Health nuisance includes any act, omission to act, or condition on any real property which injures or threatens the health or safety of one or more persons and shall not be limited to, but shall include the following:
(A) The storage, collection, accumulation, discharge, or deposition of any offal, fecal matter filth, refuse, weeds, vegetation, animal carcass, dead organic material, garbage, stagnant or polluted waters, combustible materials and similar materials in any place or on any property so as to threaten the health or safety of the individual or the public or to be conductive to the breeding of flies, rats, or other vermin, or to the prejudice of others.
(B) The presence of rats, flies, or other vermin.
(C) To discharge or deposit any offal, liquid waste, sewage effluent, dead animal(s), or other polluting material into or upon any watercourse, stream, river, lake, pond, spring, well, abandoned well, ground-surface, drainage ditch, storm sewer, field drain tile, street or public highway.
(D) To corrupt or render impure the water of any spring, river, stream, pond or lake, to the injury or prejudice of others.
(E) To erect or continue to use any building or other place for the exercise of any trade, employment, or manufacture, which, by occasioning noxious exhalations, is dangerous to the health of individuals or to the public.
(F) To collect, store, deposit, or discharge flammable refuse, liquid, or other material in any building or on any place in such manner as to constitute a hazard of fire injury to individuals or the public.
(G) To dump, abandon, deposit, dismantle, or burn upon any public or private property, right-of-way, highway, park, street, or parkway anywhere in Rock Island County, any trash, garbage, ashes, junk, junked or wrecked motor vehicles or nonmotorized equipment, or parts thereof, or miscellaneous solid waste.
(H) The unlawful disposal of the carcasses of dead animals, fish, or fowl.
(I) The exposure of any person to any communicable disease by any unlawful act or practice.
(J) To own, maintain, or keep a dwelling unit unfit for human habitation or dangerous or detrimental to life, safety, or health because of lack of repair, defects in the sewage system, plumbing facilities, lighting, or ventilation, the existence of contagious diseases or unsanitary conditions likely to cause sickness among persons residing in said premises or residing in proximity thereof.
(K) Failure to secure areas, buildings, equipment, or places against unauthorized access where such access threatens the safety of individuals.
(L) Whatever renders food or drink detrimental to human beings, as determined by the Health Authority.
(M) Any attractive nuisance which may prove detrimental to life, health, or safety whether in a building, on the premises of a building, or upon an unoccupied lot. This includes any abandoned well shaft, basement or excavation, motor vehicle, discarded, abandoned, unattended, or used refrigerators, iceboxes and similar containers equipped with airtight door or lid, snap lock, or other locking device which may not be released from the inside. The duties of this item are imposed alike on the owner of the nuisance and the owner or occupant of the premises where the nuisance is permitted to remain.
(N) To allow growth of weeds and grass to exceed ten inches (10") in height upon any public or private property.
(O) For the owner or keeper of any lot or premises to suffer, to remain thereon, to the annoyance and detriment of other persons outside the buildings located on said premises, any furniture not designed for outdoor use. (Ord. 92-42, 10-5-1992)