TIt shall be unlawful for the owner, occupant, or person having control or management of any land within the city to permit a public nuisance to develop thereon.  The following conditions are declared to be public nuisances:

(A) Dangerous trees or stacks adjoining street.  Any tree, stack, or other object standing in such a condition that it will, if the condition is allowed to continue, endanger the life, limb, or property of, or cause hurt, damage, or injury to persons or property upon the public streets or public ways adjacent thereto, by the falling thereof or of parts thereof.

(B) Accumulation of rubbish.  An accumulation on any premises of filth, refuse, trash, garbage, or other waste material which endangers the public health, welfare, or safety, or materially interferes with the peaceful enjoyment by owners or occupants of adjacent property because of the danger that it will catch or communicate fire, attract and propagate vermin, rodents, or insects, or blow rubbish into any street, sidewalk, or property of another.

(C) Storage of explosives.  The storage of explosive material which creates a safety hazard to other property or persons in the vicinity.
 
(D) Weeds and grass.  The excessive growth of weeds, grass, or other vegetation.  Unless otherwise provided, EXCESSIVE shall mean growth to a height of 12 inches or more.

(E) Open wells.  The maintenance of any open, uncovered, or insecurely covered cistern, cellar, well, pit, excavation, or vault situated upon private premises in any open or unfenced lot or place.

(F) Trees and shrubbery obstructing streets, sidewalks, and drainage.  The growing and maintenance of trees or shrubbery which in any way interferes with the use, construction, or maintenance of streets or sidewalks, causes injury to streets or sidewalks, or constitutes an obstruction to drainage.

(G) Keeping of animals.  The failure to keep an animal's pen, yard, lot, or other enclosure in a sanitary condition and free from preventable offensive odors.

(H) Junk; scrap metal; motor vehicles.  The storage of motor vehicles in an inoperative condition, motor vehicles unfit for further use, automobile parts, or scrap metal within the city limits except on premises authorized by the city for such purposes.

(I) Unsafe buildings.  Any building or other structure which is in such a dilapidated condition that it is unfit for human habitation, or kept in such an unsanitary condition that it is a menace to the health of people residing in. the vicinity thereof, or presents a more than ordinarily dangerous fire hazard in the vicinity where it is located.

(J) Excessive noise.  All unnecessary or unauthorized noises and annoying vibrations, including animal noises.

(K) Odors.  All disagreeable or obnoxious odors and stenches, as well as the conditions, substances or other causes which give raise to the emission or generation of such odors and stenches.

(L) Dead animals.  The carcasses of animals or fowl not disposed of within a reasonable time after death.

(M) Water pollution.  The pollution of any public well or cistern, stream, lake, canal, or body of water by sewage, dead animals, creamatorium, industrial wastes or other substances.

(N) Illegal activity.  Any building, structure or other place or location where any activity which is in violation of local, state or federal law is conducted, performed or maintained.

(O) Foul water.  Any accumulation of stagnant water permitted or maintained on any lot or piece of ground.

(P) Noxious fumes.  Dense smoke, noxious fumes, gas, soot or cinders, in unreasonable quantities.  (Ord. 1010.3, passed 10-1-98)  Penalty, see § 92.99

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