A. Offensive Premises: Any person who shall suffer or permit any drain, sewer, yard, grounds or premises belonging to or controlled by him, as agent, tenant or otherwise, either within the town or within three (3) miles thereof, to become nauseous, foul, offensive or injurious to the public health, or unpleasant and disagreeable to adjacent residents or persons passing by, shall be deemed guilty of committing a nuisance.
B. Burial Of Human Bodies: Any person who arranges burial of or buries the body of a deceased person shall bury the body only within property designated by the town council as a cemetery. Any person who buries a dead human body in any property within the town not designated as a cemetery by the town council is guilty of committing a nuisance.
C. Manure Or Garbage Piles; Permit For Burning: Any person who throws out, piles or deposits any waste or refuse materials within the town limits shall follow the rules and regulations prescribed by the county sheriff, unless such materials are piled or deposited for immediate removal. Any person who burns any straw, hay, paper, wood, boards, boxes, manure or other substance or material in any street or alley in the town, shall obtain a permit from the county sheriff. Any person who fails to abide by the rules and regulations prescribed by the county sheriff or who fails to obtain a burning permit from the county sheriff shall be guilty of committing a misdemeanor.
D. Offensive Substances Or Businesses:
1. Any person who conducts any business or occupation that is dangerous or hazardous to public health within three (3) miles of the town is guilty of maintaining a nuisance. Such businesses or occupations that are dangerous or hazardous to public health include businesses or occupations that:
a. Agitate or expose any lime, ashes, coal, dry sand, hair, feathers, or other substance or material that is liable to be blown by the wind in the town; or
b. Boil any offal, swill, bones or fat in the town in ordinary cooking; or
c. Conduct the business of bone crushing, bone boiling, frying or rendering the lard or tallow, gut cleaning or making other products from dead animals.
2. Any person violating this subsection D, upon conviction thereof, shall be deemed guilty of maintaining a public nuisance.
E. Obstructing Flow Of Water: Any person who places or deposits any dirt, soil, or other material into or upon any streets or alleys of the town in such manner, place or quantity as to obstruct the free flow of water along the natural or established grade of said street or alley, or who refuses or neglects to remove the same within twenty four (24) hours after notice, either oral or written, by the public works director, is guilty of committing a nuisance.
F. Killing Or Slaughtering Animals: It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to kill or slaughter any animals within the town limits or within three (3) miles thereof, or use or occupy any building for such purpose without a special permit from the town council and under such rules and regulations as the county board of health may provide.
G. Water Flowing From Premises: Any person who throws, allows or permits any water or other liquid to run or flow from or off of any premises owned, occupied or controlled by such person, except the lawful sprinkling of lawns or streets, into or upon any sidewalks or streets or alleys, or adjacent premises, shall be deemed guilty of committing a nuisance.
H. Accumulation Of Junk Items And Rubbish:
1. Prohibited; Nuisance Declared: It shall be unlawful for any person or corporation to allow, suffer or permit the accumulation of old discarded automobile bodies, old discarded furniture, old discarded appliances, old lumber, old paper and other rubbish upon any property owned, occupied or controlled by such person or corporation within the town limits, and accumulation of materials and rubbish above named, shall be deemed a nuisance.
2. Penalty; Abatement By Town: Any person who refuses or fails to remove all nuisance materials and remedy any nuisances within thirty (30) days of receiving notice as provided in section 4-1-3 of this chapter from any property owned, occupied or controlled by him, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished as provided in section 4-1-7 of this chapter. As an additional and concurrent remedy, the town may remove the nuisance materials and assess the cost of such removal against the property, to be added to the next annual assessment roll and paid as other taxes and assessments. (2014 Code)