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It shall be unlawful and a nuisance to do any of the following:

(1) to place, conduct or discharge into or on any street, alley, sidewalk, gutter, water ditch or canal, or any vacant lot, any rancid fat or grease waste material, any filthy or offensive water, liquid, waste refuse or discharge of any kind which is offensive or likely to become so, or any putrid or unsound meat, fish, hides or skin of any kind, or filth, offal, dead animals, vegetables or any unsound offensive matter whatsoever. Provided, however, that this Section shall not apply to the spreading of manure upon land for the purpose of fertilizing of the soil.

(2) to process dead animals for the manufacture of fertilizing material or other products, or any boiling of offal, fat or grease which shall be done or carried on in an offensive, unclean or defective manner.

(3) to fail to abate any collection of waste, rags, damaged merchandise, wet, broken or leaking barrels, [casks or] boxes, or any materials which are offensive or tend to decay, to become putrid, or to pollute the air.

(4) for the owner or occupant of real property to cause or permit upon said property any of the following unsanitary, fly producing, disease causing conditions:

(a) Manure which is not securely protected from flies.

(b) Any privy, vault, cesspool, sink, pit or like place which is not securely protected from flies.

(c) Garbage which is not securely protected from flies.

(d) Vegetable or animal waste, trash, litter, rags or refuse of any kind, nature or description in which flies may breed or multiply.

(Enacted 1987-22)