For the purpose of this chapter, the following definition shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
PUBLIC NUISANCE. The following shall be deemed to constitute a public nuisance within the village:
(1) The storage of garbage and/or offal, which shall mean and include all refuse and waste of animals, fish, fowl, fruit and vegetable matter or other accumulations in the use and preparation of food for the table, or which has been discarded and abandoned and is of no future use or value to the owner for domestic consumption.
(2) The suffering, permitting, allowing to remain or maintaining of rubbish, refuse, or junk, which shall include, but shall not be limited to, wire, chips, shavings, bottles, broken glass, crockery, tin, cast or wooden ware, boxes, rags, weeds, paper circulars, handbills, boots, shoes, ashes, automobile parts, or discarded or abandoned iceboxes, refrigerators, washing machines or other airtight or semi-airtight containers, or any other waste material or scrap metal upon public or private property.
(3) The erection, continuance, use, or maintenance of a building, structure, or place for the exercise of a trade, employment or business, or the keeping or feeding of any animal upon either public or private property which by causing noxious exhalations or noisome or offensive smells becomes injurious to the health, comfort, or property of individuals or of the public.
(4) The storage of a motor vehicle in an inoperative and unlicensed condition upon private property for more that 15 days without being obscured from public view.
(Ord. 1997-2, passed 3-17-1997)