§ 10-22. Enumerated conditions prohibited, declared nuisance; notice of violations, penalty.

The existence of debris, rubbish, trash, tin cans, papers, garbage, stagnant water, and similar deposits and filth; unlicensed motor vehicles or junked motor vehicles exposed to weather or motor vehicles not in operating condition exposed to weather; deteriorated building materials exposed to weather; holes or depressions in which water from time to time collects or which tend to create a breeding area or harboring area for rodents, wild animals, mosquitoes, and other pests and insects; a wild intermixed or untended or dense wild growth or wild noxious or poisonous growth of trees, plants, vines, weeds, or underbrush or weeds or grass exceeding twelve (12) inches in height; dead limbs or portions of trees exceeding two (2) inches in diameter at their base which, because of their location, constitute a hazard to adjoining property, or overhead utilities on adjoining property, or public thoroughfares; or any of such conditions on any lot, tract or parcel of land within the city, adversely affects the health, safety, morals or public welfare of the public and is hereby prohibited and declared to be a public nuisance, and any owner, lessee, custodian or occupant of any lot, tract or parcel of land in the city who permits such nuisance to develop or continue thereon shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished according to law; and each day of violation hereunder shall constitute a separate offense; provided, however, that five (5) days' written notice of the violation from the city manager to the owner, lessee, custodian or occupant, any or all of them, intended to be charged with a violation hereof, shall be given before any offense be charged hereunder, and if the condition or conditions set forth in the notice be corrected before charge is made, no offense shall be charged against the owner, lessee, custodian or occupant; however, should the condition or conditions set forth in the notice be corrected within five (5) days and subsequently reoccur within a one-year period, then an offense may be charged immediately in accordance with the law.

(Ord. No. 214, § 1, 9-2-1965; Ord. No. 229, § 1, 5-19-1966; Ord. No. 766, § 1, 8-16-1984; Ord. No. 858, § 1, 9-3-1987; Ord. No. 1363, § 2, 8-21-2003; Ord. No. 1403, § 2, 12-2-2004; Ord. No. 1570, § 2, 9-5-2013)

Editor's note

Ord. No. 229, § 1, adopted May 19, 1966, amended § 10-22 to read as set out. Formerly, after the words "and other pests and insects;" said section read: "an intermixed or dense wild growth of trees, plants; vines or underbrush;".

Cross reference

Personal property under certain conditions designated a nuisance, § 15-23.1.