[1977 Code, § 8-405]
It shall be unlawful for any person to permit or cause the escape of such quantities of dense smoke, soot, cinders, noxious acids, fumes, dust, or gases as to be detrimental to or to endanger the health, comfort, and safety of the public or so as to cause or have a tendency to cause injury or damage to property or business.
[1977 Code, § 8-406]
It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly to allow any pool of stagnant water to accumulate and stand on his property without treating it so as effectively to prevent the breeding of mosquitoes.
[1977 Code, § 8-407; Ord. 494, § 1, Sept. 1997]
Every owner or tenant of property shall periodically cut the grass and other vegetation commonly recognized as weeds on his property, and it shall be unlawful for any person to fail to comply with an order by the city recorder, or code enforcement officer or chief of police to cut such vegetation when it has reached a height of over one (1) foot.
[Ord. 494, §§ 2, 3, and 4, Sept. 1997; Ord. 1058, July 2018]
(1) 
Prohibition. It shall be unlawful for any owner of record of any real property and/or occupant thereof to permit any of the following conditions that would be detrimental to the welfare of the surrounding community in that such conditions tend to interfere with the enjoyment of and reduce the value of private property; interfere with the comfort, health, safety, and well being of the public; create, extend, and aggravate urban blight; encourage the infestation of rodents or insects, including but not limited to:
(a) 
Create, maintain, or permit to be maintained on such property the uncontrolled growth of trees, vines, grass, or underbrush;
(b) 
Create, maintain, or permit to be maintained on such property the accumulation of dead or fallen trees and/or tree limbs;
(c) 
Create, maintain, or permit to be maintained on or in such property any unattended excavations or piles of dirt, gravel or other fill material;
(d) 
Allow the accumulation on such property of debris, trash, litter, or garbage.
(2) 
(Reserved)
(3) 
Designation of public officer or department. The code enforcement officer and/or the code enforcement department, or its duly authorized representative shall be the appropriate department and/or person to enforce the provisions of this section.
(4) 
Notice to property owner. It shall be the duty of the department or person designated by the city commission to enforce this section to serve notice upon the owner of record in violation of subsection (1) above, a notice in plain language to remedy the condition within ten (10) days (or twenty (20) days if the owner of record is a carrier engaged in the transportation of property or is a utility transmitting communications, electricity, gas, liquids, steam, sewage, or other materials), excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays. The notice shall be served upon the owner of record, either personally or by certified mail, but if the whereabouts of such person is unknown and the same cannot be ascertained by the public officer in the exercise of reasonable diligence, and the public officer shall make an affidavit to that effect, then the serving of such complaint or order upon such persons may be made by publishing the same once each week for two (2) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation within the city. In addition, a copy of such complaint or order shall be posted in a conspicuous place on the premises affected by the complaint or order.
(a) 
A brief statement that the owner is in violation of section 13-104 of the Collegedale Municipal Code, which has been enacted under the authority of Tennessee Code Annotated, section 6-54-113, and that the property of such owner may be cleaned-up at the expense of the owner and a lien placed against the property to secure the cost of the clean-up;
(b) 
The person, office, address, and telephone number of the department or person giving the notice;
(c) 
A cost estimate for remedying the noted condition, which shall be in conformity with the standards of cost in the city; and
(d) 
A place wherein the notified party may return a copy of the notice, indicating the desire for a hearing.
(5) 
Clean-up at property owner's expense. If the property owner of record fails or refuses to remedy the condition within ten (10) days after receiving the notice (twenty (20) days if the owner is a carrier engaged in the transportation of property or is a utility transmitting communications, electricity, gas, liquids, steam, sewage, or other materials), the department or person designated by the city commission to enforce the provisions of this section shall immediately cause the condition to be remedied or removed at a cost in conformity with reasonable standards, and the cost thereof shall be assessed against the owner of the property. Upon the filing of the notice with the office of the register of deeds in Hamilton County, the costs shall be a lien on the property in favor of the municipality, second only to liens of the state, county, and municipality for taxes, any lien of the municipality for special assessments, and any valid lien, right, or interest in such property duly recorded or duly perfected by filing, prior to the filing of such notice. These costs shall be placed on the tax rolls of the municipality as a lien and shall be added to property tax bills to be collected at the same time and in the same manner as property taxes are collected. If the owner fails to pay the costs, they may be collected at the same time and in the same manner as delinquent property taxes are collected and shall be subject to the same penalty and interest as delinquent property taxes.
(6) 
Appeal. The owner of record who is aggrieved by the determination and order of the public officer may appeal the determination and order to the city commission. The appeal shall be filed with the city recorder within ten (10) days following the receipt of the notice issued pursuant to subsection (3) above. The failure to appeal within this time shall, without exception, constitute a waiver of the right to a hearing.
(7) 
Judicial review. Any person aggrieved by an order or act of the city commission under subsection (5) above may seek judicial review of the order or act. The time period established in subsection (4) above shall be stayed during the pendency of judicial review.
(8) 
Supplemental nature of this section. The provisions of this section are in addition and supplemental to, and not in substitution for, any other provision in the municipal charter, this municipal code of ordinances or other applicable law which permits the city to proceed against an owner, tenant or occupant of property who has created, maintained, or permitted to be maintained on such property the growth of trees, vines, grass, weeds, underbrush and/or the accumulation of the debris, trash, litter, or garbage or any combination of the preceding elements, under its charter, any other provisions of this municipal code of ordinances or any other applicable law.
[1]
Note: Section 13-103 applies to cases where the city wishes to prosecute the offender in city court. Section 13-104 can be used when the city seeks to clean up the lot at the owner's expense and place a lien against the property for the cost of the clean-up but not to prosecute the owner in city court.
[1977 Code, § 8-408]
Any person owning or having possession of any dead animal not intended for use as food shall promptly bury the same or notify the city recorder and dispose of such animal in such manner as the city recorder shall direct.
[1977 Code, § 8-409]
It shall be unlawful for any person to permit any premises owned, occupied, or controlled by him to become or remain in a filthy condition, or permit the use or occupation of same in such a manner as to create noxious or offensive smells and odors in connection therewith, or to allow the accumulation or creation of unwholesome and offensive matter or the breeding of flies, rodents, or other vermin on the premises to the menace of the public health or the annoyance of people residing within the vicinity.
[1977 Code, § 8-404]
It shall be unlawful for any person to park, locate, or occupy any house trailer or portable building unless it complies with all plumbing, electrical, sanitary, and building provisions applicable to stationary structures and the proposed location conforms to the zoning provisions of the city and unless a permit therefor shall have been first duly issued by the building official, as provided for in the building code.