Title 7 - Health and Sanitation

7.32 Rat Control

7.32.010 Definitions.

For the purposes of this chapter the following definitions shall apply:

  1. A.
    Administrator means the Administrator, Environmental Health, or his\her designee.

Effective on: 1/1/1901

  1. B.
    Business buildings means any structure, whether public or private that is adapted for occupancy for transaction of business, for rendering of professional service, for amusement, for the display, sale or storage of goods, wares, or merchandise, or for the performance of work or labor, including hotels, apartment buildings, tenement houses, rooming houses, office buildings, public buildings, stores, theaters, markets, restaurants, grain elevators, abattoirs, warehouses, workshops, factories, and all outhouses, sheds, barns, and other structures on premises used for business purposes;

Effective on: 1/1/1901

  1. C.
    Occupant means any person who, alone or jointly or severally with others, shall be in actual possession of any improved real property, either as owner or as a tenant, either with or without the consent of the owner thereof.

Effective on: 1/1/1901

  1. D.
    Owner means any person who, alone or jointly or severally with others, has legal title to, or sufficient proprietary interest in, or has charge, care or control of any improved real property, as title holder, as employee or agent of the title holder, or as landlord or manager or as trustee or guardian of the estate or person of the title holder.

Effective on: 1/1/1901

  1. E.
    Rat eradication means the elimination or extermination of rats within buildings by any or all of the accepted measures, such as: poisoning, fumigation, or trapping;

Effective on: 1/1/1901

  1. F.
    Rat harborage means any condition which provides shelter or protection for rats, thus favoring their multiplication and continued existence in, under, or outside of any structure;

Effective on: 1/1/1901

  1. G.
    Rat proofing as used in this chapter applies to a form of construction to prevent the ingress of rats into business buildings from the exterior, or from one business building or establishment to another. It consists essentially of treatment with material impervious to rat gnawing, all actual or potential openings, in exterior walls, ground or first floors, basements, roofs and foundations, that may be reached by climbing or by burrowing.

(History: Ord. RAT-1715 §1, 91; RAT-418 §1, 67)

Effective on: 1/1/1901