(A) A health nuisance includes any act, omission to act, or condition on any property which may:
(1) Cause injury;
(2) Prejudice health or safety; or
(3) Diminish the quality of life of one or more persons or may degrade the environment.
(B) Such acts, omissions, or conditions include, but shall not be limited to, the following:
(1) To allow weeds and grasses to grow without periodic cutting as provided in § 90.34;
(2) The storage, accumulation, or deposition of any animal carcass, offal, fecal material, filth, refuse, garbage, or other offensive or noxious substances in any place or on any property;
(3) To discharge or deposit any offal, animal carcass, liquid waste, sewage effluent, or other polluting material into or upon any watercourse, river, lake, pond, stream, spring, well, drainage ditch, or drain tile;
(4) To corrupt or render impure the water of any spring, river, stream, pond, lake, or well;
(5) The presence of pest infestations, rats, flies, or other vermin on a property or within a structure;
(6) To emit noxious or offensive odors from a property, excepting livestock operations on agricultural property as permitted;
(7) To keep in a foul, offensive, or filthy condition any grounds, premises, buildings, or yards, excepting livestock operations on agricultural property as permitted;
(8) To own or operate a dwelling unit that is unfit for human habitation or dangerous or detrimental to life, safety, or health because of lack of repair, defects in the sewage system, plumbing facility, water supply, lighting , heating or ventilation system, or due to unsanitary conditions;
(9) To dump, abandon, deposit, dismantle, or burn upon any public or private property any garbage, refuse, junked or wrecked motor vehicles or non-motorized equipment or parts thereof, or other discarded solid waste;
(10) (a) Any attractive nuisance which may prove detrimental to life, safety, or health whether in a building, on the premises of a building, or upon an unoccupied lot. This includes any abandoned well, cistern, basement or excavation, motor vehicle, discarded, abandoned, or unattended refrigerators and similar containers equipped with airtight door or lid, snap lock, or other locking device which may not be released from the inside.
(b) The duties of these items are imposed alike on the owner of the nuisance and the owner or occupant of the premises where the nuisance is permitted to remain;
(11) To store, dump, or permit the accumulation of debris, refuse, garbage, trash, tires, buckets, cans, wheelbarrows, garbage cans, or other containers in a manner that may harbor mosquitoes, flies, insects, rodents, nuisance birds, or other animal pests that are offensive, injurious, or dangerous to the health of individuals or the public;
(12) To create a condition, through the improper maintenance of a swimming pool or wading pool, or by causing an action that alters the condition of a natural body of water, so that it harbors mosquitoes, flies, or other animal pests that are offensive, injurious, or dangerous to the health of individuals or the public;
(13) To operate a tanning facility without a valid permit under the State Tanning Facility Permit Act; and
(14) All other uses and conditions of property which, due to their existence, create an environment deemed by the Health Authority to be prejudicial to public health.
(Ord. passed - -2016)