The following are hereby declared to be public nuisances affecting public peace and safety:
(a) All trees, hedges, signs or other obstructions, or any portion of the same, so located as to prevent persons driving vehicles approaching an intersection of streets from having a clear safe view of traffic approaching such intersection;
(b) All limbs of trees which project over a public sidewalk or street and which are less than eight (8) feet above the surface of the public sidewalk and nine (9) feet above the surface of the street;
(c) All wires over streets, alley or public grounds which are not authorized or permitted by the City or which are strung so that the lowest portion is less than fifteen (15) feet above the surface of the ground;
(d) All buildings, walls and other structures which have been damaged by fire decay or otherwise and which are so situated as to endanger the safety of the public, or which are otherwise built, erected or maintained in violation of any ordinance, resolution, rule or regulation of the City or any rule, regulation or statute of the State or Federal Government;
(e) All explosives, inflammable liquids and other dangerous substances stored in any manner, in any amount other than that permitted by rule, regulation, resolution or ordinance of the City or any rule, regulation or statute of the State of Federal Government;
(f) All loud or unusual noises and annoying vibrations which offend the peace and quiet of persons of ordinary sensibilities, including but not limited to those found in Chapter 531 of the Codified Ordinances;
(g) All hanging signs, awnings, canopies and other similar structures over the streets or sidewalks so situated or constructed as to endanger public safety or to be contrary to rule, regulation, resolution or ordinance of the City or rule, regulation or statute of the State or Federal Government;
(h) The allowing of rainwater, ice or snow, to fall from any building or structure upon any sidewalk or the causing of water to flow across a sidewalk;
(i) All barbed wire fences, except when it is the top portion of a fence that is at least six feet in height, exclusive of the barb wire and for industrial and commercial purposes;
(j) Any fence charged with electricity anywhere in the City, except a low voltage underground wire used as what is commonly referred to as an "invisible fence";
(k) Any motor vehicle which meets at least one (1) of the following conditions:
(1) Being a motor vehicle extensively damaged (such damage including but not limited to any of the following: missing wheels, tires, fenders, motor, or transmission), apparently inoperable, left standing more than seventy-two (72) hours, and not in a building, which becomes a potential breeding place for flies, mosquitoes or other vermin or varmint, or potential place of attraction for child play, except when the person owning the land where the motor vehicle is located is operating a junkyard or scrap metal processing facility licensed under authority of Ohio R.C. 4707.05 through 4749.12, or regulated under the authority of the City, or if the property on which the motor vehicle is left is not subject to licensure or regulation by any governmental authority, unless the person having the right to the possession of the property can establish that the motor vehicle is part of a bona fide commercial operation; or if the motor vehicle is a collector's vehicle that is either licensed or concealed by means of building. (There shall exist a presumption that the motor vehicle is inoperable when there is not displayed a current valid license plate);
(2) Leaking oil, gas, or antifreeze type fluids on the street, floor or ground which becomes a potential hazard to the environment or for fire;
(3) Abandoned, left standing more than seventy-two (72) consecutive hours and not in a building, which becomes a potential breeding place for flies, mosquitoes or other vermin or varmint, or potential place of attraction for child play.
(Ord. 65-00. Passed 7-3-00.)
(Ord. 65-00. Passed 7-3-00.)