§ 90.16 NUISANCES.
   The following are hereby declared to be nuisances:
   (A)   The keeping or storage of building materials outside on private property unless there is in force a valid building permit from the County Building Department for construction on that property and the building materials are for use in such construction, or unless the building materials are screened by natural objects, plantings, fences, or other appropriate means so as not to be visible from any village street or alley;
   (B)   The keeping or storage of ashes, junk, garbage, or rubbish outside of a totally enclosed structure on private property except in a sealed container designed for the purpose of holding such ashes, junk, garbage, or rubbish;
   (C)   The placing of ashes, junk, garbage, rubbish, or dead animals on private property without the owner’s permission, or on any street or alley, or on any public property. This provision applies regardless of whether the ashes, junk, garbage, rubbish, or dead animal is in a sealed container;
   (D)   The keeping or storage of junk, garbage, rubbish, or dead animals on private property, including inside a building or in a house, in such a manner that the items, regardless of the method of containment, have become a breeding ground, food source, or habitation of insects, rodents, or vermin, emit offensive or unhealthy odors, or are kept or stored so as to permit them to be scattered on adjoining property by the wind, animals, or other means;
   (E)   Intentional depositing of oil, gasoline, or industrial wastes on the ground;
   (F)   Any accumulation of stagnant water permitted or maintained on any lot or piece of ground;
   (G)   The pollution of any well or cistern, stream or body of water, by sewage, industrial wastes, or other substances;
   (H)   The existence of any structure or damaged partial structure which, because of fire, wind, or other natural disaster or physical deterioration, is no longer habitable if a dwelling, nor currently useful for any other purpose for which it may have been intended;
   (I)   The existence of any vacant building, garage, house, or outbuilding unless such structure is kept secure from entry by the public;
   (J)   The distributing, placing, posting, or fixing of posters, notices, or handbills on public buildings, public property, lamp posts, or utility poles, except as may be authorized or required by law;
   (K)   The distribution, placing, posting, or fixing of posters, notices, or handbills on private property without consent of the owner or occupant, except as authorized or required by law;
   (L)   The keeping or maintaining of any fierce, vicious, or dangerous dog or other animal so as to allow or permit such dog or other animal to be upon any public street, alley, or other public place, unless securely muzzled and led by a leash;
   (M)   Any condition which provides harborage for rats, mice, snakes, and other vermin;
   (N)   The keeping or maintaining of any animal, including, but not limited to, a dog, cat, snake, mouse, rat, gerbil, or hamster, that is infected with rabies, the mange, or other diseases, or to allow such animal to run at large within the village;
   (O)   The keeping or confining of cows, horses, pigs, sheep, goats, or fowl within the village;
   (P)   All disagreeable or obnoxious odors and stenches, as well as the conditions, substances, or other causes which give rise to the emission or generation of such odors and stenches;
   (Q)   The outdoor burning of any garbage, rubbish, or animal hides, feathers, or other organic animal matter or any burning that causes dense smoke, noxious fumes, gas or soot, or cinders in unreasonable quantities;
   (R)   The growth of noxious weeds, including, but not limited to, poison ivy, poison oak, poison sumac, ragweed, and goldenrod, or the growth of lawn grass that is allowed to remain eight inches or more in height for more than seven days; and
   (S)   Storage on any property of junk automobiles, junk vehicles, trailers in disrepair, or boats, any of which have not been licensed for use at any time during a continuous period exceeding one year, or have not been in use for any reason during a continuous period exceeding one year, except in a completely enclosed building. For the purposes of this subchapter, the terms junk automobiles and junk vehicles shall also include any motor vehicle which is inoperative for any reason, such as being in a state of disassembly, disrepair, stripped, or dismantled.
(Res. passed 8-2-1993) Penalty, see § 90.99