(A) Nuisances defined. Whatever is dangerous or deleterious to human life or health, and whatever renders soil, air, water, or food impure or unwholesome, is declared to be a NUISANCE and unlawful. It shall be unlawful for any person either as an owner, agent, or occupant to create, or aid in creating, or contributing to, or maintaining, a NUISANCE.
(B) Author of nuisance. Where a nuisance exists upon property and is the outgrowth of the usual, natural, or necessary use of the property, the landlord, or his or her agent, the tenant, or his or her agent, and all other persons having control of the property on which such nuisance exists shall be deemed to be the authors thereof and shall be equally liable and responsible. Where any such nuisance shall arise from the unusual or unnecessary use of such property, or from the business thereon conducted, then the occupants, and all other persons contributing to the continuance of such nuisance, shall be deemed the authors.
(C) Declaration of nuisance.
(1) Every act or condition made, permitted, allowed, or continued in violation of division (A) above is hereby declared to be a nuisance, and may be abated and punished as hereinafter provided.
(2) Nuisances include:
(a) Befouling water in any spring, stream, well, or water source supplying water for culinary purposes;
(b) Allowing any privy vault or cesspool, or other individual wastewater disposal system, to become a menace to health or a source of odors to air or water;
(c) Permitting any garbage container to remain on a premises when it has become unclean and offensive;
(d) Allowing vegetable waste, garbage, litter, filth, or refuse of any nature to accumulate within, or upon, any private alley, yard, or area, except when it is temporarily deposited for immediate removal;
(e) Permitting the accumulation of manure in any stable, stall, feed yard, yard, or in any other building or area in which any animals are kept;
(f) Permitting any slaughterhouse, market, meat shop, stable, feed yard, or other place or building wherein any animals are slaughtered, kept, fed, or sold to remain unclean, or in any state or condition detrimental to health or creating a nuisance because of odors, or in which flies or rodents breed;
(g) Discharging or placing any offensive water, liquid waste, or refuse of any kind into any street, alley, sidewalk, gutter, stream, wash, natural watercourse, ditch, canal, or any vacant lot, or which, as the result of continued discharge, will render the place of discharge offensive or likely to become so;
(h) It shall be unlawful for any person to cause, suffer, allow, or permit the admission of fugitive particulate matter from any process, including any material handling for storage activity, which is in violation of the fugitive emissions and fugitive dust standards set forth by the State Department of Environmental Quality;
(i) Keeping or collecting any stale or putrid grease or other offensive matter;
(j) Having or permitting upon any premises any fly- or mosquito-producing condition;
(k) Keeping any drinking vessel for public use without providing a method of decontamination between uses;
(l) Permitting or performing any ablutions in, or near, any public drinking fountain;
(m) Failing to furnish any dwelling house, boardinghouse, or factory, or other place of employment, with such privy vaults, water closets, sinks, or other facilities as may be required to maintain the same in sanitary condition;
(n) Neglecting, or refusing to discontinue use of, clean out, disinfect, and fill up all privy vaults and cesspools, or other individual wastewater disposal systems;
(o) Permitting any lot or excavation to become the repository of stagnant water, or any decaying or offensive substances; and/or
(p) Obstructing, or tending to obstruct, or interfering with, or rendering dangerous for, passage any street or sidewalk, lake, stream, drainage canal, or basin, or any public park, without first obtaining the written permission of the Code Enforcement Officer.
(D) Enumeration of nuisances. The types of nuisances stated in division (C) above shall be deemed in addition to, and in no way a limitation of, the nuisances subject to this chapter.
(E) Toilet or sewer facilities. All toilet or sewer facilities shall be constructed and maintained in accordance with the ordinances of the city. All such facilities that do not comply with such provisions are hereby declared to be a nuisance and are subject to abatement as herein prescribed.
(F) Restrictions on blocking water.
(1) It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to permit any drainage system, canal, ditch, conduit, or other watercourse of any kind or nature, natural or artificial, to become so obstructed as to cause the water to back up and overflow therefrom, or to become unsanitary.
(2) Maintenance of any such watercourse in such condition shall constitute a nuisance, and the same shall be subject to abatement.
(3) It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to use irrigation water or drainage from property or structures in a manner that harms the property of adjacent landowners. Such use of water shall be declared to be a nuisance.
(Prior Code, § 8.06.010) (Ord. 11-2016, passed 6-15-2016) Penalty, see § 90.99