It shall be unlawful for the owner, occupant, or person having control or management of any land within the city to permit a public nuisance to develop or continue thereon. In addition, to the definition pursuant to § 50.001, the following conditions are included as public nuisances:
(A) Dangerous trees or stacks adjoining street. Any tree, stack, or other object standing in such a condition that it reasonably may, if the condition is allowed to continue, endanger the life, limb, or property of, or cause hurt, damage, or injury to persons or property upon the public streets or public ways adjacent thereto, by the falling thereof or of parts thereof.
(B) Accumulation of rubbish. Any accumulation on any premises of filth, refuse, trash, garbage, or other waste material which endangers the public health, welfare, or safety, or materially interferes with the peaceful enjoyment by owners or occupants of adjacent property because of the danger that it will catch or communicate fire, attract and/or propagate vermin, rodents or insects, or blow rubbish into any street, sidewalk, or property of another.
(C) Storage of explosives or environmental hazards. The storage of explosive material or environmental contaminant that creates a safety hazard to other property or persons in the vicinity.
(D) Weeds and grass.
(1) It shall be unlawful for any person owning property or having property in their possession or control to fail to cut, mow, and remove weeds, bushes and grass, or any other thing that might grow in, around, or on the property, and which is exposed within their yards and lots within the city and which becomes in an unkempt state, after notice by the City Clerk, the Police Chief, or any police officer, or the City Building Inspector.
(2) Any person failing or refusing to have cut, mowed, and removed from the places herein designated, after receiving notice as provided for herein, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(E) Open wells. The maintenance of any open, uncovered, or insecurely covered cistern, cellar, well, pit, excavation, or vault situated upon private premises in any open or unfenced lot or place.
(F) Trees and shrubbery obstructing streets, sidewalks, and drainage. The growing and maintenance of trees or shrubbery which in any way interferes with the use, construction, or maintenance of streets or sidewalks, causes injury to street or sidewalks, or constitutes an obstruction to drainage.
(G) Keeping of animals. The failure to keep an animal from injuring or threatening injury to the public; the keeping of farm animals within the city; or the keeping of an animals’ pen, yard, lot, or other enclosure in a sanitary condition and free from preventable offensive odors.
(H) Junk; scrap metal; motor vehicles. The open storage of motor vehicles in an inoperative condition, motor vehicles unfit for further use for transportation, automobile parts or scrap metal within the city limits except on premise in the business of repairing motor vehicles.
(I) Unsanitary or unhealthful conditions. Permitting or continuing any unsanitary or unhealthful condition, including but not limited to a dwelling place or structure that is unfit for human inhabitance or poses a danger to persons or property.
(Ord. 1010.2, passed - -60; Am. Ord. 1010.3, passed 5-4-76; Am. Ord. 6-1999, passed 6-21-99; Am. Ord. 8-2001, passed 8-14-01; Am. Ord. 1-2003, passed 1-7-03)
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Cross reference:
Penalty for violation, see § 50.999