Each of the following conditions, unless otherwise permitted by law, is declared to constitute a public nuisance, and whenever the enforcement officer determines that any of these conditions exist upon any premises, the officer may require or provide for the abatement thereof pursuant to this chapter: the erecting, maintaining, using, placing, depositing, causing, allowing, leaving or permitting to be or remain in or upon any private lot, building, structure or premises, or in 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 places, conditions, things or acts to the prejudice, danger or annoyance of others:
1. Accumulations of manure or rubbish, except a compost pile so covered or concealed as not to affect the health, safety or depreciation of adjoining property;
2. Burning or disposal of refuse, sawdust or other material in such a manner as to cause or permit ashes, sawdust, soot or cinders to be cast upon the streets or alleys of the city, or to cause or permit dense smoke, noxious fumes, ashes, soot or gases arising from such burning to become annoying or injurious to the health, comfort or repose of the general public;
3. Carcasses of animals not buried or destroyed within 24 hours after death;
4. Ponds or pools of stagnant water,
5. All snow and ice not removed from public sidewalks within a reasonable time after the snow and ice have ceased to be deposited thereon;
6. All limbs of trees overhanging a public sidewalk which are less than 10 feet above the surface of such sidewalk, or overhanging a city street which are less than 12 feet above the surface of such street;
7. The existence of any vines or climbing plants growing into or over any street, public hydrant, pole or electrolier, or the existence of any shrub, vine or plant growing on, around or in front of any hydrant, standpipe, sprinkler system connection or any other appliance or facility provided for fire protection purposes in such a way as to obscure the view thereof or impair the access thereto; or obstruct or interfere with the proper diffusion of the light from any street lamp;
8. Any use of property abutting on a public street or sidewalk or any use of public street or sidewalk which causes any obstructing of traffic and the free use of the streets or sidewalks; provided, that this subsection shall not apply to events, programs or parades authorized by the city council;
9. Any poisonous or harmful substance which is reasonably accessible to persons or to animals;
10. The keeping, using or maintaining of any pen, stable, lot, place or premises in which any hog, sheep, goat, cattle, mink, fox, chinchilla, nutria, or fowl or any other animal or bird may be confined or kept, in such a manner as to be noxious, foul or offensive to any considerable number of persons;
11. The keeping or harboring of any animal which by frequent or habitual howling, yelping, barking or the making of other noises, or the keeping or harboring of any fowl which by frequent habitual crowing or the making of other noises, annoys or disturbs any considerable number of persons;
12. All unused, abandoned or discarded refrigerators, ice boxes or like containers which are left in any place exposed or accessible to children;
13. The existence of any dead, diseased, infested or dying tree that may constitute a danger to property or persons;
14. All shrubs, bushes, trees or vegetation which has grown and died and which is a fire hazard;
15. All grass and/or weeds which exceed 12 inches in height in a nonagricultural use;
16. The existence of caterpillar infestations or other horticultural pests;
17. Premises overgrown with blackberry vines;
18. The depositing or burning or causing to be deposited or burned in any street, alley, sidewalk, park, parkway, or other public place which is open to travel, of any hay, straw, grass, grass clippings, paper, wood, boards, boxes, leaves, manure or other rubbish or material;
19. The storage or keeping on any premises for more than 60 days of any used or unused building materials, without a special permit from the building official; providing that nothing herein shall:
a. Prohibit such storage without a permit when done in conjunction with a construction project for which a building permit has been issued and which is being prosecuted diligently to completion,
b. Prohibit such storage without a permit on the premises of a bona fide lumber yard, dealer in building materials or other commercial enterprise when the same is permitted under the zoning ordinance and other applicable ordinances, or
c. Make lawful any such storage or keeping when it is prohibited by any other ordinances or laws;
20. The existence of any fence or other structure or thing on private property abutting or fronting upon any public street, sidewalk or place which is in a sagging, leaning, fallen, decayed or other dilapidated or unsafe condition;
21. The existence of any drainage onto or over any sidewalk or public pedestrian way;
22. Privies, vaults, cesspools, sumps, pits, or like places which are not securely protected from flies or rats, or which are foul or malodorous;
23. Any tin cans, bottles, glass, cans, ashes, small pieces of scrap iron, wire, pipe, metal articles, bric-a-brac, broken stone or cement, broken crockery, broken glass, broken plaster, and all other trash or abandoned material, unless the same is kept in covered bins or metal receptacles approved by the building official;
24. Any trash, litter, rags, accumulations of empty barrels, boxes, crates, packing cases, mattresses, bedding excelsior, packing hay, straw or other packing material, lumber not neatly piled, scrap iron, tin, pipe and other metal not neatly piled;
25. Any unsightly and dangerous building, billboard or other structure, or any old, abandoned or partially destroyed building or structure, or any building or structure commenced and left unfinished;
26. All places not properly fenced which are used or maintained as junkyards or dumping grounds, or for the wrecking, disassembling, repair or rebuilding 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;
27. Deposit, keep or leave or permit to be deposited, kept or left in any place accessible to children, or in any place viewable from a public street or alley, any abandoned, unused, nonrunning or discarded automobile, truck or other such vehicle, or any vehicle hulk or any part thereof. For the purposes of this subsection "abandoned, unused, nonrunning" refers to a vehicle which is not movable under its own power and which has been in a stationary position for more than 14 days;
28. Repair of an automobile, truck or other motor vehicle of any kind upon the public streets, alleys or other public property of the city;
29. Any putrid, unsound or unwholesome bones, meat, hides, skins, or the whole or any part of any dead animal, fish or fowl, butcher's trimmings and offal, or any waste vegetable or animal matter in any quantity, garbage, human excreta or other offensive substance; provided, nothing contained in this chapter shall prevent the temporary retention of waste in receptacles in the manner approved by the building official of the city;
30. The erection, continuance or use of any building, room or other place in the city for the exercise of any trade, employment or manufacture which, by occasioning noxious exhalations, offensive odors or other annoyances, is discomforting or offensive or detrimental to the health of individuals or of the public;
31. The playing or causing to be played, in front of any building where any show, moving picture exhibition or theatrical performance is given, or in the open vestibule or area of any building, of any automatic or mechanical musical instrument for the attraction of customers;
32. Making, causing or permitting to be made by means of any speaker or other sound-amplifying device, or horn or other mechanical device, or by outcry, loud speaking, singing or by any other means of discordant and unnecessary noise of any kind which annoys any considerable number of persons lawfully in the immediate area;
33. Any unguarded or abandoned excavation, pit, well or holes which would endanger safety.
(Ord. 1392 § 3, 1987)