The following specific acts, conditions, and objects are declared to constitute a nuisance and are hereby prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person to create, cause, conduct, maintain, or permit any nuisance within the jurisdiction of the city. The jurisdiction for the enforcement and abatement of nuisance violations shall include the corporate city limits and all areas within 5,000 feet of the corporate city limits:
(A) Any public nuisance known at common law or equity;
(B) Render air, food, or drink unwholesome or detrimental to health, safety, and welfare of the public;
(C) Any noxious or unreasonable odor created by chemicals, decomposing organic matter, or confined animal feeding operations;
(D) Throw, place, or deposit in any well, cistern, tank, fountain, spring, lake, waterway, or any other place containing water, any substance or liquid that may pollute, poison, or render unwholesome the water therein;
(E) Keep, store, or maintain a disabled or junked vehicle in violation of this code;
(F) Obstruct a street or sidewalk by trees, hedges, or shrubs defined in § 99.07 of this code;
(G) Keep, store, or accumulate refuse on premises unless the refuse is entirely contained in a closed receptacle;
(H) Keep, store, or accumulate rubbish, appliances, furniture, tires, lumber, vehicle parts, construction material, cans, or barrels on premises unless the rubbish or object is stored in a completely enclosed building;
(I) Allow or permit any carrion, filth, manure, or any other impure, unsanitary, or unwholesome matter of any kind to accumulate or remain on premises;
(J) Maintain premises in a manner that creates an unsanitary condition likely to attract or harbor mosquitoes, rodents, vermin, or other disease-carrying pests;
(K) Create or maintain an attractive nuisance, which may be detrimental to children, whether in a building, on the premises, or upon an unoccupied lot. This includes any abandoned wells, shafts, basements, septic tanks, or excavations; abandoned refrigerators or motor vehicles; or any lumber, trash, debris, or vegetation which may prove a hazard for inquisitive minors;
(L) Maintain a property with excessive weed or plant growth;
(M) Growth of noxious and invasive plants;
(N) Diseased or dead trees constituting a hazard to safety, health, or public welfare;
(O) Maintain a building in a manner that is structurally unsafe or constitutes a hazard to safety, health, or public welfare because of inadequate maintenance, unsanitary conditions, dilapidation, obsolescence, disaster, damage, or abandonment or because it constitutes a fire hazard;
(P) Overcrowd a dwelling with occupants;
(Q) Damage or create a defective sidewalk on a public right-of-way;
(R) A structure, basin chamber, pool or tank located indoors or outdoors containing an artificial body of water intended to be used for swimming, diving or recreational bathing, including spas or hot tubs, which becomes unfit to be used for the purpose intended;
(S) Create or maintain on any property, a swimming pool, spa or hot tub that does not comply with the most currently adopted International Property Maintenance Code;
(T) Maintain a flea market in a manner that constitutes a fire hazard;
(U) Fill or block a drainage easement, fail to maintain a drainage easement, maintain a drainage easement in a manner that allows the easement to be clogged with debris, sediment, or vegetation, or violate an agreement with the city to improve or maintain a drainage easement;
(V) Drill or operate a water well in violation of Tex. Water Code;
(W) Discard refuse on property not authorized for that activity;
(X) The presence of ectoparasites, including bedbugs, lice, and mites, suspected to be disease carriers in a place in which sleeping accommodations are offered to the public;
(Y) A condition or place in a populous area that is a breeding place for flies;
(Z) Spoiled, diseased, decayed, harmfully adulterated, or unwholesome food or drink sold or offered for sale to the public;
(AA) A restaurant, food market, bakery, other place of business, or vehicle in which food is prepared, packed, stored, transported, sold, or served to the public and that is not constantly maintained in a sanitary condition;
(BB) Sewage, human excreta, wastewater, garbage, or other organic wastes deposited, stored, discharged, or exposed in such a way as to be a potential instrument or medium in disease transmission to a person or between persons. Home composting in compliance with Tex. Admin. Code Rule 332.4 is permitted;
(CC) An object, place, or condition that is a possible and probable medium of disease transmission to or between humans;
(DD) A defective vehicle or container used to transport garbage, human excreta, or other organic material and causes leakage or spilling of contents;
(EE) A collection of water in which mosquitoes are breeding or a collection of water that is a breeding area for mosquitoes that can transmit diseases regardless of the collection’s location other than a location or property where activities meeting the definition of Tex. Water Code § 11.002(12)(A) occur;
(FF) Nuisance personal property as defined in § 96.75 of this code.
(Ord. 11-2018-96, passed 11-27-18; Am. Ord. 04-2023-30, passed 4-25-23)