As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
NUISANCE
A public nuisance affecting health.
PUBLIC NUISANCE AFFECTING HEALTH
A nuisance which is a thing, act, use of property, premises,
equipment or structure affecting the health of one or more persons.
[Amended 6-5-2018 by Ord.
No. 3-2018]
A. 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.
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.