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Ordinance No. 723 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21; I 22 23 I I 24 25 26 27 <! z 28 " a: Z ~ ~ ., o .. - 0 ><>-z!:~~ 29 0'" o~ U '" ... Il.Z z . . ~ o.~~ci~g .. n::f-> > II: a 30 u .J ~ ::l ~I-~~~ll. .J oZ>->ii: z llJf-!:uO 31 UliU~f- z lL C) _ lD Z > 0 _ ., f- 32 III z :J 1: ORDINANCE NO. 723 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF VERNON PROVIDING REGULATIONS FOR RODENT CONTROL AND RUBBISH DISPOSAL.. AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF VERNON ORDAINS AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1: Definitions (a) "Place", as used in this Article, includes land, place, building, structure or premises. (b) "Building", unless it is apparent from the context that another meanin~ is intended, shall include the word "structure", and the words "building I and "structure" shall mean: any construction, the arrangement of which may affect the health, safety or general welfare of man. (c) "Possess", as used in this Article, includes control, own, lease, occupy, possess or have charge over. (d) "Rodents ", as used in this Article, includes rats, mice and other rodents which may serve as hosts of diseases communicable to man, or which, by their filthy characteristics, are offensive to man. (e) "Rodent harborage", shall mean any condition which provides shelter or protection for rodents, thus favoring their multiplication and continued existence. (f) "Garbage", as used in this Article, includes all waste animal and vegetable matter resulting from the preparation, consumption, storing, processing, manufacture or distribution of food, animal feed, or other animal and vegetable matter. (g) "Combustible rubbish" includes paper, rags, packing materials, cartons, boxes, sawdust, wood shavings, scrap lumber, wooden articles, rubber tires or tubes, garden trimmings and other waste materials of a combustible nature. (h) "Non-combustible rubbish" includes broken crockery, glass, ashes, cinders, bottles, tin cans, wire and other discarded objects of metal or glass, and other waste materials of a non-combustible nature. SECTION 2: Premises to be kept free of rodents All buildings, structures, premises and other places within the City shall be continuously kept in a clean and sanitary condition, and free from rodents. All food, food products, animal feeds, and all products, goods and merchandise likely to attract or to become infested with rodents, shall be so protected as to prevent rodents from gaining access thereto or coming in contact therewith. SECTION 3: Extermination of Rodents Required (a) Every person possessing any place that is infested with rodents or suspected of being infested with rodents, and when deemed necessary by the Health Officer shall at once proceed and continue in good faith to exterminate and destroy the rodents, by poisoning, trapping and other appropriate means. -1- <! 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SECTION 4: Rodent-proof Construction Required 5 (a) All factories, warehouses, office buildings, stables, animal quarters, pens, sheds, outbuildings, animal feed and watering troughs and all other buildings and structures shall be so constructed, repaired or removed as to prevent rodents from being harbored underneath the same, or within the walls, floors, basements and attics thereof. 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 (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. All natural vegetation or foliage shall be so trimmed or removed so as to eliminate rodent harborage. SECTION 5: Rodent Harborage to be Prevented No rubbish, waste or cast off materials of any kind shall be placed, left, dumped or permitted to accumulate or remain in any building or place, or upon any premises so that they may provide food or harborage for rodents. All boxes, lumber, paper, equipment and other usable material which may provide rodent harborage shall be removed or shall be stored or piled so as to eliminate rodent harborage. 15 16 17\ 18 SECTION 6: Waste Containers (a) Containers, Garbage. Every person occupying or having charge or control of any premises in the City, in or on which any garbage mayor does accumulate or exist, shall place and keep all such garbage upon said premises in a metal container, which shall be water-tight and shall have a tight fitting metal cover. Such metal cover shall be kept upon each of such containers at all times while any garbage is therein. Such containers shall be kept in a sanitary condition at all times. 19 20 211 I 22 23 24 251 I 26 27 (b) Containers, Rubbish. All non-combustible rubbish, which mayor does accumulate on any premises in the City. shall be placed and kept in boxes, barrels, metal containers or other suitable receptacles which confine rubbish. All combustible rubbish shall be kept in metal containers or containers constructed of a non-combustible material. All rubbish which contains any amount of garbage or waste food material, and which may attract flies, rodents or other vermin, shall be kept in a metal container, which shall be water-tight and shall have a tight fitting metal cover. Rubbish shall not be placed, stored or scattered in such a manner as to cause an insanitary condition or provide harborage or breeding places for rodents, flies or other vermin. (c) Dumping of Garbage or Rubbish. No person shall throw, place, scatter, allow to accumulate or bury any garbage, combustible rubbish or non-combustible rubbish upon or below the surface of any premises, public street or public place in the City nor upon the premises of another. However, upon receiving a written application, the Health Officer may grant a permit to persons wishing to dispose of combustible rubbish or non-combustible rubbish originating on their own premises, by the sanitary landfill method conducted on their premises provided that all such operations shall be conducted in a manner approved by the Health Officer. -2- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 181 19 20 211 i 22 23 24 25 26 27 <! z " a: 28 z ~ ~ ., o .. - 0 ><>z!:~~ 29 o"'o~ u '" ... ll. Z z . . ~ o . Ct ~ ci ::t 3 .. n::g> > II: 0 30 u ... .ct :J ~I-~~~ll. : o z>- >- ii: z z ~!:5~ g ~ 31 ZU lL C) ~ _ to Z 1II > 0 _ ~ ., f- 32 III z :J 1: SECTION 7: Frequency of Collection Garbage shall be collect ed from each residence and business firm as often as is necessary to prevent the occurrence of an insanitary condition or nuisance, but at least twice during each calendar week. Rubbish shall be collected as often as is necessary to prevent the occurrence of an insanitary condition, but at least once each calendar week. SECTION 8: Repeal All ordinances, or parts of ordinances, in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. SECTION 9: Penalties It shall be unlawful for any person to violate any of the provisions, or to fail to comply with any of the requirements of this ordinance. Any person violating any of the provisions or failing to comply with any of the mandatory requirements of this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Any person convicted of a misdemeanor under the provisions of this ordinance, unless provision is otherwise herein made, shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or by imprisonment in the City Jail of the City of Vernon, or the County Jail of the County of Los Angeles, as the committing magistrate directs, for a period of not to exceed six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Each such person shall be guilty of a separate offense for each and every day during any portion of which any violation of any provision of this ordinance is committed, continued or permitted by such person, and such person shall be punishable accordingly. In addition to the penalties hereinabove provided, any condition caused or permitted to exist in violation of any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed a public nuisance, and may be summarily abated as such by the City of Vernon, and each day that such condition continues shall be regarded as a new and separate offense. SECTION 10: Publishing There being no newspaper printed, published and circulated in the City of Vernon, the City Clerk is hereby directed to certify to the passage of this Ordinance and shall post same, or cause same to be posted, in three of the most public places in the City of Vernon, to wit: the northwest corner of 38th Street and Santa Fe Avenue; the northeast corner of Leonis Boulevard and Pacific Boulevard; and on the bulletin board in the lobby of the City Hall of said City, located at 4305 Santa Fe Avenue, all in the City of Vernon, Los Angeles County, California; that this ordinance shall be in full force and effect thirty (30) days from and after the date of posting thereof. ADOPTED and APPROVED this 18th day of November, 1958. pJ .~~.r. ATTEST: ~ City Clerk -3- 1 I ST ATE OF CALIFORNIA ) ) ss. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) 4 I.. F. A. ZIEMER, City Clerk of the City of Vernon, do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance, being Ordinance No. 723, 5 was duly and regularly introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Vernon held on November 5, 1958, and there- 6 after finally adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council held on November 18, 1958, by the following vote: 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 ! I 22 23 24 25 26 27 <! Z "a: 28 z ~ ~ ., o ~ :J ~ ><>-z-<!':'29 O"'o"u '" k.ll.Z z "'. ~ o 0:: 0: ci i 0 ..o:g~>1I:~30 u ..J ct :J ~I-~~~ll. : o Z>-..ii: Z Z llJ!:!:uo~31 UUU~f-~ Z ~ ~ a >: ~ ~ ~ 32 :J 1: 2 3 AYES: Councilmen NOES: Councilmen ABSENT: Councilm en Anderson, Furlong, Mailliard, Paxon None Malburg ~ F. A. Ziemer, City Clerk -4- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 <! z " a: 28 z ~ ~ ., o .. - 0 ~ .J ., ><>-z-<!':'29 0"'0 ~ U '" k.ll.Z z. ~ o .g ~ ci .;. 3 .. n::f-> > II: 0 30 u .J -<t ~ Et-~~~CL ~ o Z>- >-ii: Z z llJf-!: U 0 ~ 31 . UliU ~ f- ~ Z lL C) ~ I 10 Z ~ > o _ ~ ., f- III z 32 I :J 1: 1\ '[ II II AFFIDAVIT OF POSTING STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) ) COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES) ss. ) CITY OF VERNON ) I.. F. A. ZIEMER, City Clerk of the City of Vernon, do hereby certify that I did, on the 19th day of November, 1958, post three (3) copies of Ordinance No. 723, one in each of the following places, to wit: at the northwest corner of 38th Street and Santa Fe Avenue, at the northeast corner of Leonis Boulevard and Pacific Boule- vard, and on the bulletin board in the lobby of the City Hall of the City of Vernon, located at 4305 Santa Fe Avenue, in said City, there being no newspaper of general circulation printed and published in the City of Vernon. Signed this 19th day of November, 1958. ~~ F. A. Ziemer, City Clerk SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS CITY COUNCIL TELEPHONES OFFICERS F. A. ZIEMER, CITY CLERK L. R. BURCH, CITY TREASURER V. R. POXON, CITY ATTORNEY ARTHUR E. NELSON, JR., CITY ENGINEER D. D. GRAYSON, TRAI"I"IC ENGINEER R. H. KING, SUPT.. WATER III SEWER SYSTEMS DR. C. E. NEMETHI, HEALTH OFFICER J. S. COLTON. BUILDING ENGINEER LESTER C. HUSTED, FIRE CHIEF R. H. BOCKHACKER, POLICE CHIEF JOHN B. MOORE, ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT TO THE CITY COUNCIL R. J. FURLONG, MAYOR G. H. ANDERSON C. H. MAILLIARD J. M. POXON L. C. MALBURG CITY CLERK . . LUDLOW 3.1 666 POLICE DEPT.. . LUDLOW 7.15287 FIRE DEPT. " LUDLOW 8.2522 ENGINEERING DEPT. LUDLOW 3.1 666 HEALTH DEPT.. . LUDLOW 3.1 666 CITY HALL 4305 SANTA FE AVENUE HASKINS 8< SELLS, AUDITORS MASON, MUNTZ Be ASSOCIATES CONSULTING ENGINItERS t' VERNON 58, CALIFORNIA October 29, 1958 IN REPLY REFER TO: Dept. of Public Health ~Oy S City Council City of Vernon, California ~9Q '",.,. ., ,/ Honorable Members: This is to request the Council's consideration for the adoption of the attached ordinance governing rodent control and waste disposal in the City of Vernon. It is the recommendation of this department that such an ordinance is required for the satisfactory control of the rodent problem, which appears to be growing more significant. Very!>ipcere1y, 0./<' , Robert S. Stone, R.S. Director of Sanitation RSS:1g.