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It is unlawful for any person to keep, collect or use or permit to be kept, collected or used in any manner detrimental to health any stale, putrid or noisome fat, grease or other offensive matter, or to throw or place in or on any street, alley, sidewalk, gutter, ditch, aqueduct, canal or vacant lot any waste material.
(1979 Code § 8.24.170)
It is unlawful for any person to permit vegetable waste, litter, garbage, filth or refuse of any nature, kind or description detrimental to health to accumulate within or upon any private alley, yard or area unless temporarily deposited there for removal.
(1979 Code § 8.24.180)
The emission of dense or thick black or gray smoke or cinders from any smokestack or chimney of any stationary engine, locomotive, steam boiler, incinerator, furnace or building of any description within the limits of the City is declared to be a public nuisance, and it shall be the duty of the owner, agent, lessee or occupant thereof to abate the same. Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to apply to the chimneys of buildings used exclusively for private residences.
(1979 Code § 8.24.190)
It is unlawful for any person to unload coal, ashes or other substances in such manner that the dust arising therefrom is offensive and injurious to any person or the property or business of any person. All such coal, ashes or other substance shall be unloaded or otherwise manipulated in such a manner as to minimize the dust therefrom and its dispersion in the atmosphere.
(1979 Code § 8.24.200)
It is unlawful for any person to sweep or cause or permit the sweeping in any commercial zone of any sidewalk or the interior of any public conveyance or the floor of any building, hotel, hospital, store, shop, school, church, theater or other place to which the public has access, without first having sprinkled the same with water or with moist sawdust or other substances in quantities sufficient to prevent the raising of dust while sweeping.
(1979 Code § 8.24.210)
A. Any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter or who aids, supports or encourages the creation or maintenance of any nuisance, as defined in this chapter, or creates, supports, continues or maintains the same, or who fails to remove such nuisance, shall be guilty of a Class B misdemeanor and shall be punished as set forth in title 1, chapter 4 of this Code.
B. Failure to correct a violation of this section after notice of violation and expiration of the warning period may be enforced by imposition of the following civil penalties pursuant to title 1, chapter 4, article B of this Code:
1. The first civil citation issued after expiration of the warning period shall subject the responsible party to the initial penalty of one hundred twenty five dollars ($125.00).
2. The second civil citation issued after expiration of the warning period and the prior imposition of the initial penalty shall subject the responsible party to the intermediate penalty of two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00).
3. Any subsequent civil citation issued after expiration of the warning period and the prior imposition of the intermediate penalty, or any reoccurring violation under section 1-4B-6 of this Code, shall subject the responsible party to the maximum penalty of five hundred dollars ($500.00).
C. Every day that any nuisance, as defined in this chapter, is maintained or continues to exist shall be deemed a separate offense.
(1979 Code § 8.24.280; amd. 1999 Code; Ord. 2005-29, 5-24-2005)