§ 96.20 DEFINITIONS.
   For purposes of this subchapter the following definition shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
   NUISANCE. The doing of an unlawful act, or the omitting to perform a duty that either:
      (1)   Injures or endangers the comfort, repose, health or safety of others;
      (2)   Offends decency;
      (3)   Unlawfully interferes with, obstructs or tends to obstruct or renders dangerous for passage any public or private street, highway sidewalk, stream, ditch or drainage;
      (4)   In any way renders any other person insecure in life or the use of property;
      (5)   Essentially interferes with the comfortable enjoyment of life and property, or tends to depreciate the value of the property of others;
      (6)   The pollution of any public well or cistern, stream, lake, canal or body of water by sewage, dead animals, creamery, industrial wastes or other substances;
      (7)   Any building, structure or other place or location where any activity which is in violation of local, state or federal laws is conducted, performed or maintained;
      (8)   Any accumulation of stagnant water permitted or maintained on any lot or piece of ground;
      (9)   Any abandoned vehicle;
      (10)   Any machinery not connected with the operation of a household, equipment, including but not limited to refrigerators with doors intact, in any open or unfenced areas, or in any building or structure to which the public has access.
(Ord. 2011-12, passed 9-20-2011)