The following are deemed nuisances:
A. The erecting, continuing or using any building or other place for the exercise of any trade, employment or manufacture, which, by occasioning noxious exhalations, offensive smells, or other annoyances becomes injurious and dangerous to the health, comfort or property of individuals or the public.
B. The causing or suffering of offal, filth or noisome substances to be collected or to remain in any place to the prejudice of others.
C. The obstructing or impeding, without legal authority, the passage of any navigable river, harbor or collection of water.
D. The corrupting or rendering unwholesome or impure the water of any river, stream or pond, or unlawfully diverting the same from its natural course or state, to the injury or prejudice of others.
E. The obstructing or encumbering by fences, buildings or otherwise the public roads, private ways, streets, alleys, commons, landing places or burying grounds.
F. Houses of ill fame kept for the purposes of prostitution and lewdness, gambling houses, or houses resorted to for the use of controlled substances, or houses where drunkenness, quarrelling, fighting or breaches of the peace are carried on or permitted to the disturbance of others.
G. Billboards, signboards and advertising signs, whether erected and constructed on public or private property, which so obstruct and impair the view of any portion or part of a public street, avenue, highway, boulevard or alley or of a railroad or street railway track as to render dangerous the use thereof.
H. Any object or structure hereafter erected within one thousand feet (1,000') of the limits of any municipal or regularly established airport or landing place, which may endanger or obstruct aerial navigation, including takeoff and landing, unless such object or structure constitutes a proper use or enjoyment of the land on which the same is located.
I. Any and all wood, lumber, timbers, metals and unused, abandoned or junked cars or vehicles, scrap iron, brush, poles, rubber tires, dumping grounds, tin cans, junk or other rubbish or deposits left deposited or existing in or upon any street, alley, sidewalk, park, public place, vacant or occupied private or public lot or building.
J. Open wells or cisterns, uncovered wells or cisterns or improperly covered wells or cisterns.
K. Anything that was a nuisance under the common law and has not been modified or repealed by statute. (Rev. Ord. 1541, Comp. 1941, p. N-3)
A. The city council shall have the power to require the owner or lessee of any lot, portion of a lot, or tract of ground extending into, across or bordering on any hollow or ravine which constitutes a drain for surface water, or a watercourse of any kind, who shall, by grading or filling such lot, portion of a lot or tract of ground, obstruct the ordinary flow of water through such ravine or watercourse, to build or construct, to the extent of the lot or filling, such a drain or passageway for water as the city council may by resolution designate.
B. In all cases where the owner or lessee of any lot, portion of a lot or tract of ground extending into, across or bordering on any hollow or ravine which constitutes a drain for surface water or watercourse of any kind, shall, without constructing a suitable drain, fill or grade the lot, portion of a lot or tract of ground so as to obstruct the flow of water through such watercourse and cause the water to accumulate on any street, alley, public place or private lot or ground, he shall be deemed guilty of maintaining a nuisance which may be abated by the city, and on conviction thereof he may also be punished as provided in the general penalty in section 1-3-1 of this code.
C. In addition to the penalties provided in the general penalty in section 1-3-1 of this code, in case the owner or lessee shall grade or fill any lot, part of a lot or tract of ground, extending into, across or bordering on, any hollow or ravine so as to obstruct the flow of water, the city council shall have power, by resolution, to order the owner or lessee to construct such a drain as the city council shall order, and within the time to be designated by the city council; and upon such an order being made, it shall be the duty of the street commissioner to so notify the owner or lessee in writing, and if the owner or lessee shall fail or refuse to construct the drain within the time and manner required, the street commissioner shall at once proceed to build the drain, and report the expense thereof, with all costs arising therefrom, to the city council, whereupon the city council may, by resolution, levy and assess the expenses as a special tax upon the property so drained as provided for the assessment and collection of special assessments. (Rev. Ord. 1129, Comp. 1941, p. D-4)
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