It is hereby declared to be a nuisance and to be against the health, peace, and comfort of the city, for any person, firm or corporation within the limits of the city to permit the following; but the enumeration of the following nuisances shall not be deemed to be exclusive or a limitation on the nuisances defined above or as determined under other provisions of this code:
(A) Filth. To cause or suffer the carcass of any animal or any offal, filth or noisome substance to be collected, deposited or to remain in any place, to the prejudice of others.
(B) Deposit of offensive materials. To throw or deposit any offal or other offensive matter, or the carcass of any dead animal in any watercourse, lake, pond, spring, well or common sewer, street or public highway.
(C) Corruption of water. To corrupt or render unwholesome, or impure, the water of any spring, river, stream, pond or lake, to the injury or prejudice of others.
(D) Highway encroachment. To obstruct or encroach upon public highways, private ways, streets, alleys, commons, landing places, and ways to burying places.
(E) Noxious odors. To erect, continue or use any building or other place for the exercise of any trade, employment, or manufacture which, by occasioning noxious exaltations, offensive smells or otherwise, is offensive or dangerous to the health of individuals, or of the public.
(F) Litter on streets. It shall be unlawful for any person to allow trash, paper, cardboard, wire, dirt, rock, stone, glass, brick, lumber, wood or litter of material objects of any size or description to fall upon city streets from any moving vehicle, or to be thrown from a moving vehicle, and to remain thereon.
(G) Accumulations of junk and trash. To deposit, or pile up any rags, old rope, paper, iron, brass, copper, tin, aluminum, ashes, garbage, refuse, plastic, brush, litter, weeds, building material, appliances, slush, lead, glass bottles or broken glass upon any lot, piece or parcel of land, or upon any public alley, street or public way within the city.
(H) Rodents. To cause or permit any condition or situation to exist that shall attract, harbor or encourage the infestation of rodents.
(I) Offensive liquids. To keep any nauseous, foul or putrid liquid or substance or any liquid or substance likely to become nauseous, foul, offensive or putrid, nor permit any such liquid to be discharged, placed, thrown or to flow from or out of any premises into or upon any adjacent premises or any public street or alley, nor permit the same to be done by any person connected with the premises.
(J) Grass and/or leaf blowing regulated. No person, landscape or mowing service shall blow or cause to blow leaves and/or grass clippings into the streets, sidewalks, curb lines or ditches of the city of Johnston City.
(K) Junk storage prohibited.
(1) Definitions.
ABANDONED AUTOMOBILE. A motor vehicle, whether on public or private property, with no current valid state registration, a motor vehicle left unattended on a highway or public property for a period in excess of 72 hours, a motor vehicle not removed after its involvement in a collision, an unattended motor vehicle located on a highway or public property which has sustained acts of vandalism, a motor vehicle, wherever located, from which, for a period of at least seven days, the engine, wheels or other parts have been removed, or on which the engine, wheels or other parts have been altered, damaged or otherwise so treated that the vehicle is incapable of being driven under its own motor power. This shall not include registered historic vehicles or a motor vehicle on the premises of a place of business engaged in ordinary service, storage or repair operations for a reasonable period of time.
JUNK, TRASH AND REFUSE. Includes any and all waste matter, whether reusable or not, which is offensive to the public health, safety or to the aesthetics of the neighborhood, which is not within a closed building, and is specifically intended to include, but not be limited to, wrecked, disabled and/or abandoned automobiles, trucks, tractors, machinery and/or motor vehicles of any kind, any parts thereof, old refrigerators, stoves, washers, dryers and/or other appliances.
(2) Storing of junk declared a nuisance. The storing of junk, trash and refuse on private property within the city which is not within a closed building, where such storage is not authorized is declared a nuisance.
(3) Automobile on private property. The city may apply to the court having jurisdiction for an order giving it the authority to have any automobile parked on private property in violation of this chapter removed from such property.
(L) Generally. To commit any offense which is a nuisance according to the common law of the land or made such by statute of the state.
(1999 Code, § 25-1-1) (Ord. 04-24, passed 1-23-2024) Penalty, see § 10.99