A. It is unlawful for any owner, occupant, or agent of the owner or occupant to permit, maintain, suffer, carry on, or allow upon any premises or waterway a public nuisance as declared by this chapter.

B. It is unlawful for any person to create, maintain, carry on, or do any of the acts or things declared by this chapter to be a public nuisance.

C. It is unlawful for any person to willfully omit or refuse to perform any legal duty relating to the removal of such nuisance as provided in this chapter.

D. Any person convicted of violating any provision of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Any person convicted of violating the provisions of this chapter may, in the sound discretion of the court in which he was convicted, be directed by the court to abate or remove any public nuisance prior to the date of the execution of the sentence or any part thereof.

E. The abatement of any nuisance by the city or by any person or persons shall not preclude the charging of a violation of any provision of this chapter on account of which such nuisance was abated. [Ord. 2001-11-079; Ord. 8573 § 7(E), 1977].