[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of
the City of Papillion as Ch. 4, Art. 3, of the 1990 Code. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
NEBRASKA STATUTE REFERENCES
Section 137-1 — Neb. R.R.S.
§§ 16-240 and 18-1720.
Section 137-2 — Neb. R.R.S.
§§ 16-240 and 18-1720.
Section 137-3 — Neb. R.R.S.
§§ 16-230, 16-240 and 18-1720.
Section 137-7 — Neb. R.R.S.
§§ 16-227 and 16-228.
A nuisance consists in doing any unlawful act,
or omitting to perform a duty or suffering or permitting any condition
or thing which either:
A.
Injures or endangers the comfort, repose, health or
safety of others;
B.
Offends decency;
C.
Is offensive to the senses;
D.
Unlawfully interferes with, obstructs, tends to obstruct
or renders dangerous for passage any stream, public park or parkway,
square, street or highway in the municipality;
E.
In any way renders other persons insecure in life
or the use of property; or
F.
Essentially interferes with the comfortable enjoyment
of life and property, or tends to depreciate the value of the property
of others.
The following specific acts, omissions, places,
conditions and things, in addition to all other prohibitions of this
chapter, are hereby declared to be nuisances:
A.
The maintaining, using, placing, depositing, leaving
or permitting to be or remain in or upon any private lot, building,
structure or premise, or in or upon any street, avenue, alley, park
or parkway, or at any other public or private place, or any one or
more of the following conditions or things, to-wit:
(1)
Privies, vaults, cesspools, dumps, pits or like places
which are not securely protected from flies or rats.
(2)
Filthy, littered or trash-covered cellars, house yards,
barnyards, stable-yards, factory-yards, vacant areas in rear of stores,
vacant lots, houses, building or premises.
(3)
Liquid household waste, human excreta, garbage, butcher's
trimmings and offal, parts of fish or any waste vegetable or animal
matter in any quantity: provided that nothing herein contained shall
prevent the temporary retention of waste in receptacles in a manner
provided by the Health Officer of the City of Papillion, nor the dumping
of nonpurifying waste in a place and manner approved by the Health
Officer.
(4)
Tin cans, bottles, glass, cans, ashes, small pieces
of scrap iron, broken crockery, broken glass, broken plaster and all
trash or abandoned material, unless the same be kept in covered bins
or galvanized iron receptacles approved by the Health Officer.
(5)
Trash, litter, rags, accumulations of barrels, boxes,
crates, packing crates, mattresses, bedding, excelsior, packing hay,
straw or other packing material, lumber not neatly piled, scrap iron,
tin or other metal not neatly piled, old automobiles or parts thereof,
or any other waste material when any of said articles or materials
create a condition in which flies or rats may breed or multiply, or
which may be a fire danger or which are so unsightly as to depreciate
property values in the vicinity thereof.
(6)
Any unsightly building, billboard or other structure,
or any old, abandoned or partially destroyed building or structure
or any building or structure commenced and left unfinished, which
said buildings, billboards or other structures are either a fire hazard,
a menace to the public health or safety or are so unsightly as to
depreciate the value of property in the vicinity thereof.
(7)
All places used or maintained as junkyards or dumping grounds or for the wrecking and dissembling 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 said places are kept or maintained so as to essentially interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property by others or which are so unsightly as to tend to depreciate property values in the vicinity thereof unless specifically allowed under Chapter 205, Zoning.
[Amended 3-3-1998 by Ord. No. 1261]
A.
It shall be the duty of every owner, occupant, lessee
or mortgagee of real estate in the municipality to keep such real
estate free of public nuisances. Upon determination by the Board,
comprised of the Chief of Police, Director of Public Works and City
Administrator, hereinafter referred to as "Board," that said owner,
occupant, lessee or mortgagee has failed to keep such real estate
free of public nuisances, the Board shall thereupon cause notice to
be served upon the owner, occupant, lessee, mortgagee or agent thereof,
by personal service or certified mail. A copy of said notice shall
be mailed to the City Councilors representing the ward where such
nuisance has been declared. Such notice shall describe the condition
as found by the Board and state that said condition has been declared
a public nuisance and that the condition must be remedied at once.
If the person receiving the notice has not complied therewith or taken
an appeal from the determination of the Board, within seven days after
personal service or receipt of certified mail, whichever is later,
the Board shall notify the Council of such noncompliance, and the
Council shall, upon receipt of such notice, cause a hearing date to
be fixed and notice thereof to be served upon the owner, occupant,
lessee or mortgagee or agent of the real estate.
B.
Such notice of hearing shall be by personal service
or certified mail and require such party or parties to appear before
the Council to show cause why such condition should not be found to
be a public nuisance and remedied. A return of service shall be required
by the Council. Such notice shall be given not less than five days
prior to the time of hearing, provided that whenever the owner, lessee,
occupant or mortgagee of such real estate is a nonresident or cannot
be found in the state, then the City Clerk shall publish, in a newspaper
of general circulation in the municipality, such notice of hearing
for two consecutive weeks, the publication to be at least one week
prior to the date set for the hearing.
C.
Upon the date fixed for the hearing and pursuant to
notice, the Council shall hear all objections made by parties and
shall hear evidence submitted by the Board. If, after consideration
of all of the evidence, the Council shall find that said condition
is a public nuisance, it shall by resolution order and direct the
owner, occupant, lessee or mortgagee to remedy said public nuisance
at once: provided that the party or parties may appeal such decision
within 14 days to the appropriate court for adjudication, during which
proceedings the decision of the Council shall be stayed.
D.
Should the owner or occupant refuse or neglect to
comply within seven days with the order of the Council, the Board
shall proceed to cause the abatement of the described public nuisance.
Upon completion of the work by the municipality, a statement of the
cost of such work shall be transmitted to the Council, which is authorized
to bill the property owner or occupant or to levy the cost as a special
assessment against the land. Such special assessment shall be a lien
on the real estate and shall be collected in the manner provided for
special assessments.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Original 4-304, Air pollution:
prohibited and 4-305, Water pollution: prohibited, which immediately
followed this subsection, were deleted 6-15-1999 by Ord. No. 1298.
A.
Any plastic bag used to distribute commercial or noncommercial
handbills, newspaper, magazines, books, catalogs and election campaign
material shall be ventilated with air holes no less than 1/4 inch
in diameter and never more than two inches apart, throughout the surface
of the bag; or if such bag be unventilated, said bag must be no greater
than six inches wide. The distribution of the above shall not be so
used when prohibited by federal postal laws or regulations.
B.
Definitions. When used in this section, the following
words shall the meanings indicated:
- DISTRIBUTE
- To deposit, place, throw, scatter or case.
- HANDBILL
- Any written or printed notice or advertisement.
[Amended 5-5-1998 by Ord. No. 1264]
Any person who violates any of the prohibitions
or provisions of any section of this chapter shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor. Unless otherwise specified in the particular section
for which the person stands convicted of violating, the penalty for
such violation shall be in any amount not to exceed $500 or imprisonment
for any length of time not to exceed six months, or both such fine
and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Original Section 4-402, Abatement
of nuisance, which immediately followed this section, was deleted
6-15-1999 by Ord. No. 1298.
