The following are declared to be nuisances affecting public peace and safety:
A. Water, Wastewater, Snow And Ice:
1. The allowing of rainwater, ice, or snow to fall from any building or structure upon any street or sidewalk or to flow across any sidewalk.
2. Wastewater cast upon or permitted to flow upon streets or other public property.
3. All snow and ice not removed from public sidewalks within twelve (12) hours after the snow or other precipitation causing the condition has ceased to fall.
4. Depositing, or causing to be deposited, any snow or ice on or against any fire hydrant or on any sidewalk or roadway, including the movement of snow across the street surface.
B. Objects Overhanging Public Ways:
1. All trees, hedges, billboards, or other obstructions which prevent persons from having a clear view of all traffic approaching an intersection.
2. All wires and limbs of trees which are so close to the surface of a sidewalk or street as to constitute a danger to pedestrians or vehicles.
3. All hanging signs, awnings, and other similar structures over streets and sidewalks, or so situated so as to endanger public safety, or not constructed and maintained as provided by ordinance.
C. Obstructing Public Ways And Property:
1. Obstructions and excavations affecting the ordinary use by the public of streets, alleys, sidewalks, or public grounds except under such conditions as are permitted by City ordinances or other applicable law.
2. Placing or storing on any street, sidewalk, alley, or public right-of-way any boxes, goods, wares, merchandise, building materials, machinery, business or trade article except for the purpose of immediately transferring the same to some other proper place.
3. Any tree, shrub, bush, or other vegetation located on private property which obstructs the use or travel on any public right- of-way.
4. Any use of property abutting a public street or sidewalk or any use of a public street or sidewalk which causes large crowds of people to gather, obstructing traffic and the free use of the street or sidewalk, and which activity is conducted without a permit, license, or other permission duly granted by the City.
5. Obstruction of the free flow of water in a natural waterway or a public street drain, storm sewer, gutter, or ditch with trash or other materials.
D. Dangerous Antennas: Radio aerials or television antennas erected or maintained in a dangerous manner.
E. Electric Or Barbed Wire Fences: Any electric or barbed wire fencing strung lower than six feet (6') in height and within three feet (3') of a public sidewalk or way, except when used in conjunction with agricultural uses in an area zoned for such use.
F. Dangerous Machinery: All dangerous, unguarded machinery in any public place, or so situated or operated on private property as to attract the public. (Prior Code § 5-8-5)
G. Accumulations Attracting Vermin And Pests: Accumulations in the open of broken or unused metal, wood, lumber, cement, electrical fixtures, plumbing fixtures, building materials (but excluding building materials awaiting use and stored for a reasonable period of time for allowable or improvement presently in progress on the same premises), discarded or unused machinery, household appliances, automobile bodies, trash, debris, rubbish or other material, in a manner conducive to the harboring of rats, mice, snakes, or vermin, or the rank growth of vegetation among the items so accumulated, or items accumulated in a manner creating fire, health, or safety hazards. (Prior Code § 5-8-5; amd. 2018 Code)
H. Dangerous Openings: Any well, hole, or similar excavation which is left open or uncovered or in such other condition as to constitute a danger to any child or other person coming on the premises where it is located.
I. Damaging Public Ways: Digging excavations, placing culverts, placing dams, or doing any act which may alter or affect the drainage of public property, streets, alleys or sidewalks; or affect flows of the public storm sewer and drainage ditch system, without authorization by the City.
J. Prohibited Deposits Onto Public Ways:
1. The placing or throwing on any street, sidewalk, or other public property of any glass, tacks, nails, bottles, or other substance which may injure any person or animal or damage any pneumatic tire when passing over such substance.
2. The deposition of garbage or refuse on a public right-of-way or on adjacent private property.
3. Throwing, placing, or depositing dirt, rocks, sand, leaves, trash, lawn clippings, weeds, grass, or other materials in the streets, sidewalks, ditches or other public ways and the gutters thereof.
4. Permitting dirt, rocks or mud from construction or landscaping activities to be carried or deposited onto nearby streets, sidewalks, ditches or other public ways and the gutters thereof.
K. Artificial Lighting: Operation of any artificial lighting facilities upon any private property without an effective shade or equivalent device to protect nearby residential premises from being adversely affected thereby.
L. Abandoned Containers: Any used refrigerator, icebox, or freezer, with door latch intact, which is accessible to children.
M. Construction Sites: Maintenance of construction sites for which a building permit has been issued shall consist of the following:
1. All debris, paper, construction material waste, scrap construction material and other trash on the construction site shall be stored in a building or in a container so as to prohibit the waste from being scattered by wind or rain or accessed by rodents and other vermin.
2. All materials associated with the construction site, including equipment, shall be stored within the site. The storage of material shall not obstruct access to the structure under construction or create a public safety hazard. Materials shall not be stored within the public right-of-way.
3. All loading and unloading of materials and/or equipment is limited to the construction site and public right-of-way.
4. A silt fence must be maintained at all times.
5. The site must be cleared of all debris in accordance with this subsection M at the conclusion of each workday.
6. Damage to landscaping or other property on an abutting or adjacent property as a result of construction activities shall be replaced and restored to its original condition at the contractor's expense.
N. Other Conditions: All other conditions or things which are likely to cause injury to the person or property of anyone. (Prior Code § 5-8-5)