[CC 1985 § 17-1; Ord. No. 6196 § 2, 9-15-1986; Ord. No. 6957 § 2, 6-3-1996; Ord. No. 8170 § 1, 8-4-2014]
A.
Public nuisances within the City shall include, but not
be limited to the following, each of which is hereby declared to be
a nuisance:
1.
All pursuits followed or acts done by any person
to the hurt, injury, annoyance, inconvenience or damage of the public;
2.
All bawdy houses, houses of ill fame, assignation
houses, or any building or room of any building to which persons are
allowed or permitted by the owner, keeper or occupants thereof to
resort for the purpose of prostitution;
3.
All ponds or pools of stagnant water, and all
foul or dirty water or liquid when discharged through any drain, pipe
or spout into or upon any street, alley, thoroughfare or lot to the
injury and annoyance of the public;
4.
All privies or privy vaults kept in such condition
as to emit an offensive, noxious or disagreeable odor, and all substances
emitting 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 twelve (12) hours after death;
5.
Every privy, privy vault, commode, cesspool or
water closet, or any other receptacle whatever, of human excrement
within the limits of this City which is in an overflowing, leaking,
full, stinking, insecure or defective condition;
6.
Any dead animal, carcass or any part thereof,
or any offal or other filth, in any well, cistern, spring, drinking
fountain, trough or basin used for drinking purposes, or in any brook
or branch thereof within the City, which is or may be used by the
public for drinking purposes, or any wilful or malicious poisoning,
defiling or in any way corrupting of the water of the same;
7.
Any violation of the Property Maintenance Code
which is defined therein as a nuisance, or which is declared to be
dangerous to the life, health, property or safety of the residents
of the City. This provision shall apply to the City’s currently
adopted version of the International Property Maintenance Code.
8.
The outside storage on residential property of
items or materials other than yard furniture, neatly stacked firewood,
garden or yard tools, toys, or usable building materials. However,
the outside storage of usable building materials is only permitted
if the outside storage is for less than sixty (60) days, the building
materials are for use on such premises, the building materials are
not stored against any structure, and the building materials are neatly
stacked and stacked to a height not to exceed four (4) feet from ground
level. As used in this Subsection, the term "outside" includes a porch,
unless the porch us fully enclosed by a roof and fully intact glass
or fully intact screens.
[Ord. No. 8374 § 3, 8-22-2017]
9.
Any of the following items that are kept, maintained,
deposited, remain, or are permitted to remain on such residential
property in any outside area that can be viewed from a ground location
off the premises: any appliance manufactured for primarily indoor
use, bedding, bottles, boxes, broken glass, cans, cardboard, cartons,
furniture manufactured for primarily indoor use, household furnishings
unless designed for outdoor use, jars, machine parts, motor vehicle
parts, pallets, paper, plumbing fixtures, rags, scrap metal, tires,
tire rims, water heaters, or any other debris, which, in the case
of a business, are not used in the normal and lawful course of such
business's operations.
[Ord. No. 8374 § 3, 8-22-2017]
[CC 1985 § 17-2; Ord. No. 6196 § 2, 9-15-1986; Ord. No. 8170 § 2, 8-4-2014]
It shall be unlawful for any person to permit a nuisance to
remain in any building or on any premises or lot under his ownership
or control. Any such nuisance is hereby declared to be a danger to
the public health, safety and welfare, and the owner, occupant and
operator of the premises shall each be responsible for the existence
and removal of said nuisance.
[CC 1985 § 17-3; Ord. No. 8170 § 3, 8-4-2014]
Notwithstanding any contrary provision in this Code, the Property Maintenance Code or other ordinances adopted by the Council, any person failing to comply with the provisions of this chapter shall be deemed guilty of a civil infraction. The notice provisions of Section 215.070 of this Code and Section 106, Section 107 and Section 302 of the Property Maintenance Code shall apply only to administrative proceedings before the Board of Building Code Enforcement, shall not apply to the prosecution of ordinance violations under Sections 215.050 and 215.060 and shall not be construed as a condition precedent to the prosecution or enforcement of ordinance violations filed in municipal court.
