For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
NUISANCE. Whatever is injurious to health, indecent or offensive to the senses or an obstacle to the free use of property so as essentially to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property. The following are declared to be NUISANCES:
(1) The erecting, continuing or using any building or other place for the exercise of any trade employment or manufacture, which, by occasioning noxious exhalations, offensive smells or other annoyances, becomes injurious and dangerous to the health, comfort or property of individuals or the public;
(2) The causing or suffering any offal, filth or noisome substance to be collected or to remain in any place to the prejudice of others;
(3) The obstructing or impeding without legal authority the passage of any navigable river, harbor or collection of water;
(4) The corrupting or rendering unwholesome or impure the water of any river, stream or pond or unlawfully diverting the same from its natural course or state, to the injury or prejudice of others;
(5) The obstructing or encumbering by fences, buildings or otherwise the public roads, private ways, streets, alleys, commons, landing places or burying grounds;
(6) Houses of ill fame, kept for the purpose of prostitution and lewdness, gambling houses or houses resorted to for the use of opium or hashish or houses where drunkenness, quarreling, fighting or breaches of the peace are carried on or permitted to the disturbance of others;
(7) Billboards, signboards and advertising signs, whether erected and constructed on public or private property, which so obstruct and impair the view of any portion or part of a public street, avenue, highway, boulevard or alley or of a railroad or street railway track as to render dangerous the use thereof;
(8) Cotton-bearing cottonwood trees and all other cotton-bearing poplar trees in cities;
(9) Any object or structure hereafter erected within 1,000 feet of the limits of any municipal or regularly established airport or landing place, which may endanger or obstruct aerial navigation, including take-off and landing, unless such object or structure constitutes a proper use or enjoyment of the land on which the same is located;
(10) The depositing or storing of inflammable junk, such as old rags, rope, cordage, rubber, bones and paper, by dealers in such articles within the fire limits of any city, unless it be in a building of fire-proof construction;
(11) The emission of dense smoke, noxious fumes or fly ash;
(12) Dense growth of all weeds, vines, brush or other vegetation in the city so as to constitute a health, safety or fire hazard; and
(13) Trees infected with Dutch elm disease.
PROPERTY OWNERS. The contract purchaser if there is one of record, otherwise the record holder of legal title.
(Prior Code, Art. 9, Ch. 1, § 1) (Ord. passed 4-2-1985)