The following subsections include, but do not limit, the conditions which are deemed to be nuisances in the city:
(A) Offensive smells. Erecting, continuing or using any building or other place for the exercise of any trade, employment or manufacture, which, by occasioning noxious exhalations, unreasonably offensive smells, or other annoyances, becomes injurious and dangerous to the health, comfort, or property of individuals or the public;
(B) Filth or noisome substance. Causing or suffering any offal, filth or noisome substance to be collected or to remain in any place to the prejudice of others;
(C) Impeding passage of navigable river. Obstructing or impeding without legal authority the passage of any navigable river, harbor, or collection of water;
(D) Water pollution. Corrupting or rendering unwholesome or impure the water of any river, stream, or pond, or unlawfully diverting the same from its natural course or state, to the injury or prejudice of others;
(E) Blocking public and private ways. Obstructing or encumbering, by fences, buildings or otherwise, the public roads, private ways, streets, alleys, commons, landing places, or burying grounds;
(F) Billboards. Billboards, signboards and advertising signs, whether erected and constructed on public or private property, which so obstruct and impair the view of any portion or part of a public street, avenue, highway, boulevard, or alley or of a railroad or street railway track as to render dangerous the use thereof;
(G) Storing of flammable junk. Depositing or storing of flammable junk, such as old rags, rope, cordage, rubber, bones, and paper, by dealers in such articles within the fire limits of the city, unless in a building of fireproof construction;
(H) Air pollution. Emission of dense smoke, noxious fumes, or fly ash;
(I) Weeds, brush. Dense growth of all weeds, vines, brush, or other vegetation in the city so as to constitute a health, safety, or fire hazard;
(J) Dutch Elm Disease. Trees infected with Dutch Elm Disease;
(K) Airport air space. Any object or structure hereafter erected within 1,000 feet of the limits of any municipal or regularly established airport or landing place, which may endanger or obstruct aerial navigation including take-off and landing, unless such object or structure constitutes a proper use or enjoyment of the land on which the same is located;
(L) Houses of ill fame. Houses of ill fame, kept for the purpose of prostitution and lewdness; gambling houses; places resorted to by persons participating in criminal gang activity prohibited by Iowa Code Chapter 723A or places resorted to by persons using controlled substances, as defined in Iowa Code § 124.101, in violation of law, or houses where drunkenness, quarreling, fighting, or breaches of the peace are carried on or permitted to the disturbance of others;
(M) Septic tanks. Effluent from septic tank or drain field running or ponding on the ground in the open;
(N) Obstruction to drainage. Any article or substance placed upon a street, alley, sidewalk, public ground, or in any ditch, waterway, or gutter so as to obstruct the drainage;
(O) Refuse or yard waste. The accumulation on any premises, improved or vacant, or any public place in the city, any quantities of refuse or yard waste, either in containers or not; and
(P) (1) Water discharged onto other property. No landowner or tenant shall cause or allow surface water above ground) or other water from any source to be drained, discharged, or cast upon or into public property or the private property of another by any device or other means which alters the natural direction or volume of water in such a manner as to cause erosion, subsidence, loss of lateral support, or other interference with or impairment of the lawful use and enjoyment of such property.
(2) Devices shall be terminated at a minimum of ten-foot from the property line if the slope of the yard is less than a ratio of three to one (3:1). When the slope of the yard is greater than a ratio of three to one (3:1), devices shall be terminated at a minimum of ten foot before the top of the slope.
(Prior Code, § 3-2-2) (Ord. 2023-11, passed 6-27-2023)
Statutory reference
Drainage obstruction, see Iowa Code § 716.1
Similar provisions, see Iowa Code § 657.2