It is a nuisance, and it is unlawful, for any person or agent
to allow any vacant or unoccupied building to remain open and of easy
access to trespassers or to allow the same to become a habitation
of vagrants or to become infested with vermin or rodents, or to become
a menace to health.
(Prior code § 3701)
It is a nuisance, and it is unlawful, to establish, conduct,
maintain or operate or cause or permit to be established, conducted
or operated any business, factory, yard, establishment or other place
which will generate into or pollute the atmosphere with any unwholesome,
offensive, or deleterious gas, fumes, dust, smoke, or odors, or to
allow offensive odors to be emitted from offal, garbage or any animal
or vegetable matter.
(Prior code § 3702)
It is a nuisance, and it is unlawful, to maintain any premises
upon which there is stagnant or still water or a marshy condition
which harbors and breeds mosquitoes or other poisonous or objectionable
insects.
(Prior code § 3703)
It is a nuisance, and is unlawful, to make, cause or suffer,
or permit to be made or caused upon any premises any unnecessary noises
or sounds which are physically annoying to persons of ordinary sensitiveness
or which are so harsh or so prolonged or unnatural or unusual in their
use, time, or place as to occasion physical discomfort.
(Prior code § 3704)
It is a nuisance, and it is unlawful, to allow or permit any
fowls or birds to run at large upon any public street, avenue, alley
or place or to allow or permit the same to run at large or trespass
upon any private property.
(Prior code § 3712)
It is a nuisance and it is unlawful, to keep any animals, fowls
or birds, wild or domestic, within twenty feet of any building, school,
church, hospital, or any residence or dwelling house or other buildings
used for the habitation of human beings.
(Prior code § 3713)
It is a nuisance, and it is unlawful, to allow or permit upon
any street, avenue, alley, public place or upon any unenclosed premises
any animal or fowl that is suspected of, or that is known to have
been exposed to, or that is known to have, any disease which may be
communicated to human beings.
(Prior code § 3714)
It is a nuisance, and it is unlawful, to keep or permit to be
kept on any premises any wild or domestic animals, fowls, or birds,
when such premises or the animals, fowls or birds are offensive, obnoxious,
filthy or in an unsanitary condition.
(Prior code § 3715)
It is a nuisance, and it is unlawful, for any owner possessor
or the person responsible for the death thereof on whose premises
same may be, to fail to cause any dead animal or part thereof, within
six hours after the death of same, to be buried so that there is at
least three feet of soil above said carcass, or to be disposed of
in some other sanitary manner; provided, however, that this section
shall not apply to animals slaughtered for and fit for human food.
(Prior code § 3721)
It is a nuisance, and it is unlawful, to permit any part of
the contents of any private vault, cesspool, septic tank, water closet,
urinal, pipe, sewer line, or any sewage, effluent, night soil, slop
water, or any other filthy water, matter, or substance, to flow or
discharge upon the ground or upon the surface of any lot or premises
or in any public street or other public place.
(Prior code § 3722)
It is a nuisance and it is unlawful for any person to use, stockpile,
have in possession, deliver or convey any form of animal manure at
or to a point within the city. This section shall not apply to domesticated
pets' excrement or to stables or riding stables provided that the
manure from the horses is not used for cultivating or mulching purposes.
(Ord. 1005 § 1, 1975)
It is a nuisance, and it is unlawful, to deposit or allow to
remain on any premises, vacant lot, street, alley, or in any excavation,
any offal, garbage, dead animals or any putrid decaying or offensive
animal or vegetable matter.
(Prior code § 3723)
It is a nuisance, and it is unlawful for any person to permit
any vehicle hauling or carrying or used for hauling or carrying any
dead animal, offal, market refuse, garbage, swill, night soil, butchers'
scraps, hog manure or other nauseous or offensive substances to stand
or remain in or upon any public street or other public place longer
than is necessary for loading and hauling such substance to its destination
or to permit any such vehicle to be in a filthy or offensive condition.
(Prior code § 3724)
It is a nuisance, and it is unlawful for any person, to use
any vehicle, tub or other receptacle for hauling any offal, hog manure,
or the contents of a privy vault, cesspool or sink, or any nauseous
or offensive substances, unless such vehicle, tub, or other receptacle
shall be sufficiently strong and tight to prevent any of the contents
from leaking or spilling therefrom and unless the same shall be so
tightly covered as to not attract flies, and as to prevent any nauseous
odors from escaping therefrom.
(Prior code § 3725)
