The maintaining, using, placing, depositing, leaving, or permitting to be or remain on any public or private property of the following items, conditions, or actions are declared to be a constituent of nuisance; provided however, that this enumeration shall not be deemed or construed to be conclusive, limiting, or restrictive:
(A) Noxious weeds and other rank vegetation, including, but not limited to, grass and weeds, living or dead, the height of which exceeds eight inches above ground level, in a residential zone. The failure by any property owner to cut said grass and weeds, living or dead, on his or property shall be evidence that said property owner is maintaining a nuisance;
(B) Accumulation of rubbish, trash, refuse, junk, and other abandoned materials;
(C) Any building, mobile home, or other structure which is in such a dilapidated condition that it is unfit for human habitation, kept in such unsanitary condition that is a menace to the health of the people residing in the vicinity thereof, or presents a more than ordinarily dangerous fire hazard in the vicinity where it is located;
(D) The carcasses of animals or fowl not disposed of within a reasonable time after death;
(E) Any accumulation of stagnant water permitted or maintained on any lot or piece of ground in residential area;
(F) Dense smoke, noxious fumes, gas, soot, or cinders in unreasonable quantities;
(G) The obstruction of any public street, road, or sidewalk (i.e., vehicles);
(H) The obstruction of a dedicated easement or right-of-way;
(I) The alteration of the flow of storm water to the detriment of surrounding property;
(J) Any junk vehicle. For the purposes of this section, a JUNK VEHICLE shall be defined as a motor vehicle, or part or parts from a motor vehicle, not located in a licensed junk yard, which meets any of the following qualifications.
(1) It does not carry the current state registration (license plate).
(2) It cannot be safely operated under its own power.
(3) It is not carried on the most recent tax records of the County Assessor’s office (trucks and RVs).
(K) The discharge of any liquid onto the property of other persons, including, but not limited to, the discharge of any water as the result of the draining of a swimming pool or the operation of a sump pump;
(L) The dumping or placing of any rubbish, trash, refuse, junk, and other materials, metals, lumber, or other debris on the property of another without the property owner’s express consent;
(M) Allowing any animal that is kept as a pet to defecate upon any public or private property without the property owner’s express consent; all persons owning pets have an obligation to remove such waste when it occurs; or
(N) Grass clippings and leaves are not to be placed on any street within corporate boundaries other than at times designated for the town for leaf removal.
(Ord. 2018-10, passed 11-13-2018; Ord. 2024-04, passed 8-27-2024) Penalty, see § 92.99