(a) The emission or escape of air contaminants into the open air from any source or sources or control equipment in such manner or in such amounts, as to endanger or tend to endanger the health, comfort, safety or welfare of the public, or is unreasonably offensive and objectionable to the public, or shall cause unreasonable injury or damage to property or interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of property or normal conduct of business, is hereby found and declared to be a public nuisance. No person shall cause, permit or maintain any such public nuisance.
(b) An emission shall also be deemed a public nuisance when thirty percent (30%) or more of a sample of the people exposed to it believe it to be objectionable, the sample size to be at least twenty people or seventy-five percent (75%) of those exposed if fewer than twenty people are exposed.
(Ord. 2075. Passed 5-18-77.)