Chapter 6.32 — VECTOR CONTROL

No person shall occupy, maintain or cause or permit another person to occupy or maintain any premises in such condition of construction or maintenance as will permit the breeding or harborage therein or thereon of vectors, nuisance pests, or any other vermin. No person may permit an accumulation of any materials that may serve as a harborage unless such material be elevated not less than 18 inches above the ground or floor with a clear intervening space thereunder. Whenever the Health Officer finds any premises to be infested with vectors, nuisance pests, or other vermin, or to be in such an unsanitary condition as to require cleaning, fumigation, trapping, renovation, or other appropriate action, the Health Officer shall notify the owner, the owner's agent, or the tenant or possessor thereof, in writing, specifying the manner in which the provisions of this chapter are being violated, and indicating specific measures that shall be taken by the recipient of such notice to abate said conditions. (Prior code § 10.85)

Every person owning or possessing any premises that are infested or suspected of being infested with vectors, nuisance pests or other vermin, when given notice by the Health Officer, shall at once proceed and continue in good faith to exterminate and destroy such vectors, nuisance pests or other vermin by cleaning, fumigating, poisoning, trapping, renovating, or other appropriate action.

Every person owning or possessing any premises wherein food, food products or edible materials are stored, prepared, sold or processed shall continuously provide and maintain suitable cleaning, food protection and vector control as deemed necessary by the Health Officer. (Prior code § 10.86)

• A. All factories, warehouses, buildings, stables, animal quarters, pens, sheds, outbuildings and structures shall be so constructed, repaired or removed as to prevent vectors, nuisance pests, or other vermin, from being harbored underneath the same, or within the walls, floors, basements and attics thereof.

• B. All buildings and structures, or the sections thereof, used or intended to be used, for human habitation or occupancy, or wherein food, food products, animal feeds or other goods likely to attract rodents, are stored, kept, handled or processed, shall be so constructed or maintained as to prevent rodents from gaining entrance thereto. Openings in or around exterior doors, windows, vents, and roofs shall be a maximum of one-quarter inch in size.

• C. All natural vegetation or foliage shall be so trimmed or removed so as to eliminate any harborage.

(Prior code § 10.87)

No rubbish, waste or cast off materials of any kind shall be placed, left, dumped or permitted to accumulate or remain in or upon any premises so that it may provide food or harborage for vectors, nuisance pests, or other vermin. All boxes, lumber, paper, equipment and other usable material which may provide such harborage shall be removed or shall be stored or piled so as to eliminate such harborage.

(Prior code § 10.88)