§ 92.03 JUNKED MOTOR VEHICLES AND THE LIKE.

   (A)   Definitions. All terms, words, or phrases shall have the meaning given to them by Minnesota state statute.

   (B)   Restrictions.

      (1)   Parking or abandonment of junked vehicles or motor vehicles. No person shall park, keep, place, store, or abandon any junk vehicle or motor vehicle or vehicle or motor vehicle not currently registered, on a public street, alley, or parking lot.

      (2)   Parking and storage of junk vehicles and motor vehicles on private property. No person in charge or control of any property within the city, whether as owner, tenant, occupant, lessee, or otherwise, shall allow any partially dismantled, nonoperating, wrecked, junked, not currently registered or discarded vehicle or motor vehicle to remain on the property longer than 15 days and no person shall leave any vehicle or motor vehicle on property within the city for a longer time than 15 days, except that this section shall not apply with regard to a vehicle or motor vehicle in a fully enclosed building or authorized junk yard.

   (C)   Written notice by police to correct violations.

      (1)   Upon complaint of the existence of any of the above conditions, the Wells Police Department may serve a written notice on the owner, tenant, occupant, lessee, or other person in charge of the property, demanding that the condition be rectified within 3 days for garbage that may be or is emitting a foul or disagreeable odor, and 15 days for all other junk, trash, garbage, junk vehicles, junk motor vehicles.

      (2)   If the owner or controlling party of private property cannot be contacted or if the owner refuses to clean up property under their control, the city may clean or rectify the condition and bill the owner or persons in control of that property for all costs incurred by the city, including criminal prosecution of violators.

(Ord. 228, passed 11-19-1996; Am. Ord. passed 10-9-2000) Penalty, see § 10.99

NUISANCES

§ 92.15 PUBLIC NUISANCE.

   Whoever by his or her act or failure to perform a legal duty intentionally does any of the following is guilty of maintaining a public nuisance, which is a misdemeanor:

   (A)   Maintains or permits a condition which unreasonably annoys, injures, or endangers the safety, health, morals, comfort, or repose of any considerable number of members of the public;

   (B)   Interferes with, obstructs, or renders dangerous for passage any public highway or right-of-way, or waters used by the public; or

   (C)   Is guilty of any other act or omission declared by law or §§ 92.16, 92.17, or 92.18, or any other part of this code to be a public nuisance and for which no sentence is specifically provided.

Penalty, see § 10.99

§ 92.16 PUBLIC NUISANCES AFFECTING HEALTH.

   The following are hereby declared to be nuisances affecting health:

   (A)   Exposed accumulation of decayed or unwholesome food or vegetable matter;

   (B)   All diseased animals running at large;

   (C)   All ponds or pools of stagnant water;

   (D)   Carcasses of animals not buried or destroyed within 24 hours after death;

   (E)   Accumulations of manure, refuse, or other debris;

   (F)   Privy vaults and garbage cans which are not rodent-free or fly-tight or which are so maintained as to constitute a health hazard or to emit foul and disagreeable odors;

   (G)   The pollution of any public well or cistern, stream or lake, canal or body of water by sewage, industrial waste, or other substances;

   (H)   All noxious weeds and other rank growths of vegetation upon public or private property;

   (I)   Dense smoke, noxious fumes, gas and soot, or cinders, in unreasonable quantities;

   (J)   All public exposure of people having a contagious disease;

   (K)   Any offensive trade or business as defined by statute not operating under local license; and

   (L)   Accumulation in the open of discarded or disused machinery, household appliances, automobile parts or bodies, logs, tree trunks and branches, construction materials, unusable toys, other plastics, wood, metals or other materials in a manner conducive to harboring of rats, mice, snakes, or vermin or growth of vegetation so accumulated, or in a manner creating fire, health, or safety hazards of the accumulation.

(Ord. 228, passed 11-19-1996; Am. Ord. passed 10-9-2000) Penalty, see § 10.99

§ 92.17 PUBLIC NUISANCES AFFECTING MORALS AND DECENCY.

   The following are hereby declared to be nuisances affecting public morals and decency:

   (A)   All gambling devices, slot machines, and punch boards, except as otherwise authorized by federal, state, or local law;

   (B)   Betting, bookmaking, and all apparatus used in those occupations;

   (C)   All houses kept for the purpose of prostitution or promiscuous sexual intercourse, gambling houses, houses of ill fame, and bawdy houses;

   (D)   All places where intoxicating liquor is manufactured or disposed of in violation of law or where, in violation of law, people are permitted to resort for the purpose of drinking intoxicating liquor, or where intoxicating liquor is kept for sale or other disposition in violation of law, and all liquor and other property used for maintaining that place; and

   (E)   Any vehicle used for the unlawful transportation of intoxicating liquor, or for promiscuous sexual intercourse, or any other immoral or illegal purpose.

Penalty, see § 10.99