13.35.020 Environmental nuisances defined.
In addition to the public nuisances defined by this code, ordinance or state law, the following specific acts, omissions and conditions in or upon any private lot, building, structure or premises, or in or upon any public right-of-way, street, avenue, alley, park, parkway or other public or private place in the city, are hereby declared to be, among others, environmental nuisances which endanger the public health and safety:
A. Any condition or place in populous areas which constitutes a breeding place for flies, rodents, mosquitoes and other insects which are capable of carrying and transmitting disease-causing organisms to any person or persons.
B. All sewage, human excreta, wastewater, garbage or other organic wastes deposited, stored, discharged or exposed so as to be a potential instrument or medium in the transmission of disease to or between any person or persons.
C. Any sewage disposal system which is operated or maintained in such a manner that there is a reasonable probability that the public health and safety could be endangered.
D. The maintenance of any overflowing septic tank or cesspool, the contents of which may be accessible to flies.
E. Any surfacing of leach field or evapotranspiration bed effluent which fails to properly contain effluent irrigation or aerosol disposal within the property of origin.
F. The use of the contents of privies, cesspools, septic tanks or other sewage disposal systems or the construction, maintenance or operation of sewage disposal systems that use sewage or sewage effluent for fertilizing or irrigation purposes for crops or gardens except with the specific approval of and in the manner authorized by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality.
G. Any vehicle or container used in the transportation of garbage, human excreta or other organic material which is defective and allows leakage or spillage of contents.
H. The pollution or contamination of any waters within the city.
I. Water, other than that used by irrigation, industrial or similar systems for nonpotable purposes, sold to the public, distributed to the public or used in production, processing, storing, handling, servicing or transportation of food and drink which is unwholesome, poisonous or contains deleterious or foreign substances or filth or disease-causing substances or organisms. [Code 2006 § 13-9-1. Ord. 2014-06 § 1, 5-27-2014; Res. 2014-10 Exh. A, 5-27-2014].