[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council of the Town (now
City) of Seat Pleasant 12-16-1968 as §§ 14-1, 14-5, 14-13, 14-17 and 14-23
of Ch. 14 of the 1968 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
No person shall place, keep, collect or cause or permit to be
placed, kept or collected any refuse, garbage, offal, dead animal,
decaying vegetable matter, organic wastes, slop, stagnant water, nauseous
liquids or any other offensive matter, liquid or solid, which is likely
after exposure to become a nuisance or breeding place for germs, insects
or rodents or which does or may give off a stench or which may in
any way be a nuisance to the public health and safety.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to
allow cinders, soot or dense smoke to escape from any chimney, smokestack
or furnace within the City onto or over the property of another in
such quantities as to become unhealthful, uncomfortable and annoying
to the occupants of private residences.
No abattoir, soap or candle factory or bone-boiling, meat-roasting,
barbecue or other establishment whereby offensive or unhealthy or
disagreeable odors or gases are generated and emitted shall be established
or conducted hereafter within the corporate limits of the City of
Seat Pleasant.
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to expectorate
or spit on the floors, walls, sides or doors of any public building,
place of amusement, moving-picture house or theater or any sidewalk
or other public place where the public is invited to enter.
[Added 3-12-1978 by Ord. No. 78-03; amended 6-1-2015 by Ord. No. O-15-08]
No person shall use or maintain any property in the City so
as to create or maintain:
A.
A health hazard by accumulating perishable materials or providing
inadequate or inoperative waste removal systems.
B.
A health hazard by accrual of stagnant water or not providing for
proper runoff before water becomes stagnant.
C.
A fire hazard by the accumulation of combustible materials.
D.
A public nuisance by the obstruction of free passage on public ways.
Such obstructions include but are not limited to weeds, grass, bushes,
other plants and trees.
E.
A public nuisance by placing laundry on any fence so as to be visible
from any street, road, or other public way abutting the front or side
line of the property.
F.
A public nuisance by the operation of any kind of grill or similar
device used for the cooking of food outdoors anywhere on the property
other than in the back yard or rear area of the property.
G.
A public nuisance and a health hazard by permitting any recreational
activity to carry over from the property into any other property,
or any street, road, or other public way.
H.
A public nuisance and a health hazard by placing trash receptacles
in the front of the property with the exception of collection days.
[Amended 9-8-1969 by Ord. No. 69-07; 7-2-1984 by Ord. No. 84-05; 2-14-1994 by Ord. No. 94-01; 6-1-2015 by Ord. No.
O-15-08]
A person who violates this chapter shall be guilty of a municipal
infraction and, upon conviction or guilty plea, shall be subject to
the following fine:
