The following acts, when committed, or conditions, when existing, are hereby defined and declared to be nuisances:
(a) An act done or committed, or aided or assisted to be done or committed, by any person, or any substance, being or thing kept, maintained, placed or found in or upon any public or private place, which is injurious or dangerous to the public health, safety or good order.
(b) All buildings, bridges or other structures of whatever character kept or maintained, or which are permitted by any person owning or having control thereof to be kept or maintained in a condition unsafe, dangerous, unhealthy, injurious or annoying to the public
(c) All trees and other appendages of or to realty kept or maintained, or which are permitted by any person owning or having control thereof to be kept or maintained in a condition unsafe, dangerous, unhealthy or injurious to the public.
(d) All ponds or pools of stagnant water and all foul or dirty water or liquid when discharged through any drain, pipe or spout or thrown into or upon any street, public place or lot to the injury or annoyance of the public.
(e) All obstructions caused or permitted on any street or sidewalk to the danger or annoyance of the public, and all stones, rubbish, dirt, filth, slops, vegetable matter or other article thrown or placed by any person on or in any street, sidewalk or other public place, which in any way may cause any injury or annoyance to the public.
(f) All sidewalks, gutters or curbstones permitted to remain in an unsafe condition or out of repair.
(g) All houses, buildings, structures or enclosures used for special storage of powder, dynamite or other explosive or highly flammable substances or gases, except those maintained pursuant to a permit issued by competent authority.
(h) Any litter, trash, garbage or refuse or any abandoned unlicensed motor vehicle or any part thereof, which is or may be offensive to the neighborhood or residents generally.
(i) Any unclean, stinking, foul, defective or filthy drainpipe, tank or gutter, or any leaking or broken slop, garbage or manure box or receptacle of like character.
(j) Any offensive or unwholesome substance or growth of grass, weeds or brush upon any lot or parcel of ground.
(k) Any dirt gathered in cleaning yards, waste of factories or any rags, damaged merchandise, wet, broken or leaking containers or any materials which are offensive or tend by decay to become putrid or to render the atmosphere impure or unwholesome.
(l) Any business, trade or activity whereby noisome stenches and odors or noxious gases arise or are generated.
(m) Whenever in any cellar, basement or part thereof, or any house or building, there may be found water occasioned by leakage from defective hydrants, water pipes, sewer pipes, cisterns, wells, gutters, drains, running spouts or seepage from the surrounding earth, or whenever the walls of any cellar or basement shall be found to be damp or moist from any cause named in this subsection, such water, leakage, seepage or moisture shall be deemed a nuisance.
(n) Every act or thing done or which may be permitted, allowed or continued by the owner, agent, assignee, occupant or tenant of any premises, property or structure, which act or thing done relates to the location, construction, repair, maintenance, use, emptying and cleaning of all water closets, privies, sinks, plumbing, drains, yards, lots, areaways, pens, stables and other places where offensive, unsightly, unwholesome, objectionable or dangerous substances or liquids are or may be accumulated, to the damage or injury of any of the inhabitants of the City, and not hereinbefore specified.
(o) All open, unguarded or unprotected excavations, refrigerators with intact doors, swimming pools or buildings which, when abandoned or left open or otherwise unprotected, will likely prove dangerous to life or limb, or abandoned, open, uncovered or otherwise unprotected wells, cesspools, cisterns or catch basins.
The nuisances described in this section shall not be construed as exclusive, and any act of commission or omission and any condition which constitutes a nuisance by statute or common law of the State, when committed, omitted or existing within the City, is hereby declared to constitute a nuisance.
(11-7-88)