(A) No person shall create, commit, maintain, or permit to be created, committed or maintained, any nuisance as defined in this chapter, within the city limits.
(B) Whatever is dangerous to human health, whatever renders the ground, the water, the air or food a hazard or an injury to human health, and the following specific acts, conditions and things are, each and all of them, declared to constitute nuisances:
(1) Garbage and refuse. Depositing, maintaining or permitting to be maintained or to accumulate upon any public or private property, any household wastewater, sewage, garbage, tin cans, offal or excrement, any decaying fruit, vegetables, fish, meat or bones, or any foul, putrid or obnoxious liquid substance;
(2) Impure water. Any well or other supply of water used for drinking or household purposes which is polluted or which is so constructed or situated that it may become polluted;
(3) Undressed hides. Undressed hides kept longer than 24 hours, except at the place where they are to be manufactured, or in a storeroom, or basement whose construction is approved by the Health Department;
(4) Manure. The accumulation of manure, unless it be in a properly constructed flyproof pit, bin or box;
(5) Breeding places for flies, rodents. The accumulation of manure, garbage, by-products, junk or anything whatever in which flies and rodents breed and inhabit.
(6) Stagnant water. Any excavation in which stagnant water is permitted to collect;
(7) Weeds. Permitting weeds to grow to maturity on any private property, including vacant lots;
(8) Dead animals. For the owner of a dead animal to permit it to remain undisposed of longer than 24 hours after its death;
(9) Privies and cesspools. Erecting or maintaining any privy or cesspool, except such sanitary privies and cesspools, the plans of which are approved by the State Health Department;
(10) Garbage handled improperly. Throwing or letting fall on or permitting to remain on any street, alley or public ground any manure, garbage, rubbish, filth, fuel or wood while engaged in handling or removing any such substance;
(11) Rodents. Accumulation of junk, old iron, automobiles or parts thereof, or anything whatever in which rodents may live, breed or accumulate. JUNK is defined to mean old ferrous or nonferrous metals, old cordage, ropes, fabrics, old rubber or old bottles or other glass, bones, wastepaper and other waste or materials which may be prepared to use again in some other form, but JUNK shall not include objects accumulated by a person as by-products, waste or scraps from the operation of his or her own business, or materials or objects held and used by a manufacturer as an integral part of his or her own manufacturing process;
(12) Bonfires in public places. Burning, causing or permitting to be burned in any street, alley or public ground any dirt, filth, manure, garbage, sweeping, leaves, ashes, paper, rubbish or material of any kind;
(13) Parking livestock trucks or trailers in residential districts. Parking or permitting livestock trucks or trailers to remain on any street, area or public ground in a residential district where such truck or trailer gives off an offensive odor or is contaminated with manure or other filth.
(14) Abandoned property. Any accumulation of other unsightly trash or junk which would constitute a health hazard, a rodent harborage, a breeding ground for insects or rodents, a danger place for children to play in and around or which tends to be unsightly, and which does or tends to lower the value of adjacent real property because of it unsightliness. Unsightly trash or junk includes property which is deteriorated, wrecked, or derelict property in unusable condition, having no value other than nominal scrap or junk value, if any, and which has been left unprotected from the elements outside of a permanent structure, and shall include without being restricted, deteriorated, wrecked, inoperative or partially dismantled motor vehicles, trailers, boats, motors, snowmobiles, lawn mowers, motorcycles, campers, scrap metals or lumber or other similar articles in such condition, refrigerators and other household appliances, furniture, household goods and furnishings, with the exception of patio furniture or other furniture designed for outdoor use that is being utilized for that purpose shall not constitute a nuisance.
(Prior Code, § 8.04.010) (Ord. 119, passed - -1993; Am. Ord. 2016-06, passed 9-19-2016)
(C) It shall be unlawful to operate a dynamic braking device (commonly referred to as a Jacobs brake) on any motor vehicle. This device converts the internal combustion engine to an air compressor for the purpose of braking without the use of wheel brakes.
(Ord. 144, passed 7-21-1997)
Penalty, see § 10.99