The following are hereby declared to be public nuisances affecting health, safety, comfort or repose:
A. The exposed accumulation of decayed or unwholesome food or vegetable matter;
B. All diseased animals running at large;
C.
D. Milk which is produced by cows which have not been tested and found free of tuberculosis within the year previous to the offering of such milk for sale to the public;
E. Carcasses of animals not buried or destroyed within four (4) days
after death including those domestic animals euthanized by a veterinarian. Those animals chemically euthanized must be, prior to burial, stored in a way to prevent poisoning scavengers. All burials shall be at a depth adequate to prevent scavenging by others animals, and shall not be located closer than 50 feet from a well;
F. Accumulations of refuse or other debris;
G. Privy vaults and garbage cans which are not fly-tight, or which are so maintained as to constitute a health hazard or to emit foul and disagreeable odors ;
H. Dumping the contents of any cesspool, privy vault, individual sewage disposal system, or garbage can except at places authorized by Chapter 14 of this Code; or allowing any cesspool or individual sewage disposal system to overflow in any manner contrary to the provisions of Chapter 14 of this Code;
I. All noxious weeds and other rank growths of vegetation, which if allowed to mature attain such a height and density as to be a medium for the rapid spread of fire, upon public or private property;
J. An accumulation of tin cans, bottles, or trash or debris of any nature or description; and the throwing, dumping, or disposing of any dead animals (excluding wild game that is on your own property and out of plain view), garbage, waste, decaying matter (with the exception of managed compost piles located at least 100 feet from any property line), ground, sand, stones, ashes, rubbish, tin cans, or other material or debris of any kind on private property;
K. Dense smoke, noxious fumes, gas and soot, or cinders in unreasonable quantities;
L. Trades and businessesor employment that is hurtful to inhabitants of the City, dangerous to public health, injurious to neighboring property, or from which offensive odors arise; ;
M. The pollution of any public well or cistern, stream or lake, canal or body of water by sewage, industrial waste, or other substances;
N. Any well, hole, or excavation left uncovered or in such a condition as to constitute a hazard to a child or other person;
O. All other acts, omission of acts, occupations and uses of property which are deemed by the City Council to be a menace to the health of the inhabitants of the City or a considerable number there.
[ Chapter 5, Article III, § 300 (7) (now § 5-300, Paragraph G) amended by Ord. No. 82-2, June 11, 1982]
[§ 5-300 amended by Ord. No. 07-02, effective March 1, 2007, and amended by Ord. No. 10-01, effective March 18, 2010, amended by Ord No. 22-09, effective December 28, 2022.]