MISCELLANEOUS SANITARY REGULATIONS

Tulsa Revised Ordinances tit. 17, ch. 8

in effect

Tulsa Revised Ordinances tit. 17, § 800 Inspection—Rest rooms.

Section 800. - Inspection—Rest rooms. All rest rooms, comfort stations and public lavatories situated in hotels, depots, stations, public buildings and other public places are hereby placed under the direct supervision and control of the Director of Health. To prevent the spread of disease from such places, the Director shall prescribe such rules of sanitation and shall require proper ventilation, heating, seating, construction, maintenance, operation and use.

Tulsa Revised Ordinances tit. 17, § 801 Inspection—Industrial plants and factories.

Section 801. - Inspection—Industrial plants and factories. It shall be the duty of the Director of Health to require proper and adequate lighting, ventilation and sanitation in all industrial plants or factories within the City in which human beings are employed to work. He shall require that proper heating, drinking water, toilets and working conditions be provided as may be necessary to protect the health and safety of such employees.

Tulsa Revised Ordinances tit. 17, § 802 Offensive trades.

Section 802. - Offensive trades. No person shall boil, heat, dry, keep, store or manufacture any offal, swill, bones, fat, tallow or lard, or skin any skunk or other wild animal having an offensive odor, or slaughter any hog, sheep, horse or other domestic animal within the corporate limits of the City of Tulsa, except as otherwise expressly provided by the Revised Ordinances of the City of Tulsa. No business of rendering, bone boiling, bone burning, gut cleaning, skinning or making glue from any part of dead animals, drying, storing any blood, scrap, fat, grease, dried skunk hides or green skunk hides, or the conducting of any business or occupation that will or does generate any unwholesome, offensive or deleterious odors, gas, smoke, or exhalation, or that is or would be dangerous or detrimental to life or health, shall be carried on anywhere in the City of Tulsa without a permit from the Director of Health.

Source: City of Tulsa, Revised Ordinances and City Charter (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/ok/tulsa/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=COOR_TIT17HERE_CH8MISAREFetched: 10/28/2026