§ 13-26. Enumeration.  


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  • The following are hereby declared to be nuisances, and as such, are liable to abatement:

    (1)

    All cellars, vaults, drains, pools, privies, yards, grounds or premises which have for any cause become foul, nauseous, offensive or injurious to health or unpleasant to adjacent residents or to persons passing by.

    (2)

    All carcasses, decaying flesh, fish, fowl or vegetables, all deposits of manure or other unwholesome substances or flesh of any kind or description whatever and all filthy or offensive water or slops in any private yard or premises or when thrown or conducted into or upon any street, alley, public ground or any enclosure, so as to be unwholesome or offensive, or are liable to become unwholesome or offensive.

    (3)

    All privies that are offensive from use, all markets, cellars, laundries, stores or other buildings or places which are not kept clean and free from filthy or unwholesome substances and odors and all deposits or substances that are offensive or liable to engender disease.

    (4)

    Every trade, business or occupation injurious to the health or comfort of those who reside in the vicinity, and any lot or receptacle whatever, containing water or slops suffered to become stagnant or offensive or unwholesome from any cause.

    (5)

    Depositing filth or any foul, offensive, nauseous or injurious substances upon any sidewalk, street, alley or other public place.

    (6)

    Sweeping or depositing any trash, paper, rubbish, weeds or grass into or upon any street, alley, sidewalk or other public place within the city and allowing the same to remain in such place for more than six (6) hours.

    (7)

    Permitting or allowing any weeds, filth or rubbish of any kind to remain on any sidewalk in front or at the side of any premises owned by him or in the street to the middle thereof, the rear or side of any lots or premises owned or controlled by him.

    (8)

    Hauling, conveying or transporting of any meat or slaughtered or dead animals or fish through the streets of the city without having the same entirely covered, screened or protected from dust and the public view.

    (9)

    Allowing any wastewater or slop of any kind to drain or run over, into or upon any street, sidewalk or alley of the city.

    (10)

    Scattering of any advertisements, circulars, handbills, printed or written announcements or papers of like character or of any medicines upon the streets, sidewalks, alleys or within the public buildings or grounds within the city.

    (11)

    Posting, writing, printing or tacking of any kind of sign or advertisement or any kind of written or printed matter of any character upon any telephone, electric light or telegraph pole within the city.

    (12)

    Writing upon, scratching, disfiguring of or marking of any kind of written or printed matter of whatsoever character and kind in or upon any wall or any building within the city.

    (13)

    Cutting of any telephone, electric light or telegraph pole, or of any wall of any building, or of any fence, or any other kind of property in the city with any object whatever.

    (14)

    Allowing any privy to become dilapidated or out of repair so as to expose its contents or any person using it.

(Code 1966, § 18-1)