It is hereby declared to be a nuisance and to be against the health, peace and comfort of the City, for any person, firm or corporation within the limits of the City to permit the following, but the enumeration of the following nuisances shall not be deemed to be exclusive:
A. Filth:
1. To cause or suffer the carcass of any animal or any offal, filth or noisome substance to be collected, deposited or to remain in any place to the prejudice of others.
2. To keep or suffer to be kept any chicken coop, cow barn, stable, cellar, vault, drain, privy, sewer or sink upon any premises belonging to or occupied by any person, or any railroad car, building, yard, grounds, and premises belonging to or occupied by any person.
B. Deposit Of Offensive Materials: To throw or deposit any offal or other offensive matter or the carcass of any dead animal in any watercourse, lake, pond, spring, well or common sewer, street or public highway.
C. Offensive Liquids: To keep nauseous, foul or putrid liquid or substance or any liquid or substance likely to become nauseous, foul, offensive, or putrid, nor permit any such liquid to be discharged, placed, or thrown, or to flow from or out of any premises into or upon any adjacent premises or any public street or alley, nor permit the same to be done by any person connected with the premises.
D. Accumulation Of Junk, Trash And Debris:
1. To deposit or pile any rags, old rope, paper, iron, brass, copper, tin, aluminum, used lumber, appliances, construction materials, demolition debris, ashes, garbage, refuse, plastic, brush, litter, weeds, slush, lead, glass bottles or broken glass upon any lot, piece or parcel of land or upon any public or private alley, street or public way within the City.
2. To store, dump or permit the accumulation of debris, refuse, garbage, trash, tires, buckets, cans, wheelbarrows, garbage cans or other containers in a manner that may harbor mosquitoes, flies, insects, rodents, nuisance birds or other animal pests that are offensive, injurious or dangerous to the health of individuals or the public.
E. Water Pollution: To corrupt or render unwholesome or impure the water of any spring, river, stream, pond, lake, or well, public or private, to the injury or prejudice of others.
F. Noxious Odors: To erect, continue or use any building or other place for the exercise of any trade, employment or manufacture which, by occasioning noxious exhalations, offensive smells or otherwise, is offensive or dangerous to the health of individuals or of the public.
G. Dense Smoke: To cause or permit the emission of dense smoke from any fire, chimney, engine, oil burner or any other agency in the City so as to cause annoyance or discomfort to the residents thereof.
H. Offensive Businesses: To establish, maintain, and carry on any offensive or unwholesome business or establishment detrimental to the health, safety or welfare of the City within the limits of the City or within one and one-half (1-1/2) miles of the City limits.
I. Littering: To deposit or allow trash, paper, cardboard, wire, dirt, rock, stone, glass, brick, lumber, wood or litter of material objects of any size or description to fall upon the streets of the City from any moving vehicle, or to be thrown from a moving vehicle, or to throw from a moving vehicle and to remain thereon.
J. Public Ways Encroachments: To obstruct or encroach upon public highways, private ways, streets, alleys, commons, landing places, and ways to burying places.
K. Unlawful Advertising: To advertise wares or occupations by painting notices of the same on, or affixing them to fences or other private property, or on rocks or other natural objects without the consent of the owner, or if in the highway or other public place, without permission of the proper authorities.
L. Conditions From Underground Wells: To permit any salt water, oil, gas or other wastes from any well drilled for oil, gas or exploratory purposes to escape to the surface, or into a mine or coal seam, or into any underground fresh water supply, or from one underground stratum to another.
M. Rodents: To cause or permit any condition or situation to exist that shall attract, harbor, or encourage the infestation of rodents.
N. Scrap Tires: To keep any scrap tires, either mounted or dismounted, in open view, or so as to allow such tires to accumulate stagnant water so as to provide a breeding ground for mosquitoes and other pests.
O. Expectorating: To expectorate on any public sidewalk or street or other public building or floor or walk of any public vehicle or hall.
P. Bringing Nuisances Into The City: To bring into the City or keep therein for sale or otherwise, either for food or for any other purpose, any dead or live animal or any matter, substance, or thing which shall be a nuisance or which shall occasion a nuisance in the City, or which may or shall be dangerous or detrimental to health.
Q. Common Law Nuisances: To commit any act which is a nuisance according to the common law of the land or made such by statute of the State.
Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the Corporate Authorities of the City from declaring what shall be nuisances and abating them within the City limits.
(2006 Code § 25-1-1)