A. Nuisances Defined: Whatever is dangerous to human life or health and whatever renders soil, air, water or food impure or unwholesome, is declared to be a nuisance and unlawful.
B. Nuisances Declared Unlawful: It shall be unlawful for any person, as an owner, agent, or occupant to create, aid in creating, contribute or maintain a nuisance.
C. Responsible Party Defined:
1. The party or parties responsible for a nuisance shall be deemed to be the owner of record, any tenant occupying the property, the agent of either of these, and all other persons having control of the property upon which a nuisance exists that is an outgrowth of the usual, natural, or necessary use of the property or of the business or activities conducted thereon.
2. The party or parties responsible for a nuisance that is not an outgrowth of the usual, natural, or necessary use of the property upon which it exists, where any such nuisance shall arise from the unusual or unnecessary use of such property or from the business or activities conducted thereon, shall be deemed to be the property's occupants and all other persons contributing to the continuance of such nuisance.
D. Declaration Of Nuisance:
1. Every act performed or undertaken and every condition caused, permitted, allowed, or continued in violation of this section is hereby declared to be a nuisance and may be abated and punished as provided in Chapter 4 of this Title.
2. The following, without limitation, are hereby declared to be nuisances:
a. Causing or permitting conditions that befoul the water of any spring, stream, well, or water source supplying culinary water;
b. Allowing any privy vault, cesspool, or other individual wastewater disposal system to become either a menace to health or a source of odors;
c. Permitting a garbage container to become unclean and offensive;
d. Permitting a carcass or carcasses; decaying flesh, fish, fowl, vegetables; other unwholesome substances; or filthy or offensive water to accumulate or remain upon any private yard or premises, or to be thrown or conducted onto any street, alley, public ground, or enclosure so as to be or to be liable to, become hazardous or offensive;
e. Permitting any slaughterhouse, market, meat shop, stable, feed yard, or other place or building wherein any animals are slaughtered, kept, fed, or sold to become or to remain unclean, malodorous, noisome, or verminous, or in any other condition detrimental to public health and safety;
f. Discharging, releasing, spilling, or pouring out any liquid waste, offensive effluent, filthy water, or refuse of any kind into any street, alley, sidewalk, gutter, stream, wash, natural watercourse, ditch, canal, or vacant lot, which will, or, as a result of continued discharge, would render the place of discharge offensive, noisome, malodorous, noxious, contaminated, or otherwise dangerous or detrimental to public health and safety;
g. Keeping, collecting, or permitting the accumulation of stale or putrid grease, rotting foodstuffs, sour milk or other dangerous or offensive matter;
h. Keeping or offering drinking vessels for public use without providing for decontamination between uses;
i. Failing to furnish any dwelling house, boarding house, factory, or other place of employment with such privy vaults, water closets, sinks, or other facilities as necessary to maintain the same in sanitary condition;
j. Failing, within twenty (20) days after issuance of relevant notice, either (i) to repair, clean out, or disinfect, or (ii) to discontinue the use of, and fill up a privy vault, cesspool, or other individual wastewater disposal system;
k. Creating or permitting conditions that obstruct, interfere with, or render dangerous to passage any street, sidewalk, lake, stream, drainage, canal, basin, or public park without written permission from the town council;
l. Making, or permitting the making of unnecessary and or extreme noise, or vibration, or carrying on any activity, business, or amusement in such a way as to annoy or to disturb the peace and quiet of other persons;
m. Storing or accumulating, or permitting the storage or accumulation of any of the following where not permitted by the applicable zoning: (i) uncontained garbage, refuse, litter, or other solid waste; (ii) auto parts, tires, scrap metal, machinery, or machinery parts; or (iii) junk, abandoned items, construction supplies, or household goods;
n. Except where permitted by applicable zoning regulations, the parking or storge of inoperative, unregistered, abandoned, wrecked, or partially dismantled vehicles, including cars, boats, trailers, or trailer parts, including recreational vehicles of any kind;
o. Parking or storing inoperable construction equipment of any sort when it is readily visible from a public street, alley, or adjoining property, unless (i) excavation, construction, or demolition, covered by an active building permit, are in progress on the subject property or an adjoining property, or (ii) the property is zoned for the parking or storage of construction equipment;
p. Permitting or creating any attractive nuisance dangerous to children or other persons, including, but not limited to, any of the following:
(1) Abandoned, broken, or neglected household appliances, equipment, and machinery;
(2) Abandoned foundations or excavations;
(3) Abandoned, unmaintained, or unsecured outhouses or privies;
(4) Improperly maintained or secured pools; or
(5) Abandoned, discarded, or unattended chests, boxes, refrigerators, freezers, or other such containers having a door or lock which cannot be opened or released from the inside, unless such door or lock has been removed so that no person may become trapped thereby;
q. Erecting any privy, toilet, or outhouse for depositing or collecting human excreta.
r. Stacking or permitting the accumulation of wood scraps, shavings, straw, chaff, hay, grain, forage, and the like within fifty (50) feet of any dwelling or in any place where it might reasonably pose a fire hazard;
s. Permitting the growth of weeds, grass, or plant life until it becomes dangerous, unsightly, or violative of section 4-3-2 of this title;
t. Building or allowing to be built any structure contrary to applicable zoning regulations, or putting any building to a use not permitted in the zone in which such building lies; or
u. Undertaking, permitting, or allowing any action analogous to the above-listed nuisances in such a way as to create conditions which are (i) noisome, noxious, or malodorous, (ii) dangerous to public health and safety; or (iii) offensive to public morals.
v. Abandoned buildings, structures, rubbish, or other habitat for rats, mice, raccoons, or other vermin.
E. Abatement of Nuisances: Corinne City may abate nuisances pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 4 of this Title, "Abatement of Violations."
F. Civil and Criminal Penalties: In addition to any other penalty provided by law, any violation of or failure to comply with the provisions of this Chapter shall constitute a class C misdemeanor, subject to the civil and criminal penalties set forth in Section 1-4-1 hereof, regardless of whether or not the Town pursues abatement under Section 4-4-4.A. (Ord. 14-02, 4-15-2014; amd. Ord. 22-01, 2- 15-2022)