It shall be unlawful for the owner, occupant, or person having control or management of any land in unincorporated areas within the territorial jurisdiction of Barren County to permit a public nuisance or health hazard to develop thereon. The following conditions are declared to be public nuisances:
(A) Dwellings unfit for human habitation and dilapidated buildings. Any accessory building, house or structure visible from a county, state, federal or public roadway 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 inadequate maintenance or neglect, endangers the public health, welfare, or safety, or materially interferes with the peaceful enjoyment by owners or occupants of adjacent property. Buildings currently being used for agricultural purposes or located on ten acres or more are exempt.
(B) Accumulation of rubbish. An accumulation or dumping on any premises of filth, refuse, trash, garbage, or other waste material which endangers the public health, welfare, or safety, or materially interferes with the peaceful enjoyment by owners or occupants of adjacent property because of the danger of its catching or communicating fire, its attracting and propagating vermin, rodents or insects, or its blowing of rubbish into any highway, road, street, sidewalk or property of another.
(C) Accumulation of junked, wrecked or non-operative vehicles, vehicle parts, machines or other scrap or salvage materials, excluding farm equipment, unless such vehicles or parts are stored out of ordinary public view by completely enclosed within a building or surrounded by a privacy fence constructed of materials designed for the construction of permanent fencing.
(D) For any owners, lessee or occupant having control of any dwelling or vacant lot to maintain or permit the maintenance of obnoxious growth.
(E) Any condition which endangers public health.
(Ord. 575, passed 7-19-2016)