For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITY. The County Advisory Plan Commission and its agents or appointed representatives.
NUISANCE. Whatever is injurious to health, indecent, offensive to the senses, or an obstruction of the free use of property so as essentially to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property. Public nuisances may include, but not be limited to the following:
(1) A building or structure that is in an impaired structural condition that makes it unsafe to a person or property;
(2) Accumulation of rubbish, trash, refuse, junk, abandoned materials, metals and lumber;
(3) Automobile parts, inoperable vehicles, disassembled automobiles, automobiles without engines;
(4) Any waste water, filth, offal, garbage, rubbish, animal waste, human excrement, which is deposited, allowed or caused to be upon any public or private property;
(5) Any dead animal or animal parts;
(6) The erection of dam or any other obstruction by a private party which prevents the natural flow of water and causes it to collect and pool upon any public property;
(7) Any real or personal property which is infected with contagious disease or is likely to cause an immediate health hazard;
(8) The placing or accumulating on or within any real or personal property or the permitting of the same, of any matter which attracts rodents, insects, domestic or wild animals in such a manner as to create a health hazard or unsanitary or dangerous condition;
(9) Any real or personal property used as a place of residence or habitation, or for sleeping that is maintained in such a way as to be dangerous or detrimental to life or health due to lack of or defects in water, drainage, heat, electricity, plumbing, ventilation or garbage and trash removal;
(10) The storage of any explosive, combustible or other material which creates a safety or health hazard;
(11) Trees, shrubbery, weeds or other matter obstructing public ways, or causing visual barriers which create vehicular traffic or pedestrian safety hazards;
(12) Accumulations of stagnant water;
(13) Any real or personal property infested with insects, rats, vermin, or wild or domestic animals, to a degree that prevents the reasonable use and enjoyment of adjoining and surrounding properties.
OF RECORD. Recorded in the records of the County Recorder or in the records of the County Auditor.
PRIVATE PROPERTY. All property, including, but not limited to vacant land or any land upon which is located one or more buildings or other structures designated or used for residential, commercial, business, industrial, agricultural, institutional, or religious purposes, together with any yard, grounds, walks, driveways, fences, porches, or other structures or improvements appurtenant to the land, except any public place.
SUBSTANTIAL PROPERTY INTEREST. The meaning as defined in I.C. 36-7-9-2, to wit: any right in real property that may be affected in a substantial way by actions authorized under this chapter, including a fee interest, a life estate interest, a future interest, a mortgage interest, or an equitable interest of a contract purchaser.
(Ord. 2013-5, passed 5-7-2013)