[R.O. 1993 § 225.010; R.O. of 1938 § 468;
CC 1963 Ch. 10 Art. II § 10-25]
No person shall permit, cause, keep, maintain or do any nuisance,
as defined by the laws of this State or ordinances of the City of
Charleston, or cause or permit to be committed, caused, kept or maintained
or done any such nuisance within the City of Charleston, or within
one (1) mile of the corporate limits thereof.
[R.O. 1993 § 225.020]
A.
Nuisances
within the limits of the City of Charleston are hereby defined and
declared to be as follows:
1.
Any act done or committed or aided or assisted to be done or committed
by any person, or any substance or thing kept, maintained, placed
or found in or upon any public or private place which is injurious
or dangerous to the public health.
2.
All ponds or pools of stagnant water, and all foul or dirty water
or liquid when discharged through any drain, pipe, or spout or thrown
into or upon any street, alley, thoroughfare, public place or lot
to the injury or annoyance of the public.
3.
All privies or private vaults kept in such condition as to omit an
offensive, noxious or disagreeable odor, and all substances omitting
any offensive, noxious, unhealthy or disagreeable effluvia in the
neighborhood where they exist; all carcasses of dead animals which
the owners or keepers thereof shall permit to remain within the limits
of this City exceeding six (6) hours after death.
4.
All obstructions caused or permitted on any street, alley or sidewalk
to the danger or annoyance of the public, and all stones, rubbish,
dirt, filth, slops, vegetable matter or other article thrown or placed
by any person on or in any street, alley, sidewalk or other public
place, which in any way may cause any injury or annoyance to the public.
5.
All sidewalks, gutters or curbstones permitted to remain in an unsafe
condition, or out of repair.
6.
All stables, cattle yards, hog, sheep or cow pens, or yards for geese,
permitted by the person owning or controlling the same to be in such
condition as to become offensive, annoying or injurious to the public.
7.
All houses or buildings used for special storage of powder, dynamite
or other explosive substances.
[R.O. 1993 § 225.040; R.O. of 1938 § 471;
CC 1963 Ch. 10 Art. II § 10-28]
No person within this City shall conduct, cast or throw, or
suffer to escape through any drain box, pipe or spout or upon any
sidewalk, street, alley or other public place, or upon any private
property, from any kitchen, house, or tenement or other place, filth,
garbage, slop, foul or unclean water, or suffer any unclean water
or liquid substance to be conducted or escape from any drain box,
pipe owned or controlled by him or her or upon any private property
so as to become putrid, offensive, annoying or unhealthy. Any violation
of this Section is hereby declared to be a nuisance.
[R.O. 1993 § 225.050; R.O. of 1938 § 472;
CC 1963 Ch. 10 Art. II § 10-29]
No distiller, tanner, brewer, butcher, pork or beef packer,
soap boiler, tallow chandler, dyer, livery stable keeper, or other
person whomsoever, shall cause or permit any offal, blood, filth,
manure, rubbish, still slops or any refuse animal or vegetable matter,
or privy deposit, or any water, unclean, foul or any nauseous liquor
to be discharged out of or from any premises owned or occupied by
him/her, or to be thrown into, deposited on, or left in any ditch
or drain, or any stream or pool of water within the corporate limits
of this City, or within one (1) mile thereof, or into or upon any
sidewalk, street, alley, or other public place, or private property,
in this City. Any violation of this Section is hereby declared a nuisance.
[R.O. 1993 § 225.060; R.O. of 1938 § 473;
CC 1963 Ch. 10 Art. II § 10-30]
The owner of any dead animal or fowl, which may die within the
City shall, within six (6) hours after the death of such animal or
fowl, remove or cause the same to be removed not less than one (1)
mile beyond the corporate limits of this City; and if such dead animal
or fowl be not in the possession of any person at the time of its
death, and the same is not removed within six (6) hours as aforesaid,
then it shall be the duty of the Director of Public Safety or any
Public Safety Officer of this City to cause the same to be removed
at the cost of the City. Any violation of this Section is hereby declared
a nuisance.
[R.O. 1993 § 225.070; R.O. of 1938 § 474;
CC 1963 Ch. 10 Art. II § 10-31]
No person or persons shall, at any time of the year erect, manage,
conduct, operate, carry on or use any slaughter house within the limits
of this City, nor within one (1) mile of the corporate limits thereof.
Any violation of this Section is hereby declared a nuisance.
[R.O. 1993 § 225.080; R.O. of 1938 § 475;
CC 1963 Ch. 10 Art. II § 10-32]
No person being the owner or occupant of any tallow chandler's
shop, soap factory, tannery, distillery, livery or other stable, barn,
packing house or rendering establishment, within the limits of the
City, shall suffer or permit the same to become nauseous, foul or
offensive; nor shall any soap boiler or tallow chandler keep, collect
or use, or cause to be kept, collected or used, in this City, any
stale, putrid or stinking fat, grease or other matter. Any violation
of this Section is hereby declared a nuisance.
[R.O. 1993 § 225.090; R.O. of 1938 § 476;
CC 1963 Ch. 10 Art. II § 10-33]
No person shall steam or boil, or in any way render any offal,
tainted or damaged tallow or lard, or steam or render any animal substance
in such a manner as to occasion an offensive smell, of which will
by undergoing such process so taint the air as to render it unwholesome
or offensive to the smell, within the corporate limits of this City.
Any violation of this Section is hereby declared a nuisance.
[R.O. 1993 § 225.100; R.O. of 1938 § 477;
CC 1963 Ch. 10 Art. II § 10-34]
No person shall place or store any green or salted hides in
any store, warehouse or other building or place within this City,
so that the odor that may arise from said hides shall be offensive
or shall annoy or disturb the occupants of any house or building in
the vicinity thereof. Any violation of this Section is hereby declared
a nuisance.
[R.O. 1993 § 225.110; R.O. of 1938 § 478;
CC 1963 Ch. 10 Art. II § 10-35]
No person owning or in possession of any lot, house, building
or enclosure within this City shall allow or suffer to exist in or
upon the same any stagnant water, animal or vegetable matter, or other
substance liable to become putrid, offensive, annoying or unhealthy.
Any violation of this Section is hereby declared a nuisance.
[R.O. 1993 § 225.120; R.O. of 1938 § 480;
CC 1963 Ch. 10 Art. II § 10-36]
Whenever any stable, stall, shed or apartment, or any yard,
or appurtenance thereof, in which any horse, mule, cattle, sheep,
cows, swine, or any other animal, or any fowl, shall be kept or confined,
or any place within the limits of this City in which manure or liquid
discharges of such animals are found, shall collect or accumulate,
and which stable, stall, shed or apartment, or any yard or appurtenance
thereof, is not kept in a cleanly or wholesome condition, so that
no offensive smell shall be allowed to escape therefrom, shall be
deemed a nuisance.
[R.O. 1993 § 225.130; R.O. of 1938 § 481;
CC 1963 Ch. 10 Art. II § 10-37]
Any well or cistern, or any property within this City, shall
be deemed a nuisance whenever a chemical analysis shows that the water
thereof is of an impure or unwholesome nature.
[R.O. 1993 § 225.140; R.O. of 1938 § 482;
CC 1963 Ch. 10 Art. II § 10-38]
Every tenement, boarding house, lodging house or any building
used for any such purpose, or any part thereof, within the limits
of this City, which shall be leased, let or rented, to be occupied
by any person or persons in which to dwell or lodge and which tenement
house, boarding house, lodging house or building, or any part thereof
is not sufficiently lighted or ventilated and provided with water,
and kept in a cleanly and sanitary condition, or which, or any part
thereof, the strength, ventilation, light or sewerage is in any manner,
shape or form dangerous, insufficient or prejudicial to life or health,
or which shall not be provided with adequate and properly constructed
privies or water closets, shall be deemed a nuisance.
A.
No
residential dwelling shall be occupied or any business operated within
the City limits unless said structure is serviced by City water and
City sanitary sewer service. No outdoor privies are allowed within
the City limits nor is any disposal of sanitary waste on public or
private property.
B.
Any
dwelling unit occupied or any business operating without City water
and City sanitary sewer service shall be declared a public nuisance.
[R.O. 1993 § 225.160; R.O. of 1938 § 483;
CC 1963 Ch. 10 Art. II § 10-40]
Any house or building within the City used for the special or
exclusive storage of powder, dynamite, nitro-glycerine or other explosive
substances, or any house, building or store wherein such quantities
of such explosives are kept exposed or insecure, or in a manner so
as to endanger human life, is hereby declared to be a nuisance.
[R.O. 1993 § 225.170; R.O. of 1938 § 484;
CC 1963 Ch. 10 Art. II § 10-41]
Offensive or foul water shall be thrown or pumped out of cellars,
and the contents of privy vaults removed and cleansed every thirty
(30) days, and in the night time only, and then only between the hours
of 10:00 P.M. and 4:00 A.M. No foul water or privy deposits shall
be removed before the said matter shall have been made inoffensive,
and of such mudlike consistency by the addition of dry earth or dust,
or ashes or lime, or a combination of dust, ashes and lime to prevent
its slopping out of the receptacle while being transferred. Any violation
of this Section is hereby declared a nuisance.
[R.O. 1993 § 225.180; R.O. of 1938 § 485;
CC 1963 Ch. 10 Art. II § 10-42]
No privy shall be located nearer than ten (10) feet to any adjoining
lot, nor shall any privy be located nearer than ten (10) feet to any
street, avenue or public ground, nor less than fifteen (15) feet from
any cistern or well.
[R.O. 1993 § 225.190; R.O. of 1938 § 486;
CC 1963 Ch. 10 Art. II § 10-43]
Whenever any person is subject to an ailment such that dejections
from the sick person's body may become dangerous to others, that person
and his/her friends, or his/her nurse, shall destroy the dejections
by some means of chemicals or fire as directed by the physician in
charge, and any other disposal of such discharge is hereby declared
a nuisance. All privies within the City shall be kept clean and free
from offensive smell, and so enclosed as to prevent the indecent exposure
of the contents thereof. Any violation of this Section is hereby declared
to be a nuisance.
[R.O. 1993 § 225.200; R.O. of 1938 § 487;
CC 1963 Ch. 10 Art. II § 10-44]
No person shall encumber or obstruct any street, alley or sidewalk
within this City by placing or causing to be placed thereon, wood,
coal, barrels, bales, boxes, crates, lumber, brick, stone or any other
article or thing. Any person or persons may use the streets, alleys
or sidewalks in the construction of any new building, or in the removal,
repair or alteration of any building, or for the purpose of piling
thereon building material or tools, to the extent, however, of not
more than one-half (1/2) of any such street, alley, and the entire
sidewalk space. Provided, such person shall provide a temporary walk
in the street for pedestrians during the time said walk is obstructed.
Provided further, such person or persons shall first have obtained
the written permission of the City Manager, to use such street, alley
or sidewalk for such purposes, and the use of any portion of any street,
alley or sidewalk for any purpose not granted or specified in said
written permission is hereby prohibited. Any person violating this
Section shall be deemed guilty of an ordinance violation.
[R.O. 1993 § 225.210; R.O. of 1938 § 489;
CC 1963 Ch. 10 Art. II § 10-46]
Every act or thing done or made, permitted, allowed or continued
on any property, public or private, by any person, firm, company or
corporation, their agents, or servants, to the damage or injury of
any of the inhabitants of this City, and not hereinbefore specified,
shall be deemed a nuisance.
[R.O. 1993 § 225.220; R.O. of 1938 § 490;
CC 1963 Ch. 10 Art. II § 10-47]
The Director of Public Safety and Public Safety Officers of
this City are hereby authorized, and it is hereby made the duty of
each to enter into or upon any premises within this City where there
is reason to suspect the existence of any nuisance.
[R.O. 1993 § 225.230; R.O. of 1938 § 491;
CC 1963 Ch. 10 Art. II § 10-48]
For the purpose of putting this Chapter into effect, it shall
be the duty of the Director of Public Safety to make, or cause to
be made from time to time, and whenever required by the Board of Health,
a thorough and systematic examination of the City, in order that he/she
may ascertain the location or whereabouts of any existing nuisance,
and the name of the person, firm, company, corporation or association
causing, suffering or permitting the same to exist.
