Sec. 11-6-3 Public Nuisances Affecting Health or Safety.
No person may create, contrive, erect, maintain, cause, continue, install, construct or permit to exist in the Village of Edgar a public nuisance associated with, causing, or likely to cause danger, disturbance, or injury to the public health or safety. The following acts, uses, activities, things, occupations, places or physical conditions, not properly and timely removed, after written notice to remove from the Village Board to any owner or occupant of the land where the act, use, activity, thing, occupation, place, or physical condition exists, is located, or occurred or to any person responsible for the creation, maintenance, or providing of the act, use, activity, thing, occupation, place, or physical condition, are specifically declared to be public health nuisances but such enumeration shall not be construed to exclude other health nuisances from coming within the definition of Section 11-6-2:
   (a)   Noxious Weed Areas. Pursuant to Sections 8-1-4, 8-1-5 and 8-1-6, any place in the Village of Edgar where noxious weeds conditions are over eight (8) inches high, are located on private or public land conditions and are not timely cut or removed within five (5) days after posting or publication of a notice to destroy noxious weeds under Sec. 66.0407, Wis. Stats. and Section 8-1-3 or within the specified days after receipt of written notice to remove such weeds from the Village Board or designee.
   (b)   Unburied Animal Carcass Areas. Any place in the Village of Edgar where unburied animal or bird carcasses are located on private or public land and are not timely removed or discarded, including timely burial in a sanitary manner, within forty-eight (48) hours of death. This Subsection does not apply to any animal or pet cemetery approved in writing by the Village of Edgar.
   (c)   Noxious or Polluted or Waste Areas. Any place in the Village of Edgar where noxious, nauseous, unwholesome, or polluted water and waste are located on private or public land, including on adjacent Village roads, highways, bridges, sidewalks, alleys, or other public lands owned or controlled by the Village and these conditions are not timely removed within the time specified in the written notice from the Village Board or designee.
   (d)   Noxious Emission Odor Areas. Any place in the Village of Edgar where noxious odor, stench, or gas escape or is emitted into the open air from sources located on public or private land, and these conditions are not timely removed or discontinued within the time specified in the written notice to remove from the Village Board. "Noxious odor" means an odor that is extremely repulsive to the senses of ordinary persons in the Village that seriously annoys or causes serious discomfort or serious injury to the health or causes serious inconvenience to the health or safety of a significant number of persons within the Village of Edgar, as determined by the Village Board.
   (e)   Rat or Vermin Areas. Maintenance through act or omission of breeding places for rats, insects, or other vermin including, but not limited to, accumulations of decayed animal carcasses, vegetable matter, trash, rubbish, rotting lumber, bedding, packing material, scrap metal, or any material in which flies, mosquitoes, disease carrying insects, rats, and other vermin can breed.
   (f)   Unauthorized Human Burial Area. Any place in the Village of Edgar where the body of a deceased person or parts of a deceased person are located and buried on private or public land in the Village without written approval of the Village Board and are not timely removed within the time specified in the written notice to remove from the Village Board. This Subsection does not apply to any established cemetery or burial site grounds approved, owned and operated in accordance with Ch. 157, Wis. Stats.
   (g)   Hazardous, Toxic or Solid Waste Facility or Site Areas. Any place or solid waste facility in the Village of Edgar where the discharge, disposal, storage or treatment of hazardous, toxic, or solid waste occurs on private or public lands without approval and licensing or permitting of the discharge, disposal, storage or treatment by all proper federal, state, county and Village governing authorities and full compliance with all applicable laws, rules, regulations or ordinances of the federal, state, county or Village, and the activity or condition is not timely removed or discontinued within thirty (30) days after receipt of written notice to remove from the Village Board. To constitute a public nuisance under this Subsection, an area, facility or site must be in violation of zoning or regulatory standards and/or threaten or cause serious discomfort or serious injury to the health or cause serious inconvenience to the health or safety of a significant number of persons within the Village of Edgar, as determined by the Village Board.
   (h)   Dangerous Wild Animal Areas. Any place in the Village of Edgar where live dangerous wild animals are kept, sold, or in any manner controlled or possessed on private or public land without written approval of the Village Board and/or in violation of any applicable animal control ordinance in Title 7, Ch. 1 of this Code of Ordinances, and the animals are not removed or destroyed within the time specified in the written notice from the Village Board unless written approval of the Village Board is obtained within said time. To constitute a dangerous wild animal, under this Subsection, the species of animal must pose a threat to the safety of persons within the Village, including a keeper of such animal, as determined by the Village Board. It is not necessary that the Village Board find that a specific animal is dangerous in order to find a nuisance under this Subsection.
   (i)   Improper Sewage Areas. Any place in the Village of Edgar where effluent is not properly contained from a septic system, sewer lateral, holding tank, cesspool, or other human waste container located on private or public land and the problem is not corrected withhi the time specified in the written notice to remove from the Village Board or designee.
   (j)   Dangerous or Dilapidated Buildings. Any place in the Village of Edgar where a building or structure, the contents therein, or any associated electrical, heat, water or sewer system located on public or private lands is so old, dilapidated, or out of repair as to be dangerous, unsafe, unsanitary, in violation of Village ordinances, or otherwise render the building unfit for human habitation are not timely removed or discontinued within the time specified in the written notice to correct from the Village Board or designee.
   (k)   Dangerous Tree Areas. Any place in the Village of Edgar where any trees or the tree's limbs located on private or public lands constitute a dangerous or unsafe condition and these dangerous or unsafe conditions per Title 6, Chapter 4 of the Village of Edgar Code of Ordinances have not been timely removed within the time specified in the written notice to remove from the Village Board or designee. Specific tree nuisances include, but are not limited to:
      (1)   Any dead or dying tree, shrub, or other plant, whether located on Village-owned property or on private property.
      (2)   Any otherwise-healthy tree, shrub, or plant, whether located on Village-owned property or on private property which harbors insects or diseases which reasonably can be expected to injure or harm any tree, shrub or plant.
      (3)   Any tree, shrub or other plant or poi:tion thereof, whether located on Village-owned property or private property, which by reason of location or condition constitutes an imminent danger to the health, safety or welfare of the general public.
      (4)   Any tree, shrub, or other plant or portion thereof, whether located on Village-owned property or on private property which obstructs the free passage of pedestrian or vehicular traffic or which obstructs a street light.
      (5)   Any tree, shrub, or other plant or portion thereof, whether located on Village-owned property or on private property which dangerously obstructs the view in a "visibility triangle" or "vision clearance triangle."
   (I)   Fire Hazard Areas. Any place in the Village of Edgar where combustible materials are improperly located and stored on private or public lands and the materials are not timely removed or safely stored within the time specified in the written notice from the Village Board, Fire Inspector or designee.
   (m)   Improper Encroachment or Discharge Areas. Any unauthorized or improper encroachments and discharges, including solid waste, trees, limbs, vehicles, structures, equipment, signs, recreational equipment, landscaping rocks and features, fences, hedges, driveway standards, manure, weeds, crops, and other materials on any Village roadway or on other Village public lands without written permission from the Village Board, and the improper or unauthorized encroachment or discharge is not timely removed or discontinued within the time specified in the written notice to remove from the Village Board or designee.
   (n)   Junked or Inoperable Vehicles, Refuse and Appliances. Junked, unlicensed, disassembled or inoperable vehicles, refuse and appliances stored outside, in violation of this Chapter or Section 10-5-8, are public nuisances under this Section.
   (o)   Discharge or Storage of Hazardous or Nauseous Materials. The discharge, disposal, storage or treatment of noxious, filthy, decaying, hazardous, or nauseous materials repulsive to the senses of ordinary persons and which continue to the substantial annoyance or substantial discomfort of persons or cause injury to persons or property in the Village of Edgar.
   (p)   Water Pollution. Water pollution entering the surface waters causing a private or public drinking water well on another property or any river, stream, lake, ditch, canal or other body of water to become contaminated.
   (q)   Unhealthy Stagnant Waters. All stagnant water in which mosquitoes, flies or other insects can multiply.
   (r)   Animals at Large. All animals running at large or otherwise in violation of any provision in Title 7, Chapter 2 of the Village of Edgar Code of Ordinances.
   (s)   Abandoned Wells. All abandoned wells not securely covered or secured from public use.
   (t)   Improperly Removed Snow/Ice. All snow and/or ice not removed from public sidewalks within twenty-four (24) hours after it has ceased to fall or accumulate thereon in violation of Section 6-2-8.