Ord 12 Requiring Cleaning of PremisesVILLAGE OF MENDOTA HEIGHTS
Dakota County, Minnesota
An ORDINANCE requiring the cleaning of premises, providing for
a sanitary inspection, and establishing a penalty for viola-
tion thereof,
The Village Council of Mendota Heights ordains as follows:
Section 1. Order to Clean qp Premises, -i- Prior to May 10 in
every year, the health officer shall cause a notice to be ins
serted in the official village paper at the expense of the
municipality ordering persons to clean thoroughly all yards,
vaults, cesspools, sheds and barns, and to cause all tin cans,
trash and manure to be removed therefrom on or before May 10,
Section 2, Sanitary Inspection. -- Thereafter and in the month
of May of each year the health officer shall make a thorough
sanitary inspectioncf all public and private property in the
municipality. He shall transmit the report, together with his
recommendations, to the village council on or before the first
day of June. A copy of the health officer!t report shall also
be sent, on or before July 1,, to the State Board of Health.
Section 3. Individual Orders; Reinspection, If, upon in-
spection, the above order has not bee-icomplied with as to any
lot or parcel of ground, individual orders served in person or
by mail requiring owners, occupants or agents of such premises
to clean up the same within ten days shall be issued by the
health officer, and a reinspection made of such premises on
or before May 20. Said order shall provide that, unless the
condition is abated within ten days, t'_ie.he ' alth officer will
abate or remove, or cause to be abated or removed., at the ex-
pense of the owner, such condition, complained of and found to
exist,
Section 4, Removal; Assessment
any owner, occupant or agent to
the health officer shall direct
property as described and orders
report the cost of such work to
not to exceed $100.00; and such
of Cost. -- Upon failure of
comply with the above order,
the constable to clean up the
ad. The health officer shall
the village clerk, in an amount
cost if not paid promptly shall
be certified to the auditor of the county and by that officer
extended upon the tax rolls -and -collected as taxes., and when
so collected shall be paid over to the village treasurer.
Section 5. Conditions Prohibited,.-- It shall be unlawful for
the owner or occupant of any property to permit or cause to acs
cumulate upon such property any nuisance affecting health.,
source of filth or cause of sickness and fail to remove the
same after the notices provided above.
Section 6. Periodic Inspections. -- Subsequent to and inde-
pendent of annual inspection and clean-up, the health of-
ficer shall make periodic inspections of properties within the
municipality and shall proceed as provided in Sections 4 and
5 to remove or abate any condition prohibited therein,
Section T. Penalty. -- Any person, firm or corporation fail-
ing or refusing to comply with any lawful order to clean up
any property as herein provided or causing or permitting ac-
cumulation of any nuisance affecting health, source of filth,
or cause of sickness upon any property in any year after it
has been cleaned up under the provisions hereof shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor., and upon conviction thereof shall be punished
by a fine of not less than five dollars ($5.00) nor more than
one hundred dollars ($100.00) and costs, or by imprisonment in
the county jail for not less than five nor more than ninety
days, or by both, plus the cost of prosecution,
Section 8, Provisions Separable. ---- Every section., provision
or part of this ordinance is declared separable from every
other section, provision or part; and if any section, provi"
sion or part hereof shall be declared invalid, it shall not
affect any other section, provision or part.
Section 9, Effect, -- This ordinance shall be in force and
efT-ect from and after its publication according to law.
Enacted and ordained into an Ordinance this day of
April, 1957,
(SEAL)
ATTEST:
Clerk
THE VILLAGE OF MENDOTA HEIGHTS
Mayor