The following acts, omissions, places, conditions, and things are hereby specifically declared to be public health nuisances, but such enumeration shall not be construed to exclude other health nuisances coming within the definition of § 90.02:
(A) Adulterated food. All decayed, adulterated, or unwholesome food or drink sold or offered for sale to the public;
(B) Unburied carcasses. Carcasses of animals, birds, or fowl not intended for human consumption, or foods which are not buried or otherwise disposed of in a sanitary manner within 24 hours after death;
(C) Breeding places for vermin and the like. Accumulations of decayed animal or vegetable matter, trash, rubbish, rotting lumber, bedding, packing material, scrap metal, or any material whatsoever in which flies, mosquitoes, disease-carrying insects, rats, or other vermin may breed;
(D) Stagnant water. All stagnant water in which mosquitoes, flies, or other insects can multiply;
(E) Privy vaults and garbage cans. Privy vaults and garbage cans which are not fly-tight;
(F) Air pollution. The escape of smoke, soot, cinders, noxious acids, fumes, gases, fly ash, or industrial dust within the village limits, or within one mile therefrom, in such quantities as to endanger the health of persons of ordinary sensibilities or to threaten or cause substantial injury to property;
(G) Noxious weeds and other rank growth. All noxious weeds, as defined in Wis. Stats. § 66.0407(1). In addition, other rank growth of vegetation and, except as provided in division (H) below, all weeds, grasses, and plants over eight inches in height, excluding garden plants, flowers, trees, and shrubs, which:
(1) Are prohibited under division (H)(4) below;
(2) Become a possible fire hazard, as determined by the Fire Chief;
(3) Are of infectious or poisonous nature in or adjacent to a populated area, regardless of height; and
(4) Become a potential hazard to vehicular traffic in vision clearance triangles.
(Prior Code, § 10.03)
(H) Lawn and yard maintenance.
(1) Definitions. For the purpose of this division (H), the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
NATURAL LAWN. Any land managed to preserve or restore natural grasses and forbs, trees, shrubs, wild flowers, and aquatic plants.
TURF GRASS. Grass commonly used in regularly-cut lawns or play areas such as, but not limited to, blue grass, fescues, and rye grass blends.
(2) General lawn requirements.
(a) The owner or occupant of any lot or parcel in the village which is four acres or less in area shall install and maintain landscaping, plantings, and other decorative surface treatments, including turf grass, so as to present an attractive appearance in all court and yard areas in accordance with generally accepted landscaping practices in southeastern Wisconsin.
(b) Lawns shall not exceed six inches in height. Plantings shall be maintained so as not to present hazards to adjoining properties or to persons or vehicles traveling on public ways, and shall be maintained so as to enhance the appearance of the property on which located and thereby the appearance of the neighborhood and the village.
(c) The owner of any lot or parcel over four acres shall comply with the provisions of division (H)(3) below.
(3) Maintenance of front setback and drainage swales. A minimum three-foot setback on any streets frontage (lot line) and the adjoining right-of-way and along side yards and rear yards on all parcels larger than four acres shall be maintained at a height of no more than six inches, except trees and shrubs. In addition, all drainage swales and ditches shall be free of plantings and also shall be maintained in such a manner as to permit the free flow of stormwater.
(4) Weeds and plants prohibited. The owners and occupants of all natural lawns shall destroy all of the following weeds and plants:
(a) Canada Thistle;
(b) Field Bindweed (Creeping Jenny);
(c) Leafy Spurge;
(d) Purple Loosestrife;
(e) Multiflora Rose;
(f) Those plants which are infectious or poisonous in nature in or adjacent to populated areas; and
(g) All weeds enumerated in Wis. Stats. §§ 23.235 and 66.0407.
(I) Water pollution. The pollution of any public well or cistern, stream, lake, canal, or other body of water by sewage, creamery, or industrial wastes or other substances;
(J) Noxious odors and the like. Any use of property, substances, or things within the village emitting or causing any foul, offensive, noisome, nauseous, noxious, or disagreeable odors, gases, effluvia, or stenches repulsive to the physical senses of ordinary persons which annoy, discomfort, injure, or inconvenience the health of any appreciable number of persons within the village;
(K) Street pollution. Any use of property which shall cause any nauseous or unwholesome liquid or substance to flow into or upon any street, gutter, alley, sidewalk, or public place within the village; and
(L) Pesticide application. The application, or causing of the application, of any pesticide, as defined in Wis. Stats. § 94.67(25), in such a manner as to endanger the health of persons within the village.
(Prior Code, § 10.03) (Ord. 105-94, passed 11-10-1994; Ord. 01-2007, passed 1-11-2007)