It shall be unlawful for the owner, occupant, or person having control or management of any land within the city to permit a public nuisance to develop thereon. The following conditions are declared to be public nuisances:
(A) Dangerous trees or stacks adjoining street. Any tree, stack, or other object standing in such a condition that it will, if the condition is allowed to continue, endanger the life, limb, or property of, or cause hurt, damage, or injury to persons or property upon the public streets or public ways adjacent thereto, by the falling thereof or of parts thereof.
(B) Accumulation of rubbish. An accumulation on any premises of filth, refuse, trash, garbage, or other waste material which endangers the public health, welfare, or safety, or materially interferes with the peaceful enjoyment by owners or occupants of adjacent property because of the danger of its catching or communicating fire, its attracting and propagating vermin, rodents, or insects, or its blowing of rubbish into any street, sidewalk, or property of another.
(C) Storage of explosives. The storage of explosive material which creates a safety hazard to other property or persons in the vicinity.
(D) Weeds and grass. The excessive growth of weeds, grass, or other vegetation. Unless otherwise provided, "EXCESSIVE" shall mean growth to a height of twelve (12) inches or more.
(E) Open wells. The maintenance of any open, uncovered, or insecurely covered cistern, cellar, well, pit, excavation, or vault situated upon private premises in any open or unfenced lot or place.
(F) Trees and shrubbery obstructing streets, sidewalks, and drainage. The growing and maintenance of trees or shrubbery which in any way interferes with the use, construction, or maintenance of streets or sidewalks, causes injury to streets or sidewalks, or constitutes an obstruction to drainage.
(G) Keeping of animals. The failure to keep the animal's pen, yard, lot or other enclosure in a sanitary condition free from preventable offensive odors or the keeping or having within the city an animal that habitually or repeatedly makes loud noises or conducts itself in any way as to be a public nuisance.
(H) Junk; scrap metal; motor vehicles. The storage of motor vehicles in an inoperative condition, motor vehicles unfit for further use, automobile parts, or scrap metal within the city limits except on premises authorized by the city for such purposes.
(I) The feeding of ducks, geese, pigeons, and similar such birds and wild animals, such as, raccoons and squirrels in a manner causing or contributing to unsanitary conditions and offensive odors within the city limits. This would include making mass quantities of food available to groups of waterfowl, pigeons, or wild animals, on repeated occasions, so as to encourage them to amass in one particular location. This does not include maintenance of birdhouses or backyard bird feeders designed to feed sparrows, cardinals, hummingbirds, or similar such birds.
(J) The keeping of any animal or fowl that causes frequent or long continued noise that disturbs the comfort or repose of any persons in the vicinity.
(K) The keeping or harboring of any fowl on residential property without the applicable license issued by the city, or the failure of a person holding such a license to adhere to the requirements to harbor fowl on his or her property.
(Am. Ord. 2001-5-2, passed 6-14-01; Am. Ord. 2011-05-01, passed 6-9-11; Am. Ord. 2021-11-01, passed 12-9-21) Penalty, see § 92.99