The following are declared to be nuisances affecting public peace and safety.
(A) All unnecessary noises by singing, swearing, threatening, assaulting, striking or fighting or quarreling, cursing or using obscene language or conversation, or any unusual noise.
(1) Radios, tape and disc players, and the like. The using, operating, or permitting to be played any radio receiving set, tape or disc player, musical instrument , phonograph, or other machine or device for the producing or reproducing of sound in a manner, considering the time and place and the purpose for which the sound is produced, as to disturb the peace, quiet or repose of a person or persons of ordinary sensibilities.
(a) The play, use or operation of any radio, tape or disc player, musical instrument, phonograph or other machine or device for the production or reproduction of sound in a manner as to be plainly audible at a distance of 50 feet from the machine or device shall be prima facie evidence of a violation of this section.
(b) When sound violating this section is produced or reproduced by a machine or device that is located in or on a vehicle, the vehicle's owner is guilty of the violation, provided, however, that if the vehicle's owner is not present at the time of the violation, the person in charge or control of the vehicle at the time of the violation is guilty of the violation.
(c) This section shall not apply to sound produced by the following:
1. Amplifying equipment used in connection with activities which are authorized, sponsored or permitted by the City of Park Rapids, so long as the activity is conducted pursuant to the conditions of the license, permit or contract authorizing the activity;
2. Church bells, chimes, or carillons;
3. School bells;
4. Anti-theft devices; or
5. Machines or devices for the production of sound on or in authorized emergency vehicles.
(2) Application. With the exception of the machines or devices listed in division (c) above, this section shall apply to all radios, tapes and disc players, musical instruments, phonographs, and machines and devices for the production or reproduction of sound, whether on public or private property.
(B) The firing or discharge of any firearms. This section shall not preclude the Police Department from establishing and using a firearms training range at a site or sites established by Council action and located within the city. Persons using the range must be licensed law enforcement officers, or be enrolled in a program leading to licensure. The Chief of Police or the Police Department's Firearms Training Officer (or such other person as the Chief of Police may from time to time designate, including representatives from other law enforcement agencies) must be present when the range is being used.
(C) Any use of property abutting on a public street or sidewalk which causes large crowds to gather, obstructing traffic and the free use of the sidewalk or streets.
(D) All buildings, walls and other structures which have deteriorated or become unsafe as defined in this section; or have been damaged by fire, decay or otherwise to an extent exceeding ½ their original value and which are so situated as to endanger the safety of the public.
(E) Any dog who habitually barks, disturbing the peace of a number of people.
(F) Trees, hedges, signs, billboards, fences, or other obstructions which interfere with maintenance of right-of-way or which hinder persons using any right-of-way from seeing traffic.
(G) The uncovered piling, storing or keeping of old machinery, wrecked or junked vehicles or vehicle's bodies, cut or uncut lumber, pipes and other junk and debris, in zoned residential, or in those areas not presently zoned, but which are predominately residential in nature.
(H) Any and all passenger vehicles including trucks in an inoperative state due to age, damage, or malfunction shall not be parked outside in any district except in a Heavy Industry District (I-2) for a period not to exceed 30 days unless they are a permitted use; eg. repair garage. INOPERATIVE shall mean incapable of movement under its own power or in need of repair or junking and shall include vehicles incapable of legal movement on public roads. All exterior storage not included as a permitted use, or included as part of a conditional use permit, or otherwise permitted by provisions of this chapter shall be considered as refuse.
(I) To leave any abandoned basement, well, shaft, wall, cesspool or septic tank, or other excavation unless covered or filled or otherwise protected as to prevent any child or other persons from accidentally falling into the same or being injured thereby.
(J) All buildings and all alterations to buildings made or erected within the fire limits as established by ordinance in violation of the ordinance concerning manner and materials of construction.
(K) To throw, drop, dump, suspend or cause to be thrown, any object or dangerous material from any bridge or overpass spanning roadways or waterways within the city. No person shall jump, swing, fall, or attach any device on any bridge to cause a person to swing from or repel from any bridge within the city. No loitering on top of buildings.
(L) All snow and ice must be removed from public sidewalks, awnings or decks within 12 hours after the snow or other precipitation causing the condition has ceased to fall. The allowing of rain water, ice or snow to fall from any building or structure upon any street or sidewalk or to flow across or build up on any sidewalk, that may pose a threat to the general health, safety or welfare of the public is prohibited.
(M) Obstructions and excavations affecting the ordinary public use of streets, alleys, sidewalks or public grounds except under conditions as are permitted by this City Code.
(N) Accumulations in the open of discarded or disused machinery, household appliances, automobile bodies, 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 in a manner creating fire, health, or safety hazards from those accumulations.
(O) 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 a substance.
(P) All other conditions or things which are liable to cause injury to the person or property of anyone.
(Prior Code, § 19-28) (Ord. 270, passed 3-11-1996; Am. Ord. 363, passed 5-14-2002; Am. Ord. 359, passed 12-11-2001; Am. Ord. 462, passed 6-13-2006) Penalty, see § 92.99