The following acts, omissions, places, conditions and things are specifically declared to be public health nuisances, but shall not be construed to exclude other health nuisances coming within the definition of § 91.02:
(A) All decayed, harmfully adulterated or unwholesome food or drink sold or offered for sale to the public;
(B) Carcasses of animals, birds or fowl not buried or otherwise disposed of in a sanitary manner within 24 hours after death;
(C) Accumulations of decayed animal or vegetable matter (except for approved compost methods), trash, rubbish, rotting lumber, bedding, packing material, junk vehicles, scrap metal or any material in which flies, mosquitoes, disease-carrying insects, rats or other vermin may breed, or may be a fire hazard;
(D) All stagnant water in which mosquitoes, flies or other insects can multiply;
(E) The escape of smoke, soot, cinders, noxious acids, fumes, gases, fly ash or industrial dust within the city limits in such quantities as to endanger the health of persons of ordinary sensibilities or to threaten or cause substantial injury to property;
(F)
The pollution of any public well or cistern, stream, river, lake, canal or body of water by sewage, creamery or industrial wastes, or other substances;
(G) Any use of property, substances or things within the city emitting or causing foul, offensive, noisome, nauseous, noxious, or disagreeable odors, effluvia or stenches extremely repulsive to the physical senses of ordinary persons, which annoy, discomfort, injure or inconvenience the health or any appreciable number of persons within the city; or any slaughter house;
(H) All abandoned wells not securely covered or secured from public use;
(I) All noxious weeds;
(J) Any accumulation of junk, rubbish, scrap metal, scrap plastic, paper, cardboard, automotive parts, building materials, machinery, equipment, dead trees, or parts thereof, upon any premises in a residential area;
(K) Any structure used for the collection or deposit of trash or garbage that has an open door allowing access into the structure, except when the door is open to allow the structure to be used for the deposit or removal of trash or garbage, or to allow the structure to be cleaned or repaired.
(L) Crop residue, including, but not limited to, corn cobs, bean stalks and corn stalks that exits the property upon which it was harvested and accumulates on neighboring property.
(Ord. 700, passed 1-22-18; Am. Ord. 706, passed 6-25-18)