For the purpose of this chapter the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
"DWELLING." Any part of any building or its premises used as a place of residence or habitation or for sleeping by any person.
"NUISANCE." Any person doing an unlawful act, or omitting to perform a duty, or suffering or permitting any condition or thing to be or exist, which act, omission, condition or thing either:
(1) Injures or endangers the comfort, repose, health or safety of others; or
(2) Offends decency; or
(3) Is offensive to the senses; or
(4) Unlawfully interferes with, obstructs or tends to obstruct or renders dangerous for passage any public or private street, highway, sidewalk, stream, ditch or drainage; or
(5) In any way renders other persons insecure in life or the use of property; or
(6) Essentially interferes with the comfortable enjoyment of life and property, or tends to depreciate the value of the property of others.
"SCRAP METAL." Pieces or parts of steel, iron, tin, zinc, copper, aluminum, or any alloy thereof, whether covered with porcelain or any other material, whether intact or in parts, which has served its usefulness in its original form and can no longer be used for its originally intended purpose.
"UNFIT FOR HUMAN HABITATION." Dangerous or detrimental to life or health because of: want of repair; defects in the drainage, plumbing, lighting, ventilation, or construction; infection with contagious disease; or the existence on the premises of an unsanitary condition likely to cause sickness among occupants of the dwelling.
(Ord. 670, passed 6-7-23)