§ 18-4. Additional authorities; environmental nuisances.

(a)

The City shall have the authority to adopt any reasonably necessary ordinance, resolution, rule, procedure, policy or practice to establish, implement and ensure compliance with minimum standards for storing, collecting, transporting, disposing and reclaiming solid waste, including garbage, trash, rubbish, manure and other objectionable wastes. These provisions shall provide for inspecting premises, containers, processes, equipment and vehicles, and for abating as environmental nuisances any premises, containers, processes, equipment or vehicles that do not comply with the minimum standards of these provisions.

(b)

The City may adopt any reasonably necessary ordinance or resolution or the Administrator may implement any rule, procedure, policy or practice to prevent, mitigate or take action to abate any environmental nuisance and to ensure it does not recur. As used in this section, an "environmental nuisance" is the creation or maintenance of a condition in the soil, air or water that causes or threatens to cause harm to the public health or the environment and that is not otherwise subject to regulation under the City Code or this chapter. For purposes of this chapter, the following conditions may constitute environmental nuisances:

(1)

A condition or place in populated areas which constitutes a breeding place for flies, rodents, mosquitoes and other insects which are capable of carrying and transmitting disease-causing organisms to any person or persons.

(2)

A place, condition or building which is controlled or operated by any governmental agency, state or local, and which is not maintained in a sanitary condition.

(3)

Sewage, human excreta, wastewater, garbage or other organic wastes deposited, stored, discharged or exposed so as to be a potential instrument or medium in the transmission of disease to or between any person or persons.

(4)

A vehicle or container which is used in the transportation of garbage or human excreta and which is defective and allows leakage or spillage of contents.

(5)

The maintenance of an overflowing septic tank or cesspool, the contents of which may be accessible to flies.

(6)

The pollution or contamination of any domestic waters.

(7)

The use of the contents of privies, cesspools, or septic tanks or the use of sewage or sewage plant effluents for fertilizing or irrigation purposes for crops or gardens except by specific approval of the department of health services or the department of environmental quality.

(8)

The storage, collection, transportation, disposal and reclamation of garbage, trash, rubbish, manure and other objectionable wastes other than as provided and authorized by law and rule.

(9)

Water, other than that used by irrigation, industrial or similar systems for non-potable purposes, which is sold to the public, distributed to the public or used in production, processing, storing, handling, servicing or transportation of food and drink and which is unwholesome, poisonous or contains deleterious or foreign substances or filth or disease-causing substances or organisms.

(Ord. No. 2994, § 1(Exh. A), 6-28-16)