For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ATTRACTIVE NUISANCE. A place where:
(1) The condition that is maintained is one upon which the possessor knew or should have known that small children would likely frequent the place and play about it;
(2) The condition was one which the possessor knew, or should have known, involved unreasonable risk of death or bodily harm to children;
(3) The child, because of its tender years, did not realize the risk involved in exposing itself to the condition; and
(4) The utility, if any, to the possessor of eliminating the condition was slight as compared to the probability of injury.
BRUSH. All trees or shrubbery under 7 feet in height which are not cultivated, maintained, or cared for by persons owning or controlling the premises on which the trees or shrubbery are growing.
NUISANCE. Includes, but is not limited to, whatever is dangerous to human life or health, whatever renders the ground, the water, or the air or the food a hazard or injurious to human life or health, or that is offensive to the senses, or that is or tends to become detrimental to the public health.
OBJECTIONABLE, UNSIGHTLY, OR UNSANITARY MATTER OF WHATEVER NATURE. All uncultivated vegetable growth, objects, and matter not included within the meaning of the other terms defined in this section, which are liable to produce or tend to produce disease or an unhealthy, unwholesome, or unsanitary condition on the premises or within the general locality where the growth, objects, or matter is situated, including, without limitation, the accumulation of stagnant water, carrion, filth, impure or unwholesome matter, weeds in excess of 12 inches, rubbish, and brush.
RUBBISH. All garbage, trash or refuse, discarded or useless articles, discarded clothing or textiles of all sorts, and in general all litter and other things usually included within the meaning of the term.
WEEDS. Uncultivated vegetable growth or matter, including grasses, which has grown to a height of more than 12 inches or which, regardless of height, has become an unwholesome or decaying mass or breeding place for mosquitoes or vermin.
(Ord. 553, passed 1-20-2004)