(a) In addition to those declared by law to be such, each of the following specific conditions and things are hereby prohibited and declared nuisances:
(1) The deposit or accumulation of foul, decaying or putrescent substances or other offensive matter in or upon any lot, street or highway or in or upon any public or private place, the overflow of foul liquids or the escape of any gases to such extent that the same shall become or be likely to become hazardous to health or shall, by reason of offensive odors, become a source of unreasonable discomfort to persons living or passing in the vicinity thereof.
(2) A polluted well, spring or stream or the pollution of any body of water used for drinking purposes.
(3) The maintenance of any privy vault or cesspool, except as provided in the Codified Ordinances.
(4) Keeping any building or room in such a state of uncleanliness, or the crowding of persons in any building or room in such manner as to endanger the health of the persons dwelling therein or thereabout, or so that there shall be less than 400 cubic feet of air to each adult, and 150 cubic feet of air to each child under twenty years of age occupying such building or room.
(5) The accumulation of manure, unless it is in a properly constructed pit or receptacle.
(6) The accumulation of water in which mosquito larvae breed.
(7) The maintenance in any public place of a roller towel for the use of more than one person.
(8) The maintenance of all chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys or other fowl of any kind whatsoever, and the maintenance of any building or coop, used for the purpose of raising or confining the same, in or upon any lot, street or highway, or in or upon any public or private place, in an unsanitary or other offensive manner, or permitting or allowing to accumulate therefrom any foul, decaying or putrescent substances or other offensive matter.
(9) The keeping, establishing, maintaining or abandoning of any open pit, well, cesspool or other excavation in or upon any lot, street or highway, or in or upon any public or private place, unless properly protected and accepted by the standards as established by the City Manager.
(b) The Health Officer shall be charged with the prevention and abatement or suppression of nuisances. He shall, when it is ascertained that any nuisance or other condition detrimental to the public health exists on any premises or in any building or other place, serve written notice upon the owner, occupant or other person in charge of such premises, building or other places, to abate or remove such nuisance or condition, within a reasonable time, such time to be stated in such notice.
(c) No owner or occupant of any premises, building or other place, or other person in charge thereof shall fail, neglect or refuse to remove or abate any nuisance when lawfully ordered to do so by the Health Officer.
If such owner or occupant of any premises shall fail or refuse to abate or remove any nuisance when lawfully ordered to do so by the Health Officer, the Health Officer may have such nuisance abated or removed, after reasonable notice to such owner, occupant, tenant, agent or lessee of the intention to do so, and the expense of abating or removing such nuisance, with one percent (1%) per month interest, shall be collected from such owner, occupant, tenant, agent or lessee, by action in any court of competent jurisdiction.
(1967 Code Sec. 16-20 to 16-22)
(d) Abandoned and Junk Vehicles.
(1) No person shall abandon any motor vehicle within the City. No person shall leave any motor vehicle at any place within the City for such time and under such circumstances as to cause such vehicle reasonably to appear to have been abandoned.
(2) No person shall leave any unlicenced, partially demolished, nonoperating, wrecked or junked motor vehicle on any street, lane or any other public property within the City.
(3) No owner of any property within the City, or any person in charge or control of any property within the City, whether as owner, tenant, occupant or otherwise, shall allow any partially dismantled, nonoperating, wrecked, junked or discarded motor vehicle to remain upon such property for more than seventy-two hours. No person shall leave any such vehicle on any property within the City for more than seventy-two hours.
(4) This section shall not apply to any vehicle stored or placed in an enclosed building, nor to any vehicle on the premises of a business enterprise operated in an lawful place and manner, and when necessary to the operation of such business enterprise.
(5) Whoever violates this subsection shall, in addition to the fines contained herein, be subject to the abandoned and junk vehicle being removed from the premises after a ten day notice. Notice shall be given by service of regular mail to the property owner and by posting a copy of the citation upon the vehicle itself. (Passed 6-8-04.)