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The following are declared to be nuisances affecting health:

A. Decayed or unwholesome food offered for sale to the public;

B. Diseased animals running at large;

C. Ponds or pools of stagnant water;

D. Milk which is produced by cows which have not been tested and found free of tuberculosis within the year previous to the offering of such milk for sale to the public;

E. Carcasses of animals not buried or destroyed within twenty-four hours after death;

F. Accumulations of manure or rubbish not conforming to an order of a health officer;

G. Human excreta disposed of in a manner contrary to an order of a health officer, and any repositories of human excreta existing or maintained contrary to an order of a health officer;

H. Garbage cans which are not fly tight;

I. The polluting of any well, cistern, spring, underground water stream, lake, canal or body of water by sewage or industrial wastes or other substances harmful to human beings;

J. Dense smoke, noxious fumes, vapor gas, dust, and soot, or cinders in unreasonable or toxic quantities;

K. All public exposure of persons having a contagious disease;

L. Use of a common public drinking cup or roller towel;

M. The use or sale or distribution of any toxic substance in such a manner and for such purposes as the health officer may declare to constitute a hazard to the public;

N. Any building or structure in which people are housed or congregate for any purpose which in the opinion of the health officer has become dangerous for further occupancy because of insanitary conditions which may affect the health of the occupants or surrounding property owners;

O. All infestations of flies, fleas, roaches, lice, ticks, rats, mice, fly maggots, mosquito larvae and other biological agents capable of transmitting disease to humans;

P. The keeping or sheltering of animals in a manner which in the opinion of the health officer may affect the public health;

Q. Allowing dogs to run at large or removing dogs from the premises of their confinement which have been officially ordered by the health officer or the health officer’s authorized representative to be confined for observation;

R. Allowing kitchen or laundry water to be discharged or flow into any gutter, street, roadway or public place;

S. The use of the contents of privies, septic tanks or other receptacles for human excrement for fertilizing purposes for crops or gardens. (Ord. 278-74 Art. II § 1, 1974.)