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

§ 979.11 of the Youngstown Codified Ordinances, carried forward from the 1967 Code at §93.12, is the chapter's rodent-control rule for garbage storage. It bars any person from having, storing, depositing, or keeping garbage in a place where rats can gain access to it or feed on it, covering everything from an open receptacle to a pile left where rodents can reach it. The section's enforcement structure is built for an ongoing condition rather than a single event: it specifies that each day a violation continues counts as a separate and distinct offense, so an uncorrected rat-access problem accumulates a new violation daily rather than being treated as one continuing infraction. § 979.11 does not carry its own dollar fine, so a violation falls back on Chapter 979's general penalty at § 979.99(a): a misdemeanor of the third degree for each day's offense, unless the resident's conduct also falls under one of the chapter's other, more specific penalty provisions.

The rule sits alongside the chapter's broader receptacle standards, since the same rear-area storage and covered-receptacle habits required elsewhere in Chapter 979 are also what keep garbage out of rats' reach in practice.