The following are declared to be nuisances affecting public peace and safety:
(A) All snow and ice not removed from public sidewalks 24 hours after the snow or other precipitation causing the condition has ceased to fall;
(B) All trees, hedges, billboards or other obstructions which prevent people from having a clear view of all traffic approaching an intersection;
(C) All wires and limbs of trees which are so close to the surface of a sidewalk or street as to constitute a danger to pedestrians or vehicles;
(D) All unnecessary noises, odors and annoying vibrations;
(E) Obstructions and excavations affecting the ordinary public use of streets, alleys, sidewalks or public grounds except under such conditions as are permitted by this code or other applicable law;
(F) Radio aerials or television antennae erected or maintained in a dangerous manner;
(G) Any use of property abutting on a public street or sidewalk or any use of a public street or sidewalk which causes large crowds of people to gather, obstructing traffic and the free use of the street or sidewalk;
(H) All hanging signs, awnings and other similar structures over streets and sidewalks, or so situated so as to endanger public safety, or not constructed and maintained as provided by ordinance;
(I) The allowing of rain water, ice or snow to fall from any building or structure upon any street or sidewalk or to flow across any sidewalk;
(J) Any barbed wire fence less than six feet above the ground and within three feet of a public sidewalk or way;
(K) All dangerous, unguarded machinery in any public place, or so situated or operated on private property as to attract the public;
(L) Wastewater cast upon or permitted to flow upon streets or other public properties;
(M) Accumulations in the open of discarded or disused machinery, household appliances, automobile bodies or other material in a manner conducive to the harboring of rats, mice, snakes or vermin, or the rank growth of vegetation among the items so accumulated, or in a manner creating fire, health or safety hazards from such accumulation;
(N) Any well, hole or similar excavation which is left uncovered or in such other condition as to constitute a hazard to any child or other person coming on the premises where it is located;
(O) Obstruction to the free flow of water in a natural waterway or a public street drain, gutter or ditch with trash of other materials;
(P) The placing or throwing on any street, sidewalk or other public property of any glass, tacks, nails, bottles or other substance which may injure any person or animal or damage any pneumatic tire when passing over such substance;
(Q) The depositing of garbage or refuse on a public right-of-way or on adjacent private property;
(R) The display of any advertisement, literature, poster, or sign of any kind on any telephone or electric utility pole, or on a traffic sign or post erected on a public right-of-way constitutes a public nuisance under this section;
(S) Failure to remove or cover graffiti within two business days (Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays) of the discovery or notification of the presence of graffiti is declared to be a public nuisance. For purposes of this section, graffiti is defined as the unpermitted application of any drawing, inscription, figure or mark upon a structure, wall, rock, bridge, building, fence, gate, roadway, tree or other real or personal property, either privately or publicly owned; and
(T) Structures or other physical property damaged by natural disasters, fire, decay, civil unrest, vegetation, neglect or accident.
(U) All other conditions or things which are likely to cause injury to the person or property of anyone.
(Am. Ord. 1520, passed 2-12-07; Am. Ord. 1650, passed 8-13-18) Penalty, see § 1.999