A public nuisance exists when:
(a) Any building, house or structure becomes so out of repair and dilapidated that, it will endanger the life, limb or property of, or cause damage or injury to persons using the streets or public ways of the City adjoining such lot; or
(b) Any tree, stack or other object remains standing upon a lot in such condition that it will, endanger the life, limb or property or cause damage or injury to persons upon the public streets, or public ways adjacent thereto; or
(c) An excavation or cellar on any lot is unguarded or remains in such a condition that it will endanger the life, limb or property, or cause damage or injury to persons upon the public streets or public ways adjacent thereto; or
(d) The accumulation on any lot or in any building, house or structure, of earth, rubbish or other materials attracts and propagates vermin or insects endangering the public health; or
(e) Any building, house or structure becomes so out of repair and dilapidated that it constitutes a fire hazard; or
(f) The accumulation on any lot or in any building, house or structure, of rubbish or other materials constitutes a fire hazard; or
(g) Any business which by reason of noxious odors generated thereby, or of smoke, dust, and dirt being cast therefrom endangers or is harmful to the public health, welfare, or safety, or materially interferes with the peaceful and lawful use of owners or occupants of a proximate or adjacent lot or structure thereon; or
(h) Any building, house, or structure becomes so out of repair and dilapidated that, due to lack of adequate maintenance or neglect, it endangers the public health, welfare or safety or materially interferes with the peaceful enjoyment of owners or occupants of adjacent property; or
(i) Any loud, unnecessary, or unusual noise annoys, disturbs, injures or endangers the comfort, repose, health, peace or safety of others; or
(j) Any person places, throws or sweeps into any street, avenue, alley, park or public ground, any dirt, paper, nails, pieces of glass or board, fruit parings or skins, garbage, waste, leaves or clippings, ashes, cans, bottles, cartons, boxes, furniture, oil, parts of automobiles or any other matter of an unsightly or unsanitary nature, or places, throws or sweeps such matter upon any sidewalk, street crossing, driveway, or upon the floor, stairway, or hallway of any public building, theatre, railway depot, railway platform, or property of another; or
(k) Any paper, fruit parings or skins, garbage, waste, ashes, cartons, boxes, or any other matter of an unsightly or unsanitary nature accumulates in such manner that it could be blown onto any street, avenue, alley, park, public ground, sidewalk or property of another.
(l) In addition to the public nuisances listed herein, those offenses which are known to the common law and the statutes of Ohio as public nuisances may be proceeded against as is provided in this chapter or in accordance with any other provision of law.
(Ord. 2136. Passed 3-13-67.)
(Ord. 2136. Passed 3-13-67.)