The maintaining, using, placing, depositing, leaving, or permitting of any of the following specific acts, omissions, places, conditions, and things are hereby declared to be nuisances and shall be unlawful:
(A) Any odorous, putrid, unsound, or unwholesome grain, meat, hides, skins, feathers, vegetable matter, or the whole or any part of any dead animal, fish, or fowl;
(B) Privies, vaults, cesspools, dumps, pits, or like places or which are foul or malodorous;
(C) Filthy, littered, or trash-covered cellars, house yards, barn yards, stable yards, factory yards, mill yards, vacant areas in rear of stores, granaries, vacant lots, houses, buildings, or premises;
(D) Animal manure in any quantity which is not securely protected from flies and the elements, or which is kept or handled in violation of any ordinance of the city;
(E) Liquid household waste, human excreta, garbage, butcher’s trimmings and offal, parts of fish, or any waste vegetable or animal matter in any quantity; provided, nothing herein contained shall prevent the temporary retention of waste in receptacles in a manner provided by the Health Officer of the city, nor the dumping of non-putrifying waste in a place and manner approved by the Health Officer;
(F) Tin cans, bottles, glass, cans, small pieces of scrap iron, wire metal articles, bric-a-brac, broken stone or cement, broken crockery, broken glass, broken plaster, and all trash;
(G) Any unsightly building, billboard, or other structure, or any old, abandoned or partially destroyed building or structure, or any building or structure commenced and left unfinished;
(H) Stagnant water permitted or maintained on any lot or piece of ground;
(I) Stock yards, granaries, mills, pig pens, cattle pens, chicken pens, or any other place, building, or enclosure in which animal or fowls of any kind are confined or on which are stored tankage or any other animal or vegetable matter or on which any animal or vegetable matter, including grain, is being processed when said places in which said animals are confined or said premises on which said vegetable or animal matter is located, are maintained and kept in such a manner that foul and noxious odors are permitted to emanate therefrom to the annoyance of inhabitants of the city, or are maintained and kept in such a manner as to be injurious to the public health; or
(J) Any property within the city upon which litter has been thrown, deposited, or accumulated. It shall be the duty of every owner, agent, occupant, or person in possession of any lot or parcel of land within the city to keep the same free from litter. For purposes of this section, litter includes but is not limited to trash, rubbish, refuse, garbage, paper, rags, and ashes; wood, plaster, cement, brick or stone building rubble; scrap metal or scrap rubber; offal and dead animals; and any machine or machines, vehicle or vehicles, or parts of a machine or vehicle which have lost their identity, character, utility, or serviceability, as such through deterioration, dismantling, or the ravages of time, or are inoperative or unable to perform their intended functions, or are cast off, discarded, or thrown away or left as waste, wreckage, or junk.
(Prior Code, § 4-302) (Ord. 621, passed 6-7-2006) Penalty, see § 10.99