The following things or conditions, among others, are declared to be nuisances, but are in no way to be construed as being the only nuisances that may be declared under this chapter; as nuisances, same are liable to be abated, and the person guilty of causing, permitting or suffering any of them upon his or her premises or in any building occupied or controlled by him or her, or in or upon any street, alley, sidewalk or gutter immediately adjacent to the premises shall, upon conviction, be fined as provided in § 10.99 hereinafter prescribed:
(A) All cellars, vaults, drains, pools, privies, sewers, yards, grounds or premises which have for any cause become foul, nauseous or not provided with adequate means of ingress or egress or not sufficiently supported, ventilated, sewered, drained, cleaned or lighted;
(B) All carcasses, all decaying flesh, fish, fowls, fruit or vegetables, all deposits of manure, all flesh of any kind or description whatever, all filthy or offensive water or slops in any private yard or premises, and all other unwholesome substances when thrown upon or conducted into or upon any street, alley, public ground, or enclosure in such manner as to render the substances unwholesome and offensive or liable to become unwholesome or offensive;
(C) All privies and all markets, cellars, laundries, stores or other buildings or places which are not kept clean and free from filthy and unwholesome substances and odors; all deposits of substances that are offensive or liable to engender disease;
(D) Every trade, business or occupation injurious to the health or comfort of persons who reside in the vicinity, and any can or receptacle containing water or slops suffered to become stagnant or offensive or unwholesome from any cause;
(E) The act of depositing filth or any foul, offensive, nauseous or injurious substance upon any sidewalk, street, alley, public thoroughfare or other public place;
(F) The act of sweeping or depositing any trash, paper or rubbish into any street, alley, public thoroughfare or other public place while driving, walking or by any other means;
(G) The act of burning any hair, leather, rags or any other substance of any kind which may cause or produce an offensive smell, smoke or odor capable of annoying persons living in the vicinity or persons passing along the streets, alleys or public thoroughfares;
(H) The act of defecating or urinating upon the streets, alleys or public grounds, or in any place that may be seen from a private residence, or by persons passing along the streets, alleys or public thoroughfares;
(I) The act by any person of permitting or allowing any weeds, filth or rubbish of any kind to remain on any sidewalk in front of or at the side of any premises owned by such persons, or in the street, to the middle thereof, in front of or at the side of any premises owned or controlled by that person, or upon any alley, that may be at the rear or side of any lots owned or controlled by the person;
(J) The act of scattering or distributing any advertisements, circulars, handbills, printed or written announcements, or paper of like character, or any medicines, upon the streets, sidewalks, alleys or within the public buildings or grounds within the city;
(K) The act of throwing from any opening in, or carrying from, any dwelling or place of abode, any night soil, feces, urine or filthy or unclean water into or upon any alley, street or sidewalk or into or upon any adjacent property not owned by the principal;
(L) The act of conducting or causing to be conducted into any alley or gutter, drain or public ground except such articles as are permitted by ordinance of this city, in such a manner as to obstruct the passageway;
(M) The act of throwing any glass, tin, queen’s ware, crockery or other rubbish into or upon the sidewalks, streets, alleys, public thoroughfares, drains or gutters;
(N) Any unwholesome food, liquor or adulterated medicine;
(O) Any nauseous, foul or putrid liquids, or substances likely to be nauseous, foul, offensive or putrid, discharged, laced, thrown or conducted into or upon any street, alley, public ground or common;
(P) The act of erecting or maintaining buildings or structures with roofs or eaves projecting beyond the property line or shedding water upon any property other than that belonging to the owner of the erection or building;
(Q) The act of conducting any business or enterprise upon any premises or within any building which through negligence allows paper, paper cups or any other debris to escape from the premises or building and litter any sidewalk, alley, street or other public place or private property;
(R) The allowance of noises other than those necessary in the conduct of the business, which emanate from any private premises, business or otherwise, which affect the comfort or enjoyment of private property by the owners thereof such as, but not limited to, automobiles with loudspeakers, exterior loudspeakers on buildings, automobiles with loud mufflers, screaming, yelling or loud language during the nighttime hours, ringing of bells, blowing of horns and bugles, crying of goods, and other noises, practices and performances which may injure or affect the public health or comfort in any manner;
(S) Allowing the existence of weeds and/or grass, or other uncultivated plants on any premises, which grow in such rank profusion as to harbor reptiles or rodents, or create a fire hazard; and weeds and/or grass, or other uncultivated plants on any premises, which are permitted to, or do, attain a greater height than 12 inches on the average;
(T) The maintenance of any horse or cow on property with a zoning density of one or more residences or business establishments per acre; and
(U) Maintaining a fowl other than homing pigeons in any manner other than totally enclosed in a pen or other enclosure.
(1985 Code, § 11-501)