The following acts, conduct and conditions are hereby declared and defined to be nuisances, and when committed, performed or permitted to exist by any person within the territorial limits of the city, are hereby declared to be unlawful and prohibited.
(A) Generally. Any act or offense which is a nuisance according to the common law of the state or declared or defined to be a nuisance by the ordinances of the city. In addition, the officials of the city shall be authorized to abate any nuisance which while not specifically defined within Ordinance 1986-1 shall constitute the unreasonable, unwarrantable or unlawful use by a person of property, real or personal, or from his or her own improper, indecent or unlawful personal conduct which works an obstruction or injury to a right of another, or of the public, and produces such material annoyance, inconvenience, discomfort or hurt that the law will presume an actionable nuisance. Nuisances may be abated which are public or which are both public and private in nature.
(B) Dead animals, filth and the like. To cause or suffer the carcass of any animal or any offal, filth or noisome substance to be collected, deposited or to remain in any place under his or her ownership or control to the prejudice of others or to throw or deposit any offal or other offensive matter or the carcass of any dead animal in any watercourse, lake, pond, spring, well or common sewer, street or public highway.
(C) Pollution of water. To corrupt or render unwholesome or impure the water of any spring, river, stream, pond or lake, to the injury or prejudice of others.
(D) Encroachments. To obstruct or encroach upon public highways, private ways, streets, alleys, commons, landing places and ways to burying places.
(E) Noxious occupations. To erect, continue or use any building or other place for the exercise of any trade, employment or manufacture, which, by occasioning noxious exhalations, offensive smells or otherwise, is offensive or dangerous to the health of individuals or of the public.
(F) Unlawful advertising. To advertise wares or occupations by painting notices of the same on or affixing them to fences, walls, windows, building exteriors, utility poles, or on hydrants, other public or private property, or on rocks or other natural objects, without the consent of the owner, or if in the highway or other public place, without permission of the proper authorities.
(G) Interfering with real estate sales. To harass, intimidate or threaten any person who is about to sell or lease or has sold or leased a residence or other real property or is about to buy or lease or has bought or leased a residence or other real property, when the harassment, intimidation or threat relates to a person’s attempt to sell, buy or lease a residence or other real property, or refers to a person's sale, purchase or lease of a residence or other real property.
(H) Dumping, burning trash. To dump, abandon, deposit, dismantle or burn upon any public property or right-of-way, highway, park, street or parkway anywhere in the city, any trash, garbage, ashes, junk, junked or wrecked motor vehicles or parts thereof, or miscellaneous waste.
(I) Keeping junk, junked vehicles. To store, keep or maintain outside of a closed building, any junk, parts, machinery or equipment not in an operable condition, or any motor vehicle not in an operable condition, where the inoperable motor vehicle is an actual danger or detriment to life, safety, health or peaceful enjoyment of the property of surrounding landowners; provided, however, that this provision shall not apply to a properly licensed junkyard or other permitted outdoor storage use which is in full compliance with all of the provisions of this code and other ordinances of the city governing the same.
(J) Dangerous, uninhabitable buildings. To own, maintain or keep a dwelling unit unfit for human habitation, or dangerous or detrimental to life, safety or health because of lack of repair, defects in the plumbing system, lighting or ventilation, the existence of contagious diseases or unsanitary conditions likely to cause sickness among persons residing in the premises or residing in proximity thereof.
(K) Harboring rats. To store or place any materials in a manner which may harbor rats.
(L) Offensive noises. To produce or permit to be produced, whether on public or private property, any offensive noise to the disturbance of the peace or quiet of any person residing in the vicinity.
(M) Watercourses. It shall be unlawful and a nuisance for any person, firm or corporation to obstruct any watercourse or source of water supply in the city.
(N) Premises. It shall be unlawful to permit any building, structure or place to remain in such a condition as to be dangerous to the public health in any way. Any such structure, building or place is hereby declared to be a nuisance.
(1986 Code, § 15-26) (Ord. 1986-1, passed 1-20-1986) Penalty, see § 131.99