The following are declared to be nuisances affecting public peace and safety:
A. All snow and ice not removed from public sidewalks forty-eight (48) hours after the snow and ice have caused to be deposited thereon;
B. Allowing rainwater, ice, or snow to fall from any building or structure upon any street or public sidewalk or to follow across any public sidewalk;
C.
All wires and limbs of trees that are so close to the surface of a public sidewalk or street as to constitute a danger to pedestrians or vehicles;
D. All buildings, wall, and other structures which have been damaged by fire, decay or otherwise to an extent exceeding one-half (1/2) of their original value or which are situated so as to endanger the safety of the public;
E. All explosives, inflammable liquids and other dangerous substances or materials stored and/or accumulated in any manner or in any amount other than that provided by law or ordinance;
F. All use of display or fireworks except as provided by law or ordinance;
G. All annoying vibrations and all unnecessary noises which tend to disturb the peace and repose of neighboring property owners, including but not limited to driving motorized scooters, bicycles, motorcycles, or any type of motorized vehicle in a loud, noisy, or unsafe manner as detailed in Section 5-504;
H. All buildings and all alterations to building made or erected in violation of fire ordinances and building codes; and any other excavation left unprotected or uncovered indefinitely or allowed to exist in such manner as to attract minor children;
I. The piling, storing or keeping of old machinery, wrecked, junked, or inoperative vehicles, and other junk or debris, unless screened from public view and adjacent properties;
J. Attractive nuisances, including but not limited to all dangerous, unguarded machinery, equipment or other property in any public place, or situated or operated on private property as to attract persons and create obstructions and excavations affecting the ordinary use of the public of roads, streets, alleys, sidewalks or public ground except under such conditions as are provided by ordinance, and any other excavation left unprotected or uncovered indefinitely or allowed to exist in such manner as to attract minors;
K. Radio aerials strung or erected in any manner except that provided by law or ordinance;
L. The use of property abutting on a public road or any use of a public road or street, which causes large crowds of people to gather, obstructing traffic and the free use of roads or sidewalks;
M.
All hanging signs, billboards and other similar structures over public roads or streets or so situated as to prevent people from having a clear view of all traffic, endanger public safety, not constructed or maintained as provided by law or ordinance, or without proper permit;
N. Throwing, dropping, or releasing printed matter, paper, or any other material or objects over and upon the City from an airplane, balloon or other aircraft or in such a manner as to cause such materials to fall on land in the City;
O. Placing entrance culverts or doing any act which may alter or affect the drainage of public roads, streets or alleys or the surface or grade of public streets, alleys, or sidewalks without proper permit;
P. Making repairs to motor vehicles or tires on public streets, roads or alleys excepting only emergency repairs when it will not unduly impede or interfere with traffic;
Q. Throwing, placing, depositing or burning leaves, trash, lawn clippings, weeds, grass, or other materials on roads, streets or alleys;
R. Erecting, painting or placing of unauthorized traffic signs or advertising signs on roads, streets or alleys;
S. All unnecessary interferences and disturbance of radios or TV sets caused by defective electrical appliances and equipment or improper operation thereof;
T. To operate any outdoor lighting fixtures upon any residential, commercial, industrial, public or institutional premises resulting in direct glare or light from private outdoor lighting fixtures and exceeding one (1.0) foot-candle (one lumen per square foot) as measured at the property line of the property where the lighting is located when abutting any residential property;
U. The maintenance of any tree or shrub, the roots of which are causing damage to any public sewer, sidewalk, pavement or other public property, or setting out or planting any tree or bush in the public street or any portion thereof;
V. All trees, hedges, billboards, or other obstructions which prevent people from having a clear view of all traffic approaching an intersection;
W. Any barbed wire fence located less than six (6) feet above the ground and within three (3) feet of a public sidewalk or way;
X. Wastewater cast upon or permitted to flow upon streets or other public properties;
Y. Any well, hole, or similar excavation that 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;
Z. Obstruction or excavations
to the free flow of water in a natural waterway or a public street drain, gutter, or ditch with trash or other materials;
AA. The placing or throwing on any street, sidewalk, or other public property of any glass, tacks, nails, bottles, or other substances that may injure any person or animal or damage any pneumatic tire when passing over such substance;
BB. The keeping or storing of more than two vehicles, or a watercraft or MRVs as defined in Section 5-503,which are unlicensed or inoperable, unless the said vehicles, watercraft or MRVs are kept at all times in enclosed buildings.
CC. All other conditions, acts, or things which are liable to cause injury to the person or property of another.
DD. Permitting the use or using any structure as a dwelling when that structure is in an unhealthy, unsafe, substandard, hazardous or dangerous condition as determined by reference to Chapters 11, 12, 13, 14, 16A, 16B and 16C of the City Code.
EE. Accumulation of feces from any Animal on any property, public or private, to the point of being unsanitary and allowing the transmission of disease.
FF. Habitually barking dogs, defined as barking for repeated intervals of at least five minutes with less than one minute of interruption or intermittently for thirty minutes and audible off of the Owner’s or caretaker’s premises.
GG. Habitually crowing roosters, defined as daily crowing of roosters between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m., whether year-round or seasonally from March through September, and audible off of the Owner’s or caretaker’s property.
HH. Accumulations in the open of discarded or disused machinery, household appliances, automobile bodies or other materials 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 other safety hazards from such accumulation.
[§ 500 (26) (now § 5-500, Paragraph Z), added by Ord. No. 86-4, effective June 27, 1986, 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. 11-05, effective, July 21, 2011, amended by Ord. No. 15-03, effective November 5, 2015, amended by Ord. No. 16.10, effective September 8, 2016, amended by Ord No. 22-09, effective December 28, 2022.]