All low places in lands and ponds, depressions, excavations, ditches and drains in or on lands within the corporate limits of the town in which water will stand and will not rapidly run off therefrom after a rain fall, and in which water on standing therein will stagnate, are hereby declared to be a nuisance, and any owner or owners of real estate within the corporate limits of the town who maintains or continues any pond, depression, excavation, ditch or drain in or on his or her real estate within the corporate of the town in which water will stand and will not rapidly run off after a rainfall and in which water will stagnate on standing therein, is hereby declared to be guilty of maintaining a nuisance as in this section defined.
(Ord. 52, passed 6-21-1898) Penalty, see § 92.99