§ 100.05. MAINTAINING COLLECTION OF WATER IN WHICH MOSQUITOES BREED; PREVENTION.

(A)

It shall be unlawful and constitute a nuisance for any person to have, keep, maintain, cause or permit within the City any collection of standing or flowing water in which mosquitoes breed or are likely to breed, unless the collection of water is treated so as to effectively prevent any breeding.

(B)

Collections of water in which mosquitoes breed, or are likely to breed, are those contained in ditches, ponds, pools, excavations, holes, depressions, open cesspools, privy vaults, fountains, cisterns, tanks, shallow wells, barrels, troughs, urns, cans, boxes, bottles, tubs, buckets, defective house roof gutters, tanks, or flush closets, or other similar water containers. The natural presence of mosquito larvae in standing or running water shall be evidence that mosquitoes are breeding there.

(C)

Collections of water in which mosquitoes breed, or are likely to breed, shall be treated by one or more of the following methods as shall be approved by the City Manager or his designated representative:

(1)

Screening with wire netting of at least sixteen (16) meshes to the inch each way, or any other material that will effectively prevent the ingress or egress of mosquitoes.

(2)

Complete emptying every seven (7) days of unscreened containers, together with their thorough drying or cleaning.

(3)

Using a larvicide approved and applied under the direction of the City Manager or his designated representative.

(4)

Covering completely the surface of the water with kerosene, petroleum or paraffin oil once every seven (7) days.

(5)

Cleaning and keeping sufficiently free of vegetable growth and other obstructions and stocking with mosquito-destroying fish.

(6)

Filling or draining.

(7)

Proper disposal, by removal or destruction, of tin cans, tin boxes, broken or empty bottles and similar articles likely to hold water.

(Code 1980, § 13-11)

Cross reference

Penalty, § 100.99.