Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 49, December 5, 2024
Section 28-5-4 - Public health nuisancesThe following conditions and practices are declared to be public nuisances hazardous to public health and local boards of health are directed to order their abatement whenever they are called to their attention by the state department of health and environment or any citizen of the state.
(1) Any privy, privy vault, or other place used for the deposit of human excreta which permits animals or insects access to the excreta, which produces foul or objectionable odors, or is located so as to make pollution of a domestic water supply probable. (2) The collection or accumulation of any organic materials such as swill, meat scraps, dead fish, shells, bones, decaying vegetables, dead carcasses, human or animal excrement, or any kind of offal that may decompose and create an attraction or breeding place for flies, mosquitoes or rodents. (3) Any domestic animal pen that pollutes a domestic water supply, underground waterbearing formation; or stream in a manner that is hazardous to human health; or is maintained in a manner that creates a fly attraction or breeding place for flies or mosquitoes; or is a rodent harborage or breeding place. Kan. Admin. Regs. § 28-5-4
Authorized by K.S.A. 1975 Supp. 65-101, 65-171d, 65-202; effective Jan. 1, 1966; amended, E-72-11, March 17, 1972; amended Jan. 1, 1973; amended May 1, 1976.