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(A) Public Nuisance. Any of the following acts, omissions, conditions or things existing at any place in the city:

(1) A privy, vault, cesspool, sump, pit or like place which is not securely protected and creates a health or safety risk;

(2) Animal manure in a quantity which is not securely protected from insects, rodents and the elements and which is unsightly or odorous, except for animal manure used on any farm, garden or ranch in such a manner and for such purposes as are compatible with reasonable and customary methods of good husbandry. This section applies to manure from household pets and nonhousehold animals;

(3) Except where permitted by the city’s zoning ordinance, it shall be unlawful for any person to cause or allow any abandoned or inoperable vehicle to be parked either on private property or within the public right-of-way or stored except in conformance with the terms of this section. All abandoned or inoperable vehicles or vehicles being restored or repaired for longer than five (5) days shall be stored safely within a lawful, enclosed building or structure or screened by a lawful fence, vegetation, or natural terrain in such a manner as to not be visible from beyond the lot boundaries;

(4) Garbage or any quantity of putrid, decayed, rotten, unsound or unwholesome bone, meat, hide, skin, dead animal, fish, fowl, or animal matter, butcher’s trimmings, waste vegetation, urine, feces, sewage, or other similarly offensive substance; except for the temporary retention of such items in an authorized receptacle in a manner authorized by law until the next scheduled refuse collection day (“garbage” does not mean the composting of small amounts of organic material for personal use as long as the composting is not prohibited by any other provision of this Code);

(5) Debris of any kind stored on property, unless stored safely within a lawful, enclosed building or structure, or screened by a lawful fence or within an authorized trash receptacle in such a manner as to not be visible from beyond the lot boundaries;

(6) The emission of noxious odors;

(7) Any unmarked or unprotected excavation, pit, well or hole which poses a substantial risk of injury to any person;

(8) Creating or maintaining any condition that obstructs or renders dangerous the use or passage of any public property such as parks, streams, water courses, sidewalks, squares, alleys, streets or easements, or which interferes with, obstructs or blocks the vision of any pedestrian, bicyclist, or motorist;

(9) Any building or structure which is partially destroyed or is structurally unsound and is (a) left in a state of partial construction with no activity for more than six (6) months; or (b) abandoned for a period of more than one (1) year;

(10) Any building or structure which is in a blighted or deteriorated condition except for barns or similar agricultural buildings as long as such buildings do not create a health or safety hazard;

(11) Any condition which substantially increases the risk of fire;

(12) Any infestation or any condition which poses a substantial risk of attracting or concealing insects, rodents, vermin, wild animals, scorpions or poisonous snakes, or which increases the likelihood of infestation;

(13) Any condition which poses a substantial risk to the health or safety of any person or of the public, including, but not limited to, an unsafe, unsanitary or structurally unsound condition.

(B) Every person who owns any property in the city shall keep and maintain the property free of every public nuisance. (Ord. No. 2019-01, §§ 1, 2, 1-2-19. 1976 Code § 9-4-2)