It shall be a violation of this chapter to own or maintain any public nuisance or community decay as follows:
A. No person shall dump, pile, or stack bricks, concrete blocks, waste wood, and similar material in public view unless said material is stacked in neat piles and all waste material from the cleaning of such items, such as mortar, wood splinters, broken and unusable bricks, is removed to a licensed solid waste disposal facility or to some other location which has been approved by the designated department within thirty (30) days.
B. No person shall store or accumulate cardboard boxes, broken packing boxes, paper, broken shipping pallets, rubble, debris, junk, refuse, dead animals or animal parts, or other similar items in public view.
C. No person shall pile, dump or deposit any dirt, demolition waste, including work waste, bricks, concrete, used road blacktop, or other similar materials in public view unless such material is to be utilized for fill material to fill a land depression. If such material is used as fill material it may contain only dirt, bricks, concrete and/or used road blacktop, as allowed by local, state and federal regulations. All such material must be completely covered with clean fill material once every thirty (30) days and the fill area must be adequately fenced to restrict access to the area.
D. No person shall store or accumulate iron, metal, machine parts, household appliances, barrels, component parts or other salvage metal items in public view.
E. No person shall accumulate or store any other rubble, debris, junk or refuse that, upon investigation, is deemed to be a "public nuisance" as defined in this chapter.
F. Any person possessing one or more junk vehicles, regardless of ownership, shall shield the vehicles from public view or remove the vehicles to a licensed motor vehicle wrecking facility or to a licensed motor vehicle graveyard, as defined by section 75-10-501, Montana Code Annotated.
G. Abandoned vehicles shall be handled pursuant to section 10-3-9 of this code, and junk vehicles may be also handled pursuant to section 75-10-501 et seq., Montana Code Annotated. (Ord. 2010-07, 4-6-2010)