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Sec. 22-21. - Offensive conditions.#
The following conditions, among others, shall constitute public nuisances: (1)
Bakeries, restaurants and other places where food is prepared or served that are not kept in a clean and sanitary condition; conveyances such as trucks, wagons, carts, and similar vehicles used for transportation, display, and for offering sale of food that are not clean and in a sanitary condition, or not affording adequate protection against contamination.
(2)
Premises upon which food is sold that do not have suitable toilet and handwashing facilities provided.
(3)
Premises upon which food is sold, and showing evidence of the presence of rats, mice or vermin.
(4)
Spoiled or diseased meats, whether exposed and offered for sale or being transported or kept for sale.
(5)
Barns, stables, hog pens, chicken yards, or any site where manure piles or organic material may be allowed to accumulate without precautions to prevent offending the senses or being maintained in such manner as to be breeding place for flies, other insects, and rodents.
(6)
The exposure or discharge of sewage, garbage or any other organic waste into or on any public place in such manner that the spread of infective material may result thereby.
(7)
Portable toilets not screened against flies, and portable toilets likely to pollute the groundwater or surface water from which water supplies are obtained.
(8)
Transportation of garbage, night soil, or other organic waste, except in tight-covered containers which prevent leakage or access of flies.
(9)
Stagnant water likely to afford breeding places for mosquitoes within a residential district or within 1,000 feet therefrom.
(10)
Bone boiling, fat rendering establishments, or tallow or soap works, or other industries and trades when they are shown to affect public health or produce serious offensive conditions.
(11)
Buildings or any part of buildings which are in a dilapidated or filthy condition, which may endanger the life or health of persons living in the vicinity.
(12)
Abandoned or vacant property in a condition which permits or invites the creation of a nuisance or which is in a condition prejudicial to the public health.
(Code 1982, § 11-1; Code 2003, § 22-21)
Sec. 22-22. - Permission to dump offensive matter or substance.#
No person shall dump any part of the contents of a portable toilet, cesspool, or any swill, household garbage or other offensive matter within the town without having first obtained permission from the town council.
(Code 1982, § 11-3; Code 2003, § 22-22)
Sec. 22-23. - Unsanitary discharge of waste.#
It shall be unlawful for any person to place, deposit or permit to be deposited in any unsanitary manner on public or private property within the town, or in any area under the jurisdiction of the town, any human or animal excrement, garbage or other objectionable waste.
(Code 1982, § 11-4; Code 2003, § 22-23)
Sec. 22-24. - Storage of manure.#
In closely settled districts, stable manure must be kept in a covered watertight pit or chamber and shall be removed at least once a week during the period from May 1 to October 1, and during the other months at intervals sufficiently frequent to maintain a sanitary condition satisfactory to the town administrator. Manure on farms or isolated premises other than dairy farms need not be so protected and removed unless ordered by the town administrator.
(Code 1982, § 11-5; Code 2003, § 22-24)
Sec. 22-25. - Spitting.#
No person shall spit upon the floor of any hall or office in any hotel, restaurant, apartment house, tenement or lodginghouse which is used in common by the guests or tenants of such building, or upon the floor, platform, steps or stairs of any public building, church, theater, bus, car, or passenger station, store, factory or any public conveyance.
(Code 1982, § 11-6; Code 2003, § 22-25)
State Law reference— Similar provisions, G.L. 1956, § 23-6-2.