(A) 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.
(B) The following conditions are declared to be public nuisances:
(1) 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;
(2) 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 that it will catch or communicate fire, attract and propagate vermin, rodents or insects, or blow rubbish into any street, sidewalk or property of another;
(3) Storage of explosives. The storage of explosive material which creates a safety hazard to other property or persons in the vicinity;
(4) Weeds. The existence of thistles, burdock, jimson weeds, ragweeds, milkweeds, poison ivy, poison oak, iron weeds and all other noxious weeds and rank vegetation in excess of a height of 12 inches;
(5) 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;
(6) Trees and shrubbery obstructing streets and sidewalks. The growing and maintenance of trees with less than 14 feet clearance over streets or less than eight feet over sidewalks, or the growing and maintenance of shrubbery in excess of three feet in height within the radius of 20 feet from the point where the curbline of any street intersects the curbline of another street. No shrub shall be planted between the curbline and the property line of any street within a radius of 20 feet from the point where the curbline of any street intersects with the curbline of another street;
(7) Keeping of animals. The failure to keep an animal’s pen, yard, lot or other enclosure in a sanitary condition and free from preventable offensive odors;
(8) 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; and
(9) Drilling for natural gas or oil. It shall be unlawful to engage in any type of exploration or drilling for natural gas or oil within 150 feet of any building within the city limits.
(Prior Code, § 92.03) (Ord. passed 11-2-1987) Penalty, see § 92.99