No person shall create a hazard by:
(1) 
Maintaining or leaving in a place accessible to children a container with a compartment of more than a one and one-half-cubic-foot capacity and a door or lid which locks or fastens automatically when closed and which cannot be easily opened from the inside; or
(2) 
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 12 inches or more and failing or refusing to cover or fence it with a suitable protective construction.
(Ord. 156-91 § 3, 1991)
(1) 
No owner or person in charge of property shall permit thereon:
(a) 
Unguarded machinery, equipment or mechanical devices which are attractive, dangerous and accessible to children;
(b) 
Lumber, logs or piling or other nonmechanical devices placed or stored in a manner so as to be attractive, dangerous and accessible to children;
(c) 
An open pit, quarry, cistern, ditch, swimming pool or other excavation, without safeguards or barriers to prevent such places from being accessible to children.
(2) 
This section shall not apply to authorized construction projects with reasonable safeguards to prevent injury or death to playing children.
(Ord. 156-91 § 4, 1991)
No owner or person in charge of property, improved or unimproved, abutting on a public sidewalk shall permit:
(1) 
Snow to remain on the sidewalk for a period longer than the first two hours of daylight after the snow has fallen;
(2) 
Ice to remain on the sidewalk for more than two hours of daylight after the ice has formed, unless the ice is covered with sand, ashes or other suitable material to assure safe travel.
(Ord. 156-91 § 5, 1991)
(1) 
The term "noxious vegetation" does not include vegetation that constitutes an agricultural crop, unless that vegetation is a health hazard or a fire or traffic hazard within the meaning of subsection (2) of this section.
(2) 
The term "noxious vegetation" does include, at any time between May 1st through September 30th of any year:
(a) 
Weeds more than five inches high;
(b) 
Grass more than five inches high and not within the exception stated in subsection (1) of this section;
(c) 
Poison oak;
(d) 
Poison ivy;
(e) 
Blackberry bushes that extend into a public thoroughfare or across a property line;
(f) 
Vegetation that is:
(i) 
A health hazard;
(ii) 
A fire hazard because it is near other combustibles; or
(iii) 
A traffic hazard because it impairs the view of a public thoroughfare or otherwise makes use of the thoroughfare hazardous.
(3) 
Between May 1st and September 30th of any year, no owner or person in charge of property may allow noxious vegetation to be on the property or in the right-of-way of a public thoroughfare abutting on the property. It shall be the duty of an owner or person in charge of property to cut down or to destroy grass, shrubbery, brush, bushes, weeds or other noxious vegetation as often as needed to prevent them from becoming unsightly, from becoming a fire hazard or, in the case of weeds or other noxious vegetation, from maturing or from going to seed.
(4) 
Between April 1st and May 1st of each year, a copy of subsection (3) of this section will be made available to the press, public, and a minimum of one copy shall be posted on the bulletin board at City Hall, as a notice to all owners and persons in charge of property of their duty to keep their property free from noxious vegetation. The notice shall state that the city is willing to abate such a nuisance on any particular parcel of property at the request of the owner or person in charge of the property for a fee sufficient to cover the city's costs of the abatement. The notice shall also state that, even in the absence of such requests, the city reserves the right to abate all such nuisances and to charge the cost of doing so on any particular parcel of property to the owner thereof, the person in charge thereof or the property itself.
(5) 
The publication of notice provided for in subsection (4) of this section is discretionary on the part of the city administrator or designee and is not a condition precedent to the exercise of other remedies specified in this chapter.
(Ord. 156-91 § 6, 1991; Ord. 296-2007)
No person shall deposit upon public or private property any kind of rubbish, 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, animal or vehicle traveling upon a public way.
(Ord. 156-91 § 7, 1991)
(1) 
No owner or person in charge of property that abuts upon a street or public sidewalk shall permit trees or bushes on the property to interfere with street or sidewalk traffic. It shall be the duty of an owner or person in charge of property that abuts upon a street 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 10 feet above the roadway.
(2) 
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.
(Ord. 156-91 § 8, 1991)
(1) 
No owner or person in charge of property shall construct or maintain a barbed-wire fence thereon or permit barbed-wire to remain as part of a fence along a sidewalk or public way, except such wire may be placed above the top of other fencing not less than six feet, six inches high.
(2) 
No owner or person in charge of property shall construct, maintain or operate an electric fence along a sidewalk or public way, or along the adjoining property line of another person.
(Ord. 156-91 § 9, 1991)
(1) 
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 to flow across the sidewalk.
(2) 
The owner or person in charge of property shall install and maintain in 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. 156-91 § 10, 1991)