Section
Public Nuisances
92.01 Public nuisance prohibition
92.02 Public nuisances affecting health
92.03 Public nuisances affecting morals and decency
92.04 Public nuisances affecting peace and safety
92.05 Noise violations
92.06 Nuisance parking and storage
92.07 Inoperable motor vehicles
92.08 Domestic animals
92.09 Duties of city officers
92.10 Abatement procedure
92.11 Recovery of cost
92.12 Public nuisances penalty
Open Burning
92.60 Purpose
92.61 Definitions
92.62 Prohibited materials
92.63 Permit required for open burning
92.64 Purposes allowed for open burning
92.65 Permit application for open burning; permit fees
92.66 Permit process for open burning
92.67 Permit holder responsibility
92.68 Revocation of open burning permit
92.69 Denial of open burning permit
92.70 Burning ban or air quality alert
92.71 Rules adopted by reference
Cross-reference:
PUBLIC NUISANCES
A person must not act, or fail to act, in a manner that is or causes a public nuisance. For purpose of this subchapter, a person that does any of the following is guilty of maintaining a public nuisance:
(A) Maintains or permits a condition which unreasonably annoys, injures, or endangers the safety, health, morals, comfort or repose of any considerable number of members of the public; or
(B) Interferes with, obstructs, or renders dangerous for passage, any public highway or right-of-way, or waters used by the public; or
(C) Does any other act or omission declared by law or this subchapter to be a public nuisance.
(Ord. 90, passed 6-12-23)
The following are hereby declared to be nuisances affecting health:
(A) The exposed accumulation of decayed or unwholesome food or vegetable matter;
(B) All diseased animals running at large;
(C) All ponds or pools of stagnant water;
(D) Carcasses of animals not buried or destroyed within 24 hours after death;
(E) Accumulation of manure, refuse, or other debris;
(F) Privy vaults and garbage cans which are not rodent-free or fly-tight, or which are so maintained as to constitute a health hazard or to emit foul and disagreeable odors;
(G) The pollution of any public well or cistern, stream or lake, canal or body of water by sewage, industrial waste, or other substances;
(H) All noxious weeds and other rank growths of vegetation upon public or private property;
(I) Dense smoke, noxious fumes, gas, soot, or cinders in unreasonable quantities;
(J) All public exposure of people having a contagious disease; and
(K) Any offensive trade or business as defined by statute not operating under local license.
(Ord. 90, passed 6-12-23)
The following are hereby declared to be nuisances affecting public morals and decency:
(A) All gambling devices, slot machines, and punch boards, except otherwise authorized and permitted by federal, state, or local law;
(B) Betting, bookmaking, and all apparatus used in those occupations;
(C) All houses kept for the purpose of prostitution or promiscuous sexual intercourse, gambling houses, houses of ill fame, and bawdy houses;
(D) All places where intoxicating or 3.2 malt liquor is manufactured or disposed of in violation of law or where, in violation of law, people are permitted to resort, for the purpose of drinking intoxicating or 3.2 malt liquor, or where intoxicating or 3.2 malt liquor is kept for sale or other disposition in violation of law, and all liquor and other property used for maintaining that place; and
(E) Any vehicle used for the unlawful transportation of intoxicating or 3.2 malt liquor, or for promiscuous sexual intercourse, or any other immoral or illegal purpose.
(Ord. 90, passed 6-12-23)
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