(a) No person shall erect, continue, use or maintain a dwelling, building, structure or place for a residence or for the exercise of a trade, employment or business, or for the keeping or feeding of an animal, which dwelling, building, structure or place, or which activity, by occasioning noxious exhalations or noisome or offensive smells, becomes injurious to the health, comfort or property of individuals or of the public. No person shall cause or allow offal, filth or noisome substances to be collected or remain in any place to the damage or prejudice of others or of the public. No person shall unlawfully obstruct or impede the passage of a navigable river, harbor or collection of water, or corrupt or render unwholesome or impure a watercourse, stream or water, or unlawfully divert such watercourse from its natural course or state to the injury or prejudice of others.
(b) No person shall pile, store, accumulate or permit to accumulate upon any real estate in the City which has been zoned or districted for single-family, two-family, apartment house, retail business or commercial uses, any junk, rubbish, garbage, manure or other material or substance detrimental to the public safety, health or general welfare, or of such a nature as to interfere with the value of real estate within the immediate vicinity, or the enjoyment thereof by the owners thereof, by reason of any noxious odors emanating therefrom, or which is of such a character or nature as to create or spread disease or cause an unsanitary or unhealthy condition, or which by its nature is likely to create conditions for the breeding, harborage and infestation of rats, mice, vermin or other disease-carrying pests and animals or insects. However, nothing herein contained shall prohibit the ordinary accumulation of garbage and other waste resulting from the natural operation of a household or business. Nothing herein contained shall apply to any property within the City which has been continuously and primarily used for agricultural or similar purposes.
(Ord. 145-13. Passed 7-1-13.)