Pursuant to the police power reposed in the City to protect the public safety, health and welfare of its citizens, it is hereby declared to be unlawful and to create a public nuisance to store within the City limits materials or objects outside an enclosed building which has foundations less than twelve inches below the natural ground, thus providing breeding and nesting space for rodents, unless such materials or objects are stored on a platform or stilts which will leave not less than twelve inches free air space between the bottom of the platform or materials or objects on stilts and the ground, and then only when all rubbish and growing vegetation is clear from such space. (Ord. 169 § 1, 1953).