CHAPTER 10.  HEALTH AND SANITATION HEALTH


ARTICLE  I.    BOARD OF HEALTH

10.101.        Generally


ARTICLE  II.    HEALTH NUISANCES

10.201.        Definition.
10.202.        Same.  Abatement.
10.203.        Same.  Refusal to Abate.
10.204.        Junk and Trash
10.205.        Same.  Notice to Remedy or Remove Condition
10.206.        Same.  How Given.
10.207.        Correction or Removal of Conditions.  Appeals.
10.208.        Weeds Prohibited on Improved Property.


ARTICLE  III.    GARBAGE AND REFUSAL REMOVAL.  DISPOSAL.

10.301.        Contract Provisions Reaffirmed.
10.302.        Same.  To be Controlling.
10.303.        Removal of Dead Animals.
10.304.        Tree Limbs, Underbrush, Leaves, etc.
10.305.        Building Materials, etc.
10.306.        Solid Waste Disposal.   

ARTICLE  IV.   VACANT LOTS

10.401.        Premises.  Accumulation of Grass, Weeds, and Debris.
10.402.        Requirement for Owner to Maintain.
10.403.        Notice to Remove.
10.404.        Failure to Remove.  Removal by Town.

ARTICLE  V.    TOILET FACILITIES

10.501.        Pit Privy Defined.  Declared Unlawful.
10.502.        Building Contracts to Provide for Waste Disposal.


ARTICLE VI.  ABANDONED, UN-OPERATIONAL AND JUNK VEHICLES

10.601        Declaration of Public Interest
10.602        Definitions
10.603        Abandonment Unlawful
10.604        Exceptions
10.605        Removal and Disposal
10.606        Notice by Publication
10.607        Sale of Unclaimed Vehicles; Disposition of Proceed
10.608        Ordinance to Repeal Exceptions (10.604-1)

ARTICLE VII.    PENALTY

10.701              Penalty


ARTICLE I.  BOARD  OF  HEALTH

10.101.        GENERALLY.

Unless and until a Board of Health is appointed by Council, health matters, generally, shall be referred to the Spartanburg Board of Health.
       

ARTICLE  II.   HEALTH  NUISANCES

Editor’s Note. This article derives from generally accepted municipal practices.    


10.201.        DEFINITION.

Any act of any person, firm or corporation whereby the health or life of any individual may be endangered, injured or impaired, or which causes any disease is hereby declared a nuisance. It shall be unlawful for any owner, occupant or agent of lots or premises, whether occupied or vacant, within the corporate limits to permit such property to become unsanitary by allowing any offensive matter or thing upon such lot or premises which
may be detrimental to health, or to permit any trash, rubbish, waste, storage or ice boxes, refrigerators, stoves, refuse, manure, straw, hay or thing to accumulate and remain upon such premises, or to throw, deposit or cause to be thrown or deposited upon any vacant lot or premises such thing which may endanger, injure or damage another person’s health or property. The above shall not be construed as all-inclusive.


10.202.          SAME.  ABATEMENT.

The town Council may declare as nuisances such things, the existence of which may be deemed unhealthy or harmful to the citizens, and such nuisances shall be abated pursuant to directions from the Council.


10.203.   SAME.   REFUSAL TO ABATE.

Any person refusing or neglecting to abate a nuisance, after having been directed to do so, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.


10.204.   JUNK AND TRASH.

It shall be unlawful to accumulate or allow to accumulate on any premises or in the rear of any store, factory or residence, old fixtures, junk, trash or any other material which tends to keep such premises wet, exclude the sun and catch and favor the accumulation of filth.


10.205.         SAME. NOTICE TO REMEDY OR REMOVE CONDITION.

Whenever any condition described in this article is found to exist on any premises, the owner of such premises shall be notified by the Clerk in writing, to correct the condition within ten (10) days after such notice. It shall be unlawful for any person to fail to comply with such notice


10.206.        SAME.  HOW GIVEN.

The notice shall be served on the owner to whom it is directed or by certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to such owner at his last known post office address. In the event personal service cannot be made and the owner’s address is unknown, such notice shall be given by publication at lease two times within fifteen (15) consecutive days in a local newspaper of general circulation.


10.207.        CORRECTION OR REMOVAL OF CONDITIONS.  APPEALS.

a.        In the event the owner of any lot or premises, upon which a condition described in this article exists, fails to remedy such condition after notice to do so is given, the city may do such work or make such improvements as are necessary to correct, remedy or remove such condition, or cause the same to be done, pay therefore and charge the expenses incurred thereby to the owner of such lot. The doing of such work shall not relieve
such person from prosecution for failure to comply with such notice. Such expenses shall be assessed against the lot or real estate upon which the work was done or the improvements made.

b.        The owner shall have the right of appeal to Council.

(Editor’s Note. The 1976 South Carolina Code of laws, §5-7-80, provides statutory authority for ordinances relating to the upkeep of property within municipalities.)


10.208.        WEEDS PROHIBITED ON IMPROVED PROPERTY.

No person shall allow or permit weeds and grass to grow upon his improved premises within the corporate limits uncut so as to render the premises unsightly or unhealthy from the growth and accumulation of such grass, weeds and vegetable matter thereon.

All property zoned commercial shall not allow or permit weeds, grass or vegetable matter to accumulate in such a manner as to render the unimproved lot or premises of improved property and lot to become unsightly or unhealthy.  


ARTICLE   III.    GARBAGE AND REFUSE REMOVAL. DISPOSAL.

Editors Note. The Town Council entered into a contract with Burgess Refuse Removal Services, Inc, now bought out by GDS, Inc. to provide town residents with trash and garbage disposal by house-to-house and business-to-business pick-up.  This article derives from that contract and generally accepted municipal practices.

10.301.        CONTRACT PROVISIONS REAFFIRMED.

The contract between the Town and GDS, Inc., is hereby reaffirmed, and the provisions thereof shall remain in full force and effect.

10.302.        SAME,  TO BE CONTROLLING.

Said contract shall be controlling in all matters regarding trash and garbage disposal, as set forth therein.


10.303.        REMOVAL OF DEAD ANIMALS.

Owners of dead animals shall be responsible for their removal and disposal.


10.304.  TREE LIMBS.  UNDERBRUSH, LEAVES.  ETC.

The removal of all tree limbs, branches, underbrush and other yard waste shall be the responsibility of the owner.

10.305.         BUILDING MATERIALS, ETC.

Every person, firm or corporation, including property owners, after completing or during the construction or alteration of a building, shall remove all trash incident to such construction or alteration.


10.306.        SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL.

No person or persons shall deposit or cause to be deposited any form of solid waste on any public or private property.


ARTICLE   IV.    VACANT LOTS

This article regarding vacant lots derives from §5-7-80 of the 1976 South Carolina Code of Laws and generally accepted municipal practices.


10.401.        PREMISES.  ACCUMULATION OF GRASS,  WEEDS  AND  DEBRIS.

It shall be unlawful for the owner or occupier of any premises within the corporate limits of The Town of Campobello or any other person to permit the accumulation thereon of grass, weeds, or debris, including, but not limited to, undergrowth, trash, garbage, stagnant water, building materials, glass, wood, or any other material in any manner which is deleterious to the public health and sanitation or which is or may become a fire
hazard or a public nuisance or which renders the premises unsightly.


10.402.        REQUIREMENT FOR OWNER TO MAINTAIN.

It shall be the duty of any town official authorized by §14.101.e to summon the owner of such premises. If, after fully hearing the matter and any statement the owner may make and any testimony he may offer in his behalf concerning such matter, the authorized official should find such premises in a condition injurious to the public health, he shall issue a written order or notice directed to the owner directing and requiring him, within a
reasonable and specified time, to clear such premises and abate such nuisance.


10.403.         NOTICE TO REMOVE.

The Town Clerk, upon notification of the failure of any person to comply with the requirements of §10.401 of this article, shall immediately notify such person in writing by certified mail, return receipt requested, of the conditions constituting noncompliance. The notice shall require removal of the said conditions within thirty (30) days of the date of the notice which shall be accompanied by a copy of this article.


10.404.        FAILURE TO REMOVE. REMOVAL BY TOWN.

a.         Upon failure of the person notified to remove the stated conditions within thirty (30) days of the date of the notice, the town may cause the removal of such conditions.

b.         Should the bill remain unpaid more than sixty (60) days after its date, the bill shall become a lien against the premises and shall be added to the annual real property tax on the premises.

c.        The cost and expense of such removal by the town shall be charged to the owner and collected by the town in the same manner as the annual property tax.


ARTICLE  V.   TOILET FACILITIES

This article derives from the 1976 South Carolina Code of Laws and the 1976 Campobello Town Code, as amended.

10.501.        PIT PRIVY DEFINED.  DECLARED UNLAWFUL.

a.        The term “pit privy” as used in this article shall mean a building which is not connected to a sewer and used, for affording privacy while in the act of urination or defecation.

(1976 SC Code 44-55-210)

b.        It shall be unlawful for any property owner to construct, erect, install, maintain or permit to remain any pit privy on any property within the corporate limits.


10.502.        BUILDING CONTRACTS TO PROVIDE FOR WASTE DISPOSAL.

All building contracts for the erection of structures anticipated for human occupancy shall provide for adequate and sanitary waste disposal. The contract shall provide for such facilities, and plans shall state the proposed method of disposal.


ORDINANCE  10.608

TO AMEND THE CODE OF THE TOWN OF CAMPOBELLO, South Carolina, TO AMEND CHAPTER 10, ARTICLE VI., SECTION 4.1

BE IT ORDAINED by the Mayor and members of Council of the Town of Campobello, South Carolina, in council assembled:

Section 1.  The Code of the Town of Campobello is amended to void  Section to Chapter 10, Article VI., Section 4.1

Section 2.  Said section shall read as follows:

                 This Chapter shall not exempt automobile dealers, car lots or junk dealers who possess a current business license.  All individual property owners, businesses, automobile dealers, car lots, and institutions, equally and impartially shall comply with all Ordinances included in the Ordinances of the Town of Campobello.

ADOPTED by the Council Duly Assembled.

First Reading  7/12/04      
Final Reading 8/2/04   
                                                     

ORDINANCE 10.701

TO AMEND THE CODE OF THE TOWN OF CAMPOBELLO, South Carolina, TO INCLUDE CHAPTER 10, ARTICLE VII, SECTION 1

BE IT ORDAINED        by the Mayor and members of Council of the Town of Campobello, South Carolina in council assembled:  

Section 1  a. The Code of the Town of Campobello is amended to add the following Section to Chapter 10, Article VII, Section 1, titled Penalty.

b.        PENALTY

Any violation of this chapter shall be deemed a misdemeanor, punishable by Municipal Court and shall carry a fine of $500.00 per incident plus all assessments and/or 30 days in jail.
 
ADOPTED by the Council Duly Assembled.

First Reading  7/12/04                                                         
Final Reading 8/2/04