Dayton, OH Public Health Rules: Rodent Control (2026)

Every owner of a dwelling shall be responsible for the provision of all facilities, utilities, services, or conditions required by this chapter for dwelling or rooming units and premises, except where such responsibility is assumed by an operator or occupant by written agreement. Such responsibility shall include, but not be limited to, the following:

(A)Maintaining in a clean and sanitary condition all parts of the dwelling and premises shared in common by two or more dwelling units;(B)Extermination of insects, rodents, or other pests except that if there are two or more dwelling units in a dwelling and only one dwelling is infested, the occupant of such infested dwelling unit shall be responsible for the extermination therein;(C)Maintaining the dwelling in a rodent-proof condition;(D)Providing a sufficient number of approved containers as prescribed by the ordinances of the city for the storage of garbage and trash between the days of collection and placed in a location accessible to the occupants of all dwelling or rooming units where a dwelling contains two or more dwelling units or is used as a rooming house;(E)Maintaining driveways, terrace steps, yard walks, fences, yard cisterns, and all exterior premises free of objects, materials, or conditions which create a health, safety, or fire hazard or which is a public nuisance;(F)Installing and maintaining screen doors, window screens, and other screening for the season required.