(A) A NUISANCE shall mean any act, substance, matter, emission or thing which creates a dangerous or unhealthy condition or which threatens the public peace, health, safety or sanitary condition of the city or which is offensive or has a blighting influence on the community and which is found upon, in, being discharged or flowing from any street, alley, highway, railroad right-of-way, vehicle, railroad car, water, excavation, building, erection, lot, grounds or other property located within the city.
(B) Nuisances shall include, but not be limited to, those enumerated below:
(1) Maintains or permits a condition which unreasonably annoys, injures or endangers the safety, health, comfort or repose of members of the public;
(2) Interferes with, obstructs or renders dangerous for passage, any public road or right-of-way, street, alley or highway or waters used by the public;
(3) Is guilty of any other act or omission declared by law to be a public nuisance and for which no sentence is specifically provided;
(4) Anything left or displayed for sale on public or private property without written permission by the owner or person in control of the property conspicuously displayed on the item left for sale may be tagged and/or towed at the owner’s expense or its owner tagged; or
(5) In any way renders the public insecure in life or in use of property.
(Ord. 556, passed 03-20-95)