[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Harrisburg
by Ord. No. 22-1985. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Ord. No. 6-1995]
All dwellings shall be maintained and operated in compliance with the provisions of Chapter 8-107, as amended from time to time, and such provisions of this Public Health Code as are applicable thereto.
A.
Every dwelling and every part thereof shall be maintained in a clean
and sanitary condition, shall be kept free from any accumulation of
rubbish, dirt, garbage, and similar materials and shall be kept free
of vector infestation. All yards, courts and land upon which such
dwellings are situated shall be similarly kept clean and free from
any accumulation of rubbish, dirt, garbage, junk, discarded property,
and similar materials.
B.
It shall be the duty of each occupant of a dwelling unit, except
as otherwise provided by ordinance, to keep in a clean condition that
portion of the property which such person occupies or over which such
person has exclusive control.
C.
Every owner of a building containing two or more dwelling units shall
maintain in a clean and sanitary condition the shared or public areas
of the dwelling and premises thereof.
D.
Every occupant of a building containing a single dwelling unit shall
be responsible for the extermination of insects and/or vectors on
the premises, and every occupant of a dwelling unit in a building
containing more than one dwelling unit shall be responsible for such
extermination whenever his or her dwelling unit is the only one infested.
Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this subsection, whenever
infestation is caused by failure of the owner to maintain a dwelling
in a vectorproof or reasonably insectproof condition, extermination
shall be the responsibility of the owner. Whenever infestation exists
in two or more of the dwelling units of any multifamily dwelling or
in the shared or public parts of any dwelling containing two or more
dwelling units, extermination shall be the responsibility of the owner.
E.
It shall be the responsibility of every person, owner, or operator
in the City to conform to the standards of cleanliness and sanitation
of this Public Health Code.
[Ord. No. 6-1995]
[Ord. No. 6-1995]
All hotels shall be maintained in good order and repair in a
clean and sanitary condition and shall be kept free from accumulations
of rubbish, dirt, garbage and similar matter.
[Ord. No. 6-1995]
All theaters, commercial buildings, merchandise buildings, office
buildings, and public buildings shall be maintained in good order
and repair, in a clean and sanitary condition, and shall be kept free
from accumulations of rubbish, dirt, garbage, and similar matter.
[Ord. No. 6-1995]
All portions of storage buildings, manufacturing plants and
industrial buildings shall be maintained in a clean and sanitary condition
consistent with the business being conducted therein, and all portions
of such buildings shall be kept in good order and repair and free
from accumulations of waste materials, rubbish, dirt, garbage, and
similar matter.
[Ord. No. 6-1995]
All buildings or parts thereof wherein persons are employed,
or wherein business is conducted, shall be provided with at least
one flush water closet for every 15 persons or fractions thereof employed
therein in a room or rooms affording privacy and with separate facilities
for each of the sexes, together with adequate lavatory basins, all
of which shall be maintained in a sanitary condition by the owner,
operator or person in charge.
[Ord. No. 6-1995]
All buildings shall be provided with adequate facilities for
stormwater drainage and shall be free of leakage and water accumulation.
[Ord. No. 6-1995]
All buildings shall have adequate toilet facilities in a room
or rooms affording privacy, which facilities shall be maintained in
a sanitary condition and have deodorizing devices approved by the
Health Officer.
[Ord. No. 6-1995]
The toilet facilities of those buildings offering comfort stations or toilet facilities shall comply with the minimum requirement provided in the Plumbing Code, Chapter 8-105.
[Ord. No. 6-1995]
No person shall vacate or move from any dwelling or other building
or portion of a building without removing or causing to be removed
therefrom all discarded materials, waste materials, rubbish, and garbage
and leaving such dwelling or other building in a clean and sanitary
condition.
[Ord. No. 6-1995]
No person shall offer to rent or rent any dwelling unit or other
building which is not free of discarded materials, waste materials,
rubbish, and garbage and in a clean and sanitary condition.
No person shall permit or maintain or cause to be maintained
any collection of insects and/or water, whether natural or artificial,
in such condition as to afford a breeding place for vectors which
may become a menace to public health, and no person shall permit or
maintain or cause to be maintained any artificial pool of water, including
pools resulting from excavations, which may become a menace to public
safety, unless the same is protected from the dangers of persons drowning
or falling therein.
[Ord. No. 6-1995]
All yards shall be properly graded and maintained to afford
proper drainage of all parts to proper City drain water facilities
and to prevent the drainage of water to the foundation or walls of
cellars or buildings upon the premises or upon adjoining premises.
Drainage is to meet the standards and conform to the Property Maintenance
Code of the City.[1]
A.
Any dwelling, building, structure, accessory structure, premises,
or any vacant lot may be required to be vectorproofed when found to
be providing harborage or breeding areas for rats, flies, mosquitoes,
or any other vectors.
B.
It shall be unlawful for the owner, occupant, contractor, public
utility company, plumber, or any other person to remove and fail to
restore in like condition the vectorproofing from any building, structure,
accessory structure, or vacant lot for any purpose.
C.
A program plan and specifications for private vector control programs
may be required to be submitted to the City as deemed necessary by
the Health Officer or designee. Such program plan shall be submitted
by the owner or agent of the property on or in which the vector control
program is or will be conducted. The program plan shall state the
type of vectors to be controlled, the name of the company contracted
to carry out the program and any and all work to be conducted in an
effort to control such vectors. If, after review of the program plan
by the Health Officer or designee, it is found to be inadequate or
incomplete, additional information may be required as well as additional
control methods.
D.
The Health Officer and any officer or employee of the Bureau of Codes
Enforcement, or any officer or employee of the City so designated
by the Mayor, may make such inspections of the interior and exterior
of all dwellings, multifamily dwellings, buildings, structures and
accessory structures, premises, vacant lots, collections of water,
or any other places to determine evidence of vector infestation and
the need for vectorproofing or additions or repairs to existing vectorproofing.
No person shall obstruct such inspection or fail, upon request, to
give reasonable assistance relative to the performance of any inspection.
