Chapter 6.40 GARBAGE COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL
Section 6.40.530 Animal feeding yard regulations.
A violation of any regulation contained in this section shall
constitute a misdemeanor. For
each such regulation violated and lot each day that such violation continues, the person so
violating shall be guilty of a separate and distinct offense.
Any person operating an animal feeding yard using garbage
or commercial garbage for feeding
shall so conduct, perform, and complete the feeding, handling, storage, and disposal operations
and maintain such premises in such a manner as to discourage the harboring and breeding of
rodents and insects, as not to objectionably and unreasonably pollute the air, as not to constitute
a fire hazard, one as not to result in such unsightliness of the premises as to result in the
depreciation of the value of adjacent property. Such animal feeding yards shall conform to the
following minimum requirements:
A. General.
1. The garbage or commercial garbage
fed to animals shall be fed in or on feeding sites in
such a manner that refuse garbage remaining at the end of each day s operation can be removed
from the feeding site and disposed of as provided in Section 6.40.430 of this article.
2. Feeding sites shall consist of
impermeable troughs or impermeable surface areas in or on
which feed material is deposited.
3. Inspection of the feeding areas
shall be made daily and if the feeding material is
fermenting or putrifying or is providing harborage, food, or breeding media for rodents or
insects, or has accumulated to the point of becoming a fire hazard it shall be removed from the
feeding sites and disposed of in the manner provided in Section 6.40.430 of this article or as
directed by the health officer, and such feeding sites thoroughly cleaned and flushed with water
and drained. (Prior gen. code 3-70.3)