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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)
If the owner, occupant, or agent in charge of any lot, building, or other premises, or the person responsible for the maintenance of a nuisance fails to abate said nuisance ten (10) days after a notice to abate has been mailed by ordinary first class mail and certified mail, return receipt requested, to the last known address of such person or persons, the city attorney's office may, with the consent of the mayor, bring legal action to obtain abatement of the nuisance.
In the event legal action to abate a nuisance is commenced on behalf of the City of Grand Island, the City Attorney shall request that the Court enter such order as is appropriate to expeditiously and completely abate said nuisance and that said order be of a continuing nature, permanently enjoining the defendant from continuing, maintaining, renewing or restoring said nuisance on said persons property or public property and entering a judgment against the defendant(s) for the costs incurred by the City of Grand Island in abating said nuisance conditions.
A. It shall be unlawful for any person to skateboard within the following described boundaries of the City of Grand Island: Union Pacific right-of-way on the north, Oak Street on the east, First Street on the south, and Elm Street on the west.
B. Penalty. Any person violating the provisions of this ordinance shall be fined according to the provisions of the Grand Island City Code.
A. The term "disorderly house" as used in this code shall mean any room, house, building, structure, or premises, where unlawful or illegal acts are being committed.
B. It shall be unlawful for the owner, occupant or person in possession, charge, or in control of any room, house, building, structure, or premises to knowingly collect or permit to be collected therein persons who are engaging in any unlawful act, or to knowingly make, cause, permit or suffer to be made therein any loud or improper noise to the annoyance or disturbance of any person or neighborhood.
C. It shall be unlawful for any person to be a resident or occupant of, or visit or frequent any disorderly house with knowledge of, and participation in, the illegal activities occurring therein.
A. Whenever a police officer has probable cause to believe that a person or persons are creating a disturbance of the peace and quiet of any person or neighborhood, such police officer may order said person or persons not residing on the premises to disperse for the purpose of abating the said nuisance.
B. It shall be unlawful for any person to refuse to comply with a lawful order to disperse given by a police officer in the performance of the officer's duties under this section.
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