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1908
CITY OF TUK
WASHINGTON
ORDINANCE NO. 397
AN ORDINANCE relating to rodent control to prevent the
spread of infectious and contagious diseases; requiring preventative
and remedial measures in buildings and on premises; and prescribing
penalties:
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF TUKWILA DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1.
It is the purpose of this Ordinance to prevent the spread
of infectious and contagious diseases and especially the disease
known as "Bubonic Plague" by rats, mice, and other rodents.
Section 2.
It shall be unlawful for the owner or occupant to fail to
reconstruct or repair all store rooms, grain elevators, warehouses,
docks, and slaughter houses, and other buildings, including resi-
dences, by the use of screens, nets, cement or othermaterials
approved by the health officer as to sufficiency, for the purpose
o0 preventing rats, mice, or other rodents from gaining entrance
thereto; and it shall also be unlawful for the owner of any food
or other products or of any goods, wares, and merchandise in such
buildings to fail to adequately protect the same to prevent such
rodents from gaining access to or coming in contact therewith. Such
buildings shall at all times be kept free from such rodents; and
the health officer or his representative, may at any reasonable
hours inspect such buildings for the purpose of ascertaining the
presence of such rodents, and if found to be present, the owner or
occupant of the premises shall apply such reasonable measures for
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their eradication as shall be approved by said health officerand
shall thereafter continue such reasonable measures likewise approved
to keep such buildings free therefrom.
Section 3.
All premises and places shall be maintained free from rats,
mice and other rodents; and it shall be unlawful for the owner or
occupant thereof to fail to take such reasonable preventive and re-
medial measures for such purposes as shall be prescribed by the
health officer.
Section 4.
The violation of or failure to comply with, any of the pro-
visions of this ordinance shall be punishable by a fine of not to ex-
ceed Three Hundred Dollars ($300.00), or by imprisonment in the City
Jail for not to exceed ninety (90) days, or by both such fine and
imprisonment.
Section 5.
This ordinance shall take effect five days from and after
its date of publication.
Section 6.
If any section, subsection, paragraph, sentence or clause,
or phrase of this ordinance is declared unconstitutional or invalid
for any reason, such decision shall not affect the validity of the
remaining portions of this ordinance.
Section 7.
This ordinance shall be known as the Tukwila Rodent Control
Ordinance and may be cited as such.
PASSED by the City Council this A, day of March, 1964.
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