(A) Internal.
(1) The interior of every dwelling and dwelling unit, within the city, including habitable and non-habitable rooms, halls, basements, cellars, attics, closets, and storage spaces shall be kept clean and free from accumulations of dirt, filth, rubbish, garbage, or similar matter and shall be kept from vermin and rodent infestation.
(2) The occupant or occupants shall have the responsibility for meeting the obligation created herein with respect to all interior areas within his or her or their exclusive control.
(B) External.
(1) The exterior of every dwelling and dwelling unit within the city, including all courts, yards, and conterminous property, shall be kept clean and free from accumulation of dirt, filth, leaves, rubbish, garbage, uncontained trash, scrap or abandoned building materials or similar matter, dead and decaying trees, stumps of trees previously felled, and shall be kept free from vermin and rodent infestation. The occupant or occupants shall have the responsibility for meeting the obligation created in this division (B) with respect to all exterior areas within his or her or their exclusive control.
(2) All dwellings, fences, gates and outbuildings or other structures in a dilapidated or unsafe condition shall be removed or repaired. All sheds and auxiliary structures attached to dwellings which create blind rooms or which overcrowd the land shall be removed. All year structures, fences, and rubbish which obstruct light and air, harbor rats and vermin, or create an undesirable environment shall be removed. All courts, yards, and conterminous property around every dwelling or dwelling unit shall be properly graded and drained to keep surface water from draining into or beneath the dwelling or dwelling unit. Water shall not be allowed to stand in drainless pools anywhere about the premises.
(3) No owner, occupant or person having control or management of any land within the city shall permit or maintain on any premises or adjacent -rights-of-way any excessive growths of grass or wild or noxious weeds to a greater height than ten inches on the average; nor any accumulations of dead weeds, grass, brush, or leaves.
(4) Open compost piles are discouraged as they may be an attraction for rats or other vermin.
(5) Open or inadequately protected holes in the ground of sufficient size to risk injury to humans or pets are prohibited.
(6) The Federal Telecommunications Act of 1996 contain provisions that void certain prohibitions regarding antennas. Certain types of antennas are permitted as listed below as well as locations.
(a) An antenna that is designed to receive direct broadcast satellite service, including direct-to-home satellite services, that is one meter (39 inches) or less in diameter.
(b) An antenna that is designed to receive video programming services via multi-point distribution services, including multi-channel, multi-point distribution services, instructional television fixed services, and local multi-point distribution services, and that is one meter (39 inches) or less in diameter or diagonal measurement.
(c) An antenna that is designed to receive television broadcast signals.
(d) An antenna should be mounted directly on the rear of the house, on a roof plane facing the rear, or on the back side of a chimney, to the extent feasible that the antenna is not visible from the street.
(e) Mounted on the ground in the rear yard, to the extent feasible that the antenna is not visible from the street.
(f) Mounted on a pole, an existing other structure, or a tree in the rear yard, to the extent feasible that the antenna is not visible from the street.
(g) If no clear signal may be obtained in any of the above locations, an antenna may be mounted on the ground or, if necessary, on a pole in the front yard, or on the front plane of the house.
(Ord. 90-09, passed 12-17-90; Am. Ord. 93-01, passed 4-19-93; Am. Ord. 96-01, passed 6-17-96; Am. Ord. 7, 2019, passed - - )