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A. It shall be unlawful for any person, except a law enforcement officer in the course of his or her duties, to discharge or fire a gun, pistol, fire arm, cannon, air rifle, sling shot, or other item designed for the discharge of bullets, missiles, rocks, or other dangerous items by the operation thereof, anywhere within the City.
B. The above prohibition shall not apply to a location designed and utilized for the safe usage of such items, whether established or constructed on a temporary or permanent basis.
C. It shall be unlawful for any person to possess in the passenger compartment of a motor vehicle off his or her own premises, an air rifle, bb or pellet gun, airsoft gun, or paintball gun, unless the item is unloaded and encased in a closed container that is secured by means of latches, zipper, or similar method. Any item found in violation of this section shall be seized as evidence and held by the Grand Island Police Department for a minimum period of sixty (60) days. If at the end of the sixty-day period the item is no longer required to be held as evidence for the prosecution of any violation of this section, any other city ordinance, or violation of any federal or state statute, the item will be returned to the rightful owner. If the rightful owner is under eighteen (18) years of age at the time the item is eligible for release, the item will be released to the rightful owner’s parent or legal guardian.
(Amended by Ordinance No. 9207, effective 03-25-09)
It shall be unlawful for any person under the age of sixteen (16) years to be upon the public streets or other public places within the City between the hours of 10:30 p.m., and 6:00 a.m., of the following day on all days preceding a school day, nor between the hours of 12:00 Midnight and 6:00 a.m., on the following day on all other days, unless accompanied by a parent, guardian, or an adult having the legal custody and care of such minor person, or unless such minor person is upon an emergency errand or other business directed by his or her parent or legal guardian.
A. It shall be unlawful for any person to tether, walk, ride, or otherwise permit one or more horses, mules, oxen, or other draft animals on or along the public right-of-way of the streets set forth in subsection (B) below, unless said person has notified the chief of police of the route to be followed at least twelve (12) hours prior to traveling thereon. Permission shall be denied if, in the opinion of the chief of police such usage would interfere with, or endanger, the normal traffic or use of the streets.
B. The following streets and areas shall require advance notice of usage:
1. Webb Road from Highway 281 to Highway 2;
2. Broadwell Avenue from Anna Street to northern city limits;
3. Eddy Street from Anna Street to State Street
4. Second Street;
5. First Street from Greenwich Avenue to Plum Street
6. Locust Street from Highway 34 to First Street
7. Central Business District: the area bounded on the north by Fourth Street, on the east by Oak Street, on the south by Koenig Street, and on the west by Eddy Street.
A. It shall be illegal for any person, corporation or entity to erect, plant, place, or maintain, fences, hedges, shrubbery, or other natural or man-made objects or structures on any public right-of-way which interfere with or are hazardous to the City's or the general public's use of the right-of-way. No such objects may be placed on any public right-of-way without the prior consent of the City.
B. When the City discovers any objects on the city right-of-way as described in Subsection (A) herein, the City will notify the adjacent property owner or tenant that said objects shall be removed immediately upon giving personal notice or posting the property.
C. Any objects not removed pursuant to Subsections (A) and (B) herein may be removed by city personnel and taken to the Grand Island Police Department impoundment facility or such other facility as the city deems appropriate for storing said objects. If the objects are not claimed by the owners within thirty days after being placed in storage, then the city may dispose of the property as it deems appropriate. If said objects are auctioned, the City may retain sufficient funds to pay all of the expenses of removal from the right-of-way and storage. Any person who has items removed from the right-of-way by the City shall pay a daily storage fee, the cost of disposal and an administrative fee of $50.00.
(Amended by Ordinance No. 8936, effective 10-13-2004)
It shall be unlawful for the owner, tenant, or person in charge of private property to erect, plant, place, or maintain trees, fences, hedges, shrubbery, or other natural or man-made objects or structures on any portion of said property on which the City has an easement, where the said object will interfere in any way with the City's rights under the easement in effect.
20-13.1 Nuisances; Specifically Defined
A nuisance consists in doing any unlawful act, or omitting to perform a duty, or suffering or permitting any condition or thing to be or exist, which act, omission, condition or thing either:
A. Violates any provision of this Code or any ordinances of the City of Grand Island or statute of the State of Nebraska which is consistently repeated or of a continuous and ongoing nature, if uncorrected.
B. Is an act or thing done, made, permitted, allowed, or conducted on any property, public or private, by any person, firm, or corporation, their agents or servants, detrimental to the health, or to the damage or injury of any of the inhabitants of the City.
C. Is offensive to the senses.
D. Unlawfully interferes with, obstructs, tends to obstruct or renders dangerous for passage any stream, public park, parkway, square, street, or highway in the City.
E. In any way renders other persons insecure in life or the use of property.
F. Essentially interferes with the comfortable enjoyment of life and property, or tends to depreciate the value of the property of others.
(Amended by Ordinance No. 8936, effective 10-13-2004)
The maintaining, using, placing, depositing, leaving or permitting of any of the following specific acts, omissions, places, conditions, and things are hereby declared to be nuisances:
A. Any odorous, putrid, unsound or unwholesome grain, meat, feathers, vegetable matter, or the whole or any part of any dead animal, fish, or fowl.
B. Privies, vaults, cesspools, dumps, pits or like places which are not securely protected from flies or rats, or which are foul or malodorous.
C. Filthy, littered or trash-covered cellars, houseyards, barnyards, stable-yards, factory-yards, mill yards, vacant areas in rear of stores, granaries, vacant lots, houses, buildings, or premises.
D. Stockpiling animal manure in a manner that causes an abundance of flies, malodorous conditions or creates other health concerns, or which is kept or handled in violation of any ordinance of the City.
E. Liquid household waste, human excreta, garbage, butcher's trimmings and offal, parts of fish or any waste vegetable or animal matter in any quantity; provided, nothing herein contained shall prevent the temporary retention of waste in receptacles in a manner approved by the health officer of the Central District Health Department, nor the dumping of non-putrefying waste in a place and manner approved by the health officer.
F. Tin cans, bottles, glass, cans, ashes, small pieces of scrap iron, wire metal articles, bric-a-brac, broken stone or cement, broken crockery, broken glass, broken plaster, and all trash or abandoned material, unless the same be kept in covered bins or galvanized iron receptacles.
G. Trash, litter, rags, accumulations of barrels, boxes, crates, packing crates, mattresses, bedding, used furniture, used appliances, excelsior, packing hay, straw or other packing material, lumber not neatly piled, scrap iron, tin or other metal not neatly piled, old automobiles or parts thereof, or any other waste materials when any of said articles or materials create a condition in which flies or rats may breed or multiply, or which may be a fire danger.
H. Any unsightly building, billboard, or other structure, or any old, abandoned or partially destroyed building or structure or any building or structure commenced and left unfinished, which said buildings, billboards or other structures are either a fire hazard or a menace to the public health or safety.
I. All places used or maintained as junk yards, or dumping grounds, or for the wrecking and dissembling of automobiles, trucks, tractors, or machinery of any kind, or for the storing or leaving of worn-out, wrecked or abandoned automobiles, trucks, tractors, or machinery of any kind, or of any of the parts thereof, or for the storing or leaving of any machinery or equipment used by contractors or buildings or by other persons.
J. Stagnant water permitted or maintained on any lot or piece of ground.
K. All other things specifically designated as nuisances elsewhere in this Code.
(Amended by Ordinance No. 8936, effective 10-13-2004) (Amended by Ordinance No. 8960, effective 3-9-2005) (Amended by Ordinance No. 8990, effective 8-10-2005)
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