The following subsections include, but do not limit, the conditions that are deemed to be nuisances in the City:
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 657.2)
1. Offensive Smells. Erecting, continuing, or using any building or other place for the exercise of any trade, employment, or manufacture that, by occasioning noxious exhalations, unreasonably offensive smells, or other annoyances, becomes injurious and dangerous to the health, comfort, or property of individuals or the public.
2. Filth or Noisome Substance. Causing or suffering any offal, filth, or noisome substance to be collected or to remain in any place to the prejudice of others.
3. Impeding Passage of Water. Obstructing or impeding without legal authority the passage of any navigable river, harbor, or collection of water, or any alteration, modification, or obstruction which prevents, obstructs, or impedes the normal flow of runoff from adjacent lands, or any alteration or modification which substantially concentrates or increases the flow of water onto an adjoining premises; or any alteration or modification which changes any elevation or flow within a surface water flowage easement or impounding area.
4. Water Pollution. 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.
5. Blocking Public and Private Ways. Obstructing or encumbering, by fences, buildings or otherwise, the public roads, private ways, streets, alleys, commons, landing places, or burying grounds.
6. Billboards. Billboards, signboards, and advertising signs, whether erected and constructed on public or private property, that 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. (See also Section 62.06)
7. Storing of Flammable Junk. Depositing or storing of flammable junk, such as old rags, rope, cordage, rubber, bones and paper, by dealers in such articles within the fire limits of the City, unless in a building of fireproof construction. (See also Chapter 51)
8. Air Pollution. Emission of dense smoke, noxious fumes, or fly ash.
9. Grass, Weeds, and Brush. Grass, weeds, or brush allowed to grow to a height greater than eight inches on developed properties and 10 inches on undeveloped properties, or any accumulation of dead weeds or grass that are expose to public view, on any non-farm property which is not within the jurisdiction of the County Weed Commissioner. This provision shall not apply to prairies, wetlands, or similar areas of naturalized perennial vegetation which are certified by an Enforcement Officer to not constitute a nusiance.
10. Dutch Elm Disease. Trees infected with Dutch elm disease. (See also Chapter 150)
11. Airport Air Space. Any object or structure hereafter erected within 1,000 feet of the limits of any municipal or regularly established airport or landing place, which may endanger or obstruct aerial navigation including take-off and landing, unless such object or structure constitutes a proper use or enjoyment of the land on which the same is located.
12. Houses of Ill Fame. Houses of ill fame, kept for the purpose of prostitution and lewdness; gambling houses; places resorted to by persons participating in criminal gang activity prohibited by Chapter 723A of the Code of Iowa or places resorted to by persons using controlled substances, as defined in Section 125.101 of the Code of Iowa, in violation of law, or houses where drunkenness, quarreling, fighting or breaches of the peace are carried on or permitted to the disturbance of others.
13. Abandoned or Unsafe Buildings. Any structure which is in such a dilapidated condition that it is unfit for human habitation or the use for which it was constructed, kept in such an unsanitary condition that it is a menace to the health of people residing therein or in the vicinity thereof; any structure defined as a dangerous building by the current edition of the International Property Maintenance Code; or any building that is defined as abandoned or a public nuisance by Chapter 657A of the Code of Iowa.
14. Deposits of Mud, Dirt or Gravel. Mud, dirt, gravel, or other debris or matter, whether organic or inorganic, deposited upon public property in a quantity adjudged by an enforcement officer to be a threat to the public safety or to cause pollution, obstruction, or siltation of drainage systems, or to violate solid waste disposal regulations.
15. Erosion Control. Failure to establish a permanent cover of perennial grasses or ornamental ground cover on any nonfarm property as soon as practical after any construction, and to thereafter maintain same in such condition as to substantially bind the surface of the soil and prevent erosion, whether by sheet or gullying, or by wind or water.
16. Vehicles in Yards. Vehicles parked on any surface that is not Portland cement or asphalt or any such other permanent impervious surface in a portion of a yard exposed to public view.
17. Fences. Fences or retaining walls that are not structurally sound or which are deteriorating, as may be evidenced by leaning or loose elements.
18. Overhanging Objects. Loose, overhanging objects or accumulations of ice or snow, which, by reason of location above ground level, constitute a danger of falling on persons in the vicinity thereof.
19. Gravel Driveways. Gravel driveways not maintained free of vegetation shall be declared a nuisance. Removal of vegetation in gravel will be required.