§ 8.08.060. Prohibited or restricted activities.

A.

No person shall throw, deposit or permit to accumulate any solid waste in any building or on any premises, improved or vacant, or any lot or area either public or private, within unincorporated Bannock County, except at the Bannock County landfill located on Fort Hall Mine Road, and the McCammon transfer site, so that it is or is likely:

1.

To attract flies or fly breeding;

2.

To afford food or harborage for rodents;

3.

To be a source of noxious or offensive odors or conditions inimical to public interest or health;

4.

To render vehicle or pedestrian unsafe;

5.

To pose a threat of pollution to ground or surface water.

B.

It shall be unlawful for any person to permit or to allow to accumulate in or about any yard, lot, place or premises, or upon any adjacent street, alley or sidewalk, owned or occupied by such person, solid waste as defined herein.

C.

It is unlawful for any person upon vacating dwellings, storerooms, or any other building to fail to remove all solid waste from such buildings and premises and also the grounds appurtenant thereto; or to fail to place the same in a sanitary condition within twenty-four (24) hours after said premises shall be vacated.

D.

Compost piles may be maintained for fertilization purposes, and matter used for fertilization purposes only may be transported, kept and used, provided the same shall not constitute a nuisance, public or private, as defined by Idaho Code.

E.

Compost piles using materials from other sites must have approval of Southeast Idaho District Health Department and the director of the Bannock County landfill. Commercial composting operations are subject to additional county zoning and district health department regulations, including but not limited to conditional use permits where zoning allows.

(Ord. 1995-5 §§ 301—304.1)

(Ord. No. 2010-2, § 1, 11-4-10)