Nuisances are not to be created or maintained. No owner or occupant,
firm or corporation having control or management of any dwelling or
building, structure, excavation, business pursuit, matter or thing
shall allow any nuisance to be created or to exist on the premises
over which such person, firm or corporation, is the owner or exercises
control or management; nor shall any person, firm or corporation occupying
any public or private street, alleyway or any premises whatever, or
having control or management thereof, within the limits of the City
of Bridgman create or maintain a nuisance thereof.
The operating or maintaining of noisemaking, noise-amplifying
or noise-producing instruments, or devices by which the peace or good
order of the neighborhood is disturbed is hereby declared a nuisance.
No person, firm, association or corporation, by himself or another,
shall operate or maintain any radio, phonograph, player piano, calliope
or other noisemaking, noise-amplifying, or noise-producing instrument
or device in any public or private place in any manner by which the
peace and good order of the neighborhood is disturbed or persons occupying
property in the neighborhood are disturbed or annoyed.
No person shall permit any dog to continue any loud and unnecessary
barking; which either annoys, disturbs, injures or endangers the comfort,
repose, health, peace or safety of the neighborhood, nor shall any
person keep any animal which by causing frequent or long continued
noise shall disturb the comfort or repose of any persons in the vicinity.
The making or causing of such disturbances is declared to be a public
nuisance.
No person, firm or corporation shall permit or cause the escape
of such quantities of smoke, soot, cinders, noxious acids, fumes and
gases in such place or manner as to be detrimental to the public or
to endanger the health, comfort and safety of any person or of the
public, or in such manner as to cause or have a tendency to cause
injury or damage to property or business. The escape of such matter
is hereby declared to be a public nuisance.
No person shall use or maintain any lighting facilities connected
with any use of land, or operation of any place of business or factory,
so as to reflect light upon any residential use adjacent to such lighting
facilities. The use of lights in this manner is declared a public
nuisance.
[Amended 1-3-2005 by Ord.
No. 156; 12-16-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-206]
A.
Livestock. It shall be unlawful for any person to keep or maintain
any livestock within the City of Bridgman except in licensed stables,
pet shops, or kennels.
B.
Domestic animals.
(1)
Noise. It shall be unlawful for any person to permit any domestic
animal to create any loud or offensive noise, screeching, mating call,
chirping, barking, howling, calls, or yells which either annoy, disturb,
injure, or endanger the comfort, repose, health, peace, or safety
of the neighborhood, nor shall any person keep any domestic animal
which, by causing frequent or long continued noise, shall disturb
the comfort or repose of any persons in the vicinity. The making or
causing of such disturbance is declared to be a public nuisance and
a violation of this section.
(2)
Unlawful domestic animals-at-large. It shall be unlawful for any
person to permit any domestic animal, including dogs, to run at large
in the City of Bridgman.
(3)
Leash requirements except as provided in Subsection B(4) and (6) herein. It shall be unlawful for any person to permit any domestic animal, including dogs, to go beyond the premises of the owner in any area of the City unless the domestic animal is properly controlled by a leash not to exceed 10 feet long, or the animal is caged or tethered in such fashion as to provide complete and adequate control of such domestic animal by its owner or the person in charge of the domestic animal.
(4)
Leash requirements at Weko Beach Park. It shall be unlawful for any
person to permit any domestic animal, including dogs, to be at the
Weko Beach Park's campground, playground, on the wooden boardwalk,
sidewalks, wooden stairs on the dunes, beach house steps and ramps,
or parking areas except on a leash or other restraint, which restraint
shall not exceed six feet in length, and which restraint shall at
all times be under the complete and adequate control of the owner
or person in charge of the domestic animal.
(5)
Unattended animals. It shall be unlawful for any person to leave
any livestock or domestic animal, including dogs, unattended at Weko
Beach Park.
(6)
Dogs completely prohibited in specific areas at Weko Beach Park,
including beach sand. It shall be unlawful for any person to permit
any domestic animal, including dogs, to be inside the park's
beach house, on the boat ramp, or on the sand. For the purposes of
this section, the sand of Weko Beach Park shall be defined as the
sand which is located immediately west of the wooden boardwalk, sidewalk,
curbs, beach house steps and ramps, and/or where the pavement ends,
all the way to the area where the sand disappears under the waters
of Lake Michigan. A map showing where dogs are allowed at Weko Beach
Park is attached as Exhibit A[1] to this section and incorporated herein.
[1]
Editor's Note: Exhibit A is on file in the City offices.
(7)
Prohibition of horses at Weko Beach Park. The riding or leading of
horses and other riding animals is expressly prohibited anywhere at
Weko Beach Park, including the roads and streets therein.
(8)
Waste removal. The owner or person in control of a domestic animal,
including dogs, shall immediately remove any animal waste or feces
discharged or deposited by such animal on private property or upon
any public land, park, campground, road, parking lot, or other public
property. The depositing of domestic animal waste or feces is declared
to be a public nuisance and a violation of this section.
C.
(Reserved)
D.
A dog which is used as a guide or leader dog for a blind person,
a hearing dog for a deaf or audibly impaired person or a service dog
for a physically limited person is not subject to the provisions of
the domestic animal regulations provisions of this article.
[Amended 6-1-2020 by Ord.
No. 2020-207]
A person who violates this article shall be responsible for
a municipal civil infraction.
