Santa Ana Municipal Code Div. 1 Generally

Every person owning, leasing, occupying, possessing or having charge of or dominion over any land, place, or structure, which is infested with rats, mice, gophers or ground squirrels, or as soon as the presence of the same shall come to his knowledge, shall at once proceed and continue in good faith, either directly or by employing an approved exterminator to exterminate and destroy such rodents, by poisoning, trapping and other appropriate means, and take the necessary steps to prevent the harboring of all such rodents. Said extermination shall be done under the supervision of the health department.

(Code 1952, § 5403)

The health officers and inspectors shall have authority and shall be permitted to enter into and upon any lands, places, buildings and structures, for the purpose of ascertaining whether the same are infested with rodents and whether the requirements of this chapter, as to the extermination and destruction thereof, are being complied with.

(Code 1952, § 5404)