Sec. 3. _Be it further ordained, etc._, That every restaurant
kitchen, hotel kitchen, cabaret kitchen, dairy, dairy depot, dock,
wharf, pier, elevator, store, manufactory, and every other building,
outhouse, or superstructure wherein or whereon foodstuffs are stored,
kept, handled, sold, held, or offered for sale, manufactured,
prepared for market or for sale, except stables, shall be rat proofed
in the manner provided for hereinabove as class A: _Provided_, That
such part of any structure hereinabove defined as of class A that
shall be entirely over a body of water may be rat proofed as of class
B, as hereinafter provided for.
"Foodstuffs," as used in this ordinance, is hereby defined to be
flour and flour products, animals and animal products, produce,
groceries, cereals, grain, and the products of cereals and grain,
poultry and its products, game, birds, fish, vegetables, fruit, milk,
cream, and products from milk or cream, ice cream, hides, and tallow,
or any combination of any one or more of the foregoing.
All other buildings, outhouses, and superstructures, except stables,
not hereinbefore specified as class A, and all buildings used
exclusively for residential purposes, shall be rat proofed in the
manner provided for hereinabove as class B: _Provided_, That the
owner of any building, residence, outhouse, or other superstructure
in class B may, if he so elects, rat proof same in the manner
provided for in class A.
_Provided_, That in any case where, under the foregoing provisions,
any building, outhouse, or superstructure is required to be
rat proofed as of class A and the said building or outhouse or
superstructure is used in part for residential purposes, and the part
used as a residence is effectively separated from the part falling
within class A, by permanently and effectively closing all openings
above and below the ground floor, or by constructing a new wall,
and in either case the whole in such manner as to make such wall
whole and continuous in its entirety, without doorways, windows, or
other openings between the part used as a residence and that used
for such purposes as makes it fall within class A, then in such case
and for rat-proofing purposes only, the said building will, after
such separation and closure of the openings, or by the construction
of such new wall, be deemed to be two buildings; and that part used
exclusively for residential purposes may be rat proofed in the manner
provided for as a class B building, and the remaining part of said
building shall be rat proofed in the manner provided for a class A
building.
_Stables._--Stables and all buildings hereafter to be constructed and
used for stabling horses, mules, cows, and other animals shall be
constructed as follows:
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