By Karen Mahoney
Correspondent
Now that the Village of Union Grove has signed a contract with Central Racine County Health Department for 2013 public health services, part of the requirements include revising the village’s municipal code ordinance to match the ordinances of the four other communities served by Central Racine: Sturtevant, Mt. Pleasant, Caledonia, and North Bay.
Monday night, Village Attorney Tim Pruitt explained the changes in the ordinance, which include, among other things, appointing a health officer, repealing a code per duties to the village sanitarian, rabies control, rearranging sections in the code and recreating chapter 50- all of the code of ordinances for the Village pertaining to health and sanitation.
An added nuisance section will enable the village to follow up if there is an immediate life threatening danger in the community, and provides a ten day notice category for urgent, but non-life threatening situations.
“In the past, if there was a non life-threatening situation, we had to go to court, which was very costly,” Pruitt explained.
“But under this ordinance, there will be a 10-day notice to make changes, and if the person doesn’t take care of the situation, we have the right to send our people out to clean up the problem and charge it back to their property.”
A nuisance section will address accumulation of refuse outside a property as well as human health hazards such as animal hoarding, un-inhabitable living situations and other unsanitary conditions.
The village’s Administration/Finance Committee then moved to approved the ordinance and forward it for full approval by the Village Board at its Aug. 27 meeting.
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