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§§ 15-3 -- 15-25 RESERVED.
ARTICLE II. NUISANCE ABATEMENT
DIVISION 1. GENERALLY
(A) A
PUBLIC NUISANCE is defined as follows:
(1) Any unreasonable interference with a common right enjoyed by the general public. It includes conduct:
(a) Which significantly interferes with the safety, health, comfort, peace, convenience or repose of the public;
(b) Offends public decency;
(c) Significantly interferes with, obstructs or renders dangerous any street, highway, navigable lake or stream; or
(d) In any way renders the public insecure in life or property;
(e) Which is known, or should have been known, to be of a continuing nature that produces a permanent or long-lasting, significant effect on these common rights;
(B) No person shall commit, create or maintain any public nuisance.
(1993 Code, § 26-26) (Ord. No. 2009-04, passed 6-22-2009)
Cross-reference:
Definitions and rules of construction generally, see § 1-2
The following acts, services, apparatus and structures are hereby declared to be public nuisances:
(A) The maintenance of any pond, pool of water or vessel holding stagnant water.
(B) The pollution of any stream, lake or body of water by depositing or permitting to be deposited any refuse, toxic or industrial waste of forcing or discharging into any public or private sewer or drain any stream or gas.
(C) Any vehicle used for any illegal purpose.
(D) Betting, bookmaking and all apparatus used in such occupations.
(E) All gambling devices.
(F) Gambling houses and all houses kept for the purpose of prostitution or promiscuous sexual intercourse.
(G) All dangerous, unguarded excavations or machinery in any public place, or left or operated on private property so as to endanger the safety of the public.
(H) The owning, driving or moving upon any public streets and alleys of trucks or other motor vehicles that are constructed or loaded so as to permit any part of their load or contents to blow, fall or be deposited upon any street, alley, sidewalk or other public or private place, or which deposits from its wheels, tires or other parts, onto the street, alley, sidewalk or other public or private place, dirt, grease, sticky substances or foreign matter of any kind.
(I) The placing, or causing to be placed, in or on any motor vehicle parked upon any street, alley or other public place within the corporate limits of the city, any paper, posters, signs, cards or other advertising matter.
(J) The presence of an inoperable motor vehicle or parts of a motor vehicle on any land in violation of the terms of Division 2 of this article.
(1993 Code, § 26-27) (Ord. No. 2009-04, passed 6-22-2009)
§§ 52-28 -- 52-40 RESERVED.
DIVISION 2. OPEN STORAGE OF INOPERABLE MOTOR VEHICLES
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