(A) Creating a hazard. A person shall create a hazard by:
(1) Maintaining or leaving in a place accessible to children a container with a compartment of more than one and one-half cubic feet capacity and a door or lid which locks or fastens automatically when closed and which cannot be easily opened from the inside; or
(2) Being the owner or otherwise having possession of property upon which there is a well, cistern, cesspool, excavation or other hole of depth of four feet or more and a top width of 12 inches or more, and failing to or refusing to cover or fence it with protective construction.
(B) Attractive nuisances.
(1) No owner or person in charge of property shall permit thereon:
(a) Unguarded machinery, equipment or other devices which are attractive, dangerous and accessible to children;
(b) Lumber, logs or piling placed or stored in a manner so as to be attractive, dangerous and accessible to children; and/or
(c) An open pit, quarry, cistern or other excavation without safeguards or barriers to prevent such places from being used by children.
(2) This division (B) shall not apply to authorized construction projects with reasonable safeguards to prevent injury or death to playing children.
(C) Snow and ice. No owner or person in charge of property, improved or unimproved, abutting on a public sidewalk shall permit:
(1) Snow to remain on the sidewalk for a period longer than the first two hours of daylight after the snow has fallen; and/or
(2) Ice to remain on the sidewalk for more than two hours of daylight after the ice has formed unless the ice is covered with sand, ashes or other suitable material to assure safe travel.
(D) Hazardous or noxious vegetation. No owner or person in charge of property shall permit weeds or noxious vegetation to grow upon his or her property. It shall be the duty of an owner or person in charge of property to cut down or to destroy grass, shrubbery, brush, bushes, weeds or noxious vegetation as often as needed to prevent them from becoming unsightly, from becoming a fire hazard or in the case of weeds or noxious vegetation, from maturing or from going to seed.
(E) Scattering rubbish. No person shall deposit upon public or private property any kind of rubbish, trash, debris, refuse or any substance that would mar the appearance, create a stench or fire hazard, detract from the cleanliness or safety of the property or would be likely to injure a person, animal or vehicle traveling upon a public way.
(F) Trees.
(1) No owner or person in charge of property that abuts upon a street or public sidewalk shall permit trees or bushes on his or her property to interfere with street or sidewalk traffic. It shall be the duty of an owner or person in charge of property that abuts upon a street or public sidewalk to keep all trees and bushes on his or her premises, including the adjoining parking strip, trimmed to a height of not less than eight feet above the sidewalk and not less than ten feet above the roadway.
(2) No owner or person in charge of property shall allow to stand a dead or decaying tree that is a hazard to the public or to persons or property on or near the property.
(G) Fences.
(1) No owner or person in charge of property shall construct or maintain a barbed-wire fence thereon, or permit barbed wire to remain as part of a fence along a sidewalk or public way; except such wire may be placed above the top of other fencing not less than six feet, six inches high.
(2) No owner or person in charge of property shall construct, maintain or operate an electric fence along a sidewalk or public way or along the adjoining property line of another person.
(H) Surface waters; drainage.
(1) No owner or person in charge of a building or structure shall permit rainwater, ice or snow to fall from the building or structure onto a street or public sidewalk or to flow across the sidewalk.
(2) The owner or person in charge of property shall install and maintain in proper state of repair adequate drainpipes or drainage system, so that any overflow water accumulating on the roof or about the building is not carried across or upon the sidewalk.
(Ord. 94-09, passed 12-16-1994) Penalty, see § 91.99