§ 154.062 NUISANCES.

   (A)   No nuisance will be permitted to exist in any district. A NUISANCE is defined as any structure or use in violation of this chapter and in addition any use or structure which injures or endangers health, safety or welfare or constitutes or creates a fire hazard or obstructs or endangers the use of streets or public ways or is offensive to the senses.

   (B)   A nuisance created prior to and maintained after the effective date of this chapter shall not be considered a non-conforming use as specified in §§ 154.155 through 154.164 of this chapter. The following structures and uses of property are declared to be a nuisance:

      (1)   Storage, accumulation, keeping or allowing to remain of trash, garbage, junk, scrap and wrecked, worn out, broken or inoperative or partially destroyed or disassembled personal or real property of any kind, including motor vehicles, tractors, trailers, machinery and equipment;

      (2)   Open privies, vaults or cesspools;

      (3)   Accumulation of any matter which produces a foul or noxious odor, or serves as a haven for rats, or is so unsightly as to depreciate property values or create a fire hazard; and

      (4)   Owning, possessing or harboring any dog or other animal which frequently or for continued duration, howls, barks, meows, squawks or makes other sounds which creates noise disturbances across a boundary between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m.

(Ord. passed - -2010) Penalty, see § 154.999