Section
Nuisances Generally
95.001 Definitions
95.002 Nuisances prohibited; declarations
95.003 Abatement notices
95.004 Enforcement
95.005 Costs and liens
95.006 Release and enforcement of lien
Noise
95.020 Certain noises prohibited
95.021 Mufflers on motor vehicles required; cutouts prohibited
95.022 Whistling of locomotive engines
95.023 Sirens or gongs on vehicles restricted
Weeds
95.035 Definitions
95.036 Weeds and tall grass declared a nuisance
95.037 Improperly maintained landscaping declared a nuisance
95.038 Height of weeds
95.039 City to cut upon refusal of owner
95.040 Lien
95.041 Release and enforcement of lien
Other Nuisances
95.055 Common barberry
95.056 Barbed wire fences prohibited; removal
95.057 Ponds on private property a nuisance
95.058 Depositing foul or noxious substances
95.059 Excessive light
Chronic Nuisance Properties
95.070 Title
95.071 Purpose
95.072 Definitions
95.073 Applicability
95.074 Nuisance conditions
95.075 Chronic nuisance property
95.076 Outcome of chronic nuisance determination; nuisance property registration
95.077 Inspection; reinspection
95.078 Annual performance evaluation
95.079 Fees established
95.080 Alternative chronic nuisance property procedure
95.081 Chronic nuisance property procedure for addressing nuisance property
95.082 Chronic nuisance property abatement; administrative adjudication hearing
95.083 Chronic nuisance property alternative enforcement
Public Camping
95.090 Public camping as a nuisance
95.091 Regulation of public camping necessary to promote public health
95.092 Public camping not intended use of public property
95.093 Definitions
95.094 Public camping prohibited
95.095 Exceptions to prohibition
95.096 Removal of campsite
95.097 Disposition and release of personal property
95.098 Penalty; mitigation
NUISANCES GENERALLY
For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
CHRONIC NUISANCE PROPERTY. Property upon which three or more events of nuisance activities have occurred within a one-month period.
CONTROL. The ability or authority to regulate, restrain, dominate, counteract or govern conduct that occurs on that property.
INOPERABLE MOTOR VEHICLE. Any motor vehicle which for a period of seven days cannot be driven upon public streets for any reason including, but not limited to, being unlicensed, in a state of disrepair or dismantled or from which the engine, wheels or other parts have been removed, altered, damaged or otherwise so treated that the vehicle is incapable of being driven under its own motor power, excluding the following: a motor vehicle which has been rendered temporarily incapable of being driven under its own motor power in order to perform ordinary service or repair operations; a motor vehicle that is kept within a building when not in use; operable historic vehicles over 25 years of age; and a motor vehicle on the premises of a place of authorized business engaged in the repair, wrecking or junking of motor vehicles.
NOXIOUS WEEDS. Canada thistles, and all of its varieties, perennial sow thistles, European bindweed, leafy spurge, Russian knapweed, Johnson grass, giant foxtail, hoary cress and ragweed.
NUISANCE or NUISANCE ACTIVITY. The doing of an unlawful act, or omitting to perform a duty, or suffering or permitting any condition or thing to be or exist as defined or prohibited herein, which act, omission, condition or thing either: injures or threatens the health, morals, safety, comfort, convenience, or welfare of members of the community; offends decency; is offensive to the senses; unlawfully interferes with, obstructs or tends to obstruct or renders dangerous for passage any public or private street, highway, sidewalk, stream, ditch or drainage; in any way renders other persons insecure in life or the use of property; interferes with the comfortable enjoyment of life and property; or tends to depreciate the value of the property of others.
NUISANCE PROPERTY. Any building or other structure which is in such a dilapidated condition that it is unfit for human habitation, or kept in such an unsanitary condition that it is a menace to the health of people residing in the vicinity thereof, or presents a more than ordinary fire hazard in the vicinity where it is located.
OWNER. Any person, partnership, land trust or corporation having any legal or equitable interest in or control of property. OWNER includes, but is not limited to:
(1) A mortgagee in possession in who is vested with all or part of the legal title to the property or, all or part of the beneficial ownership and the rights to the present use and enjoyment of the premises;
(2) An occupant who can control what occurs on the property;
(3) Any person acting as an agent of an owner; and
(4) Taxpayer of record as shown on the county tax rolls.
PERMIT. To suffer, allow, consent to and acquiesce by failure to prevent, or expressly assent or agree to the doing of an act.
PERSON. Any natural person, association, partnership, corporation, trusts or other entity capable of owning, occupying or using property in the city.
PERSON IN CHARGE. Any person in actual or constructive possession of a property, including but not limited to, an owner, occupant of property under his or her ownership or control.
PROPERTY. Any real property, including land and that which is affixed, incidental or pertinent to land, including but not limited to, any premises, room, house, building or structure, or any separate part or portion thereof, whether permitted or not.
PUBLIC WAY. All streets, alleys, sidewalks, boulevards, public parking lots and other public rights-of-way.
(Ord. 1988, passed 9 27 1965; Ord. 2017-005, passed 2-27-2017)
Loading...