For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
HIGHWAY. Any street, alley or public way within the city.
INOPERABLE MOTOR VEHICLE. Any motor vehicle from which, for a period of at least seven days, the engine, wheels or other parts have been removed, or on which the engine, wheels or other parts have been altered, damaged or otherwise so treated that the vehicle is incapable of being driven under its own motor power. INOPERABLE MOTOR VEHICLE shall also include those motor vehicles not currently licensed, or motor vehicles currently licensed but not displaying the license, by this state or any other state or county exposed to the view of the general public. INOPERABLE MOTOR VEHICLE shall not include:
(1) A motor vehicle which has been rendered temporarily incapable of being driven under its own motor power in order to perform ordinary service or repair operations.
(2) Any motor vehicle that is kept within a building when not in use.
(3) Operable historical vehicles over 25 years of age which are currently licensed, and displaying said license, by this state or any other state or county.
(4) A motor vehicle on the premises of a place of business engaged in the wrecking or junking of motor vehicles and so licensed as a place of business under the ordinances of the city.
NUISANCE. Whatever is injurious to health, indecent or offensive to the senses or an obstacle to the free use of property so as essentially to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property. The following are declared to be nuisances; provided, however, that the following shall not be deemed to be exclusive:
(1) The unnecessary or unauthorized erecting, continuing or using any building or other place for the exercise of any trade, employment or manufacture, which by occasioning noxious exhalation, offensive smells or other annoyances becomes injurious and dangerous to the health, comfort or property of individuals or the public;
(2) The obstructing or impeding without legal authority the passage of any navigable river, harbor or collection of water;
(3) The corrupting or rendering unwholesome or impure the water of any river, stream or pond, or unlawfully diverting the same from its natural course or state to the injury or prejudice of others;
(4) The obstructing or encumbering by fences, buildings or otherwise the public roads, private ways, streets, alleys, commons, landing places or burying grounds;
(5) Billboards, signboards and advertising signs, whether erected and constructed on public or private property, which so obstruct and impair the view of any portion or part of a public street, avenue, highway, boulevard or alley or of a railroad or street railway track as to render dangerous the use thereof;
(6) All unnecessary or unauthorized substances which emit or cause foul, obnoxious, unhealthful, putrid, noisome or disagreeable odor or effluvia and which are objectionable or offensive to any person or persons residing near the same or to any person passing along any street, sidewalk or alley near the same;
(7) For any person to dump, deposit, store or place any garbage, rubbish, trash or refuse upon property within the city, except as may be allowed by city ordinance or state and federal regulations;
(8) To cause or permit any premises within the city to become or remain littered with tin cans, glass jars, bottles, scrap glass, paper cartons, scraps of paper, boxes, ashes, iron, old hot water tanks, oil storage tanks, tin or other metal materials, refuse, rubbish, junk, waste, manure, straw, piles of grass clippings, lumber, old bricks, concrete blocks, chunks of broken concrete, plaster board, discarded furniture, household appliances, mattresses, bedsprings, portable swimming pools in disrepair, tires or other like matters of things;
(9) To create or permit to be created or remain upon any premises within the city for a period of more than 30 days the storing, piling, scattering, accumulating, heaping, amassing or collecting bricks, concrete materials, straw, lumber, structural iron, pipe, roofing materials or any building materials where the same is in public view and where the same may or does constitute a safety hazard to children playing in the area or so that the same may or does become an attraction to or haven for vermin or rodents; building materials stored outdoors on any site for construction authorized by a building permit shall not be permitted to remain more than 30 days after completion of construction upon a job site;
(10) To cause or permit the existence or storage in any place accessible to children of any abandoned or discarded refrigerator, icebox, ice chest, deep freeze or other airtight appliance or container of any kind of a capacity of one and one-half cubic feet or more from which the lids, doors or other covers have not been removed, or which cannot easily be opened by a child, by means of pushing only, from the inside;
(11) Permitting or causing the carcasses of animals to remain exposed more than 12 hours after death;
(12) All slop, foul or dirty water, filth or refuse or offal discharged in or upon any street, avenue, sidewalk, alley, park, public square or public or private enclosure or allowed to accumulate there or in a pond or pool;
(13) To obstruct any water source, ravine or gutter so as to cause water to stagnate therein, or permit foul or stagnant water to stand upon any premises;
(14) To allow an unkept appearance to exist on the parkway immediately adjacent to private property as caused by rubbish, debris or overgrown, uncultivated plant life;
(15) Nuisance as stated in sections of the city code;
(16) Any abandoned or partially dismantled, derelict, nonoperating, wrecked or junked vehicle; a vehicle in a state of substantial disrepair on any street, highway or public place within the city; any such vehicle in public view on any private property for more that seven days; any motor vehicle parked in the front yard of a residential or commercial property in the city for more than 24 hours; or more than five motor vehicles parked in public view on private property for a period of more than 24 hours;
(17) Any inoperable motor vehicle which is located for seven days or more upon public or private property in the city which is in public view. Each motor vehicle which is permitted to exist as a nuisance shall be considered a separate nuisance and, therefore, also constitutes the basis for a separate offense.
OPERABLE HISTORICAL VEHICLE. Any motor vehicle or other vehicle in an operable condition which is 25 years of age or older and is currently licensed, and displaying said license, by this state or any other state or county.
PROPERTY OWNER. The contract purchaser if there is one of record, otherwise the record holder of legal title.
PUBLIC VIEW. Visible from the adjoining property, street or avenue.
RUBBISH. Nonputrescible solid wastes consisting of both combustible and noncombustible wastes, such as paper, wrappings, cigarettes, cardboard, tin cans, yard clippings, wood, glass, bedding, crockery and similar materials.
(Ord. 976, passed 7-6-93; Am. Ord. 1057, passed 10-1-96)