The following conditions within the city constitute and are declared to be nuisances:
(A) Dangerous trees in public ways. Any tree, stack, or other object standing on such premises in such condition that it shall, if the condition is allowed to continue, endanger life, limb, or property, or cause hurt, damage, or injury to persons or property on the public streets or public ways adjacent thereto, by the falling thereof or of parts thereof;
(B) Accumulation of rubbish. An 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 of its catching or communicating fire; its attracting and propagating vermin, rodents, or insects; or blowing into any street, sidewalk, or property of another. It shall be the duty of persons owning or being in charge of those business establishments whose patrons purchase goods or services from their automobiles, commonly known as “drive-ins”, to furnish sufficient covered receptacles for the deposit of wastes created in the operation of such business, and to clean up such wastes as are not deposited in receptacles at the close of business of each day (or if such business operates continuously, at least once each day), and at such other times when weather conditions are such that waste from the operation of such business is being blown to adjoining premises;
(C) Noxious odors or smoke. Emissions from premises into the surrounding atmosphere of such odors, dusts, smoke, or other matter as to render ordinary use or physical occupation of other property in the vicinity uncomfortable or impossible;
(D) Storage of explosives or combustible material. Storage on the premises of such combustible or explosive material as to create a safety hazard to other property or persons in the vicinity;
(E) Open wells. The maintenance of any open or uncovered, or insecurely covered, cistern, cellar, well, pit, excavation, or vault situated on private premises in any open or unfenced lot or place; and
(F) Trees and shrubbery obstructing streets and sidewalks. The growing and maintenance of trees with less than 14 feet clearance over streets or less than eight feet over sidewalks, or the growing and maintenance of shrubbery in excess of three feet in height within a radius of 20 feet from the point where the curb line of any street intersects the curb line of another street. No shrub shall be planted between the curb line and the property line of any street within a radius of 20 feet from the point where the curb line of any street intersects with the curb line of another street.
(Prior Code, § 55.04) (Ord. 2019-25, passed on 5-13-2020)