§ 92.03 CERTAIN CONDITIONS DECLARED A NUISANCE.
   It shall be unlawful for the owner, occupant or person having control or management of any land within the city to permit a public nuisance to develop thereon. The following conditions are declared to be public nuisances:
   (A)   Dangerous trees or stacks adjoining street. Any tree, stack or other object standing in such a condition that it will, if the condition is allowed to continue, endanger the life, limb or property of, or cause hurt, damage or injury to persons or property upon the public streets or public ways adjacent thereto, by the falling thereof or of parts thereof;
   (B)   Accumulation of rubbish/debris and abandoned, discarded or unused objects or equipment. Including, but not limited to, an accumulation on any premises of filth, refuse, trash, garbage or other waste material and/or abandoned, discarded or unused objects or equipment such as furniture, stoves, refrigerators, toys, freezers, washers, dryers, cans, containers which endanger the public health, welfare or safety, or is materially detrimental to the property of others or which causes or tends to cause a nuisance because of the danger that it will catch or communicate fire, attract and propagate vermin, rodents or insects, or blow rubbish into any street, sidewalk or property of another or cause substantial diminution in the value of other properties. Garbage containers deposited on the street 24 hours prior to scheduled pickup and garbage containers left on the street 24 after scheduled pickup;
   (C)   Storage of explosives. The storage of explosive material which creates a safety hazard to other property or persons in the vicinity;
   (D)   Weeds and grass. The excessive growth of weeds, grass or other vegetation. Excessive growth shall be deemed the growth of weeds, grass or other vegetation to a height in excess of one foot;
   (E)   Open wells. The maintenance of any open, uncovered or insecurely covered cistern, cellar, well, pit, excavation or vault situated upon private premises in any open or unfenced lot or place;
   (F)   Trees and shrubbery, athletic goals and equipment, skateboard ramps, vehicles obstructing streets, sidewalks and drainage. The growing and maintenance of trees or shrubbery, the use or storage of athletic goals, equipment, skateboard ramps or vehicles which in any way interferes with the use, construction, or maintenance of streets or sidewalks, causes injury to streets or sidewalks, or constitutes an obstruction to drainage;
   (G)   Keeping of animals. The failure to keep an animal’s pen, yard, lot or other enclosure in a sanitary condition and free from preventable offensive odors; and
   (H)   Junk; scrap metal; motor vehicles. The storage of motor vehicles in an inoperative condition, motor vehicles unfit for further use, automobile parts, or scrap metal within the city limits except on premises authorized by the city for such purposes.
(Ord. 1-2006, passed 2-6-2006; Ord. 7-2009, passed 1-4-2010) Penalty, see § 92.99