Each and all of the things, properties, acts, commissions, omissions, performances, failures and operations in this section set forth, within the limits of the city, are hereby declared to be and are, and each of them is, declared to be and is a public nuisance:
A. Businesses, Premises And Acts: Any business, occupation, premises, act or thing which is not ordinarily a nuisance per se, is, and each of them is, hereby declared to be a nuisance when, by reason of its or their location, nature, time or method of operation, or effect, it or they shall intend to injure or interfere with the health, peace, comfort, convenience, safety or enjoyment of the public or one or more persons in the neighborhood.
B. Every Place:
1. Wherein any gambling, bookmaking or pool selling is conducted without a license as provided by law, or wherein any swindling game or device or bucket shop, or any agency therefor is conducted, or any article, apparatus or device useful therefore is kept; or
2. Wherein any fighting between animals and/or birds shall be conducted; or
3. Wherein any dog races are conducted as a gaming activity; or
4. Wherein any intoxicating liquors are kept for unlawful use, sale or distribution; or
5. Wherein controlled substances, immediate precursor as defined in Nevada Revised Statutes 453.086 or controlled substance analog as defined in Nevada Revised Statutes 453.043 is unlawfully sold, served, stored, kept, manufactured, used or given away; or
6. Where vagrants resort.
C. Every act unlawfully done and every omission to perform a duty, which act or omission:
1. Shall annoy, injure or endanger the safety, health, comfort or repose of any considerable number of persons;
2. Shall unlawfully interfere with, befoul, obstruct or tend to obstruct, or render dangerous for passage or use, a lake, river, stream, canal, ditch or public park, square, street, alley, bridge or highway; or
3. Shall in any way render a considerable number of persons insecure in life or the use of property.
D. Dangerous Blasting: Blasting, when the same is injurious to neighboring property owners or to neighboring property.
E. Explosives: The manufacture, storing or keeping of explosives in large quantities, without the special permission of the city council.
F. Unguarded Cellar Doors: Cellar doors on sidewalks, when not properly guarded or protected.
G. Dangerous Excavations: Excavations so close to any public street or alley as to render it dangerous for a person using the way lawfully and with ordinary care, unless such excavation is properly guarded against the occurrence of accident.
H. Obstruction On Streets Or Alleys: The obstruction of any street or alley, or part thereof, except such part as may be necessary in the erection and construction of buildings or other improvements upon the adjoining property.
I. Offensive Matter: The discharge of any sewage, garbage, refuse or other noxious matter in any street, alley, gutter or highway. The accumulation of refuse and other waste to the point it annoys, injures or endangers the safety, health, comfort or repose of any person.
J. Dense Smoke: Any chimney, stationary engine, boiler, smokestack or other machine, engine, receptacle, pipe or conduit from which is emitted black or dense smoke or fumes, or smoke, fumes or gases containing soot, cinders or other matter, at such times or places or in such quantities as to be injurious to the public health or as to result in such deposits of soot or other substances as to injure or interfere with the health, comfort, peace or enjoyment of neighboring residents.
K. Noxious Or Dry Weeds: Weeds which are by their nature noxious or which when dry constitute a danger or menace of catching or spreading of fire.
L. Vegetation Which Is A Public Nuisance: Any natural or person planted products that have been allowed to grow unkept and have become hazardous, a fire hazard, or become a rodent, diseased or insect determined habitat upon any open, graded or improved parcel, lot or property within the city limits.
M. Burning Weeds And Rubbish: The burning of weeds or other rubbish, except with the permission of, and in accordance with, the regulations of the proper authorities by obtaining a burn permit from the city fire department when sanctioned.
N. Public nuisance shall further mean any fence, wall, shed, deck, house, garage, building, structure or any part of any of the aforesaid; or any tree, pole, smokestack, vehicle, or any excavation, hole, pit, basement, cellar, sidewalk, subspace, dock or any lot, land, yard, premises or location which in its entirety, or in any part thereof, by reason of the condition in which the same is found or permitted to be or remain, shall or may endanger the health, safety, life, limb or property, or cause any hurt, harm, damage or injury to any one (1) or more individuals in the city, in any one or more of the following particulars:
1. By reason of being a menace, threat and/or hazard to the general health and safety of the community.
2. By reason of being unsafe for occupancy, or use on, in, upon, about or around the aforesaid property.
3. By reason of lack of sufficient or adequate maintenance of the property, and/or being vacant, and/or failing to complete improvements of any nature, any of which depreciates the enjoyment and use of the property in the immediate vicinity to such an extent that it is harmful to the community in which such property is situated or such condition exists.
O. Hazardous Materials: Any substance as defined as a hazardous material by the code of federal regulations 49 or any substance defined as a hazardous waste by the code of federal regulations 40, which, because of improper transportation, storage, use or disposal, may cause an unreasonable risk to safety, health and/or property. The spill or escape of any such substance may, in the discretion of the fire chief or police chief, be immediately declared a public nuisance and ordered abated at the expense of the at fault party and/or owner of such substance.
P. Outside storage of vehicles, trailers, equipment, building material and other property, unless protected in such manner as to prevent the harboring of insects, flies, rodents, snakes and other animals.
Q. Junk, Abandoned And/Or Unregistered Vehicles:
1. Except as stated herein, the keeping of, for any reason, any junk, abandoned and/or unregistered vehicle or vehicles on any highway, street or other thoroughfare or upon any public or private property within the city.
2. The provisions of subsection Q1 of this section do not apply to:
a. Persons licensed pursuant to Nevada Revised Statutes section 487.050 or 487.410;
b. Junk or unregistered vehicles on private property of a licensed dealer, manufacturer, distributor or rebuilder of vehicles;
c. Junk or unregistered vehicles on private property used as a farm, ranch, mine or licensed vehicle repair shop;
d. Junk or unregistered vehicles on private property used by any person engaged in the restoration of one or more vehicles entitled to registration as a street rod, classic rod or classic vehicle;
e. No more than two (2) junk vehicles that do not qualify under subsection Q2a through Q2d of this section;
f. No more than two (2) unregistered vehicles which:
(1) Are on private property and, if on the ground, have all tires inflated and affixed thereto or, if raised, have all tires affixed thereto.
(2) Have no shattered window glass, and the hood, fender, doors, truck and all other body components affixed thereto and maintained in a closed position, and have not sustained collision damage.
3. The abandonment of a vehicle upon any highway, street or other public thoroughfare, or upon any public or private property within the city.
4. The police chief or any peace officer who has reasonable grounds to believe a vehicle has been abandoned shall attach a notice to said vehicle, in the form of a citation for illegal parking, and if said vehicle has not been removed within forty eight (48) hours after such notice is attached to said vehicle, the police chief or peace officer is authorized to remove or cause to be removed any such vehicle from any street, highway, public thoroughfare, public or private property, for the purpose of storage or disposition, to any garage or storage facility within the city.
5. If the owner of the junk, abandoned and/or unregistered vehicles fails to remove the vehicle as designated in the notice of violation served under subsection Q4 of this section, the city manager, the building inspector, the fire chief, the chief law enforcement officer or the city engineer, or any of them or their authorized designee, is authorized to have the junk, abandoned and/or unregistered vehicle towed from the place of violation to a designated place. The owner of the abandoned vehicle, including secured parties and the owner and any secured parties of the junk or unregistered vehicle, as well as the property owner or responsible party where the junk or unregistered vehicle is improperly located, shall be held liable for the costs of removal and storage.
R. Accumulation: An accumulation of conditions that together endanger the health, safety, or general welfare of the community and/or substantially impairs the value of surrounding properties.
S. Attractive Nuisance: Any artificial condition, whether in a building, on the premises of a building or upon an unoccupied job site, which by its nature, location or character would tend to attract and substantially endanger the safety of any minor person. This includes, but is not limited to, unsecured swimming pools, abandoned wells or shafts; excavations; abandoned refrigerators/freezers with doors or motor vehicles with unlocked doors; any structurally unsound fences or structures; lumber, trash/debris, or any other materials which may provide a hazard.
T. Trash, Debris, Unwholesome or Offensive Matter: All weeds, slop, waste, garbage, offal, bones, manure, or other unwholesome or offensive matter, scrap motor vehicles or trailers or parts thereof, wagon beds or bodies, running gear, tree stumps, old bed frames, bed springs, mattresses, old wire fencing, or other debris or junk permitted to grow or accumulate or be stored upon any real property within the city are hereby declared to be a nuisance and detrimental to the health, good order, safety and general welfare of the people of the city. (Ord. 738, 2-25-2021; amd. Ord. 744, 1-13-2022)