Chapter 8.28
NUISANCES AFFECTING PUBLIC SAFETY

Sections:

8.28.010    Nuisances affecting safety declared.

8.28.020    Methods of abatement.

8.28.010 Nuisances affecting safety declared.

The following are declared to be nuisances affecting public safety:

A. All snow and ice not removed from public sidewalks within a reasonable time after the snow and ice has ceased to be deposited thereon;

B. All buildings, walls and other structures which have been damaged by fire, decay or otherwise so as to endanger the safety of the public;

C. Any use of property abutting on a public street or sidewalk, or any use of a public street or sidewalk which causes large crowds of people to gather, obstructing traffic and the free use of the streets or sidewalks;

D. All hanging signs, awnings and other similar structures over the streets or sidewalks, or so situated as to endanger public safety;

E. All other conditions or things which are liable to cause injury to the person or property of anyone;

F. All wells, cisterns or septic tanks without adequate cover while in regular use and all wells and cisterns not filled in with earth when abandoned;

G. The keeping, using or maintaining of any pen, stable, lot, place or premises in which any hog, cattle or fowls may be confined or kept;

H. The keeping or harboring of any dog or other animal which by frequent or habitual howling, yelping, barking or the making of other noises, or the keeping or harboring of any fowl which by frequent habitual crowing or the making of other noises shall annoy or disturb a neighborhood or any considerable number of persons;

I. All places, other than those zoned and licensed as wrecking yards or repair shops, used or maintained for the storage of unlicensed vehicles or for wrecking or disassembling of vehicles or machinery of any kind; or storage of any parts thereof except within an enclosed garage or building. For the purposes of this chapter, all vehicles not bearing a current vehicle license within 90 days of the beginning of any license year shall be deemed unlicensed, and the restrictions in this chapter shall not apply to any resident repairing a licensed vehicle registered in his name; provided, that all such work shall be accomplished on his property and shall be completed within 30 days, and during such time all body and mechanical parts and tools shall be stored in a neat and orderly manner not in public view. (Ord. 244 §§ 5.24.030 – 5.24.040, 1967).

8.28.020 Methods of abatement.

Whenever any nuisance is of such a character, and is so situated that the same can be abated without the invasion or destruction of private property, and the further continuance is likely to result in expense to the city or injury to any person, it shall be the duty of the chief of police to abate and remove the same summarily without waiting for the conviction of the author thereof.

When judgment is rendered against any person, persons, firm or corporation, finding them guilty of operating, keeping or maintaining a nuisance, as provided in this chapter, it shall be the duty of the court before whom the conviction is had, in addition to imposing the penalty or penalties provided in this chapter, to order the defendant or defendants in such action to forthwith abate and remove such nuisance, and if the same is not done by such offender within 72 hours, the same shall be abated and removed at the expense of the defendant by authority of the chief of police of the city or by any other officer authorized by the order of the court, which order of abatement shall be entered upon the docket of the court and made a part of the judgment in the action. (Ord. 244 § 5.24.050, 1967).