It shall be unlawful for the owner, occupant, or person having control or management of any land within the city to permit a public nuisance to develop thereon. The following conditions are declared to be public nuisances:
(A) Dwellings unfit for human habitation. The erection, use, or maintenance of a dwelling which is unfit for human habitation.
(B) Dangerous buildings adjoining streets. Any building, house, or structure so out of repair and dilapidated that it will, if the condition is allowed to continue, endanger the life, limb, or property of, or cause hurt, damage, or injury to persons or property using or being upon the streets or public way of the city adjoining the premises, by reasons of the collapse of the building, house, or structure or by the falling of parts thereof or of objects therefrom.
(C) Dangerous trees or stacks adjoining street. Any tree, stack, or other object standing in such a condition that it will, if the condition is allowed to continue, endanger the life, limb, or property of, or cause hurt, damage, or injury to persons or property upon the public streets or public ways adjacent thereto, by the falling thereof or of parts thereof.
(D) Dilapidated buildings. Any building, house, or structure which is so out of repair and dilapidated that it constitutes a fire hazard liable to catch on fire or communicate fire, or which due to lack of adequate maintenance or neglect, endangers the public health, welfare, or safety, or materially interferes with the peaceful enjoyment by owners or occupants of adjacent property.
Cross-reference:
Property Maintenance Code, Ch. 155
(E) Accumulation of solid waste.
(1) An accumulation on any premises of solid waste. Solid waste shall be kept in a covered container originally designed and manufactured for the outdoor storage of solid waste and designed and manufactured for the outdoor storage of solid waste and shall be disposed of weekly in accordance with Ch. 51 of this code.
(F) Noxious odors or smoke. Emission into the surrounding atmosphere of odor, dust, smoke, or other matter which renders ordinary use or physical occupation of other property in the vicinity uncomfortable or impossible.
(G) Noise. Emission of noise which is noxious enough to destroy the enjoyment of dwellings or other uses of property in the vicinity by interfering with the ordinary comforts of human existence.
(H) Storage of explosives or combustible material. The storage of combustible or explosive material which creates a safety hazard to other property or persons in the vicinity.
(I) Weeds and grasses. The existence of thistles, burdock, jimson weeds, ragweeds, milkweeds, poison ivy, poison oak, iron weeds, and all other noxious weeds and grasses in excess of a height of 12 inches.
(J) Open wells. The maintenance of any open, uncovered, or insecurely covered cistern, cellar, well, pit, excavation, or vault situated upon private premises in any open or unfenced lot or place.
(K) Trees and shrubbery obstructing streets and sidewalks; the growing and maintenance of trees with less than 14 feet clearance over streets or less than eight feet over sidewalks, or the growing and maintenance of shrubbery that interferes with ordinary pedestrian or vehicular travel. No shrub shall be planted between the curb line and the property line of any street within a radius of 20 feet from the point where the curb line and/or edge of pavement of any street intersects with the curb line and/or edge of pavement of another street.
(L) Junked motor vehicles. The location or presence of any junked, abandoned, discharged, dismantled, partially dismantled, immobile or otherwise non-operating motor vehicle or vehicles on any lot, tract, parcel of land or portion thereof, occupied or unoccupied, improved or unimproved for more than ten days, within the city limits shall be deemed a public nuisance and it shall be unlawful for any person, whether as owner, tenant, occupant, lessee, firm or corporation to cause or maintain such a public nuisance or allow the same to be placed, located, maintained or exist upon his or their own real property. If such public nuisance is not abated by the owner or occupant after notice is given in accordance with this chapter, official action shall be taken by the city to abate such nuisance. Junked vehicles or parts thereof may be stored and disposed of by the city in compliance with KRS 376.275.
(M) Open burning. The open burning of leaves, brush, construction materials, or other debris without specific authorization from the Chief of the Bardstown Fire Department or his designee. Violations may result in a $100 fine per occurrence.
(Ord. 452, passed 12-11-90; Am. Ord. 573, passed 2-14-95; Am. Ord. B2005-20, passed 6-28-05; Am. Ord. B2015-12, passed 5-26-15; Am. Ord. B2020-01, passed 2-11-20)
Cross reference:
Robbery and burglar alarms, see Ch. 100