It is declared to be a nuisance for any person within the limits of the city to permit the following; but the enumeration of the following nuisances shall not be deemed to be exclusive:
(A) Spitting in public. To spit on any public street or sidewalk, or floor or walk of any public vehicle or hall, or other public building.
(B) Violations of technical codes, ordinances. Any violation of the building code, fire prevention code, or zoning ordinance, or the condition of any premises declared by the mayor of the city to be a nuisance.
(C) Buildings generally. No person owning or in possession, charge, or control of any building or premises shall use the same, or permit the use of the same, or rent the same to be used, for any purpose if the use shall, from its noise, disturb or destroy the peace of the neighborhood in which the building or premises are situated, or be dangerous or detrimental to health, and such use is declared a nuisance.
(D) To operate any scavenger or garbage pick- up truck (except in residential areas between the hours of 7:00 p.m. to 6:30 a.m.) or operating any steam shovels, pneumatic hammers, steam or electric hoists, or other apparatus or construction device, including trucks delivering concrete, the use of which is attended with loud or unusual noise, or create dust conditions, including dry sawing of masonry products and to implement wet sawing of masonry dust related products, between the hours of 7:00 p.m. to 7:30 a.m. Monday through Friday, except on federal holidays, and 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 a.m. on Saturdays and Sundays and federal holidays.
(E) Using building for offensive business. To erect, continue, or use any building, or other place, for the exercise of any trade, employment, or manufacture within the city or within one mile beyond the city limits, which, by occasion of noxious exhalations, offensive smells, or otherwise, is offensive or dangerous to the health of individuals or of the public.
(F) Smoke. To allow or permit any dense smoke to come or be emitted from any fire, chimney, engine, oil burner, or other agency within the limits of the city, shall be and is declared a nuisance, and may be summarily abated by the mayor or any member of the board of health, or by anyone whom they or either of them may authorize for that purpose. The abatement may be in addition to the fine provided for violation of this chapter.
(G) Offensive smells. To so negligently conduct any business or use any premises as to create an offensive smell as may taint the air, and render it unwholesome or disagreeable in the neighborhood.
(H) Offensive animal pens. To own, use, or keep any yard, pen, place, railroad car, or premises, in or upon which cattle or other animals shall be confined or kept, so as to be offensive to those residing in the vicinity, or any annoyance to others.
(I) Slaughtering. To slaughter or kill any cattle, hogs, sheep, horses, fowl, or other animals, or keep, maintain, or use in the city any house or place in which the business of slaughtering any of the aforementioned animals may be carried on.
(J) Carcass not to remain. To cause or suffer the carcass of any animal, or vegetable matter, slops, swill, suds, garbage, filth, stable drippings, offal, or noisome substance of any kind to be collected or deposited, or to remain in any place in the city to the prejudice of others.
(K) Brewery. To locate, establish, or maintain any brewery or distillery in the city.
(L) Allowing water to accumulate and remain in a pond.
(1) To allow water to remain in any ponds either wholly or partly within the limits of any private property for a period of more than ten consecutive days, except those which are designed to be used as private or commercially operated swimming pools, is defined and declared to be a nuisance, and shall be abated as such.
(2) For the purpose of this division, the term
POND shall be considered to mean any exposed surface of water not less than 100 square feet in area which has accumulated, either by natural or artificial means, in any depression or connected series of depressions, or excavation, whether existing naturally or created artificially.
(M) Corrupting drinking water. To corrupt or render unwholesome, or injure the water of any drinking hydrant, spring, stream, pond, or lake, to the injury and prejudice of others.
(N) Dumping polluted water. To cause any water which contains any soap, detergent, washing compound, solvent, or effluent from any sewage treatment system to be dumped into any ditch, gutter, ravine, or watercourse.
(O) To obstruct any watercourse, ravine, or gutter. To cause water to stagnate therein, or to permit foul or stagnant water to stand upon any premises to the prejudice of others.
(P) Offal in watercourse. To throw or deposit, or cause to be thrown or deposited, any offal or other offensive matter, or the carcass of any animal, in any watercourse, pond, spring, or well, within the limits of the city.
(Q) Burning of garbage. Any burning of garbage or refuse which emits foul or offensive odors is declared to be a nuisance, and shall be abated as such.
(R) Placing garbage cans or containers on front premises. To cause or suffer garbage cans or containers to be placed or to remain on parkways, walks, driveways, front yards, or in open view.
(S) Dumping within one mile of city. To deposit or dump anywhere within the territorial limits of the city, or within a distance of one mile beyond the municipal limits of the city, any night soil, refuse, garbage, offal, or any other material or liquid which emits or may emit nauseous odors or fumes, or which attracts or may attract rodents, vermin, or insects known to carry and transmit disease, or known to impair or endanger the health of the inhabitants of the community.
(T) Privies. To erect or maintain any privy within the city.
(U) Obstructing highways. To obstruct or encroach upon public highways, private ways, streets, alleys, and commons.
(V) To commit any offense which is a nuisance according to the common law of the land, or made such by the statutes of the state.
(W) Recreational items in front yards. To allow the placement or storage of leisure or recreational items such as tents, jumping jacks, trampolines, or lawn furniture. Exception: items used for a party or celebration on the front yard of any property within the corporate limits must be removed by 12:00 noon the following day.
(‘69 Code, § 11-42) (amend. Ord. 88-37, passed 5-17-88; amend. Ord. 89-46, passed 9-19-89; amend. Ord. O-34-06, passed 9-19- 06; amend. Ord. O-18-07, passed 5-15-07; amend. Ord. O-27-09, passed 8-4-09; amend. Ord. O-21- 11, passed 5-3-11; amend. Ord. O-23-19, passed 12-3-19; amend. Ord. O-19-20, passed 11-17-20; Am. Ord. O-2-21, passed 2-2-21)