§ 30-1. General prohibition.

(a)

It shall be unlawful for the owner, owner's agent, or any person, firm individual, corporation or entity to cause or permit a nuisance to exist within the corporate limits of the city.

(b)

A nuisance shall be considered anything that works in injury, harm or prejudice to an individual or to the public; anything done to the hurt or annoyance of the land, tenements, or hereditaments of another; and also anything that endangers life or health, violates the laws of decency, or obstructs the reasonable or comfortable use of property.

(c)

It shall be unlawful to have an attractive nuisance which may prove detrimental to children whether in a building, or upon an unoccupied lot. This includes any abandoned wells, shafts, cellars, basements, or excavations, abandoned refrigerators, abandoned motor vehicles, lumber, trash, fences, debris, or vegetation which may prove a hazard for inquisitive minors.

(d)

A nuisance shall also be whatever is dangerous to human life, detrimental to health, inadequate or insanitary sewerage or plumbing facilities, and general uncleanliness of property.

(Code 1976, § 15:100(a)—(d); Ord. No. 713, §§ 1—4, 3-9-1970; Ord. No. 876, § 1, 8-9-1982; Ord. No. 912, § 1, 5-12-1986)