The maintaining, using, placing, depositing, leaving or permitting to be or remain on any public or private property of any of the following items, conditions or actions are hereby declared to be and constitute a nuisance; provided, however, this enumeration shall not be deemed or construed to be conclusive, limiting or restrictive:
(A) Noxious weeds and other rank vegetation;
(B) Abandoned or junk property. Any junk or equipment of any type, except in an authorized junk yard, or any accumulations of other unsightly trash or junk which would constitute a health hazard, a rodent harborage, a breeding area for insects or rodents, a dangerous place for children to pay in and around or which tends to be unsightly and which does or tends to lower the value of adjacent real property because of unsightliness. Unsightly trash or junk includes property which is deteriorated, wrecked or derelict property to unusable condition, having no value other than nominal scrap or junk value, if any, and which has been left unprotected outside of a permanent structure from the elements, and shall include without being restricted, deteriorated, wrecked, inoperative or partially dismantled trailers, boats, motors, snowmobiles, lawn mowers, motorcycles, refrigerators and other household appliances, furniture, household goods and furnishings, scrap metals or lumber or other similar articles in such condition;
(C) Garbage and refuse. Garbage, rubbish, waste material improperly disposed of by discarding, abandoning, allowing to accumulate, scattering or positioning outside an approved container. Depositing, maintaining or permitting to be maintained or to accumulate upon any public or private property any animal or vegetable matter which attends the processing, preparation, transportation, cooking, eating, sale or storage of meat, fish, vegetables, fruit and all other food or food products found within the city which are likely to cause or transmit disease or which may be a hazard to health; or
(D) Abandonment of vehicles.
(1) For the purpose of this division (D), the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
PERSON. Any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind.
PROPERTY. Any real property within the city which is not a street or highway.
STREET or HIGHWAY. The entire width between the boundary lines of every way publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel.
VEHICLE. A machine propelled by power other than human power designed to travel along the ground by use of wheels, treads, runners or slides and transport persons or property or pull machinery and shall include, without limitation, automobile, truck, trailer, motorcycle or tractor.
(2) No person shall abandon any vehicle within this city and no person shall any vehicle at any place within the city for such time and under such circumstances as to cause such vehicle reasonably to appear to have been abandoned.
(3) No person shall leave any partially dismantled, non-operating, wrecked or junked vehicle on any street or highway within the city.
(4) No person in charge or control of any property within the city, whether as owner, tenant, occupant, lessee or otherwise shall allow any partially dismantled, non-operating, wrecked, junked or discarded vehicle to remain on such property longer than ten days; and no person shall leave any such vehicle on any property within the city for longer time than ten days; except that this section shall not apply with regard to a vehicle in an enclosed building, or to a vehicle on the premises of a business enterprise operating in a lawful place and manner, when necessary to the operation of such business enterprise, or to a vehicle in an appropriate storage place or depository maintained in a lawful place and manner by the city or authorized by the city.
(Ord. 236, passed 5-3-2010) Penalty, see § 92.99