(a) The following acts when committed, or conditions when existing, within the City are hereby defined and declared to be nuisances:
(1) An act done or committed or aided or assisted to be done or committed by any person, or any substance, being or thing kept, maintained, placed or found in or upon any public or private place, which is injurious or dangerous to the public health or safety.
(2) All buildings, bridges or other structures, of whatever character kept or maintained or which are permitted by any person owning or having control thereof to be kept or maintained in a condition unsafe, dangerous, unhealthy, injurious or annoying to the public.
(3) All trees and other appendages of or to realty kept or maintained or which are permitted by any person owning or having control thereof to be kept or maintained in a condition unsafe, dangerous, unhealthy, injurious or annoying to the public.
(4) All ponds or pools of stagnant water, and all foul or dirty water or liquid when discharged through any drain, pipe or spout, or thrown into or upon any street, public place or lot to the injury or annoyance of the public.
(5) All obstructions caused or permitted on any street or sidewalk to the danger or annoyance of the public, and all stones, rubbish, dirt, filth, slops, vegetable matter or other articles thrown or placed by any person on or in any street, sidewalk or other public place, which in anyway may cause any injury or annoyance to the public.
(6) All sidewalks, gutters or curbstones permitted to remain in an unsafe condition or out of repair.
(7) All stables, cattle yards, hog, sheep or cow pens or yards or structures for poultry, permitted by the owner thereof or the person responsible therefor to be harboring or breeding places for rodents or otherwise to be in such a condition as to become offensive, annoying or injurious to the public or to persons in the neighborhood thereof.
(8) All houses or buildings used for special storage of powder, dynamite or other explosive substances, except those maintained pursuant to a permit issued by competent authority.
(9) All septic tanks, privies, cesspools and privy vaults of a type prohibited by State law or by rules and regulations promulgated by authority of State law, or which are maintained in any manner contrary to State law or rules and regulations promulgated by authority of State law, or which otherwise constitute a menace to the health of, or are offensive to, persons in the neighborhood thereof.
(b) The nuisances described in this section shall not be construed as exclusive, and any act of commission or omission and any condition which constitutes a nuisance by statute or common law of the state, when committed, omitted or existing within the City limits, is hereby declared to constitute a nuisance.
(1978 Code Sec. 15-3)