[Amended 12-6-2004 by Ord. No. 1879]
A. A public nuisance is a thing, act, occupation, condition
or use of property which shall continue for such length of time as
to:
(1) Substantially annoy, injure or endanger the comfort,
health, repose or safety of the public;
(2) In any way render the public insecure in life or in
the use of property;
(3) Greatly offend the public morals or decency; or
(4) Unlawfully and substantially interfere with, obstruct
or tend to obstruct or render dangerous for passage any street, alley,
highway or other public way or the use of public property.
B. No person shall erect, contrive, cause, continue,
maintain or permit to exist any public nuisance within the Village
of Shorewood.
The following acts, omissions, places, conditions and things are hereby specifically declared to be public nuisances offending public morals and decency, but such enumeration shall not be construed to exclude other nuisances offending public morals and decency coming within the definition of §
389-10 of this article:
A. All disorderly houses, bawdy houses, houses of ill
fame, gambling houses and buildings or structures kept or resorted
to for the purpose of prostitution, promiscuity or gambling.
B. All gambling devices and slot machines.
C. All places where intoxicating liquor or fermented
malt beverages are sold, possessed, stored, brewed, bottled, manufactured
or rectified without a permit or license as provided for by the ordinances
of the Village.
D. Any place or premises within the Village where Village
ordinances or state laws relating to public health, safety, peace,
morals or welfare are openly, continuously, repeatedly and intentionally
violated.
E. Any place or premises resorted to for the purpose
of drinking intoxicating liquor or fermented malt beverages in violation
of the laws of the State of Wisconsin or ordinances of the Village.
The following acts, omissions, places, conditions and things are hereby declared to be public nuisances affecting peace and safety, but such enumeration shall not be construed to exclude other nuisances affecting public peace or safety coming within the provisions of §
389-10 of this article:
A. All signs and billboards, canopies, awnings and other
similar structures over or near streets, sidewalks, public grounds
or places frequented by the public, so situated or constructed as
to endanger the public safety.
B. All buildings erected, repaired or altered within
the fire limits of the Village in violation of the provisions of the
ordinances of the Village and state statutes relating to materials
and manner of construction of buildings and structures within said
district.
C. All unauthorized signs, signals, markings or devices
placed or maintained upon or in view of any public highway which purport
to be or may be mistaken as an official traffic control device or
signal or which because of their color, location, brilliance or manner
of operation interfere with the effectiveness of any such device,
sign or signal.
D. All trees, hedges, shrubbery, posts, walls, signs
or other obstructions which prevent persons driving vehicles from
obtaining a clear view of approaching pedestrians or vehicles.
E. All limbs of trees which project over and less than
14 feet above the surface of a public sidewalk or street or less than
10 feet above any other public place.
F. All use or display of fireworks, firearms, gunpowder,
dynamite and explosives, except as permitted by lawful permit, or
as otherwise provided by the ordinances of the Village or Wisconsin
statutes.
[Amended 10-17-2011 by Ord. No. 1997]
G. All buildings or structures so old, dilapidated or
out of repair as to be dangerous, unsafe, unsanitary or otherwise
unfit for human use.
H. All wires over streets, alleys or public grounds which
are strung less than 15 feet above the surface thereof.
I. All loud, discordant and unnecessary noises or vibrations
of any kind.
J. The keeping or harboring of any animal or fowl which
by frequent or habitual howling, yelping, barking, crowing or making
of other noises shall greatly annoy or disturb a neighborhood or any
considerable number of persons within the Village.
L. All obstructions of streets, alleys, sidewalks or
crosswalks and all excavations in or under the same, except as permitted
by the ordinances of the Village or which, although made in accordance
with such ordinances, are kept or maintained for an unreasonable or
illegal length of time after the purpose thereof has been accomplished.
M. All open and unguarded pits, wells, excavations or
unused basements freely accessible from any public street, alley or
sidewalk.
N. All abandoned refrigerators or iceboxes from which
the doors and other covers have not been removed or which are not
equipped with a device for opening from the inside.
O. Any unauthorized or unlawful use of property abutting
on a public street, alley or sidewalk or of a public street, alley
or sidewalk which causes large crowds of people to gather, obstructing
traffic and free use of the streets or sidewalks.
P. Repeated or continuous violations of the ordinances
of the Village or laws of the State of Wisconsin relating to the storage
of flammable liquids.
Q. All snow and ice not removed or sprinkled with sand, salt or approved chemicals as provided in §
466-27 of this Code.
R. The plowing, shoveling or dumping of snow from any
sidewalk, driveway or parkway onto a public street or alley.
S. Allowing or permitting the nesting, harboring or continued
presence of animals of a wild or destructive nature and prone to transmitting
diseases to humans or others, including but not limited to rodents,
raccoons, opossums and skunks, on any property within the Village
of Shorewood.
[Amended 4-6-1992 by Ord. No. 1635]