For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ABATE.
To lessen, to put an end to or to do away with a public nuisance.
ABATEMENT.
The removal or reduction of a public nuisance.
DEMOLITION MATERIAL.
All material, including, but not limited to, rock, stone, concrete and asphalt which is used in construction, mining, building
maintenance, or road or street maintenance.
GARBAGE.
All putrescible matter, including, but not limited to, animal or vegetable wastes or feces, whether solid, liquid or mixed, which attends, exists, or is created or accumulates within the city.
LITTER.
Includes any garbage, waste, peelings of vegetables or fruits, rubbish, ashes, cans, bottles, wire, paper, cartons, boxes, parts of vehicle, furniture, glass, oil of an unsightly or unsanitary nature or anything else of an unsightly or unsanitary nature.
OCCUPANT.
Any person being the owner or having tenement, lessee or other contractual right to the premises.
OWNER.
The owner of record of the premises in fee or any lesser estate therein, a mortgagee or vendee in possession, assignee of the rents, receiver, executor, administrator, trustee, lessee or other person in control of the premises or their duly authorized agents, including, but not limited to, property managers.
PERSON.
Any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind.
PRIVATE PROPERTY.
Real estate not owned by the City of East Cleveland.
PUBLIC NUISANCE.
A condition which exists when any one or more of the following exists or originates on property not owned by the city:
(1) Any building or structure upon any lot of land is so out of repair or dilapidated that it endangers the public health, safety, welfare or property;
(2) Any tree, stack or other object located on any lot of land in such condition that it endangers the public health, safety, welfare or property. Any furniture, appliances, tools, equipment, motor vehicles, or parts of the aforementioned categories of items, that exist in such condition that a reasonable person would conclude that the items have been discarded, rendered unusable, abandoned, broken or unsightly that it endangers the public health, safety, welfare or property;
(3) Any excavation or cellar, that upon any lot of land is unguarded or in such condition that it endangers the public health, safety, welfare or property;
(4) Any accumulation upon any lot of land of earth, rubbish or other material which attracts or propagates rats, vermin or inspects in such manner that it endangers the public health, safety, welfare or property;
(5) Any building or structure upon any lot of land is so out of repair that it constitutes a fire hazard;
(6) Accumulation of rubbish or other material upon any lot of land or in any building or structure in such an amount that it constitutes a fire hazard;
(7) Any activity upon any lot of land that generates noxious odors, smoke, dust or dirt which endangers the public health, safety, welfare or property;
(8) Any activity conducted upon any lot of land that generates loud, unusual or unnecessary noise which annoys, disturbs, injures or endangers the public health, safety, welfare of property;
(9) Any material that is placed, thrown or swept into any street, walkway, parks or public grounds, which by its nature, endangers the public health, safety, welfare or property;
(10) Any conditions that exists which, at common law, was classified as a public nuisance;
(11) Any condition that exists which has been declared a public nuisance by the Ohio Revised Code; and
(12) Any condition that exists which, at common law, is classified as a public nuisance.
RUBBISH
or
REFUSE.
All natural or human- made matter, whether putrescible or nonputrescible, combustible or noncombustible and including, but not limited to, ashes, paper, tin, tin cans, bottles, glass, vegetable material, brush, grass, leaves, wrappings, cardboard, trees, shrubs, crockery, dead animals, furniture or appliances (or parts thereof), industrial waste, waste of a dangerous or explosive nature, septic tank cleanings, demolition matter, rubber tires, rubber products, metal, motor vehicle parts or pieces, engines and motors or parts thereof.
WEEDS.
All burrs, vines, Russian, Canadian and common thistles, briers, dock, burdock, wild mustard, jimpson weed, dog fennel, ragweed, gold rod, sweet clover, wild parsnip, wild carrot and other noxious vegetation growing wild and uncultivated upon any land within the city, which may cause noxious exhalations or which are spreading or forming mature seeds, including, but not limited to, any poisonous weeds or vines.