No owner or person shall create a hazard by:
A. 
Maintaining or leaving, in a place accessible to children, a container with a compartment of more than one and one-half cubic feet capacity and door or lid which locks or fastens automatically when closed and which cannot be easily opened from the inside; or
B. 
Being the owner or otherwise having possession of property upon which there is a well, cistern, cesspool, excavation, or other hole of a depth of four feet or more and a top width of 10 inches or more and failing or refusing to cover or fence it with a suitable protective construction.
(Ord. 1052 § 7, 2010)
A. 
No owner or person in charge of property shall permit thereon:
1. 
Unguarded machinery, equipment, buildings or other devices or structures which are attractive, dangerous and accessible to children.
2. 
Lumber, logs or piling placed or stored in a manner so as to be attractive, dangerous and accessible to children.
3. 
An open pit, quarry, cistern or other excavation without safeguards or barriers to prevent such places from being used by children.
B. 
This section shall not apply to authorized construction projects with reasonable safeguards to prevent injury or death to playing children.
(Ord. 1052 § 8, 2010)
No owner or person in charge of property, improved or unimproved, abutting on a public sidewalk shall permit:
A. 
Snow to remain on the sidewalk for longer than a reasonable amount of time after the snow has fallen.
B. 
Ice to remain on the sidewalk for more than a reasonable amount of time after the ice has formed, unless the ice is covered with sand, ashes or other suitable material to assure safe travel.
C. 
Failure to comply with this section shall subject the property owner to liability for any injuries resulting from the violation.
(Ord. 1052 § 9, 2010)
A. 
No person shall throw, dump, deposit, store or keep upon any street, alley or public property any injurious or offensive substance or any kind of rubbish, junk, trash, debris, refuse or any substance that would mar the appearance, create a stench or fire hazard, detract from the cleanliness or safety of the property or would be likely to injure a person or vehicle traveling upon a public way.
B. 
No persons in charge of property shall place or deposit, upon their own property or the property of another, any material, debris, trash, waste, paper boxes, paper towels, or trimmings from any tree, shrub, grass or any other material capable of, or susceptible to, being displaced by action of wind or running water unless they make provisions to secure such materials in such a manner as to prevent such displacement.
C. 
No person shall keep any junk outdoors on any street, lot or premises, or in a building that is not wholly or entirely enclosed, except doors used for ingress and egress.
(Ord. 1052 § 10, 2010)
A. 
No person shall drive or move a vehicle on any street unless it is so constructed or loaded as to prevent its content from dropping, sifting, leaking or otherwise escaping therefrom.
B. 
It shall be the duty of any person driving a vehicle from which the contents have escaped to immediately remove any escaped substance or material from the street.
(Ord. 1052 § 11, 2010)
A. 
No owner of property, improved or unimproved, abutting on a public sidewalk shall permit such sidewalk to deteriorate to such a condition that, because of cracks, chipping, weeds, settling, covering by dirt, or other similar occurrences, the sidewalk becomes a hazard to persons using it.
B. 
The city shall not be liable to any person for any loss or injury to a person or property suffered or sustained by reason of any accident on sidewalks caused by ice, snow, encumbrances, obstructions, cracks, chipping, weeds, settling, holes covered by dirt or other similar conditions on or off the sidewalk. Adjacent property owners shall maintain sidewalks free from such conditions and shall be liable for any and all injuries to persons or property arising as a result of their negligent or intentional failure to so maintain the sidewalks.
(Ord. 1052 § 12, 2010)
A. 
No owner or person in charge of property shall permit upon such property, or upon the sidewalk, parking strip, street, alley or public sidewalk area abutting such property, trees or bushes on the property to interfere with street or sidewalk traffic.
B. 
It shall be the duty of an owner or person in charge of property that abuts upon a street, alley or public sidewalk to keep all trees and bushes on the premises, including the adjoining parking strip, trimmed to a height of not less than eight feet above the sidewalk and not less than 13 feet above the roadway.
C. 
No owner or person in charge of property shall allow to stand a dead or decaying tree that is a hazard to the public or to persons or property on or near the property.
D. 
Allowing dry grass, dry weeds, dry brush or other dry vegetation, cut or uncut, to accumulate on property within 200 feet of any structure where such accumulation is susceptible to fire which could endanger the structure.
E. 
No owner or person in charge of property shall permit a tree limb to remain broken or growing in a manner as so to be a hazard to the public.
F. 
All trees, shrubs, plants and vegetation in any parking strip may be trimmed, pruned or removed at any time by the city; or the city may require any property owner or person in charge of property to trim, prune or remove any trees, shrubs, plants or vegetation in a parking strip abutting upon the property.
(Ord. 1052 § 13, 2010)
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, without the permission of the Columbia River Fire and Rescue District or its authorized representative, to build an open outdoor fire upon any street or alley, or upon any lot or property of any character in the city or to permit one to be built or to permit such fire already built to continue.
A. 
No person shall cause any fire to heat any roofing or other material on or above such pavement; or burn anywhere in the city any offal, refuse, garbage or other matter causing noxious odors.
B. 
Definitions – Fire. The words "an open outdoor fire" as used in this section shall include any open outdoor fire within the ordinary definition and understanding of said words, and also any fire set for burning waste, debris, trash, rubbish or garbage in any outdoor trash burner or incinerator, or outdoor fireplace or barbecue pit. No provision of this chapter shall be construed as prohibiting the building of a fire for cooking purposes, in any device designed and constructed for this purpose.
C. 
Permits – Open Fires. Any person desiring to burn any material at an outdoor fire shall first secure a permit from the Columbia River Fire and Rescue District permitting the burning of such material and stating the conditions under which it may be burned. The holder of such permit shall be allowed to build such outdoor fire under the conditions of such permit only. Any deviation from the provisions of the permit shall be a violation of this chapter.
(Ord. 1052 § 14, 2010)
A. 
No owner or person in charge of property shall construct or maintain or cause to be constructed or maintained on any lot or parcel of land within the city an electric fence, or to charge with electricity, or cause to be charged with electricity, a fence already constructed, or wires or other structure that could be termed a fence or used as a fence.
B. 
1. 
No owner or person in charge of property shall construct or cause to be constructed within the city a barbed-wire fence. Barbed-wire fences now in existence, upon need of repair, shall be removed and not replaced.
2. 
Barbed-wire shall be allowed as top stranding material on fences constructed of chain link or similar nonbarbed material; provided, that such fences are locked, are in commercial or industrial zones, and are six feet or more in height, not including the top strand barbed-wire portion.
C. 
Fences shall be constructed of materials that are structurally sound.
(Ord. 1052 § 15, 2010)
A. 
No owner or person in charge of a building or structure shall suffer or permit rainwater, ice or snow to fall from the building or structure onto a street or public sidewalk, or flow across the sidewalk.
B. 
The owner or person in charge of property shall install and maintain in a proper state of repair adequate drainpipes or a drainage system, so that any overflow water accumulating on the roof or about the building is not carried across or upon the sidewalk.
(Ord. 1052 § 16, 2010)