(a) Public health nuisance defined. Every act, thing or condition that is caused, created, maintained, operated, permitted, allowed, or continued on or through any property, real or personal, within the City that is harmful to health, safety, welfare or property of any of the inhabitants of the City is a public health nuisance, is unlawful, and is hereby prohibited. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the following are hereby declared to be nuisances affecting public health:
(1) All decayed or unwholesome food offered for sale to the public;
(2) All pools of stagnant water or vessels holding stagnant water in which mosquitoes can breed;
(3) Abandoned, unattended or discarded refrigerators, freezers, or other devices with compartments large enough to enclose a person, adult or child, unless the doors of such devices have been removed;
(4) Carcasses of animals not buried or otherwise disposed of in a sanitary manner within twenty-four (24) hours of death;
(5) Accumulation of manure, rubbish, litter, trash, rubble, refuse, debris, paper, combustible materials, garbage, improperly stored building materials or matter of any kind or form in which flies, mosquitoes or other vermin can breed;
(6) Excavations exceeding five (5) feet in depth, wells, or cisterns that are not covered with a locking lid or enclosed by a secure, locked fence;
(7) Leaking septic tanks or sewer lines or other sewage existing in an unsanitary manner that could cause disease transmission;
(8) All structures, vehicles, or property that are maintained or operated in such a manner that endanger the health, safety, property or welfare of the inhabitants of the City;
(9) The depositing of petroleum products, automotive fluids or hazardous waste materials, as define by state law, on or below the surface of the ground, in any manner, except on property designed by law for the disposal of such material by a person authorized to so use the property;
(10) The depositing of any material whatsoever, including, but not limited to dirt, rock, debris, snow, ice, trash, garbage, rubbish, debris, discarded materials of any kind, into the Willow Creek Flume.
(b) Public health nuisance prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person to create any public health nuisance in the City or to permit a public health nuisance to occur or continue to occur on any
property under such person's control. Further, it shall be unlawful for any person to permit a public health nuisance to occur in conjunction with any personal property under the person's control. (Ord. 453 § 2, 2024)