The following acts, apparatus, accumulations and activities are hereby declared to be public nuisances:
(A) No person shall maintain or permit to remain on premises owned or occupied by him or her; or throw, place or leave; or permit the throwing, placing or leaving on the premises of another any of the following substances: organic refuse, food wastes, ashes, dead animals, fish, animal bones, hides, rotten soap, grease, tallow, offal, shell, food containers or wrappings, cans, bottles, jars, crockery, garbage, discarded furniture, cartons, boxes, crates, rags, discarded clothing, bedding, floor covering, wallpaper, sweepings, waste paper, newspapers or magazines, discarded appliances, rubbish, excrement, rot, construction debris including, but not limited to, lumber, bricks, block, plumbing or heating materials, roofing materials, concrete, cement, electrical materials or siding yard debris or rubbish including, but not limited to, grass clippings, clippings from hedges or shrubs, or detached tree branches, industrial waste, unclean or nauseous fluids or gases, in any of the following locations:
(1) Any public street, highway, lane, road, alley, public place, square, sidewalk or any lands within the boundaries of Williamstown Township owned by the Township of Williamstown, County of Ingham, State of Michigan, or other municipal corporation;
(2) Any river, lake, stream, drainageway, wetland or other body of water; and
(3) Any private place or premises where, in the opinion of the Township Supervisor or his or her duly authorized agent, the specified substances constitute a dangerous condition; or are detrimental to the public health, safety or welfare; or offend aesthetic sensibilities; or may cause sickness; or attract flies, insects, rodents or vermin.
(B) The emission of noxious fumes to include, but not be limited to, those foul odors mentioned in Ord. 217, § 4, of the Williamstown Township Code of Ordinances, or gas, smoke, ashes or soot in such quantities as to render occupancy of property dangerous or uncomfortable to a person of ordinary sensibilities;
(C) The keeping of explosives, inflammable liquids or other dangerous substances stored in any manner or in any amount contrary to the provisions of any statute or applicable administrative regulation of the State of Michigan;
(D) All dangerous, unguarded excavations or dangerous, unguarded machinery in any public place, or so situated, left or operated on private property as to attract the public, except on a seasonal basis for the purpose of performing the duties associated with a typical commercial farming operation;
(E) The owning, driving or moving upon the public streets and alleys of a truck or other motor vehicle which is constructed or loaded so as to permit any part of its load or contents to be deposited upon any street, alley, sidewalk or other public or private place, or which deposits from its wheels, tires, other parts onto the street, alley, sidewalk or other public or private place dirt, grease, sticky substances or foreign matter of any kind. Provided, however, that, under circumstances determined by the Township Supervisor, or his or her agent, to be in the public interest, the Supervisor, or his or her agent, may grant persons temporary exemption from the provisions of this division conditioned upon cleaning and correcting the violating condition as specified by the Township Supervisor, or his or her agent, and execution of any agreement by the person to reimburse the township for any extraordinary maintenance expenses incurred by the township in connection with the violation;
(F) The keeping of bees, when the keeping results in the disturbance of the safety of one or more persons, or shall render one or more persons reasonably insecure in the use of his or her property;
(Ord. rev. 9- -1993)
(G) The keeping of horses or livestock unless permitted by Chapter 156 of this code or the failure to keep horses or livestock within sufficient fences, barricades or restraints to keep the animals from entering the public way or the property of another;
(H) The keeping, either inside or outside of any building, structure or dwelling, in a place accessible to children, any abandoned, unattended, unused or discarded icebox, refrigerator or any air-tight container of any kind which has a snap latch or other locking device thereon, without first removing the snap latch or other locking device, or the doors from the icebox, refrigerator or other air-tight container; and/or
(I) Abandon, leave, keep or maintain a junk or abandoned motor vehicle, as provided in § 91.06.
(Res. eff. 3-21-1990; Ord. rev. 9- -1993) Penalty, see § 91.99