The following specific acts, omissions, places, conditions, and things are declared to be nuisances:
The erecting, maintaining, using, placing, depositing, leaving, or permitting to be or remain in or upon any private lot, building, structure or premises, or in any or upon any street, avenue, alley, park, parkway, or other public or private place, in the city, of any one or more of the following disordered, disturbing, unsanitary, fly-producing, rat-harboring, disease-causing places, conditions or things; that is to say:
(1) Any putrid, unsound, or unwholesome bones, meat, hides, skins, or the whole or any part of any dead animal, fish or fowl;
(2) Privies, vaults, cesspools, sumps, pits, or like places which are not securely protected from flies or rats, or which are foul or malodorous;
(3) Filthy, littered, or trash-covered cellars, house yards, barnyards, stable yards, factory yards, vacant areas in rear of stores, vacant lots, houses, buildings or premises;
(4) Animal manure in any quantity which is not securely protected from flies and the elements, or which is kept or handled in violation of any ordinance of the city;
(5) Poison oak or poison ivy (whether growing or otherwise), liquid household waste, human excreta, garbage, butchers' trimmings and offal, parts of fish, or any waste vegetable or animal matter in any quantity; provided, nothing herein contained shall prevent the temporary retention of waste in receptacles in the manner approved by the health officer, nor the dumping of nonputrifying waste in a place and manner approved by the health officer;
(6) Tin cans, bottles, glass, cans, ashes, small pieces of scrap iron, wire metal articles, bric-a-brac, broken stone or cement, broken crockery, broken glass, broken plaster, and all such trash or abandoned material, unless they are kept in receptacles as required by ordinance;
(7) Trash, litter, rags, accumulations or empty barrels, boxes, crates, packing cases, mattresses, bedding, excelsior, packing hay, straw, or other packing material, lumber, scrap iron, tin, and other metal or anything whatsoever in which flies or rats may breed or multiply or which may be a fire danger, or which constitute a hazardous attraction to children;
(8) Any unsightly building, billboard or other structure, or any old, abandoned or partially destroyed building or structure, or any building or structure commenced and left unfinished;
(9) All places used or maintained as junkyards or dumping grounds, or for the wrecking or dissembling of automobiles, trucks, tractors, or machinery of any kind, or for the storing or leaving of worn-out, wrecked or abandoned automobiles, trucks, tractors, or machinery of any kind, or of any of the parts thereof, or for the storing or leaving of any machinery or equipment used by contractors or builders or by other persons, which places are kept or maintained so as to essentially interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property by others and which are not outlawed by zoning ordinances of the city;
(10) Any unguarded or abandoned pit, excavation, well, swimming pool, or other uncovered hole into which a person could fall;
(11) Any refrigerator, freezer, or other insulated container within which a child could suffocate;
(12) Toxic, radioactive, caustic, flammable, explosive, or other dangerous or hazardous substances, except as housed where applicable and stored in accordance with health, environmental, refuse, and zoning laws;
(13) Throw, empty, or deposit, or allow to be thrown, emptied, or deposited, into any privately or publicly owned refuse can, dumpster, or other receptacle any hazardous or dangerous substances except those designated with the owner's written permission;
(14) All trees, plants, shrubs or vegetation or parts thereof, either living or dead, which overhang any sidewalk or street or which are growing on the property in such a manner so as to obstruct or impair the free, full and safe use of the sidewalk or street by the public; provided, however, this provision shall not apply to those trees planted on Columbia Avenue with the permission of the city council;
(15) All grass, weeds, shrubs, bushes, trees or vegetation which is growing or which has died and which is upon the property and which is a fire hazard or a menace to public health, safety and welfare; and
(16) All noxious or other objectionable weeds, including but not limited to poison oak, poison ivy, poison sumac, kochia, morning glory, Canada thistle, rush skeletonweed, dalmatian toadflax, diffuse knapweed, Scotch thistle, yellow starthistle, jointed goatgrass, and puncture vine, whether alive or dead.
(Ord. 850 § 2 (Exh. B) (part), 2009)