The maintaining, using, placing, depositing, leaving or permitting to be or remain on any public or private property of the following items, conditions or actions are hereby declared to be and constitute a nuisance. However, this enumeration shall not be deemed or construed to be conclusive, limiting or restrictive upon the definition of nuisance contained in § 95.01:
(A) Weeds or rank vegetation.
(1) WEEDS shall include poison ivy, giant ragweed, common ragweed, sandbur, burdock, musk thistle, Canadian thistle, bull thistle, multiflora rose, jimsonweed, buckhorn, pokeweed, wild onion, milkweed, hemp dogbane, garlic mustard, quack grass, horse weed, foxtail, prickly lettuce, cocklebur, waterhemp, pigweed, velvetleaf, curly dock, or other WEEDS of like kind.
(2) RANK VEGETATION shall include any grasses or plants (other than trees or normally recognized ornamental bushes, flowers or other ornamental plants) growing to a height of seven inches or higher.
(3) The failure by any property owner or occupant to cut such grass and/or weeds, living or dead, on such property shall evidence that the property owner/occupant is maintaining a nuisance.
(B) Accumulation of rubbish, trash, refuse, junk and other abandoned materials, including metals, lumber, appliances or other things; or the dumping or placing of the same upon the property of another without the property owner's consent.
(C) Any condition which provides harborage for rats, mice, snakes or other vermin.
(D) Any building, mobile home or other structure which is in such a dilapidated condition that it is unfit for human habitation, or kept in such an unsanitary condition that it is a menace to the health of people residing in the vicinity thereof, or presents a more than ordinarily dangerous fire hazard in the vicinity where it is located.
(E) All disagreeable or obnoxious odors and stenches, as well as the conditions, substances or other causes which give rise to the emission or generation of such odors and stenches.
(F) Animal carcasses not disposed of within a reasonable time after death.
(G) The pollution of any public well or cistern, stream, lake, canal or body of water by sewage, dead animals, industrial waste or other substances.
(H) Any building, structure or other place or location where any activity which is in violation of a local, state or federal law ordinance or regulation is conducted, performed, maintained or permitted, including violation of the White County Unified Zoning Ordinance.
(I) Any accumulation of stagnant water permitted or maintained on any lot or piece of ground.
(J) Dense smoke, noxious fumes, gas, soot or cinders, in unreasonable quantities.
(K) The obstruction of any public street, road, sidewalk, dedicated easement or right-of-way.
(L) Open pits, cisterns, cellars, wells, excavations, sewers or vaults situated in any open or insufficiently fenced area.
(M) The alteration of the flow of stormwater to the detriment of surrounding property.
(N) Any abandoned vehicle, as defined by I.C. 9-13-2-1, or any vehicle which does not carry a current, state-registered license plate.
('77 Code, § 11-2) (Ord. 220, passed 5-5-69; Am. Ord. 2004-23, passed 10-18-04)