521.14 PUBLIC NUISANCE DEFINED.
   The following shall be deemed to constitute a public nuisance within the Village:
   (a)   The erection, continuance, use or maintenance of a building, structure or a place for the exercise of a trade, employment or business, either upon public or private property, or for the keeping or feeding of any animal, which building, structure or place, or which activity, by causing noxious exhalations or noisome or offensive smells, becomes injurious to the health, comfort or property of individuals or of the public;
   (b)   The storage of a motor vehicle, a boat, or a trailer designed and used exclusively to transport a boat in an inoperative or unlicensed condition upon public or private property for more than seventy-two hours without being obscured from public view;
   (c)   The storage of garbage and/or offal, which means and includes all refuse and waste of animals, fish, fowl, fruit and vegetable matter or other accumulations resulting from the use and preparation of food for the table, or which has been discarded and abandoned and is of no future use or value to the owner for domestic consumption, contrary to the rules and regulations of these Codified Ordinances and the County Department of Health;
   (d)   The suffering, permitting, allowing to remain or maintaining of rubbish, refuse or junk, which includes, but is not limited to, wire, chips, shavings, bottles, broken glass, crockery, tin, cast or wooden ware, boxes, rags, weeds, paper, circulars, handbills, boots, shoes, ashes, discarded or abandoned iceboxes, refrigerators, washing machines or other airtight or semi-airtight containers, or any other waste material, upon public or private property contrary to the provisions of these Codified Ordinances or regulations of the County Department of Health or otherwise;
   (e)   The maintenance or allowance of building materials upon public or private property if such building materials, which include all residue from building construction and new building materials, are not removed or utilized in construction within thirty days after such materials are placed upon a premises. However, if construction is initiated upon such premises and such building materials are to be used in the construction, then such building materials shall be allowed to remain upon such premises for a period of time not to exceed thirty days after the completion of the construction. For the purpose of the prevention of rodents and other unsanitary conditions, building materials stored or deposited upon any property shall be placed or stored at least six inches off the ground at any time.
   (f)   Any structure or object which is permitted to remain in a dilapidated, decayed, unsafe or unsanitary condition detrimental to the public health, safety and welfare or the well being of the surrounding area or is a fire hazard or continually vacant causing deterioration or creating a blighting influence on nearby properties or thereby depreciating the value, use and enjoyment thereof to such an extent that it is harmful to the public health, safety, welfare or well being of the surrounding area. (Ord. 2019-19. Passed 7-1-19.)