ABANDONED REFRIGERATOR: Any refrigerator, icebox, airtight container or semi-airtight container possessing a capacity of one and one-half (11/2) cubic feet or more and an opening of fifty (50) square inches or more and which has a lid or door equipped with a latch or other fastening device capable of securing such door or lid shut, and such refrigerator, icebox, airtight or semi-airtight container is located outside any dwelling, building or other structure or within any warehouse or storage room or any unoccupied, unsecured, or abandoned dwelling.
BRUSH: Scrub vegetation or dense undergrowth.
CARRION: The dead and putrefying flesh of any animal, fowl or fish.
ENCROACHMENT: Any object, structure or vegetation which obstructs or otherwise impedes or is likely to obstruct or otherwise impede the lawful passage of traffic, vehicular and pedestrian, over any street, alley, alley easement, utility easement greater than ten feet (10') in width, or sidewalk in the city.
FILTH: Any matter in a putrescent state.
IMPROPER STORAGE: The outdoor storage, for a period greater than twenty four (24) hours, in a residential district, as defined by the zoning ordinance, of articles and material subject to deterioration by the elements, including, but not limited to, furniture and appliances other than those customarily installed or used out of doors, boxes, vehicle parts, and paper; any material which is stored in a disorderly manner or in such a manner as to offer harborage to vermin; any cut wood, firewood, lumber, or other building material, except masonry, which is not stored a minimum of six inches (6") above the ground.
IMPURE OR UNWHOLESOME MATTER: Any putrescible or nonputrescible condition, object or matter which tends to, may or could produce injury, death or disease to human beings.
NOTICE: Given personally or delivered by U.S. postal service in writing by a letter addressed to the owner at the owner's address as recorded in the appraisal district records of the appraisal district in which the property is located; to the occupant or person in charge, or if personal service cannot be obtained, by publication at least once in a paper of general circulation within the county of Lincoln; or, by posting notice on or near the front door of each building on the property to which the violation relates, or by posting notice on a placard attached to a stake driven into the ground on the property to which the violation relates. In a notice provided under this section, the city may by regular mail and a posting on the property, or by personally delivering the notice, notify the owner that if the owner commits another violation of the same kind or nature that poses a danger to the public health and safety on or before the first anniversary of the date of the notice, the city may without further notice correct the violation at the owner's expense and assess the expense against the property.
NUISANCE: Shall include stagnant or unwholesome water, sinks, privies, filth, carrion, weeds, rubbish, brush and refuse, impure or unwholesome matter of any kind, sewage exposed to the atmosphere, objectionable, unsightly or unsanitary matter of whatever nature, litter as defined elsewhere in this code, harborage for rodents or parasitic insects, open wells, abandoned refrigerators, animal pen or enclosures which have become offensive, improper storage, graffiti, encroachment, substandard premises, junk motor vehicles, junked boats, junked off road motorcycles or junked all-terrain vehicles, poison ivy, poison oak, or poison sumac (within 50 feet of an occupied dwelling), and potable water nuisances.
OBJECTIONABLE, UNSIGHTLY OR UNSANITARY MATTER: Any matter, condition or object which is objectionable, unsightly or unsanitary to a person of ordinary sensitivity.
OPEN WELL: Any well, or cistern having a depth of ten feet (10') or greater and a width not greater than six feet (6') or any manmade pit, hole or excavation not sufficiently protected or guarded so as to ensure the safety of all passing by or near same.
POTABLE WATER NUISANCE: The presence of pooled or standing water from a potable water supply in a quantity and location that may provide a breeding place for mosquitoes, the discharge of potable water to adjacent property in a volume or at a rate that damages vegetation, buildings, fences or other structures on the adjacent property, or the discharge of potable water to a street or other public property that creates a hazard to traffic due to the presence of accumulated water or ice.
REFUSE: Any homogeneous or heterogeneous accumulation of worn out, used up, broken, rejected or worthless materials.
RUBBISH: Trash, debris, rubble, stone, fragments of building materials, mounds of dirt or rock and any other material.
SEWAGE: Wash water and water carried animal, culinary, and industrial wastes; liquid waste containing human excreta, and other matter, flowing in or from a property drainage system or sewer. Excreta include feces, urine, secretions from the skin, expectoration, liquid wastes from dwellings and institutions, stables, and business buildings.
UNMANAGED LANDSCAPE VEGETATION: A. Landscape trees, bushes, shrubs, vines, brush and ground cover plants that, due to lack of trimming, pruning and shaping, have become unsightly to persons of ordinary sensibilities;
B. Dead trees, shrubs, vines, brush or ground cover; and
C. Trees that represent a safety hazard due to disease or damage.
WEEDS: Uncultivated or cultivated vegetation, including grass, having a height in excess of twelve inches (12"). (Ord. 443, 10-14-2013)