The method for treating a collection of water to prevent mosquitoes from breeding must be one or more of the following: emptying all water at least once every 5 days; using a larvicide approved by and applied in accordance with the requirements of the United States Environmental Protection Agency; cleaning and keeping the water free of vegetable growth and other obstructions and stocking with mosquito-destroying fish (the absence of half-grown or larger mosquito larvae to be evidence of having complied with this method); filling or draining to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Health; removing, at least once every 5 days, all tin cans, tin boxes, broken or empty bottles, and similar articles likely to hold water; screening with wire netting of at least 16 meshes to the inch each way; screening with any other material that will prevent the ingress or egress of mosquitoes; or any other method that the Commissioner approves. City Code, 1976/83, art. 11, §95 Ord. 99-548