(A) It shall be unlawful for the owner, occupant or person having control or management of any land within the city to permit a public nuisance to develop thereon.
(B) The following conditions are declared to be public nuisances:
(1) Environmental nuisance.
(a) The outdoor storage or display of appliances and household items;
(b) Any tree, stack, or other object standing in such a condition that it is likely to, if the condition is allowed to continue, endanger the life, limb or property of, or cause hurt, damage, or injury to persons or property by the falling thereof or of parts thereof;
(c) An accumulation on any premises of filth, refuse, trash, garbage or other waste material which endangers the public health, welfare or safety, or materially interferes with the peaceful enjoyment by owners or occupants of adjacent property because of the danger that it will catch or communicate fire, attract and propagate vermin, rodents or insects, or blow rubbish into any street, sidewalk or property of another;
(d) Any grass growth exceeding 6 inches in height, excessive accumulations of grass, weeds, rubbish, leaves, dead trees, flowers, bushes or other ornamental plants; and
(e) Disposal or accumulation of any foul, decaying, or putrescent substances or other offensive materials in or on any lot, tract of land, street, highway or any sidewalk or alley abutting any of these which shall be reason of such offensive odor.
(2) Health hazard. Any accumulation of rubbish, plant material, scrap metal, car parts, appliances or any other material which attracts vermin, rodents or insects, or is otherwise injurious to the public health.
(3) Interference with use of others. Any condition that materially interferes with the peaceful enjoyment by owners/occupants of adjacent property.
(4) Storage of explosives. The storage of explosive material that creates a safety hazard to other property or persons in the vicinity.
(5) Open wells. The maintenance of any open, uncovered, or insecurely covered cistern, cellar, well, pit, excavation or vault situated upon private premises in any open or unfenced lot or place.
(6) Trees and shrubbery obstructing streets, sidewalks and drainage. The growing and maintenance of trees or shrubbery that in any way interferes with the use, construction or maintenance of streets or sidewalks, causes injury to streets or sidewalks or constitutes an obstruction to drainage.
(7) Keeping of animals. The failure to keep sanitary conditions and free from preventable offensive odors.
(8) Junk; scrap metal; motor vehicles. The storage of motor vehicles in an inoperative condition, motor vehicles unfit for further use, automobile parts or scrap metal within the city limits except on premises authorized by the city for such purposes.
(Ord. 3, Series 2003-2004, passed 10-9-2003)