Health nuisance includes any act, omission to act, or condition which injures or threatens the health or safety of one or more persons and shall not be limited to, but shall include the following:
A. Garbage And Refuse Deposits:
1. Storage, collection, accumulation, discharge, or depositing of any offal, fecal matter, filth, refuse, animal carcass, dead organic material, junk, debris, contaminated material, garbage, stagnant or polluted waters, combustible materials and similar materials in any place or on any property so as to threaten the health or safety of the individual or the public or to be conducive to the breeding of flies, rats, or other vermin, or to the prejudice of others.
2. To dump, abandon, deposit, dismantle or burn upon any public property or right of way, highway, park, street or parkway anywhere in the County any trash, garbage, ashes, junk, junked or wrecked motor vehicles or nonmotorized equipment, or parts thereof, or miscellaneous waste.
B. Rats And Vermin: The presence of rats, flies, or other vermin.
C. Water Pollution:
1. To discharge or deposit any offal, liquid waste, sewage effluent, dead animal(s), or other polluting material into or upon any watercourse, stream, river, lake, pond, spring, well, abandoned well, surface, ground, drainage ditch, common sewer, street or public highway.
2. To corrupt or render impure the water of any spring, river, stream, pond or lake, to the injury or prejudice of others.
D. Air Pollution: To erect or continue to use any building or other place for the exercise of any trade, employment or manufacture, which, by occasioning noxious exhalations, is dangerous to the health of individuals, or to the public.
E. Obstructing Ways: To obstruct or encroach upon public highways, private ways, streets, alleys, commons, landing places and ways to burying places.
F. Storage Of Flammables: The collection, storage, depositing or discharge of flammable refuse, liquid or other material in any building or on any place in such manner as to constitute a hazard of fire injury to individuals or the public.
G. Disposal Of Dead Animals: The unlawful disposal of the carcasses of dead animals, fish or fowl.
H. Exposure Of Persons To Communicable Disease: The exposure of any person to any communicable disease by any unlawful act or practice.
I. Maintenance Of Unfit Dwelling: To own, maintain or keep a dwelling unit unfit for human habitation or dangerous or detrimental to life, safety or health because of lack of repair, defects in the sewage system, plumbing facilities, lighting or ventilation, the existence of contagious diseases or unsanitary conditions likely to cause sickness among persons residing in said premises or residing in proximity thereof.
J. Failure To Secure Buildings: Failure to secure areas, buildings, equipment or places against unauthorized access where such access threatens the health or safety of individuals.
K. Unhealthy Food Or Drink: Whatever renders food or drink detrimental to human beings, as determined by the Health Officer.
L. Attractive Nuisances:
1. Keeping Unlawful: Any attractive nuisance which may prove detrimental to life, health or safety whether in a building, on the premises of a building, or upon an unoccupied lot. This includes any abandoned well shaft, basement or excavation, motor vehicle, discarded, abandoned, unattended, or used refrigerators, iceboxes and similar containers, equipped with airtight door or lid, snap lock or other locking device which may not be released from the inside.
2. Owner/Occupant Responsibility: The duties of this Chapter are imposed alike on the owner of the nuisance and the owner or occupant of the premises where the nuisance is permitted to remain.
M. Signs Obstructing View Of Street: Billboards, signboards, and advertising signs, whether erected and constructed on public or private property, which so obstruct and impair the view of any portion or part of a public street, avenue, highway, boulevard, or alley or of a railroad or street railway track as to render dangerous the use thereof. (1983 Code § 9-22)