The following specific acts, omissions, places, conditions and things are hereby declared to be nuisances: 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:
A. Privies, vaults, cesspools, sumps, pits, or like places which are not securely protected from flies or rats, or which are foul or malodorous;
B. Filthy, littered or trash-covered premises, including all buildings and structures thereon and areas adjacent thereto;
C. 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 other trash or abandoned material, unless the same is kept in covered bins or metal receptacles approved by the building inspector;
D. 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, and other metal not neatly piled, or anything whatsoever in which flies may breed or multiply or which provides harborage for rats or which may be a fire danger;
E. 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;
F. 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 subsection shall prevent the temporary retention of waste in receptacles in the manner approved by the building inspector of the city;
G. 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;
H. 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;
I. Burning or disposal of refuse, sawdust or other material in such a manner 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 the smoke, ashes, soot or gases arising from such burning to become annoying to any considerable number of persons or to injure or endanger the health, comfort, or repose of such persons; provided, this section shall not apply where the party responsible for the action has properly obtained a fire permit from the fire department;
J. Any unguarded or abandoned excavation, pit, well, or hole dangerous to life;
K. Poison oak, poison ivy, deadly nightshade, or any noxious or toxic weed, or uncultivated plant including blackberries; or weeds, grass, uncultivated shrubs, grass clippings, cut brush or cut weeds, which constitute:
2. A threat or hazard to the general public health and safety.
Any removal of the above shall be in accordance with FMC Title 17, Environmental Protection.
(Ord. 253 § 2, 1971; Ord. 1480-03 § 1, 2003; Ord. 1777 § 1 (Exh. A), 2012; Ord. 1790 § 2, 2012)