(A) (1) The town prohibits the doing of an act, or the omission of a duty or the suffering or permitting of a condition that injures or endangers the comfort, repose, health or safety or others; offends decency; is offensive to the senses; unlawfully interferes with, obstructs or tends to obstruct or renders dangerous for passage any public or private street, highway, sidewalk, stream, ditch or drainage; in any way renders other persons insecure in life or the use of property; or essentially interferes with the comfortable enjoyment of life and property or tends to depreciate the value of the property of others.
(2) Examples of common nuisances include tall grass and weeds, accumulations of trash or rubbish, accumulations of stagnant water and conditions which provide shelter for rats, mice, snakes and other vermin.
(B) If a Code Enforcement Official/the Town Marshal determines that a nuisance exists on your property, you will receive either a written warning citation or an official citation. The citation will provide a statement of the violation and the actions needed to be taken to correct the violation/abate the nuisance.
(C) Unless it is an emergency condition where safety is impacted, you will be provided at least seven days to correct the nuisance. It will also provide you a method to appeal the citation to the Town Council. If you do not timely abate the violation or successfully appeal it to the Town Council, the town is entitled to enter your property to correct the condition and place a lien on your property for the cost of correction.
(Ord. 4-2019, passed 5-7-2019; Ord. 1-2020, passed 3-3-2020) Penalty, see § 92.99