§ 12-21. Emissions of gases, vapors, and odors.  


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  • (a)

    No person shall cause, suffer, or allow any emissions of gases, vapors, or odors beyond the property line from which such emissions originate to be in sufficient quantities and of such characteristics and duration as is or is likely to be injurious to the public welfare; to the health of human, plant, or animal life; or to property; or which interfere with the enjoyment of life and property.

    (b)

    Detectable odors emitted from the following sources of emission are hereby declared to be objectionable:

    (1)

    Ammonia, bleaching powder, or chlorine manufacture;

    (2)

    Asphalt manufacture or refining;

    (3)

    Blood processing;

    (4)

    Bag cleaning;

    (5)

    Celluloid manufacture;

    (6)

    Coal tar products manufacture;

    (7)

    Compost heaps;

    (8)

    Crematory;

    (9)

    Creosote treatment or manufacture;

    (10)

    Disinfectants manufacture;

    (11)

    Distillation of bone, coal or wood;

    (12)

    Dyestuff manufacture;

    (13)

    Fat rendering;

    (14)

    Fertilizer manufacture and bone grinding;

    (15)

    Glue or gelatin manufacture;

    (16)

    Incinerator or reduction of garbage, dead animals, offal, or refuse;

    (17)

    Oiled rubber or leather goods manufacture;

    (18)

    Paint, oil, shellac, turpentine, or varnish manufacture;

    (19)

    Paper and pulp manufacture;

    (20)

    Rubber or gutta-percha manufacture;

    (21)

    Sauerkraut manufacture;

    (22)

    Shoe-blackening manufacture;

    (23)

    Soap manufacture;

    (24)

    Stockyards;

    (25)

    Sulphuric, nitric, or hydrochloric acid manufacture;

    (26)

    Tanning, curing, or storage of hides or skins;

    (27)

    Tar distillation or manufacture;

    (28)

    Tar roofing or waterproofing manufacture; and/or

    (29)

    Any other air contaminant discharged into open air of a character and in a quantity which is detrimental to or endangers the public health.

(Code 1985, § 6-201)