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Katherine Peterson, Director i 7410 County Road K,#280 • Siren,WI 54872-9070 Phone: (715) 349-7600 • TTY: (715) 349-8088 •www.burnettcounty.com ORDER TO MAINTAIN PROPERTY FREE OF HUMAN HEALTH HAZARDS/NUISANCES AFFECTING HEALTH Date: 6/29/2017 TAX I O - 23 67 2 To: Susan Black This office has received complaints regarding your property located at: 12867 County Road 0, Grantsburg, WI 54840 Burnett County Department of Health & Human Services is responsible for enforcing Wisconsin Statute 254 alone and as it relates to Burnett County Health & Environmental Hazards Environmental Hazards Ordinance No. 91-1. According to Wisconsin Statue 254, "Human Health Hazard" means a substance, activity or condition that is known to have the potential to cause acute or chronic illness,to endanger life,to generate or spread infectious diseases, or otherwise injuriously to affect the health of the public. See attached copy of the Burnett County Health & Environmental Hazards Ordinance No. 91-1 for full details. Per Sec. 18-20,the following are declared to be public nuisances affecting health: • Failure to keep waste, refuse or garbage in an enclosed building or properly contained in an enclosed building or properly contained in a closed container designed for such purposes. • Failure to maintain property so as to avoid health and safety hazards. • Allowing any discharge into the environment of toxic or noxious materials in such concentrations as to endanger the public health. • Maintaining excessive number of pets(too many animals for the space as determined by the health officer or designee)that results in a health hazard to either the animal or human inhabitants or public health. • Allowing an accumulation of debris or salvageable material such as, but not limited to, metal or glass. • Accumulation of unused appliances, unless a designated transfer station. • Holes or excavations not properly posted or barricaded which constitute a safety hazard. • Abandoned wells not properly sealed. • Accumulations of decayed animal or vegetable matter, trash, rubbish, bedding, packing material, scrap metal, or any material which flies, mosquitoes, disease-carrying insects, rats or other vermin can breed, live, nest or seek shelter,exempting private compost piles. • All decayed adulterated or unwholesome food or drink sold or offered for sale to the public. • Any animal which molests humans in any unprovoked circumstances including, but not limited to, passerby on public rights-of-way. Per Sec. 18-21, any dwelling or structure found to have any of the following defects shall be condemned as unfit for human habitation and shall so be designated: • One which is so damaged, decayed, dilapidated, unsanitary, unsafe or vermin-infested that it creates a serious hazard to the health or safety of the occupants or of the public. • One which lacks sanitation facilities or a licensed privy adequate to protect the health or safety of the occupants or of the public.