CHAPTER 91: HEALTH AND SANITATION; NUISANCES

Section

   91.01   Public Officer; enforcement

   91.02   Smoke, soot, cinders and the like

   91.03   Stagnant water

   91.04   Weeds

   91.05   Dead animals

   91.06   Health and sanitation nuisances

   91.07   Overgrown and dirty lots

   91.08   Unlawful disposal of rubbish

§ 91.01 PUBLIC OFFICER; ENFORCEMENT.

   The Public Officer shall be such municipal, county or state officer as the City Manager shall appoint or designate to administer and enforce health and sanitation regulations within the city.

(1994 Code, § 13-101)

§ 91.02 SMOKE, SOOT, CINDERS AND THE LIKE.

   It shall be a civil offense for any person to permit or cause the escape of such quantities of dense smoke, soot, cinders, noxious acids, fumes, dust or gases as to be detrimental to or to endanger the health, comfort and safety of the public or so as to cause or have a tendency to cause injury or damage to property or business.

(1994 Code, § 13-102) (Ord. 494, passed 9-2-1993) Penalty, see § 10.99

§ 91.03 STAGNANT WATER.

   It shall be a civil offense for any person to knowingly allow any pool of stagnant water to accumulate and stand on his or her property without treating it so as effectively to prevent the breeding of mosquitoes.

(1994 Code, § 13-103) (Ord. 494, passed 9-2-1993) Penalty, see § 10.99

§ 91.04 WEEDS.

   (A)   Cutting grass and weeds; civil offense. Every owner or tenant of property shall periodically cut the grass and other vegetation commonly recognized as weeds on his or her property, and it shall be a civil offense for any person to fail to comply with an order by the Codes Enforcement Officer to cut such vegetation when it has reached a height of over one foot.

   (B)   Prohibited vegetation.

      (1)   It shall be unlawful for any property owner, occupant, or person in control of any lot or parcel of land within the city to fail to eradicate on any such lot or parcel of land any noxious weeds, ragweed, poison ivy, poison oak, poison sumac, thistle,, kudzu or any random invasive privet hedge. A weed may be added to or deleted from the list of noxious weeds by resolution of the City Commission.

      (2)   Such noxious weeds may be destroyed by cutting or removal, by spraying with a chemical compound/herbicide, by plowing under, or by such other method as recommended by the University of Tennessee Agriculture Extension Office.

(1994 Code, § 13-104) (Ord. 494, passed 9-2-1993; Ord. 796, passed 11-28-2016) Penalty, see § 10.99

§ 91.05 DEAD ANIMALS.

   Any person owning or having possession of any dead animal not intended for use as food shall promptly bury the same or notify the Public Officer and dispose of such animal in such manner as the Public Officer shall direct.

(1994 Code, § 13-105) Penalty, see § 10.99