(A) It shall be unlawful for the owner, occupant or person having control or management of any land within the city to permit a public nuisance to develop.
(B) The following conditions are declared to be public nuisances:
(1) Dangerous trees or stacks adjoining street. Any tree, stack or other object standing in a condition that it will, if the condition is allowed to continue, endanger the life, limb or property of, or cause hurt, damage or injury to persons or property upon the public streets or public ways adjacent, by the falling of parts;
(2) Accumulation of rubbish. An accumulation on any premises of filth, refuse, trash, garbage or other waste material which endangers the public health, welfare, or safety, or materially interferes with the peaceful enjoyment by owners or occupants of adjacent property because of the danger that it will catch or communicate fire, attract and propagate vermin, rodents or insects, or blow rubbish into any street, sidewalk or property of another;
(3) Storage of explosives. The storage of explosive material which creates a safety hazard to other property or persons in the vicinity;
(4) Weeds and rank vegetation. The following are deemed weeds and rank vegetation for purposes of this subchapter: any weed, tree or grass which in the opinion of the Street Commissioner and/or the Code Enforcement Officer are unsightly and in need of trimming or cutting. However, the height at which weed or rank vegetation becomes a violation of this subchapter shall be nine inches;
(5) Open wells. The maintenance of any open, uncovered or insecurely covered cistern, cellar, well, pit, excavation or vault situated upon private premises in any open or unfenced lot or place;
(6) Trees and shrubbery obstructing streets, sidewalks and drainage. The growing and maintenance of trees or shrubbery which in any way interferes with the use, construction or maintenance of streets or sidewalks, causes injury to streets or sidewalks, or constitutes an obstruction to drainage;
(7) Keeping of animals. The failure to keep an animal’s pen, yard, lot or other enclosure in a sanitary condition and free from preventable offensive odors; and
(8) Junk; scrap metal; motor vehicles. The storage of motor vehicles in an inoperative condition, motor vehicles unfit for further use, automobile parts or scrap metal within the town limits except on premises authorized by the town for the purposes.
(Ord. 2015-05, passed 5-11-2015) Penalty, see § 92.99