A. Public Nuisance: A "public nuisance" is a thing, act, occupation, condition or use of property which shall continue for such length of time as to:
1. Substantially annoy, injure or endanger the comfort, health, repose or safety of the public.
2. In any other way render the public insecure in life or in the use of property.
3. Greatly offend the public morals or decency.
4. Unlawfully and substantially interfere with, obstruct or tend to obstruct, or render dangerous for passage any street, alley, highway, navigable body of water or other public way or the use of public property.
B. Public Nuisances Affecting Health: The following acts, omissions, places, conditions and things are hereby specifically declared to be public health nuisances, but such enumeration shall not be construed to exclude other health nuisances coming within the definition of subsection A of this section:
1. All decayed, harmfully adulterated or unwholesome food or drink sold or offered for sale to the public.
2. Carcasses of animals, birds, fish or fowl not intended for human consumption or food which are not buried or otherwise disposed of in a sanitary manner within twenty four (24) hours after death.
3. Accumulations of decayed animal or vegetable matter, trash, rubbish, rotting lumber, bedding, packing material, scrap metal or any material whatsoever in which flies, mosquitoes, disease carrying insects, rats or other vermin may breed.
4. Privy vaults and garbage cans which are not flytight.
5. All noxious weeds and other rank growth of vegetation.
6. The pollution of any public well or cistern, stream, lake, canal, public storm sewer, drainage ditch, or other surface water drainage facilities, or other body of water by sewage or industrial wastes or other substances.
7. Any use of property, substances or things within the city emitting or causing any foul, offensive, noisome, nauseous, noxious or disagreeable odors, gases, effluvia or stenches extremely repulsive to the physical senses of ordinary persons which annoy, discomfort, injure or inconvenience the health of any appreciable number of persons within the city.
8. All abandoned wells not securely covered or secured from public use.
9. Any use of property which shall cause any nauseous or unwholesome liquid or substance to flow into or upon any street, gutter, alley, sidewalk or public place within the city.
C. Public Nuisances Offending Morals And Decency: The following acts, omissions, places, conditions and things are hereby specifically declared to be public nuisances offending public morals and decency, but such enumeration shall not be construed to exclude other nuisances offending public morals and decency coming within the definition of subsection A of this section:
1. All disorderly houses, bawdyhouses, houses of ill fame, gambling houses and buildings or structures kept or resorted to for the purpose of prostitution, promiscuous sexual intercourse or gambling.
2. All gambling devices and slot machines.
3. Any place or premises within the city where city ordinances or state laws relating to public health, safety, peace, morals or welfare are openly, continuously, repeatedly and intentionally violated.
4. Any display of nudity within view of individuals from any public streets, highways, residences or public property.
D. Public Nuisances Affecting Peace And Safety: The following acts, omissions, places, conditions and things are hereby declared to be public nuisances affecting the peace and safety, but such enumeration shall not be construed to exclude other nuisances affecting public peace or safety coming within the provisions of subsection A of this section:
1. All unauthorized signs, signals, markings or devices placed or maintained upon or in view of any public highway or railway crossing which purport to be or may be mistaken as an official traffic control device, railroad sign or signal or which, because of color, location, brilliance or manner of operation, interferes with the effectiveness of any such device, sign or signal.
2. All trees, hedges, billboards or other obstructions which prevent persons driving vehicles on public streets, alleys or highways from obtaining a clear view of traffic when approaching an intersection or pedestrian crosswalk.
3. All limbs of trees which project over and above the surface of a public sidewalk or street or any other public place, or which interfere with public vehicular or pedestrian traffic.
4. All wires over streets, alleys or public grounds which endanger or interfere with public vehicular or pedestrian traffic.
5. All loud, discordant and unnecessary noises or vibrations of any kind.
6. The keeping or harboring of any animal or fowl which by frequent or habitual howling, yelping, barking, crowing or making of other noises shall greatly annoy or disturb a neighborhood or any considerable number of persons within the city.
7. All open and unguarded pits, wells, excavations or unused basements freely accessible from any public street, alley or sidewalk.
8. All abandoned refrigerators or iceboxes from which the doors and other covers have not been removed or which are not equipped with a device for opening from the inside.
9. Any unauthorized or unlawful use of property abutting on a public street, alley or sidewalk or of a public street, alley or sidewalk which causes large crowds of people to gather, obstructing traffic and free use of the streets or sidewalks. (1975 Code Ch. 10 § I)