The following shall be declared to be nuisances affecting public peace and safety:
1. All snow and ice not removed from public sidewalks 24 hours after the snow or other precipitation causing the condition has ceased to fall;
2. All trees, hedges, billboards, or other obstructions which prevent persons from having a clear view of all traffic approaching an intersection;
3. All wires and limbs of trees which are so close to the surface of a sidewalk or street as to constitute a danger to pedestrians or vehicles;
4. All unnecessary noises and annoying vibrations;
5. Obstructions and excavations affecting the ordinary use by the public of streets, alleys, sidewalks, or public grounds except under such conditions as are permitted by this Code or other applicable law;
6. Radio aerials or television antennae erected or maintained in a dangerous manner;
7. Any use of property abutting on a public street or sidewalk or any use of a public street or sidewalk which causes large crowds of people to gather, obstructing traffic and the free uses of the streets or sidewalks;
8. All hanging signs, awnings, and other similar structures over streets and sidewalks, or so situated so as to endanger public safety, or not constructed and maintained as provided by ordinance;
9. The allowing of rain water, ice, or snow to fall from any building or structure upon any street or sidewalk or to flow across any sidewalk;
10. Any barbed wire fence less than six feet above the ground and within three feet of a public sidewalk or way;
11. All dangerous, unguarded machinery in any public place, or so situated or operated on private property as to attract the public;
12. No person shall discharge out of or permit to flow from his or her premises, or any premises of which he or she may have control, any foul, nauseous, or offensive liquid into any street, lane, alley, road, avenue, or public ground, nor on any private ground owned or occupied by any other person;
13. The illicit discharges of pollutants, including, but not limited to, sewage, industrial waste, or other wastes shall not be discharged from either point or nonpoint sources into any public well or cistern, or waters of the state, so as to cause any nuisance conditions, such as the presence of significant amounts of floating solids, scum, visible oil film, excessive suspended solids, material discoloration, obnoxious odors, gas ebullition, deleterious sludge deposits, undesirable slimes or fungus growths, aquatic habitat degradation, excessive growths of aquatic plants, or other offensive or harmful effects. The city has adopted an enforcement response procedure document that includes penalties for illicit discharges of pollutants which is hereby referenced as part of this section;
14. No person shall construct a privy vault within the platted portion of this municipality below the surface of the ground, but shall construct it above the ground and subject to the approval of the Board of Health. All privy vaults in use in this municipality shall be subject to the approval of the Board, and the Board may order and compel the owner of privy vaults in this municipality to make sewer connections when, in its judgement, it would improve sanitary conditions to have such connections made;
15. No person shall encumber the streets, sidewalks, alleys, lanes, or public grounds of this municipality with carriages, carts, wagons, sleighs, or other vehicles or with boxes, lumber, firewood, posts, awnings, paper, ashes, refuse, offal, dirt, garbage, stones, or other material or obstructions of any kind;
16. Accumulations in the open of discarded or disused machinery, household appliances, automobile bodies, or other material, in a manner conductive to the harboring of rats, mice, snakes, or vermin, or to fire, health, or safety hazards from such accumulation or from the rank growth of vegetation among the items so accumulated;
17. Any well, hole, or similar excavation which is left uncovered or in such other condition as to constitute a hazard to any child coming on the premises where it is located;
18. No person shall throw, deposit, place, leave, maintain, or keep any stockpiled material, refuse, rubbish, garbage, lawn waste, or any discarded or abandoned objects, articles, or accumulations, in or upon any street, alley, sidewalk, storm drain, inlet, catch basin, conduit, or drainage structure, business place, or upon any public or private plot of land, such that it might inhibit proper storm water drainage or become a pollutant, except when in containers, recycling bags, or other lawfully established waste disposal receptacles for scheduled collection. Placement of such materials is an illicit discharge and is subject to penalties as outlined in the city’s enforcement response procedure document;
19. The placing or throwing on any street, sidewalk, or other public property of any glass, tacks, nails, bottles, or other substance which may injure any person or animal or damage any pneumatic tire when passing over the substance;
20. The depositing of garbage or refuse on a public right-of-way or an adjacent private property;
21. No person shall discharge any firearm; spit upon any sidewalk or crosswalks; appear in public or any exposed place in a state of nudity or in any indecent or lewd dress; unreasonably annoy, disturb, interfere with, obstruct, or be offensive to others to a degree whereby a breach of peace may be or is likely to be occasioned; fail or refuse to obey a police officer’s lawful order; be guilty of any indecent or obscene acts or any lewd, indecent or obscene conduct, language, or behavior; or be guilty of any other disorderly act, language, or behavior; and
22. All other conditions or things which are likely to cause injury to the person or property of anyone.