Simi Valley Municipal Code Ch. 6 Unsanitary Conditions

(a) Authorized. It shall be the duty of the Health Officer, whenever he shall have cause to suspect that any violation of the provisions of this chapter exists in any house, garage, shed, cellar, or building of any kind, to enter upon such premises in the daytime and inspect such premises to determine whether or not such violation exists thereon.

(b) Identification. The Health Officer shall furnish each of his deputies and inspectors with identification in such form as he shall prescribe.

(c) Denial: Penalties. Whenever the Health Officer shall have cause to suspect that any violation of the provisions of this chapter exists upon any premises, he may, after displaying identification, demand entry thereon in the daytime. Every person who owns, occupies, or otherwise is then in possession of such premises and who, after such display and demand, refuses or wilfully delays to open such premises and admit an inspection thereof shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding Fifty and no/100ths ($50.00) Dollars, or by imprisonment in the City Jail or County Jail for not over five (5) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

(§§ 4110, 4110-1, and 4110-2, S.V.M.C.)

Any dwellings which are improperly constructed or, from overcrowding or filth, liable to become dangerous to the public health or to disseminate contagious or infectious disease or are not provided with privies, water closets, sewers, drains, or cesspools which are properly tapped shall constitute a nuisance.

(§ 4111, S.V.M.C.)

(a) Notices to abate. Whenever a nuisance endangering the public health shall, in the opinion of the Health Officer, be ascertained to exist on any premises or in any dwelling or other place, the Health Officer shall notify in writing the owner of such premises or dwelling, or his agent or the person having the control of such premises, dwelling, or other place, to abate or remove such nuisance.

(b) Form. The written notice required by the provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall state the sections of this chapter being violated and the specific nature of the violation, and such notice shall grant at least five (5) days for such person to abate or remove the nuisance; provided, however, such notice need grant only twenty-four (24) hours in cases of violations of the provisions of Section 6-6.06 of this chapter.

(c) Abatement. Upon the neglect or refusal of any owner, or his agent or the person having the control of any premises or dwelling, to comply with such notice, the Health Officer may abate such nuisance, and the owner of such premises or dwelling, or his agent or the person having the control of the premises or dwelling, shall be liable to the City for the costs of such abatement to be recovered in a civil action, or the Health Officer may report the violation to the Council which shall at once require the City Attorney to take the necessary steps to have the nuisance abated.

(§§ 4111-1 through 4111-3, S.V.M.C.)

Every person maintaining any toilet, washroom, or bath or shower room for the use of the public shall at all times keep the floors, walls, ceilings, lavatory, urinal, and toilet bowl free from any accumulation of dirt, filth, or corrosion. All lavatories shall be supplied with soap and individual towels with a receptacle for their disposal. All toilet rooms shall be provided with toilet paper.

(§ 4112, S.V.M.C.)

No cesspool or water closet shall be allowed by the owner or other person in charge of the premises upon which a cesspool or water closet may be situated to become foul or offensive, and when, in the opinion of the Health Officer, any such cesspool or water closet shall need cleaning or disinfecting, it shall be the duty of the Health Officer to notify such owner or other person having control to abate such nuisance by disinfecting or cleaning, as in the judgment of the Health Officer may be necessary.

(§ 4113, S.V.M.C.)

Every person who places, discharges, or dumps, or who causes or allows the placing, discharging, or dumping, or who causes or allows the overflow or upward percolation of, or who, being a lessor or landlord of any land or premises, has a lessee or tenant thereon who causes or allows the overflow or upward percolation of, any sludge, cesspool or septic tank effluent, human excrement, urine, waste fluid or slop water from slaughtering or other manufacturing operations, or sewage of any kind in or onto the surface of the ground in any place, public or private, including any watercourse, whether dry or not, and any place set forth in Section 4475 of the Health and Safety Code of the State, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

(§ 4114, S.V.M.C.)

The provisions of this chapter shall not be construed to prohibit or interfere with ordinary or reasonable processes of agriculture, including the fertilization of orchards, gardens, or farms, nor with the ordinary and reasonable feeding and pasturing of domestic animals.

(§ 4117, S.V.M.C.)

The provisions of this chapter shall not be construed to apply to any premises, buildings, structures, or equipment referred to in Division 13 of the Health and Safety Code of the State nor shall the provisions of this chapter be construed to apply to any supervised public park, public camp, or picnic ground owned, operated, and/or maintained by the Federal government, the State, any agency of the State, or any political subdivision or municipality.

(§ 4118, S.V.M.C.)