(A) The erection, use or maintenance of a building which is unfit for human habitation. Any building or other structure which is in such a dilapidated condition that it is unfit for human habitation or kept in such an unsanitary condition that it is a nuisance to the health of people residing in the vicinity thereof.
(B) Dangerous buildings adjoining streets. Any building, house or structure so out of repair and dilapidated that it will, if the condition is allowed to continue, endanger the life, limb or property of or cause hurt, damage or injury to persons or property using or being upon the streets or public way of the city adjoining the premises, by reason of the collapse of the building, house or structure by the falling of parts thereof or of objects therefrom.
(C) Dangerous trees or stacks adjoining street. Any tree, stack or other object standing in such a condition that it will, if the condition is allowed to continue, endanger the life, limb or property of or cause hurt, damage or injury to persons or property using or being upon the streets or public way of the city adjoining the premises, by reason of the collapse of the building, house or structure by the falling thereof or parts thereof.
(D) Dilapidated buildings. Any building, house or structure which is so out of repair and dilapidated that it constitutes a fire hazard liable to catch on fire or communicate fire, or which due to lack of adequate maintenance or neglect, endangers the public health, welfare or safety or materially interferes with the peaceful enjoyment by owners or occupants of adjacent property.
(E) Accumulation of rubbish. An accumulation on any property of filth, refuse, trash, garbage or other waste material which endangers the public health, welfare or safety, makes the property unfit for human habitation or materially interferes with the peaceful enjoyment by owners or occupants of adjacent property because of the danger that it will catch or communicate fire, attract and propagate vermin, rodents or insects or blow rubbish into any street, sidewalk or property of another.
(F) Noxious odors or smoke. Emission into the surrounding atmosphere of odor, dust, smoke or other matter which renders ordinary use or physical occupation of other property in the vicinity uncomfortable or impossible.
(G) Noise. Emission of noise which is noxious enough to destroy the enjoyment of dwellings or other uses of property in the vicinity by interfering with the ordinary comforts of human existence.
(H) Storage of explosives. The storage of explosive material which creates a safety hazard to other property or persons in the vicinity.
(I) Weeds and grass. The accumulation in piles, bundles or heaps or the excessive growth of weeds, grass, plants or other vegetation other than trees or shrubs, and cultivated flowers and gardens, the existence of thistles, burdock, jimson weeds, ragweed, milkweeds, poison ivy, poison oak, iron weeds and all other noxious weeds and rank vegetation in excess of a height of ten inches.
(J) Open wells. The maintenance of any open, uncovered or insecurely covered cistern, cellar, abandoned wells, shafts, pit, excavation or vault situated upon private premises in any open or unfenced lot or place.
(K) Trees and shrubbery obstructing streets and sidewalks. The growing and maintenance of trees with less than 14 feet clearance over streets or less than eight feet over sidewalks, or the growing and maintenance of shrubbery in excess of three feet in height within the radius of 20 feet from the point where the curbline of any street intersects the curbline of another street. No shrub shall be plated between the curbline and the property line of any street within a radius of 20 feet from the point where the curbline of any street intersects with the curbline of another street.
(L) Keeping of animals. The failure to keep an animal’s pen, yard, lot or other enclosure in a sanitary condition and free from preventable defensive odors.
(M) Junk; scrap metal. The storage of automobile parts or scrap metal within the city limits except on the premises authorized by the city for such purposes.
(N) Abandoned, wrecked, dismantled or inoperative vehicles. The parking, storage, leaving or permitting the parking, storage or leaving of any vehicle of any kind which is in an abandoned, wrecked, dismantled, rusted, junked, partially dismantled or inoperative condition, whether attended or not, within the city limits, except in a completely enclosed building.
(Ord. 2011-03, passed 6-13-2011) Penalty, see 96.99.
Cross-reference:
Animals, generally, see Chapter 90