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First Published in the Daily Reperter the
2nd. Day ef April, 1982.
THE CITY OF BEL AIRE, KANSAS
ORDINANCE NO. 27
AN ORDINANCE PERTAINING TO PUBLIC HEALTH AND SANITATION;
PROVIDING DEFINITIONS; ESTABLISHING THE RESPONSIBILITY OF
THE HEALTH OFFICER; PROVIDING FOR NOTICE OF VIOLATIONS:
DECLARING CERTAIN ACTS OR CONDITIONS TO BE A NUISANCE:
PROVIDING FOR STORAGE OF SALVAGE AND JUNK MATERIALS: PROVIDING
FOR INSECT CONTROL: PROVIDING FOR REMOVAL OF WEEDS AND
VEGETATION, PROVIDING FOR REGULATION OF SALVAGE YARDS AND
PROVIDING FOR PENALTIES FOR VIOLATION HEREOF.
Be it Ordained by the Geverning Bedy ef Bel Aire, Kansas:
SECTION 1.
Definitiens.
Unless etherwise specified the fellewing terms as used in this
Ordinance shall mean as fellews:
"Abandened Vehicle"
last registered ewner ef
deminien and centrel.
shall mean any meter vehicle to' which the
recerd thereef has relinquished all further
"Agriculture" shall mean the use ef a tract ef land ef net less
than 20 acres fer grewing creps in the epen, dairying, pasturage,
herticulture, flericulture, and necessary accessery uses, including
the structure necessary fer carrying eut farming eperatiens and the
residence ef the persen whO' ewns er eperates the farm, and the family
thereef, previded, hewever, agriculture shall nat include the fellewing
uses: (1) the maintenance and eperatien ef cemmercial greenheuses
er hydrepenic farms, (2) whelesale er retail sales, (3) the feeding
ef garbage to' animals, (4) the raising ef peultry er fur bearing animals
as a principal use, and (5)the eperatien er maintenance ef a feed let.
"Bulky Waste" shall mean discarded er stered ineperative heuseheld
appliances, disused furniture, disused equipment, junk lumber and ether
building demelitien debris, parts ef machinery and equipment, and
similar waste net erdinarily cellected with cempacter equipment; previded
that this definitien shall net mean abandened er ineperable vehicles
in whele er in part.
"Centrel measures" shall mean any chemical, structural er physical
precedures er precesses designed to' eradicate, minimize prevent er
etherwise limit the repreductien and jer infestatien ef insects and
redents detrimental to' cemmunity health.
"Excessive neise" shall mean any seund which, by nature ef its
intensity duratien er ether characteristics, may be deterimental to' the
health ef an individual, er may be deemed anneying er ebjectienable
to' the majeriny ef individuals expesed to' it sO' as to' interfere with
the cemfertable enjeyment ef life er preperty, net withstanding the
degree ef such aNneyance er ebjectienableness may be unequal.
"Health Officer" shall mean the persen designated as Health Officer
by the Mayer, with the appreval ef the City Ceuncil, er his autherized
representatives such as but net ~imited to' physicians, Cemmunity
Health Engineers, Cemmunity Health Nurses er Cemmunity Health Envire-
mentalists (Sanitarians).
"Human excreta" shall mean the bedy discharge (beth feces and
urine) ef humans.
"Ineperable vehicle" shall mean any meter vehicle which because ef
mechanical defects, a wrecked er partially wrecked frame er bedy, er
dismantled parts cannet be eperated in a nermal and safe manner. Any
vehicle which has been ineperative fer a peried ef twenty ene (21)
days shall in such case censtitute a prima facie presumptien that such
vehicle is ineperable.
"Insects" shall mean the classes Insecta and Archnida ef the
Phylum Arthrepeda including but net limited to' flies, mesquitees,
fleas, lice, ceckreaches, bed bugs, plant bugs, mites, ticks, spiders
and scerpiens.
"Manure" shall mean th~ bedy discharge ef all animals except
humans.
"Nuisance" shall mean any cenditien which is injurieus to' health,
er is a petential health hazard er is indecent, er effensive to' senses,
er an obstructien to' the free use ef preperty sO' as to' interfere with
the cemfertable enjeyment ef life er preperty by an entire cemmunity er
by a majerity ef persens subjected to' the cenditien being nO' less a
nuisance because the extent ef the anneyance er damage inflicted is
unequal.
"Offensive eders" shall mean any eder deemed anneying, nauseeus,
disagreeable, unwheleseme er ebjectienable by a majerity ef individuals
sO' expesed as to' interfere with the cemfertable enjeyment ef life er
preperty net withstanding the fact that the degree ef such anneyance,
disagreeableness,nausea, unwhelesemeness er ebjectienableness may be
unequal.
"Owner" shall mean any persen whO', alene er jeintly er severally
with ethers:
a. shall have recerd legal title to' any preperty er structure
thereen with er witheut accemapanying actual pessessien thereef; er
b. shall have charge, care er centre 1 ef any preperty er
structure thereen as ewner, er as executer, executrix, administrater,
administratrix, trustee er guardian ef the estate ef the ewner.
"persen" shall mean a natural persen er a legal entity such as
but net limited to' an individual, firm asseciatien, jeint steck cempany,
syndicate, partnership er cerperatien.
"Premises" shall mean a let, plet, er parcel ef land including
structures lecated thereen.
"Preperty" shall mean any preperty within the C~ty ef Bel Aire
which is net a street er highway.
"Refuse" shall mean all putrescrible and nenputrescrible waste
materials such as trash, debris, garbage, tree trimmings, grass cuttings,
dead animals and selid industrial waste but shall net include human
er animal excrements.
"Redents" shall mean the sO' called demestic rats, Rattus nervegicus,
and Rattus rattus, and semestic mice, Mus musculus and wild native
redents asseciated with the transmissien ef disease er causing nuisance
to' man er ether animals.
"Salvage material" shall mean materials ef seme value bhat are
ebtained frem the disassembly ef varieus kinds ef machinery, er
mechanical appliances andjer the demelitien ef buildings er structures.
"Salvage yards" shall mean any premises used fer:
a. Sterag.e andjer sale er resale ef used' merchandise; er
b. The disassembly ef wrecked er used autemebiles fer the
andjer sale ef autemebile parts; er
c. The sterage andjer sale ef varieus kinds ef metal andjer
used building materials.
"Site screening" shall mean decerative fencing, evergreen vegetatien
er landscaped earth berms maintained fer the purpese ef cencealing frem
view the area behind such fence, evergreen vegetatien er berms. When
fencing is used fer screening, it shall neit be less than six ner mere
than eight feet in height.
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"Vehicle" shall mean a machine prepelled by pewer ether than human
pewer that is designed to' travel aleng the greund by use ef wheels,
treads, runners er slides er ether devices, and that transperts persens
er preperty er pulls machinery and shall include witheut limitatien
an autemebile, truck, trailer, mebile heme, metercycle, tracter,
buggy and wagen.
"Waste water" shall mean any water that is used fer any purpese
and then discharged ebvieusly net existing fer any benefit, but net
including a natural water ceurse, artificial pend, er lake.
"Water Impeundments" shall mean situatiens created by impreper
drainage er discharge ebvieusly net existing fer any benefit, but net
including a natural water ceurse, artificial pend, er lake.
"Weeds" shall mean ebnexieus grewth ef vegatien including bread
leaf plants and grasses.
SECTION 2.
RESPONSIBILITY OF THE HEALTH OFFICER
The Health Officer shall be respensible fer the enfercemen~ ef
all previsiens centained in this Health and Sanitiatien Ordinance and
is hereby autherized to' make investigatiens, to' issue netices and
erders to' held hearings, to' bring legal actien in ceurts ef cempentent
jurisdictien and to' take ether measures as are necessary fer the
enfercement ef said previsiens.
SECTION 3.
NOTICE OF VIOLATIONS
Whenever the Health Officer determines that there has been a
vielatien ef any previsiens ef this Health and Sanitatien Ordinance he
shall give netice ef such alleged vielatien to' the person er persens
respensible therefere, as hereinafter previded, such netice shall:
1. Be in writing.
2. Particularize the vielatien alleged to' exist er have been
cemmitted:
3. Previded a reasenable time fer cerrectien ef the vielatien
particularized;
4. Be addressed to' and served upen the ewner andjer eccupant ef
the premises. Such netice shall be deemed preperly served upen the
ewner er eccupant if a cepy thereef is served upen him persenally er if
a cepy thereef is sent by certified mail to' his last knewn address.
Prier to' nuisance abatement actien, netice will additienally be made at
least ence in the efficial newspaper ef the City ef Bel Aire, such
publicatien centaining cenditiens and reasens fer such netice
5. Netice requiring the remeval ef abandened er ineperative
vehicles frem private preperty is to' be made to' the land ewner er persens
in lawful pessessien upen which such vehicle is lecated, and to' the
registered ewner ef any vehicle which is in vielatien ef this erdinance.
Such net ice will advise that the meter vehicle vielates previsiens ef
this Health and Sanitatien Ordinance and will direct that within ten
(10) days the vehicle be meved to' a place ef lawful sterage er be heused
within a building. Written netice will be sent by certified mail to' the
registered ewner ef the vehicle addressed to' said ewner at his last
knewn address ef recerd as determined by the Department ef Meter Vehicles
and to' the land ewner ef recerd upen which such vehicle is lecated.
Cepies fer such netice shall additienally be censpicueusly pested upen
the premises. Such netice shall be deemed preperly served upen such
ewner, eperater er eccupant if a cepy thereef is served upen him
persenally er if a cepy thereef is sent by certified mail to' his last
knewn address; previded further, netice may additienally be made upen
such persen er persens by publicatien at least ence in the efficial
newspaper ef the City ef Bel Aire, Such publicatien centaining cenditiens
and reasens fer such netice.
6. Each persen whO' has been cited fer vielatienef any previsien
ef this Ordinance may request a hearing befere the Health Officer to'
medify er shew cause why cerrectien ef such vielatiens sheuld net be
made. Failure to' request such a hearing within ten (10) days ef
netificatien censtitutes a waiver ef the hearing precedure.
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SECTION 4. NOTICE TO REMOVE WEEDS AND VEGETATION.
The Health Officer shall give netice each year en the first day ef
April, June, August, and Octeber, ef the previsien ef this chapter
to' the ewners, eccupants, er persens in charge ef lets er pieces ef land
in the city ef Bel Aire, by publicatien in the efficial newspaper ef the
fellewing weed cutting netice.
"Netice to' preperty ewners and persens in charge ef preperty. All
eWDers and persen in charge ef possessien ef any tracts, lets er
pieces ef land in the City ef Bel Aire, Kansas, are hereby netified
that all weeds and ebnexieus grewth ef vegetatien ever eighteen (18)
inches high en lets and pieces ef land and in the streets, reads, and
alleys in frent ef and abutting upon any let er piece ef land in the
City ef Bel Aire, Kansas has been declared to' be a nuisance, and that
unless the eWDer er agent ef any such preperty shall immediately abate
the same by cutting er causing to' be cut said weeds and ebnexieus
vegetatien er by preventing such weeds and ebnexieus vegetatien
threugh the use ef seil sterilants and herbicides, the City ef Bel Aire
may preceed to' abate the nuisance and levy assessment against the
preperty fer the ces.t ef such abatement".
SECTION 5. NUISANCES
It is unlawful fer any persen to' maintain er to' permit to' exist any
nuisance as herein described. The fellewing cenditiens er materials are
declared to' be injurieus to' the health and well being ef citizens ef the
City ef Bel Aire er detrimental to' preperty lecated in said City and are
hereby decal red to' be nuisance tegether with these cenditiens net herein
enumerated by ceming under the definitien ef nuisance as described in
Sectien 1 ef this Ordinance.
1. Discharged er accumulated waste water that ceuld result in direct
human centact with sanibany sewage er human er animal exvreta, er that
ceuld create erganic er inerganic pellutien ef greund er surfe waten, er
that ceuld previde fer breeding, harbering er attractien ef insects and
redents, er that ceuld result in emissien ef effensive eders.
2. Dead animals except these at slaughter heuses and these censidered
industrial refuse that are preperly maintained fer precessing er disposal.
3. The discharge intO' the atmesphere ef any gaseeus er particulate
matter resulting frem the cembustien, reduttien, precessing, er manufact-
uring ef materials which cause er may cause significant injury to' human
health er welfare, animal er plant life, er preperty er which may reasenably
interfere with the enjeyment ef 11fe and preperty, er which may be censidered
an ebjectienable eder; er excessive centaminate emissiens frem a single seurce fer
a peried er perieds aggregating mere than three minutes in any ene heur which is ef
such epacity as to' ebscure any ebserver's view to' a degree equal to' er greater
than dees smeke ef 40% opacity.
4. Open basement structures, excavatiens, sterm cellars, industrial tanks,
er ether exaavatiens er structures tJhat cellect water er preduce mesquite infestatien
er that create health er safety hazards to' children er ether persens.
5. Weeds that are ever eighteen inches high as previded fer in Sectien 4 ef
this Ordinance.
6. Water impoundments, as defined in Sectien 1 ef this Ordinance that are
capable ef causing mesquite infestatien.
7. Refuse net stered er preperly cenfined and regularly disposed ef in a manner
approved by the Health Officer. Preper sterage ef refuse shall censist ef water-tight,
fly-tight centainers with fly-tight cevers. Dispesal ef such refuse will be made en a
weekly basis er as eften as required in erder to' prevent the creatien ef a
nuisance..
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8. Sanitary sewage er waste water including septic tank cleaning that
is net managed er dispesed ef in a sanitary and healthful manner as
determined by the Health Officer.
9. Salvage material,
premise er vacant lets in
ordinance.
junk, bulky waste er ether material en residential
residential areas, except as previded in this
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Section
Excessive
1 of this
noise resulting
ordinance.
from any use of occupancy as defined in
II. Minor auxiliary or accessory buildings or structures such as
privies, sheds, barns, garages, tool heuses, vacant houses, or commerical
structures which have become so dilapidated and deteriorated as to result
in a potential accident hazard, to provide rat harborage, to create an
attractive nuisance for childrerl or to' be effensive to' the senses.
12. Inoperable er abandoned vehicles permitted, parked, stored, or
left en any private property in the City ef Bel Aire unl~ssuch vehicle
is cempletelY_ enclosed within a building er unless the vehicle is so
stored er parked en ,private preperty in cennectien with a duly licensed
business or commeridal enterprise eperated and conducted pursuant to'
law when such parking er storing of a vehicle is necessary to the eper-
ation of said business er cemmercial enterprise.
13. Domestic animals which are maintained so as to cause discomfort
to occupants of other premises by reason of offensive oders, insects or
infestations, rodents, noise, noncenfinement, or safety hazards. Maint-
aining large domestic animals, including but not limited to' bovine cattle,
horses, hogs, sheep and goats in accordance with each of the following
standards shall be deemed to net be a nuisnace:
a. Providing at least 10,000 square feet of fenced open space per
animal if the animal shelter er enclosure is within 300 feet ef any
dwelling on adjoining premises, previded that this distance shall be 500
feet fer heys.
b. Maintaining the animals within a fenced enclosure.
as often
however,
c. Cleaning the demestic animal shelters at least
as necessary to' prevent er centrel eders and fly
that this shall net apply to grazing areas.
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once a week er
breeding provided
d. Dispesing ef cellected fecal material and ether selid organic
waster at a sanitary landfill, fertilizer precessing plant~ or by proper
disposal on land used fer agriculture purpeses and garde~~g areas.
e. Storing grain er protein foed in tightly cevered, redent-
proof, metal containers er redent-proef bins.
f. Maintaining the premises free ef redent harberage.
g. Using anti-coagulant redenticides fer the centrel ef redents
and ergane-phospherus insecticides fer the centrol of flies, er providing
other effective chemical means fer the control ef rodents and flies.
h. Using soil sterilants and herbicides or other effective means
for the control of weeds and grass areund structures and buildings.
1. Constructing and maintain.ing animal shelters and enclosures,
Includlflg rel"ICeS, Ly the ~se of dimension ro~terlal~ or other ef~ecti'7e
means so as to preven~ domestic animals from breakirlg out or causing
hazard to persons or property.
j. Storing refuse in preper centainers or in a manner approved
by ~ne Health Officer, and disposing of such refuse at least once each
week or as frequently as may be required by the Health Officer.
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k. Stering selid waste accululated frem the cleaning of domestic
animal shelters in metal centainers with tight-fitting metal lids and dispesing
ef such selid waste at least once each week.
1. Providing preper drainage sO' that there is nO' accumulatien ef rainfall
or liquid waste.
14. Abandoned ice bexes
a. Abandened, unattended er discarded icebexes, refrigeraters and ether
cenatiners having airtight deors which, when clesed cannet be epened frem the inside
are hereby declared to' be an attractive nuisance to' children and a menace to' their
health and safety when accessible to' them eut ef deors.
b. It is unlawful fer any person to' leave eutside in a place accessible to
children, any abandoned, unattended er discarded icebex, refrigerater er ether container
of any kind which has an airtight doer or an airtight snap leck which when clesed cannet be
epened frem the inside; previded, hewever, that this sectien shall net apply if the airtight
snap leck er airtight deers have first been remeved from the icebox, refrigerater
or centainer.
SECTION 6. STORAGE OF SALVAGE AND JUNK MATERIALS.
NO' ewner ef occupant ef any dwelling shall stere er dispose ef salvage
material, bulky waste, junk or discarded materials en any residential premises or en
vacant lets in residential areas. Ther ewner andjer occupant shall keep premises free
ef litter, refuse, salvage material, and junk; provided that building materials to' be used
within ene hundred ,eighty (180) days for constructien en the premises, if properly
autherized may be en premises.
SECTION 7. EXTERMINATION OF INSECTS, RODENTS AND OTHER VERMIN.
Every occupant ef a single establishment shall be responsible for the
exterminatien ef any insects, rodents er ether vermin there in er upon the premises.
Wherever twO' er mere eccupants are in the same building the ewner er eperater ef the
building shall be responsible fer such exterminatiens.
SECTION 8. REMOVAL OF WEEDS AND VEGETATION
The ewners, eccupants er persens in charge ef any let er piece ef land in the
City ef Bel Aire are hereby required to' cut, destrey and remeve all weeds and obnexious
grewths ef vegetatien ever eighteen (18) inches high upon any let er piece of land er upon
the streets, roads and alleys in frent and abutting upen any such lot or piece ef land.
SECTION 9. SALVAGE YARDS
All salvage yards shall be lecated in accerdance with the City zoning regulatiens
All rackable salvage materials shall be stered en racks er in bins with at least eighteen
(18) inches of clearance between the bettem ef the rack er bin 'and the ground and a width
ef forty-eight (48) inches er less. NO' rack or bin shall be closer than ferty-eight (48)
inches to a wall, fence or adjacent bin er rack. Nen rackable materials shall be stored
with an exposed perimeter or in a manner specified by the Health Officer to' prevent redent
harborage and breeding. All ground surface except lawn areas shall be kept free ef all
grasses and weeds using seil sterilants, herbicides, andjor ether effective metheds. An
effective, continueus redent poisoning using aticeagulants redenticides er other effective
metheds shall be maintained at all salvage yards. Each salvage yards in operation upen
enactment ef this Ordinanoe shall previde a site screening plan to' the Health Officer
and shll implement said appreved plan within twO' (2) years ef the effective date of this
Ordinance. Salvage yards that initiate eperatiens subsequent to' passage of the Health
and Sanitatien Ordinance shall subnit a site screening plan to' the Health Officer for appreval
and shall implement said appreved plan prier to occupancy.
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SECTION 10.
Penalties fer Violatien
Any person feund tc be permitti~g er maintaining a nuisance as herein
provided cr is feund to' be in vielption of any sectien ef this ordinance
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeaner and may be sentenced to a term of
confinement not to' exceed ene (1) month er may be sentenced to' pay a fine
not exceeding Five Hundred Dellars ($500.00), er both.
SECTION 11.
Effective date.
This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the official ity publication.
Passed and approved by the City Council the
1982.
16th day of
March
Approved by the Mayor the
1.aJ-
day of ~L:P ,
1982.
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