CHAPTER 11
PUBLIC HEALTH
| 11.01 | Health Officer |
| 11.02 | Rules and Regulations |
| 11.03 | Health Nuisances; Abatement of |
| 11.04 | Compulsory Connection to Sewer and Water |
| 11.05 | Keeping of Livestock and Pets |
| 11.055 | Feeding of Wild Waterfowl |
| 11.06 | Deposit of Deleterious Substances Prohibited |
| 11.07 | Placement of Refuse for Collection |
| 11.08 | Clean Indoor Air |
| 11.09 | Water Pollution Control |
| 11.10 | Cleanup of Spilled or Accidentally Discharged Wastes |
| 11.11 | Storage of Polluting Substances |
| 11.12 | Recycling |
| 11.15 | Enforcement |
11.01 HEALTH OFFICER.
(1) GENERAL DUTIES. The Health Officer under the supervision of the District State Health Officer shall:
(a) Make an annual sanitary survey and maintain continuous sanitary supervision over his territory.
(b) Make a periodic sanitary inspection of all school buildings, restaurants, dairies, grocery stores and meat markets, and places of public assemblage and report thereon to those responsible for the maintenance thereof.
(c) Promote the spread of information as to the cause, nature and prevention of prevalent diseases and the preservation and improvement of health.
(d) Enforce the health laws, rules and regulations of the State and the Village, including the laws relating to contagious diseases contained in Ch. 143, Wis. Stats., and Ch. H45, Wis. Adm. Code.
(e) Take steps necessary to secure prompt and full reports by physicians of communicable diseases and prompt and full registration of births and deaths.
(f) Keep and deliver to his successor a record of all his official acts.
(g) Make an annual report to the State Board of Health and to the Village Board and such other report as they may request.
(2) MATERIALS AND SUPPLIES. The Health Officer shall have the authority to procure at the expense of the Village all record books, quarantine cards and other materials needed by the Board of Health, except such as are furnished by the State.
(3) STATE LAW REFERENCE. See §141.015 and Ch. 143, Wis. Stats.
11.02 RULES AND REGULATIONS.
The Board of Health may make reasonable and general rules for the enforcement of the provisions of this chapter and for the prevention of the creation of health nuisances and the protection of the public health and welfare and may, where appropriate, require the issuance of licenses and permits. All such regulations shall have the same effect as ordinances and any person violating any of such regulations and any lawful order of the Board shall be subject to the general penalty provided for in this Code.
11.03 HEALTH NUISANCES; ABATEMENT OF.
(1) DEFINED. A health nuisance is any source of filth or cause of sickness.
(2) DUTY TO ABATE. The Health Officer and the Board of Health shall abate health nuisances pursuant to §146.14, Wis. Stats., which is adopted by reference and made a part of this section.
11.04 COMPULSORY CONNECTION TO SEWER AND WATER.
(1) NOTICE TO CONNECT. Wherever sewer and water becomes available to any building used for human habitation, the Health Officer or his designee shall notify in writing the owner, agent or occupant thereof to connect all facilities required by the Health Officer. If such person to whom the notice has been given shall fail to comply for more than 10 days after the notice, the Health Officer shall cause the necessary connections to be made and the expense thereof shall be assessed as a special tax against the property.
(2) ABATEMENT OF PRIVIES AND CESSPOOLS. After connection to a water main and public sewer no privy, privy vault or cesspool shall be constructed or maintained upon such lot or parcel and shall be abated upon 10 days written notice for such abatement by the Health Officer. If not so abated, the Health Officer shall cause the same to be done and the cost thereof assessed as a special tax against the property.
(3) EXTENSION OF TIME OR TEMPORARY RELIEF. The Board of Health may extend the time for connection hereunder or may grant other temporary relief where strict enforcement would work an unnecessary hardship without corresponding public or private benefit.
11.05 KEEPING OF LIVESTOCK AND PETS.
(1) No person shall maintain any building or premises for the purpose of housing domestic animals or fowl within 100 feet of a building used for human habitation. Domestic animals and fowl are prohibited in all districts of the Village, except those areas zoned agricultural. The term domestic animals or fowl shall not include dogs, cats or guinea pigs, the same being referred to herein as pets.
(2) No building shall be used for housing domestic animals, fowl or pets, unless the floor of such building be constructed of such material that can be kept clean and sanitary at all times.
(3) Any premises where domestic animals, fowl or pets are kept, shall be kept in a clean and sanitary manner and free from objectionable odors at all times.
(4) Pets shall be permitted in all zoning districts; provided that not more than 6 of such pets are kept in any one nonagricultural premises. Notwithstanding the foregoing, however, offspring of household pets may be kept for a period of up to 59 days.
11.055 (1) PROHIBITED. No person shall feed wild waterfowl within the corporate limits of the Village of Palmyra.
(2) PENALTIES. Any person violating the provisions of this Section shall forfeit and pay to the Village a penalty of $10 for the first offense and $25 for each subsequent offense.
11.06 DEPOSIT OF DELETERIOUS SUBSTANCES PROHIBITED.
No person shall deposit or cause to be deposited in any public street or on any public ground or on any private property not his own, any refuse, garbage, litter, waste material or liquid or any other objectionable material or liquid. When any such material is placed on the person's own private property, it shall be properly enclosed and covered so as to prevent the same from becoming a public nuisance.
11.07 PLACEMENT OF REFUSE FOR COLLECTION.
(1) Persons desiring to have rubbish or refuse collected by the Village shall cause it to be deposited upon the terrace of the street in front of their premises not more than 12 hours before the date designated for rubbish collection.
(2) No material shall be placed in any gutter so as to obstruct the flow of water therein.
(3) No material shall be placed upon any sidewalk or crosswalk or upon any roadway so as to obstruct or block more than 1/4 of the width of such roadway, such width to be measured from the edge of such roadway.
(4) Any person depositing material in the streets of the Village pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be liable for all damages which may accrue to the public due to the presence of such rubbish or material in the streets.
(5) No person shall allow a rubbish or refuse container to remain on the roadway, terrace or sidewalk of the street in front of his premises for more than 24 hours after the date designated for rubbish collection.
11.08 CLEAN INDOOR AIR.
(1) STATE STATUTES ADOPTED. The provisions contained in §101.123, Wis. Stats., and the definitions therein are adopted by reference with the exception of subsection (8) relating to penalties.
(2) PENALTIES. (Am. #08-03) Any person violating any provisions of this section shall be subject to forfeit specified in §25.04 of the Village Code of Ordinances.
11.09 WATER POLLUTION CONTROL.
(1) LEGISLATIVE INTENT. This chapter is designed to prevent polluting or spilled material from reaching lakes or streams where it can create hazard to health, a nuisance or produce ecological damage and to assess responsibility and costs of cleanup to the responsible party.
(2) DISCHARGE OR RELEASE PROHIBITED. No person shall release, discharge or permit the escape of domestic sewage, industrial wastes or any potential polluting substance into the waters adjacent to or within the boundaries of the Village or into any stream within the jurisdiction of the Village or into any street, sewer, ditch or drainage leading into any lake or stream or permit the same to be so discharged to the ground surface without authorization from the Village Board.
11.10 CLEANUP OF SPILLED OR ACCIDENTALLY DISCHARGED WASTES.
(1) CLEANUP REQUIRED. All persons delivering, hauling, disposing, storing, discharging or otherwise handling potentially polluting substances, solid or liquid, such as, but not limited to, fuel oil, gasoline, solvents, industrial liquids or fluids, milk, grease trap and septic tank wastes, sewage sludge, sanitary sewer wastes, storm sewer catch basin wastes, oil or petroleum wastes, shall immediately clean up any such spilled material to prevent its becoming a hazard to health or safety or directly or indirectly causing pollution to the lakes and streams under the jurisdiction of the Village.
(2) NOTIFICATION. Spills or accidental release of hazardous materials or pollutants at a site or of a quantity or nature that cannot adequately be cleaned up by the responsible party or parties shall immediately be reported to the Police Department so that assistance can be given by the proper agency.
(3) FINANCIAL LIABILITY. The party or parties responsible for the release, escape or discharge of wastes may be held financially liable for the cost of any cleanup or attempted cleanup deemed necessary or desirable and undertaken by the Village or its designated agent, in an effort to minimize the pollutional effects of the discharged waste.
11.11 STORAGE OF POLLUTING SUBSTANCES.