(A) The following acts when committed or conditions when existing, within the city or within the area surrounding the city and within the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the city, as provided in § 91.004 are hereby defined and declared to be nuisances:
(1) An act committed or aided or assisted to be committed by any person, or substance, being or thing kept, maintained, placed or found in or upon any public or private place, which is injurious or dangerous to the public health or safety;
(2) All buildings, bridges or other structures of whatever character kept or maintained or which are permitted by any person owning or having control thereof to be kept or maintained in a condition unsafe, dangerous, unhealthful, injurious or annoying to the public;
(3) All properties with vegetation growing thereon being lawns, weeds, shrubs, trees and appendages of, or to realty kept or maintained, or which are permitted by any person owning or having control thereof to be kept or maintained in a condition unsafe, dangerous, unhealthful, injurious, unsightly or annoying to the public;
(4) All ponds or pools of stagnant water and all foul or dirty water or liquid when discharged through any drain, pipe or spout or when thrown into or upon any street, public place or lot, to the injury or annoyance of the public;
(5) All obstructions caused or permitted on any street or sidewalk, to the danger or annoyance of the public, and all stones, rubbish, dirt, filth, slops, vegetable matter or other offensive article thrown or placed by any person on or in any street, sidewalk or other public place, which, in any way, may cause any injury or annoyance to the public;
(6) All sidewalks, gutters or curbstones permitted to remain in an unsafe condition or out of repair;
(7) All stables, cattle yards, hog, sheep or cow pens or yards for poultry or other places where animals are kept, permitted by the owner thereof or the person responsible therefor to be in such a condition as to become offensive, annoying or injurious to the public;
(8) All houses, buildings, structures or enclosures used for special storage of powder, dynamite or other explosive or highly flammable substances or gases, except those maintained pursuant to a permit issued by a competent authority;
(9) Any litter, trash, garbage or refuse or any abandoned, unlicensed motor vehicle or any part thereof, which is or may be offensive to the neighborhood or citizens generally, or which may afford a harboring or breeding place for vermin, insects, reptiles or rodents, or which, in any way, may constitute a fire, health or safety hazard;
(10) Any trees, shrubbery and the like growing on private property, the roots of which clog or choke any public sewer belonging to the city, or damage the streets or sidewalks of the city;
(11) Collections of water which are or are likely to become breeding places for mosquitoes;
(12) Accumulation of manure from horses, mules, cows, chickens or other animals or birds or accumulations of any other material in which flies may breed;
(13) Any closet not connected with a city sewer and which is not fly-proof below the seat;
(14) Common drinking cups in public places;
(15) Common or roller towels in public places;
(16) Open wells and springs within the city;
(17) Animals dead within the city, other than those slaughtered for human consumption; and
(18) Improperly constructed or managed swimming pools or public bathing places.
(B) The nuisances described in this section shall not be construed as exclusive, and any act of commission or omission and any condition which constitutes a nuisance by statute or by common law of the state, when committed, omitted or existing within the city or within the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the Council, as provided by § 91.004, is hereby declared to constitute a nuisance.
(1991 Code, § 12-5) (Ord. passed 5-2-1974; Ord. passed 7-6-1989) Penalty, see § 91.999