Public nuisances affecting health shall include, but not be limited to, the following acts, omissions, conditions or things:
(A) All decayed, harmfully adulterated or unwholesome food or drink sold or offered for sale to the public;
(B) Carcasses of animals, birds or fowl not buried or otherwise disposed of in a sanitary manner within 24 hours after death;
(C) Accumulations of decayed animal or vegetable matter, trash, rubbish, rotting lumber, bedding, packing material, scrap metal or any material whatsoever in which flies, mosquitoes, disease-carrying insects, rats or other vermin may breed;
(D) All stagnant water in which mosquitoes, flies or other insects can multiply;
(E) Privy vaults and garbage cans which are not fly-tight;
(F) All noxious weeds and other rank growth or vegetation;
(G) The escape of smoke, soot, cinders, noxious acids, fumes, gases, fly ash or industrial dust within the town limits or within one mile therefrom in such quantities as to endanger the health of persons’ ordinary sensibilities or to threaten or cause substantial injury to property;
(H) The pollution of any public well or cistern, stream, lake, canal or body of water by sewage, industrial wastes or other substances; or
(I) Any use of property, substances or things within the town emitting or causing any foul, offensive, noisome, nauseous, noxious or disagreeable odors, effluvia or stenches extremely repulsive to the physical senses of ordinary persons which annoy, discomfort, injure or inconvenience the health of any appreciable number of persons within the town.
(Prior Code, § 13-3)