(a) No person shall cause, harbor, commit or maintain, or to suffer to be caused, harbored, committed or maintained any nuisance as defined by the statute or common law of this State or as defined by this Code or other ordinance of the City at any place within the City, or at any place beyond the City limits which is owned by the City or over which the City has a right of way.
(b) The following acts when committed, or conditions when existing, within the City are hereby defined and declared to be nuisances:
(1) An act done or committed or aided or assisted to be done or committed by any person, or any substance, being or thing kept, maintained, placed or found in or upon any public or private place, which is injurious or dangerous to the public health or safety.
(2) All buildings, bridges or other structures of whatever character kept or maintained or which are permitted by any person owning or having control thereof to be kept or maintained in a condition unsafe, dangerous, unhealthy, injurious or annoying to the public.
(3) All trees and other appendages of or to realty kept or maintained or which are permitted by any person owning or having control thereof to be kept or maintained in a condition unsafe, dangerous, unhealthy, injurious or annoying to the public.
(4) All ponds or pools of stagnant water, and all foul or dirty water or liquid when discharged through any drain, pipe or spout or thrown into or upon any street, public place or lot to the injury or annoyance of the public.
(5) All obstructions caused or permitted on any street or sidewalk to the danger or annoyance of the public, and all stones, rubbish, dirt, filth, slops, vegetable matter or other article thrown or placed by any person on or in any street, sidewalk or other public place, which in any way may cause any injury or annoyance to the public.
(6) All sidewalks, gutters or curbstones permitted to remain in an unsafe condition or out of repair.
(7) All stables, cattle yards, hog, sheep or cow pens or other places where animals are kept or yards for poultry, permitted by the owner thereof or the person responsible therefore to be in such a condition regarding become offensive, annoying or injurious to the public.
(8) All houses, buildings, structures or enclosures used for special storage of powder, dynamite or other explosive or highly flammable substances or gases, except those maintained pursuant to permit issued by competent authority.
(9) Any litter, trash, garbage or refuse or any abandoned unlicensed motor vehicle or any part thereof, which is or may be offensive to the neighborhood or citizens generally.
(10) The dumping, depositing, or discharge of any grass, leaves, branches, yard waste, litter, trash, garbage, refuse, or any other thing in the roadway or gutter of any public street or alley in the city.
(11) Any offensive or unwholesome substance or growth of grass, weeds or brush upon any lot or parcel of ground.
(c) The nuisances described in this section shall not be construed as exclusive, and any act of commission or omission and any condition which constitutes a nuisance by statute or common law of the State is, when committed, omitted or existing within the City are hereby declared to constitute a nuisance.
(Ord. 306. Passed 9-20-22.)