(a) Boarding and Lodging House. Any boarding house, lodging house, or any building used for purpose, or any part thereof, within the City, which shall be leased, let, or rented to be occupied by any person, in which to dwell or lodge, and which boarding house, lodging house or building, or any part thereof, is not sufficiently lighted or ventilated or provided with water and not kept clean and in a sanitary manner, or which, any part whereof the strength, ventilation, light or sewerage is in any manner, shape or form dangerous, insufficient or prejudicial to life or health, or which shall not be provided with adequate and properly constructed privies or water closets, shall be deemed a nuisance.
(b) Manufacture of Injurious or Offensive Articles. No person shall erect any building for the purpose of manufacturing or producing any article, or manufacture or produce any article, the manufacture of which is injurious to public health, or which in the manufacture thereof, emits an offensive odor or gas to the extent of creating a nuisance to the surrounding inhabitants.
(c) Drainpipes, Garbage Boxes, etc. Any unclean, stinking, foul, defective or filthy drainpipes, tanks or gutters, or any leaking or broken slop, garbage or manure boxes, or receptacle of like character, whenever or wherever found within the City, shall be deemed a nuisance.
(d) Ashes, Cinders, Rubbish, etc. The owner, lessees, tenants, occupants and managers of every building, vessel or place in or upon which a locomotive or stationary engine, furnace or boiler is used and when gas is not used, shall cause all ashes, cinders, rubbish, dirt and refuse to be removed to some proper place, so that the same shall not accumulate. No person shall cause, suffer or allow smoke cinders, dust, gas, or offensive or noisome odors to escape or be discharged from any such building, vessel or place to the detriment or annoyance of any person not being therein or thereupon engaged. Any violation of this section shall constitute a nuisance.
(e) Slaughterhouses. No person shall slaughter any cattle, calf, sheep or hog within the City, except in a slaughterhouse erected and used previous to 1957. No building shall hereafter be erected or converted into, or used as a slaughterhouse previous to the passage of this section. Every such slaughterhouse shall be whitewashed at least once in each month between April 1, and November 1, of each year. Any such slaughterhouse in the City shall not be permitted to remain unclean. Any violation of this section shall constitute a nuisance.
(f) Barbed Wire. No fence, barrier, or obstruction consisting or made, in whole or in part, of what is commonly called "barbed wire" shall be erected, constructed, or maintained along or within eighteen inches of any property line or partition line, without the consent in writing of the owner of the adjoining property, or along or within eighteen inches of the line of, or in or upon any of the streets, avenues, alleys, or other public walks within what is known, and what has been heretofore fixed by Council, as the fire zone.
(g) Fence or Structure Permit. If the City Engineer and Chief of Police have any reason to believe that such fence or structure would likely cause damage to any person, they shall ascertain the views of all persons residing within two hundred feet of the location of such fence, and if there be any objection of any person within such distance they shall not issue any such permit, but shall refer the matter of such issuance of a permit to Council. If the City Engineer or Chief of Police refuse to issue any permit for such fence, any person affected may appeal from the ruling to Council. In the event of any reference to Council by the City Engineer or Chief of Police, a hearing shall be held and any and all persons affected may appear in person or by counsel and offer any evidence material to the issuance or refusal to issue any such permit.
(1) No fence, barrier, or other obstruction defined in subsection (f) hereof shall be built, constructed, put in place and maintained unless and until the person or persons who shall build, construct, put in place and/or maintain such fence, barrier or other obstruction, shall first obtain a permit therefor from the City Engineer upon the following condition:
(2) Before the issuance of any such permit the City Engineer and Chief of Police shall make a personal inspection of the property whereon such fence or structure is proposed to be constructed or erected, or maintained, and shall consider the location of the property, the size and type of any building or improvement upon the property, the size of the lot or tract or fractional part of lot or tract of land, the likelihood of the effect upon the property in a general way in the neighborhood where such fence is to be built, or erected or maintained.
(3) Council shall have the authority by mere motion or resolution to designate some other officer of the City to issue any permits herein mentioned in place of, in lieu of or in addition to, the City Engineer and Chief of Police.
(4) Subsection (f) and (g) hereof shall apply to all such "barbed wire" fences now built or constructed or standing, or any such fences to be built or constructed or maintained in the future.
(h) Unnecessary Noises. No person shall, within the City, play or operate or permit to be played or operated, any talking machines, amplifier, phonograph, gramophone, radiophone, record player, stereo or loud speaker or talking devices of like kind or character on the outside or on the inside of any place of business or any residence or dwelling, in the City so that the noise or sound therefrom shall enter the dwelling, apartment, or place of business of another person in such volume and intensity as to make concentration on work therein difficult, or in any other manner to interfere materially with the conduct of business therein or render the occupation in any such dwelling, house, apartment or place of business, materially uncomfortable. Nor shall any person operate any device herein described in the streets, alleys or public places within the City. Provided, that the Chief of Police is hereby authorized to issue permits authorizing sound devices announcing and promoting political occasions, grand openings of business establishments and other such occasions. The time for such permit shall not exceed forty-eight hours.
(1978 Code Secs. 17-10 to 17-20.)