The following are hereby declared to be public nuisances affecting health, safety, comfort, or repose:
(A) All decayed or unwholesome food offered for sale to the public;
(B) All diseased animals running at large;
(C) Carcasses of animals not buried or destroyed within 24 hours after death;
(D) Accumulations of manure or rubbish;
(E) Privy vaults and garbage cans which are not fly-tight;
(F) Dumping the contents of any cesspool, privy vault, or garbage can except at places authorized by law, or allowing any cesspool or individual sewage disposal system to overflow in any manner; All noxious weeds, tall grasses, and other rank growths; the word WEEDS shall be construed to mean and include all noxious weeds as defined by the Statutes of the State of Minnesota and all such useless and troublesome plants as are commonly known as weeds to the general public. All grasses growing to a height greater than six inches upon any lot or parcel of land within the platted portions of the city are hereby declared to be a nuisance;
(G) All noxious weeds, tall grasses, and other rank growths; the word WEEDS shall be construed to mean and include all noxious weeds as defined by the Statutes of the State of Minnesota and all such useless and troublesome plants as are commonly known as weeds to the general public. All grasses growing to a height greater than six inches upon any lot or parcel of land within the platted portions of the city are hereby declared to be a nuisance;
(H) An accumulation of tin cans, bottles, or trash or debris of any nature or description, and the throwing, dumping or disposing of any dead animals, manure, garbage, waste, decaying matter, ground, sand, stones, ashes, rubbish, tin cans, or other material or debris of any kind on private property;
(I) Dense smoke, noxious fumes, gas, and soot or cinders in unreasonable quantities;
(J) Offensive trades and businesses as defined by statutes or ordinances not licensed as provided by law;
(K) All public exposure of persons having a contagious disease;
(L) The distribution of samples of medicines or drugs unless such samples are placed in the hands of an adult person by someone properly licensed;
(M) All other acts, omissions of acts, occupations, and uses of property which are deemed by the City Council and the City Health Officer to be a menace to the health of the inhabitants of the city or a considerable number thereof;
(N) It shall be a nuisance for any person in control of, causing or permitting any domesticated animal to be on any property, public or private, not owned or possessed by such person, to fail to remove excrement left by such domesticated animal to a proper receptacle located on the property owned or possessed by such person;
(O) The provisions of division (N) of this section shall not apply to the ownership or use of seeing eye dogs by blind persons, dogs when used in police activities by the city or county Sheriff’s Department, or tracking dogs when used by or with the permission of the city;
(P) Every owner and occupant of a structure containing two or more dwelling units shall be responsible for the extermination of insects, rodents, vermin, or other pests in all exterior areas of the premises. Whenever infestation exists in the shared or public parts of the premises, extermination thereof shall be the responsibility of the owner. In the case of single family structures, the occupants shall be responsible for the extermination of insects, rodents, and vermin in all exterior property areas.
(Q) It shall be unlawful to accumulate and store building material, lumber, firewood, boxes, cartons, or other containers, machinery, scrap metal, junk, raw material, fabricated goods and other items in such manner as to become infested with rodents. Stored items must be stored on an impervious surface, such as a poured concrete slab, or must be elevated at least eight inches above the ground. Firewood piles and other materials may only be located in the rear yards and side yards. Such wood piles and other materials may not encroach on any required rear or side yard setbacks and must be a minimum of one foot from buildings used for habitation.
(Ord. 400, passed 9-7-2021)