ARTICLE III. Public Nuisances
§ 137-13. Public nuisances enumerated.
Whoever by his or her act or failure to perform a legal duty intentionally does any of the following is guilty of maintaining a public nuisance, which is a misdemeanor:A. Maintains or permits a condition which unreasonably annoys, injures or endangers the safety, health, morals, comfort or repose of any member or members of the public;
B. Interferes with, obstructs or renders dangerous for passage any public highway or right-of-way or waters used by the public; or
C. Is guilty of any other act or omission declared by law or this article to be a public nuisance and for which no sentence is specifically provided.
§ 137-14. Public nuisances affecting health.
The following are hereby declared to be nuisances affecting health:A. Exposed accumulation of decayed or unwholesome food or vegetable matter, except bona fide, properly maintained compost.
B. All diseased animals running at large.
C. Carcasses of animals not buried or destroyed within 24 hours after death.
D. Accumulations of manure, refuse or other debris.
E. Privy vaults and garbage cans which are not rodent-free or flytight or which are so maintained as to constitute a health hazard or to emit foul and disagreeable odors.
F. The pollution of any public well or cistern, stream or lake, canal or body of water by sewage, industrial waste or other substance.
G. All noxious weeds and other rank growths of vegetation upon public or private property.
H. Dense smoke, noxious fumes, gas and soot or cinders in unreasonable quantities.
I. Any offensive trade or business as defined by statute not operating under local license.
§ 137-15. Public nuisances affecting morals and decency.
The following are hereby declared to be nuisances affecting public morals and decency:A. All unlicensed gambling devices;
B. Betting, bookmaking and all apparatus used in such occupations;
C. All houses kept for the purpose of prostitution or promiscuous sexual intercourse, gambling houses, houses of ill fame and bawdy houses;
D. All places where intoxicating liquor is manufactured or disposed of in violation of law or where, in violation of law, people are permitted to resort for the purpose of drinking intoxicating liquor, or where intoxicating liquor is kept for sale or other disposition in violation of law, and all liquor and other property used for maintaining such a place; and
E. Any vehicle used for the transportation of intoxicating liquor or for promiscuous sexual intercourse or any other immoral or illegal purpose.
§ 137-16. Public nuisances affecting peace and safety.
The following are declared to be nuisances affecting public peace and safety:A. All snow and ice not removed from public sidewalks 24 hours after the snow or other precipitation causing the condition has ceased to fall;
B. All trees, hedges, billboards or other obstructions which prevent people from having a clear view of all traffic approaching an intersection;
C. All wires and limbs of trees which are so close to the surface of a sidewalk or street as to constitute a danger to pedestrians or vehicles;
D. All unnecessary noises and annoying vibrations;
E. Obstructions and excavations affecting the ordinary public use of streets, alleys, sidewalks or public grounds, except under such conditions as are permitted by this Code or other applicable law;
F. Radio aerials or television antennas erected or maintained in a dangerous manner;
G. Any use of property abutting on a public street or sidewalk or any use of a public street or sidewalk which causes large crowds of people to gather, obstructing traffic and the free use of the street or sidewalk;
H. All hanging signs, awnings and other similar structures over streets and sidewalks, or so situated so as to endanger public safety, or not constructed and maintained as provide by ordinance;
I. The allowing of rain water, ice or snow to fall from any building or structure upon any street or sidewalk or to flow across any sidewalk;
J. Any barbed wire fence less than six feet above the ground and within three feet of a public sidewalk or way;
K. All dangerous, unguarded machinery in any public place, or so situated or operated on private property as to attract the public;
L. Raw sewage cast upon or permitted to flow upon streets or other public properties;
M. Accumulations in the open of one or more discarded or disused piece of machinery, household appliance, automobiles body, junk vehicles or other material, in a manner conducive to the harboring of rats, mice, snakes or vermin, or the rank growth of vegetation among the items so accumulated, or in a manner creating fire, health or safety hazards from such accumulation;
N. Any well, hole or similar excavation which is left uncovered or in such other condition as to constitute a hazard to any child or other person coming on the premises where it is located;
O. Obstruction to the free flow of water in a natural waterway or public street drain, gutter or ditch with trash of other materials;
P. The placing or throwing on any street, sidewalk or other public property of any glass, tacks, nails, bottles or other substance which may injure any person or animal or damage any pneumatic tire when passing over such substance;
Q. The depositing of garbage or refuse on a public right-of-way or on adjacent private property; and
R. All other conditions or things which are likely to cause injury to the person or property of anyone.