No person owning or in the possession of any lot, parcel, house, building or enclosure shall allow or suffer to exist in or upon such premises any stagnant water, animal or vegetable matter or other substance liable to become putrid, offensive, annoying or unhealthy. Persons owning or in possession of any real estate shall provide proper and adequate drainage therefore so that no offensive, baneful or disagreeable liquids shall flow or seep into any street. Any violation of this section is hereby declared to be a nuisance. Ownership shall include, in addition to the land within its boundaries, all land adjacent to and extending beyond the property line to the curb line of adjacent streets and, where no curb exists, to the existing street surface, and all land lying between the property line and the centerline of adjacent alleyways or unimproved street rights-of-way. This also includes sidewalks.
(Ord. passed 10-12-2010)