No person shall erect, contrive, cause, continue, maintain or
permit to exist any public nuisance within the Village of Belleville.
A public nuisance is a thing, act, occupation, condition or
use of property which shall continue for such length of time as to:
A. Substantially annoy, injure or endanger the comfort, health, repose
or safety of the public.
B. In any way render the public insecure in life or in the use of property.
C. Greatly offend the public morals or decency.
D. Unlawfully and substantially interfere with, obstruct or tend to
obstruct or render dangerous for passage any street, alley, highway,
navigable body of water or other public way or the use of public property.
[Amended 8-3-2009 by Ord. No. 2009-08-01]
The following acts, omissions, places, conditions and things are hereby specifically declared to be public nuisances offending public morals and decency, but such enumeration shall not be construed to exclude other nuisances offending public morals and decency coming within the definition of §
372-2:
A. Disorderly houses. No person, as owner, agent of the owner, lessee, tenant, occupant, visitor, guest or as a trespasser of any building, enclosure, structure, tent, garden, yard, room or other place within the Village shall permit or engage in disorderly conduct as defined in §
395-9.
[Amended 3-1-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-03-01]
B. Gambling devices. All gambling devices and slot machines, except
as permitted by state law.
C. Unlicensed sale of liquor and beer. All places where intoxicating
liquor or fermented malt beverages are sold, possessed, stored, brewed,
bottled, manufactured or rectified without a permit or license as
provided for in the ordinances of the Village.
D. Continuous violation of Village ordinances. Any place or premises
within the Village where Village ordinances or state laws relating
to public health, safety, peace, morals or welfare are openly, continuously,
repeatedly and intentionally violated.
E. Illegal drinking. Any place or premises resorted to for the purpose
of drinking intoxicating liquor or fermented malt beverages in violation
of the laws of the State of Wisconsin or ordinances of the Village.
[Amended 8-3-2009 by Ord. No. 2009-08-01]
A. The following acts, omissions, places, conditions and things are hereby declared to be public nuisances affecting peace and safety, but such enumeration shall not be construed to exclude other nuisances affecting public peace or safety coming within the definition of §
372-2:
(1) Signs, billboards, etc. All signs and billboards, awnings and other
similar structures over or near streets, sidewalks, public grounds
or places frequented by the public, so situated or constructed as
to endanger the public safety.
(2) Illegal buildings. All buildings erected, repaired or altered in
violation of the provisions of the ordinances of the Village relating
to materials and manner of construction of buildings and structures
within the Village.
(3) Unauthorized traffic signs. All unauthorized signs, signals, markings
or devices placed or maintained upon or in view of any public highway
or railway crossing which purport to be or may be mistaken as an official
traffic control device, railroad sign or signal or which, because
of their color, location, brilliance or manner of operation, interfere
with the effectiveness of any such device, sign or signal.
(4) Obstruction of intersections. All trees, hedges, billboards or other
obstructions which prevent persons driving vehicles on public streets,
alleys or highways from obtaining a clear view of traffic when approaching
an intersection or pedestrian crosswalk.
(5) Tree limbs. All limbs of trees which project over a public sidewalk
less than 10 feet above the surface thereof and all limbs which project
over a public street less than 14 feet above the surface thereof.
(6) Dangerous trees. All trees which are a menace to public safety or
are the cause of substantial annoyance to the general public.
(7) Fireworks. All use or display of fireworks except as provided by
the laws of the State of Wisconsin and ordinances of the Village.
(8) Dilapidated buildings. All buildings or structures so old, dilapidated
or out of repair as to be dangerous, unsafe, unsanitary or otherwise
unfit for human use.
(9) Wires over streets. All wires over streets, alleys or public grounds
which are strung less than 15 feet above the surface thereof.
(10)
Noisy animals or fowl. The keeping or harboring of any animal
or fowl which, by frequent or habitual howling, yelping, barking,
crowing or making of other noises, shall greatly annoy or disturb
a neighborhood or any considerable number of persons within the Village.
(11)
Obstructions of streets; excavations. All obstructions of streets,
alleys, sidewalks or crosswalks and all excavations in or under the
same, except as permitted by the ordinances of the Village, or which,
although made in accordance with such ordinances, are kept or maintained
for an unreasonable or illegal length of time after the purpose thereof
has been accomplished, or which do not conform to the permit.
(12)
Open excavations. All open and unguarded pits, wells, excavations
or unused basements accessible from any public street, alley or sidewalk.
(13)
Abandoned refrigerators. All abandoned refrigerators or iceboxes
from which the doors and other covers have not been removed or which
are not equipped with a device for opening from the inside.
(14)
Flammable liquids. Repeated or continuous violations of the
ordinances of the Village or laws of the state relating to the storage
of flammable liquids.
(15)
Unremoved snow. All snow and ice not removed or sprinkled with
ashes, sawdust, sand or other chemical removers, as provided in this
Code.
B. Restrictions
on the use of laser pointers. No person may do any of the following:
(1) Intentionally direct a beam of light from a laser pointer at any
part of the body of a correctional officer, law enforcement officer,
or commission warden without the officer's consent, if the person
knows or has reason to know that the victim is a correctional officer,
law enforcement officer, or commission warden who is acting in an
official capacity.
(2) Intentionally and for no legitimate purpose direct a beam of light
from a laser pointer at any part of the body of any human being.
(3) Intentionally direct a beam of light from a laser pointer in a manner
that could reasonably be expected to alarm, intimidate, threaten or
terrify another person.
(4) Intentionally direct a beam of light from a laser pointer in a manner
that, under the circumstances, tends to disrupt any public or private
event or create or provoke a disturbance.
In addition to any other penalty imposed by this chapter for
the erection, contrivance, creation, continuance or maintenance of
a public nuisance, the cost of abating a public nuisance by the Village
shall be collected as a debt from the owner, occupant or person causing,
permitting or maintaining the nuisance, such cost to be assessed against
the real estate as a special charge.