(a) No person shall allow, permit or maintain a public nuisance.
(b) No person owning, occupying or otherwise having charge of or control of any property shall place or permit to be placed on such property any paper, dirt, ashes, cartons, boxes or any scrap or waste material unless such person takes reasonable steps to secure such matter from being blown or carried onto any street, sidewalk, alley, park, public ground or property of another person.
(c) For the purpose of this section, the following definitions shall apply and the words and phrases defined shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them:
(1) “Public nuisance” means the accumulation, storage or disposition of garbage or refuse in any manner other than as provided in these Codified Ordinances or the accumulation or storage of junk at any place except in a wholly enclosed building or structure, provided that this subparagraph shall not apply to a junk yard lawfully operated by one customarily engaged in and having facilities for processing junk.
(2) “Junk” means old or scrap copper, brass, rope, rags, batteries, paper, rubber, lumber, pipe, used building materials and roofing, old or scrap iron, steel or other ferrous or nonferrous materials which are not held for sale for remelting purposes by a person customarily engaged in such business and having facilities for processing such materials or in inoperable, unlicensed or not currently licensed, dismantled, partly dismantled or wrecked vehicle, motor vehicle or parts thereof.
(3) “Garbage” means all putrescible wastes, except wastes of the human body, and other water-carried wastes, and includes all vegetable and animal wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking or consumption of foods. Any containers that have contained food or liquids for consumption by humans or other beings shall also be classified as garbage.
(4) “Refuse” means ashes, crockery, bottles, cans, paper and other wood pulp products, boxes, rags, grass clippings, and other cut vegetation, old or discarded clothing, bedding, mattresses, furniture, appliances, rubbish, stone, sand, dirt, nails, pieces of glass, oil and all other similar nonputrescible wastes other than those included in the definition of garbage.
(5) “Persons” means the owner, occupant, user or other in control of the premises.
(d) In addition the penalties provided in subsection (e) hereof, following conviction and while the nuisance continues, the Mayor shall cause written notice to abate such public nuisance to be served upon the person convicted and the owner of the premises, if other than the person convicted. Such notice shall be served personally or by certified mail and shall state the nature of the public nuisance and the time, not less than ten days following service of the notice, within which the public nuisance shall be abated. If, by the time stated, the public nuisance has not been abated, the Mayor shall cause it to be abated and shall certify the cost thereof to the Clerk-Treasurer, who shall certify the same to the Huron County Auditor to be placed upon the tax duplicate of the owner of the property involved to be collected as taxes.
(e) Whoever violates any of the provisions of this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(Ord. 95-08. Passed 5-23-95.)