nuisance and it is unlawful for any person to use, stockpile, have in possession, deliver or convey any form of animal manure at or to a point within the city. This section shall not apply to domesticated pets' excrement or to stables or riding stables provided that the manure from the horses is not used for cultivating or mulching purposes. (Ord. 1005 § 1, 1975)

It is a nuisance, and it is unlawful, to deposit or allow to remain on any premises, vacant lot, street, alley, or in any excavation, any offal, garbage, dead animals or any putrid decaying or offensive animal or vegetable matter.

(Prior code § 3723)

It is a nuisance, and it is unlawful for any person to permit any vehicle hauling or carrying or used for hauling or carrying any dead animal, offal, market refuse, garbage, swill, night soil,

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City of Palm Springs, CA

HEALTH AND SANITATION

§ 6.08.120

§ 6.08.130

butchers' scraps, hog manure or other nauseous or offensive substances to stand or remain in or upon any public street or other public place longer than is necessary for loading and hauling such substance to its destination or to permit any such vehicle to be in a filthy or offensive condition. (Prior code § 3724)

It is a nuisance, and it is unlawful for any person, to use any vehicle, tub or other receptacle for hauling any offal, hog manure, or the contents of a privy vault, cesspool or sink, or any nauseous or offensive substances, unless such vehicle, tub, or other receptacle shall be sufficiently strong and tight to prevent any of the contents from leaking or spilling therefrom and unless the same shall be so tightly covered as to not attract flies, and as to prevent any nauseous odors from escaping therefrom.

(Prior code § 3725)

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City of Palm Springs, CA

HEALTH AND SANITATION

§ 6.09.010

§ 6.09.020