City of Oneida, NY Public Nuisances

The following are hereby declared to be nuisances affecting health as well as and in addition to any act, omission of act, occupation and/or use of property, premises, equipment or structure deemed to be a menace to the health of the inhabitants of and within the City or so declared in any section of this chapter.

(1)

All decayed or unwholesome food offered for sale to the public.

(2)

All diseased animals running at large.

(3)

All ponds or pools of stagnant water.

(4)

Carcasses of animals not buried or destroyed within 24 hours after death.

(5)

Accumulations of manure or rubbish not conforming with provisions of this code.

(6)

Garbage cans which are not fly or rodent tight.

(7)

The pollution of any well, cistern, spring, underground water stream, lake, canal or body of water by sewage or industrial wastes or other substances harmful to human beings.

(8)

All noxious weeds and other rank growths upon public or private property.

(9)

All public exposure of persons having a contagious disease.

(10)

The use of a common drinking cup or roller towel.

(11)

The distribution of samples of medicines or drugs, except to members of the medical profession.

(12)

Any animals or creatures so maintained as to constitute a public nuisance.

(13)

All buildings and all alterations to buildings made or erected in violation of the provisions of this chapter.

(14)

Any insanitary use of property within City limits.

(15)

All dangerous or insanitary, unguarded, unprotected machinery or equipment in any public place or situated or operated on private property in violation of provisions of this chapter.

(16)

All infestations of flies, fleas, roaches, lice, ticks, rats, mice, fly maggots, mosquito larvae and hookworm lice.

(17)

Any box, refrigerator, trunk or similar device which cannot be opened from the inside which is discarded intact or placed when unused where it may be available to the public, whose door latch or hinges have not been removed.

(18)

All defective or insanitary plumbing such as leaking or back flooding.[1]

[1]

Editor’s Note: Former Subsection B, regarding the cutting of grass and weeds, which immediately followed, was repealed 6-5-2018 by Ord. No. 3-2018.

§ 73-6 Abatement by Common Council.

Whenever the Common Council shall determine the existence and direct the removal of a nuisance in any part of the city, if the same is not removed within such time as the Common Council shall direct, it may cause the same to be removed at the expense of the city, and declare such expense to be a lien on the lot and enforce a collection thereof in the manner provided in the Charter for the collection of taxes or assessments, or by action against the owners of the lot or any other person who may have erected, suffered or maintained such nuisance, and in case of the nonremoval or nonabatement of any such nuisance by the person creating the same, after notice by the Common Council to abate such nuisance, within the time fixed as aforesaid, such person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.