(A) Generally. No person shall create or cause the continuance of a nuisance in the county. All nuisances, as defined hereafter and as recognized by the common law and the statutes of the state, may be treated as such and proceeded against in accordance with the recognized remedies for abating and enjoining nuisances and/or in accordance with § 50.99.
(B) Declared nuisances prejudicial to the public health. It is hereby declared that the following are nuisances, but are not inclusive of all conditions or acts which may give rise to the creation or continuance of a nuisance:
(1) To allow the carcasses of dead animals or any part of decaying animal matter to remain not buried, destroyed or collected, within 24 hours after death or dismemberment;
(2) To throw or deposit any offal, refuse, junk or the carcass of any dead animal, in a watercourse, lake, pond, spring, well or common sewer, street or public roadway;
(3) To corrupt or render unwholesome or impure the water of any spring, river, stream, pond or lake;
(4) To allow a diseased animal to run at large;
(5) To allow excessive amounts of manure, refuse, human, noxious or offensive waste to accumulate. This excludes the normal storage of manure on a farm;
(6) To allow any discharge of raw or insufficiently treated human waste or sewage onto the surface of the ground or into any watercourse, spring, hike, pond or well through either direct or indirect means;
(7) To allow any waste from commercial or industrial facilities to accumulate or to become foul, offensive or to otherwise become a health hazard;
(8) To allow any wells or cisterns to remain open;
(9) To allow an abandoned refrigerator to remain on any premises that does not have the doors, locks or latches removed;
(10) To allow any building, mobile home, shed, fence or other human-made structure to exist which is dangerous to public health because of its condition, construction or lack of proper repair and which may cause or aid in the spread of disease or injury to the health of the occupants and/or neighboring structures or occupants;
(11) To allow the spillage, scatter or loss of refuse from any vehicle that is used to transport garbage or refuse;
(12) Any place harboring vermin and/or rodents;
(13) To cause or to allow any ashes, garbage, junk, refuse, rubbish, vermin or weeds to be stored, handled, disposed or to collect or accumulate upon any public or private property contrary to the provisions of this chapter, and to do or to cause or to allow the occurrence of continuance of any other act or things contrary to the provisions of this chapter; and
(14) All other acts, practices, conduct, business, occupants, callings, trades, uses of property and all other things detrimental to the health of the inhabitants of the county.
(Prior Code, § 50.41) (Ord. passed 5-13-1999)