It is hereby declared to be unlawful and a nuisance for any person within the limits of the village or within one-half (1/2) mile of the village limits to violate any provision of this section as follows:
A. Odors: To so negligently conduct any business or use any premises as to create such an offensive smell as may taint the air and render it unwholesome or disagreeable to the neighborhood.
B. Animal Refuse Or Carcasses: To cause the carcass of any animal or any animal or vegetable matter, fecal matter, slops, swill, suds, garbage, filth, stable drippings or offal or noisome substance of any kind to be collected, deposited, or to remain in any place in the village to the prejudice of others.
C. Garbage; Time Limit: For any person to permit any slops, swill, garbage, stable drippings, offal, filth, refuse, animal or vegetable matter, which is liable to become putrid or offensive or injurious to health, to remain on any premises used or occupied by him, for a longer period than twenty four (24) hours at any one time.
D. Night Soil: To deposit any human excrement or other filthy, offensive or noisome substance upon any lot, street, alley, park or other place.
E. Polluting Water: To corrupt or render unwholesome or impure the water of any drinking hydrant, spring, stream, pond or lake, to the injury or prejudice of others.
F. Obstruction Of Highways: To obstruct or encroach upon any public highway, private way, street, alley, common or landing place.
G. Condition Of Stables; Sewers; Premises: To keep in a foul, offensive or filthy condition any chicken coop, cow house, stable, cellar, vault, drain, pool, privy, sewer or sink, upon any premises belonging to or occupied by him or any railroad car, building, yard, ground or premises belonging to or occupied by him.
H. Cattle And Swine Premises: To own, keep or use any railroad car, yard, pen, place or premises in or upon which cattle or swine shall be confined or kept, so as to be offensive to those residing in the vicinity or an annoyance to others.
I. Offensive Businesses: To establish, maintain or carry on any offensive business within the village, or within one mile of the limits thereof, without the consent of the mayor and council.
J. Overcrowded Residences: To inhabit any residence with more than one occupant per seventy (70) square feet of bedroom space and, thereafter, inhabit any residence with more than one occupant per fifty (50) square feet of bedroom space for each additional occupant.
K. Apiaries: To keep, harbor or maintain any bees or to operate any apiaries for housing the same, within a distance of one- fourth (1/4) of a mile of any residence, school, church or other place of public gathering within the village.
L. Smoke: To allow or permit any dense smoke to come or be emitted from any chimney, locomotive or engine, within the village; provided, however, that chimneys for buildings used exclusively for private residences shall not be deemed within the provisions of this subsection.
M. Offensive Premises: To permit any store, house, factory or building or structure of any kind, or any grounds or premises to remain for two (2) hours in such condition as to be offensive to the neighborhood, or dangerous or prejudicial to the public health.
N. Offensive Matters: To sift, agitate, or expose any lime, coal, dry sand, dust, hair, straw, hay, or other substances that are liable to be blown by wind; to shake or beat any mat, carpet, or cloth or to clean or scour any cloth, yarn, garment or material in any street or public place where the particles therefrom, set in motion thereby, will pass into any street or public place or into any occupied premises.
O. Spitting On Sidewalks: To spit upon any of the public sidewalks; or in any public store, shop, tavern, hall, theater, opera house or church; or in any other such public place, except in receptacles provided for that purpose.
1. To place or cause to be placed upon any street any glass, barbed wire, nails, tacks, broken pieces of chinaware, or any other pointed or sharp material or instrument whatsoever that may cause a puncture or cut in the tire of any rubber tired vehicle; provided, however, that: a) the placing of any broken stone, gravel or other material used for the improvement of the streets; and b) the use of the streets, with village authorization, as a staging area for construction work shall not be construed a violation of this subsection.
2. To leave, throw or scatter wastepaper, paper containers for foodstuffs, bills, posters, lithographs, advertising matter, refuse, sweepings or materials or like substance, in or upon the streets, sidewalks, alleys or public grounds of the village.
Q. Wastepaper: Any person engaged in the business of sale of foodstuffs, including ice cream, for consumption on or off the premises and served in paper boxes, containers, dishes, wastepaper materials or containers of like substance shall provide a receptacle within his premises for the disposal of such wastepaper and shall not permit or allow any person to place, leave, throw or scatter the wastepaper and refuse in or upon the streets, sidewalks or public grounds abutting the premises; provided, however, that in case any paper or wastepaper shall, for any reason, be scattered upon the streets, sidewalks or public places, and emanating from the business, the same shall forthwith be removed by the person in charge of the business.
R. Discharging Waste To Storm Sewers: To discharge any sanitary or industrial waste into any storm sewers.
S. Leaving An Inoperable Motor Vehicle Or Parts Thereof On Public Or Private Property: To leave an inoperable motor vehicle or parts thereof on public or private property, in view of the general public. (See article I of this chapter.)
T. Bird Feeding: For any owner/operator/resident of any lot, place or area within the Village to allow, keep, maintain or permit upon any such lot, place or area more than ten (10) pounds of bird feed at any time which is available to birds.
U. Offensive Lights: For any owner or tenant of real estate within the Village to permit lights to illuminate property owned by another person in such a manner as to be offensive to the owner or a tenant or to interfere with the same. More than three (3) lumens at the lot line shall be considered to be offensive.
V. Sight Distance At Intersection: Any person to allow bushes, shrubs or other plant material other than trees to grow to a height in excess of twenty four inches (24") above the elevation of the centerlines of intersecting streets within a sixty foot (60') radius of the intersecting centerlines of said streets. Trees may be maintained within said area as long as there is no foliage within thirty six inches (36") as measured from the ground to the lowest foliage. (Ord. 2015-O-6: Ord. 2004-O-27 § 2: Ord. 2004-O-05 § 3)
Notes
| 1 | 1. See also chapter 8.32 of this title. |