(A) The following specific acts when committed in the city are declared to constitute health nuisances:
(1) Imperfect plumbing. Any imperfect, leaking, unclean or filthy sink, water closet, urinal or other plumbing fixture in any building used or occupied by human beings;
(2) Garbage and refuse. Depositing, maintaining or permitting to be maintained or to accumulate upon any public or private property any household waste water, sewage, garbage, tin cans, offal or excrement; any decaying fruit, vegetables, fish, meat or bones; any oyster or clam shells, or any foul, putrid or obnoxious liquid or substance;
(3) Impure water. Any well or other supply of water used in food establishments, pasteurization plants, slaughterhouses or for drinking or household purposes, which is polluted or which is so constructed or situated that it may become polluted;
(4) Undressed hides. Undressed hides kept longer than 24 hours, except at the place where they are to be manufactured, or in a storeroom or basement whose construction is approved by the Health Officer;
(5) Manure. The accumulation of manure, unless it be in a properly constructed fly-proof pit, bin or box;
(6) Breeding place for flies. The accumulation of manure, garbage or anything whatever in which flies breed;
(7) Stagnant water. Any water or liquid in which mosquito larvae may exist;
(8) Weeds. Permitting weeds, especially thistles, creeping jenny and those whose pollen is known to cause hay fever, to grow to maturity on any private property, parking or vacant lots;
(9) Poison ivy. Permitting poison ivy to be or grow upon any private property nearer than 15 feet from the sidewalk of any public street;
(10) Dead animals. For the owner of a dead animal to permit it to remain undisposed of longer than 24 hours after its death;
(11) Polluting creeks. Throwing or leaving any dead animal or vegetable matter or any slops of filth whatever, either solid or fluid, into any pool of water or tributary thereof; or allowing any horses, mules, cows, goats, sheep or other livestock to wade or be in or on the bank thereof;
(12) Privies and cesspools. Erecting or maintaining any privy or cesspool;
(13) Garbage handling. Improperly throwing or letting fall on or permitting to remain on any street, alley or public ground any garbage, rubbish or filth;
(14) Bonfires in public places. Burning, causing or permitting to be burned in any street, alley or public ground, any dirt, filth, manure, garbage, sweepings, leaves, ashes, papers or rubbish of any kind; provided, however, that upon obtaining permission from the City Health Officer or city employee authorized by the City Health Officer to grant such permission, a bonfire may be made under such condition as the City Health Officer or his or her representative may specify; provided that such permission shall not be granted in any area wherein bonfires may be prohibited by the Fire Code of this code of ordinances;
(15) Burning of garbage. Burning upon any private or public property, except upon the public dump, any garbage, offal, excrement, fresh or decaying fruits, or vegetables, fish, meat or bones, paper, leaves, grass, trees or any putrid or obnoxious liquid or substance;
(16) Keeping of certain rodents. The keeping or propagating of white rats and other rodents within the city; and
(17) Abandoned motor vehicle. A motor vehicle that is in an inoperable or unusable condition and is not currently licensed and is left on public property longer than 48 hours or on private property longer than 30 days.
(B) Health nuisances; how abated. The Health Officer shall give notice to any person creating, permitting or maintaining any nuisance to abate such nuisance forthwith; and if such person shall neglect or refuse to do so within reasonable time after such notice, he or she shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. The Health Officer shall cause to be removed or abated any such nuisance upon the expiration of reasonable time after serving of such notice, and the city may recover the reasonable expense incurred from the person maintaining such nuisance in a civil suit instituted for each purpose.
(Prior Code, § 4-7-3) (Res. 93-06-07, passed 6-7-1993) Penalty, see § 92.99