CHAPTER 91: PUBLIC NUISANCES
Section
Public Nuisances Generally
   91.01   Definition
   91.02   Illustrative enumeration
   91.03   Prohibited
   91.04   Notice to abate
   91.05   Contents of notice
   91.06   Service of notice
   91.07   Abatement by township
   91.08   Emergency abatement by township
   91.09   Township’s costs declared lien; collection
Noise
   91.20   Title
   91.21   Definitions
   91.22   Anti-noise regulations
   91.23   Anti-noise regulations based upon dB(A) criteria
   91.24   Public nuisance regulations
Tall Grass and Weeds
   91.40   Title and applicable seasons
   91.41   Purpose
   91.42   Definitions
   91.43   Land subject to regulations
   91.44   Duty to cut grass
   91.45   Unlawful acts
   91.46   Enforcement
   91.47   Declaration of nuisance
 
   91.99   Penalty
PUBLIC NUISANCES GENERALLY
§ 91.01 DEFINITION.
   For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definition shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
   NUISANCE. Any person doing an unlawful act, or omitting to perform a duty, or suffering or permitting any condition or thing to be or exist, which act, omission, condition or thing either:
      (1)   Injures or endangers the comfort, repose, health or safety or others;
      (2)   Offends decency;
      (3)   Is offensive to the senses;
      (4)   Unlawfully interferes with, obstructs or tends to obstruct or renders dangerous for passage any public or private street, highway, sidewalk, stream, ditch or drainage;
      (5)   In any way renders other persons insecure in life or the use of property; or
      (6)   Essentially interferes with the comfortable enjoyment of life and property, or tends to depreciate the value of the property of others.
(Ord. 11, passed 7-7-1987)
§ 91.02 ILLUSTRATIVE ENUMERATION.
   The maintaining, using, placing, depositing, leaving or permitting to be or remain on any public or private property of any of the following items, conditions or actions are hereby declared to be and constitute a nuisance; providing, however, this enumeration shall not be deemed or construed to be conclusive, limiting or restrictive:
   (A)   Noxious weeds and other rank vegetation;
   (B)   Accumulation of rubbish, trash, refuse, junk and other abandoned materials, metals, lumber or other things;
   (C)   Any condition which provides harborage for rats, mice, snakes and other vermin;
   (D)   Any building or other structure which is in such a dilapidated condition that it is unfit for human habitation, or kept in such an unsanitary condition that it is a menace to the health of people residing in the vicinity thereof, or presents a more than ordinarily dangerous fire hazard in the vicinity where it is located;
   (E)   All unnecessary or unauthorized noises and annoying vibrations, including animal noises;
   (F)   All disagreeable or obnoxious odors and stenches, as well as the conditions, substances or other causes which give rise to the emission or generation of such odors and stenches;
   (G)   The carcasses of animals or fowl not disposed of within a reasonable time after death;
   (H)   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;
   (I)   Any building, structure or other place or location where any activity which is in violation of local, state or federal law is conducted, performed or maintained;
   (J)   Any accumulation of stagnant water permitted or maintained on any lot or piece of ground; and
   (K)   Dense smoke, noxious fumes, gas, soot or cinders, in unreasonable quantities.
(Ord. 11, passed 7-7-1987)
§ 91.03 PROHIBITED.
   It shall be unlawful for any person to cause, permit, maintain or allow the creation or maintenance of a nuisance.
(Ord. 11, passed 7-7-1987) Penalty, see § 91.99
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