[R.O. 2006 §215.050; CC 1980 §410.050; Ord. No. 264, 12-10-1929]
Any person or persons who shall in this City, own, keep or use
any stockyard, pen, place or premises in or upon which any number
of cattle, shall be kept as to be offensive to those residing in the
vicinity thereof, or an annoyance to the public shall be deemed guilty
of maintaining a nuisance, and upon conviction thereof be judged guilty
of creating a nuisance. Every day such structure, lot or premises,
shall be so used, shall be deemed a separate offense.
[R.O. 2006 §215.060; CC 1980 §410.060; Ord. No. 334, 7-10-1939; Ord. No. 732 §2, 6-6-1991]
A.
No
person shall keep or maintain within the City, any hog or hogs, and
whoever shall violate this stipulation shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor. Each day that swine is kept within the City shall constitute
a separate offense.
B.
It
shall be lawful for a resident of the City of Troy to keep a registered
pot-bellied pig as a domestic pet. The permission granted hereunder
shall be limited to one (1) pot-bellied pig per household and all
existing restrictions on the restraint of dogs and other domestic
animals shall equally apply to any pot-bellied pigs kept by a resident
of the City of Troy under the authority of this Section.
[R.O. 2006 §215.130; CC 1980 §410.130; Ord. No. 597-A, 7-12-1980]
Any slaughterhouse in the City, or within one-half (½)
mile from the corporate limits hereof, permitted by the person owning
or having charge of the same to be in such condition as to become
offensive, annoying or injurious to the public health is hereby declared
to be a nuisance.
[R.O. 2006 §215.140; CC 1980 §410.140; Ord. No. 597-A, 7-12-1980; Ord. No. 963 §1, 8-16-2004]
A.
Any
cellar, vault, private drain, pool, sewer or sink suffered or permitted
to become nauseous, foul, offensive or injurious or detrimental to
the public health and any stagnant water liable to become putrid,
offensive and unhealthy, suffered or permitted to exist in or upon
any lot, house, building or enclosure within the City is hereby declared
a nuisance.
B.
Stagnant Water And All Items Containing Stagnant Water. All
stagnant water and items containing stagnant water which can serve
as a breeding ground for mosquitoes are hereby declared to be a public
nuisance. This includes, but is not limited to, bottles, cans, tires,
buckets, birdbaths, clogged gutters or any other places or objects
containing stagnant water. "Stagnant water" is defined
for this Subsection as water, which is not moving, or not flowing,
or is motionless; and may become foul, stale or promote the breeding
of mosquitoes and is hereby declared a nuisance. Naturally occurring
waterways shall not be considered a nuisance under this Section.
[R.O. 2006 §215.150; CC 1980 §410.150; Ord. No. 597-A, 7-12-1980]
No person shall confine or keep within the City any animal or
fowl in any unclean or filthy pen, shed or other enclosure so as to
be a nuisance.
[CC 1980 §410.170; Ord. No. 507-A, 4-17-1978; Ord. No.
1263, 1-24-2019]
Except as provided in this Section, any tall grass or weeds
growing upon lots or enclosures, permitting trash, junk, old automobiles
or motor vehicles of any sort that are not operational or permitting
any trash or piles of junk on the premises, porches, in alleys, along
streets or within public view in the City is hereby declared a nuisance.
Any tall grass or weeds which are in the twenty-five (25) foot buffer
strip from top of bank of streams/creeks for stormwater management
purposes shall not be deemed a nuisance.
