(a) For the purpose of abating public nuisances and assessing for the cost thereof, and prescribing the conduct, whether of omission or commission, of any natural person or business operating as a proprietorship, partnership, unincorporated association or corporation, as owner or occupier of any lot or land within City limits or of any building, house or other structure on any such lot or land, a public nuisance shall exist when:
(1) Any building, house or structure becomes so out of repair and dilapidated that, in the condition it is permitted to be and remain, it shall or will, if such condition continues, endanger the life, limb or property of or cause damage or injury to persons or property using or being upon the streets or public ways of the City adjoining such lot or land by reason of the collapse of such building, house or structure or by the falling of parts thereof or of objects therefrom; or
(2) Any tree, stack or other object remains standing upon such lot or land in such condition that it shall or will, if such condition continues, endanger the life, limb or property or cause damage or injury to persons or property upon the public streets or public ways adjacent thereto, by the falling thereof or of parts thereof; or
(3) An excavation or cellar on any land is left unguarded or remains in such a condition that it shall or will, if such condition continues, endanger the life, limb or property or cause damage or injury to persons or property by falling; or
(4) The accumulation on any land or in any building, house or structure of earth, rubbish or other materials shall, if such condition continues, attract and propagate vermin or insects endangering the public health; or
(5) Any such building, house or structure becomes so out of repair and dilapidated that it constitutes a fire hazard likely to catch on fire or communicate fire because of its condition and lack of repair; or
(6) The accumulation on any land or in any building, house or structure of rubbish or other materials in an amount and in a condition that such constitutes a fire hazard by reason of the likelihood of its catching on fire or communicating a fire; or
(7) The conduct of any business thereon or therein which by reason of noxious odors generated thereby, or of smoke, dust and dirt being cast therefrom, endangers or is harmful to the public health, welfare or safety, or materially interferes with the peaceful and lawful use, comfort and enjoyment of owners or occupants of a proximate or adjacent lot or structure thereon; or
(8) Any building, house or structure becomes so out of repair and dilapidated that, due to neglect or lack of adequate maintenance, it endangers the public health, welfare or safety, or materially interferes with the peaceful enjoyment of owners or occupants of adjacent property; or
(9) Any loud, unnecessary or unusual noise or any noise which annoys, disturbs, injures or endangers the comfort, repose, health, peace or safety of others; or
(10) Any placing, throwing or sweeping into any street, avenue, alley, park or public ground, of any dirt, paper, nails, pieces of glass or board, fruit parings, or skins, garbage, waste, leaves or clippings, ashes, cans, bottles, cartons, boxes, furniture, oil, parts of automobiles or any other matter of an unsightly or unsanitary nature, or the placing, throwing or sweeping of such matter upon any sidewalk, street crossing or driveway, or upon the floor, stairway or hallway of any public building, theater, railway depot, railway platform or property of another; or
(11) Any accumulation of any paper, fruit parings or skins, garbage, waste, ashes, cartons, boxes or any other matter of an unsightly or unsanitary nature in such manner that such matter could be blown onto any street, avenue, alley, park, public ground, sidewalk or property of another.
(Ord. 1968-28. Passed 11-26-68.)