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. An accumulation on any premises of filth, refuse, trash, garbage, or other waste material which endangers the public health, welfare, or safety, or materially interferes with the peaceful enjoyment by owners or occupants of adjacent property 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.
(C) Noxious odors or smoke. Emission into the surrounding atmosphere of odor, dust, smoke or other matter which renders ordinary use or physical occupation of other property in the vicinity uncomfortable or impossible.
(D) Noise. Emission of noise which is noxious enough to destroy the enjoyment of dwellings or other uses of property in the vicinity by interfering with the ordinary comforts of human existence.
(E) Weeds and grass. The excessive growth of weeds, grass, or other vegetation. Unless otherwise provided, EXCESSIVE shall mean growth to a height of 12 inches or more. The existence of thistles, burdock, jimson weeds, ragweeds, milkweeds, poison ivy, poison oak, iron weeds, and all other noxious weeds and rank vegetation. Excepted is property used for agricultural purposes.
(F) 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.
(G) Storage of explosives. The storage of explosive material which creates a safety hazard to other property or persons in the vicinity.
(H) Trees and shrubbery obstructing streets, sidewalks and drainage. The growing and maintenance of trees or shrubbery 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.
(I) 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.
(J) Junk; scrap metal; motor vehicles. The storage of two or more 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. passed 10-1-84; Am. Ord. 2011-08, passed 8-15-11; Am. Ord. 2014-10, passed 11-3-14; Am. Ord. 2019-06, passed 4-1-19) Penalty, see § 92.99