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 thereon. The following conditions are declared to be public nuisances:
(A) Plastic flags or banners other than the flag of the United States of America or the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
(B) Loud speakers outside of any building.
(C) Sales of merchandise for commercial purposes from tents or other portable buildings.
(D) The hoisting of or lifting of vehicles in an outside area more than ten feet off the ground.
(E) The placing of hot air balloons of any kind in a stationary position for promotional or commercial uses where the top of the balloon is more than ten feet off the ground.
(F) The depositing of trash of any kind upon the streets and other property within the city.
(Ord. 91-3, passed 5-6-91)
(G) Dangerous trees or stacks adjoining street. Any tree, stack, or other object standing in such 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 thereto, by the falling thereof or of parts thereof.
(H) 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.
(I) Storage of explosives. The storage of explosive material which creates a safety hazard to other property or persons in the vicinity.
(J) Deleterious, unheathful growths. Deleterious, unhealthful growths shall be defined as weeds, grass or plants, other than trees, bushes, flowers or other ornamental plants, allowed to exceed 12 inches in height. The Commissioner of the Sanitation Department shall be sole judge as to the ornamental or deleterious, unhealthful nature of said plants.
(K) 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.
(L) 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.
(M) 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.
(N) Scrap metal. The storage of scrap metal within the city limits except on premises authorized by the city for such purposes.
(O) (1) Unkept properties. Shall include:
(a) Peeling or deteriorated surfaces. No owner of any lot, place or area within the city or agent or lessee of such owner, shall permit on such lot, place or area any structure or site improvement once painted, the peeling or deterioration of said painted surface to exceed 20% of that surface's visible area unless the paint is removed entirely and the material requries no surfacing to prevent deteriortion. ('81 Code, § 1010.2.1) (Ord. -1992, passed - -92)
(b) Broken windows or missing exterior finish carpentry. No owner of any lot, place or area within the city or agent or lessee of such owner, shall permit on such lot, place or area any structure or site improvement the existence of broken windows or missing elements of once present exterior finish carpenstry. ('81 Code, § 1010.2.2) (Ord. -1992, passed - -92)
(c) Uncompleted repairs. No owner of any lot, place or area within the city, or agent or lessee of such owner, shall permit on such lot, place or area any repair work on any structure, site improvement, equipment, appliance or furniture to go uncompleted without progress toward completion for 14 days if said work is visible from any surrounding lot, place or area within the city. ('81 Code, § 1010.2.3) (Ord. -1992, passed - -92)
(2) Notice to repair. The Commissioner of the Sanitation Department of the city is hereby authorized and empowered to notify, in writing, the owner of any such lot, place or area within the city or the agent of such owner, to paint peeling or deteriorated surfaces exceeding 20% of once painted visible surfaces, repair broken windows, perform exterior finish carpentry, or remove uncompleted repair work of any structure, site improvement, equipment, appliance or furniture. ('81 Code, § 1010.2.4) (Ord. -1992, passed - -92)
Penalty, see § 92.99