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Ordinance to Create Section 7.18 of the West Allis Revised Municipal Code Relating to Human Health Hazards.
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The Common Council of the City of West Allis do ordain as follows:
PART I. Section 7.18 of the Revised Municipal Code of the City of West Allis is hereby created to read as follows:
7.18 HUMAN HEALTH HAZARDS.
(1) Adoption of State Statutes. Except as otherwise provided herein, the provisions of Wisconsin Statutes Sections 254.55 through 254.595, as amended, relating to the regulation of human health hazards are adopted by reference.
(2) Definitions.
(a) "Groundwater" means all water found beneath the surface of the city of West Allis located in sand, gravel, lime, rock or sandstone, geological formations, or any combinations of these formations.
(b) "Human Health Hazard" means a means a substance, activity or condition that is known to have the potential to cause acute or chronic illness, infectious disease, or death if exposure to the substance, activity or condition is not abated.
(c) "Imminent Health Hazard" means a condition that exists or has the potential to exist which should, in the opinion of the Health Commissioner or designee, be abated or corrected immediately, or at least within a 24-hour period, to prevent possible severe damage to human health and/or the environment.
(d) "Person" means any individual, firm, corporation, partnership, or other organization.
(e) "Pollution" means the contaminating or rendering unclean or impure the air, land, or waters of the City of West Allis, or making the same injurious to public health, harmful for commercial or recreational use, or deleterious to fish, bird, animal, or plant life.
(f) "Stagnant water" means any water that is not continuously in movement by natural or mechanical means that remains in its same location for more than three (3) days.
(g) "Wastewater" means water contaminated by waste materials, urine, feces, toilet paper, other human bodily fluids, water fro...
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