[CC 1985 §74.010]
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The following are hereby declared nuisances:
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Any act done or committed or suffered to be done or committed by any person, or any substance or thing kept, maintained, placed or found in or upon any public or private place within this City which is injurious, dangerous, annoying, unsafe or offensive to the public.
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Any pursuit followed or act done or omission failed to be done by any person which is injurious, dangerous, annoying, unsafe or offensive to the public.
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Any building, bridge or other structure which is unsafe, dangerous, injurious, unhealthy, offensive or annoying to the public.
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Any slaughterhouse, stockyard or stable, cattle yard, hog, sheep or cow pen which is offensive, injurious, obnoxious, unsafe or annoying to the public.
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Any pond or pool of stagnant water or any foul or dirty water or liquid discharged through any drain pipe or spout or thrown into or upon the street, alley, thoroughfare or lot which is injurious, dangerous, offensive, unhealthy or unsafe to the public.
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Any obstruction caused or permitted on any street, sidewalk, public or private alley which is injurious, dangerous, offensive, inconvenient, unsafe or unhealthy to the public.
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Any stone, dirt, filth, slops, vegetable matter, animal matter or other articles thrown or placed in or upon any street, alley, sidewalk or other public place which is injurious, dangerous, obnoxious, unsafe or offensive to the public.
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The placing or storage of any green or salted hides which cause an odor which is injurious, dangerous, obnoxious, offensive, unhealthy or unsafe to the public.
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Any animal or vegetable matter, or other substance liable to become putrid, offensive or unhealthy, which is injurious, dangerous, unhealthy, unsafe and offensive to the public.
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Any cellar, vault, private drain, pool, privy, sewer or sink, or container which may be sufficiently tightly closed to cause suffocation which is injurious, dangerous, unsafe or offensive to the public health.
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Any tenement, boarding house or lodging house in the City leased, let, rented or occupied by any person for dwelling which is not sufficiently lighted, ventilated, heated, or provided with water, or kept in a clean and sanitary condition which is dangerous, injurious, obnoxious, offensive or unsafe to the public.
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Any house or building or tank within the City used for the special or exclusive storage of powders or dynamite with a glycerine, coal oil or other explosive substance detrimental to the public health or endangering human life, or any house, building or store wherein small quantities of such explosives are kept, exposed or insecure or kept is any manner so as to endanger the public.
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Any radio, television set or musical instrument or device operated in such manner or at such hours which are injurious, inconvenient, obnoxious, offensive or annoying to the public or persons living or doing business nearby.
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Any and all infestations of flies, fleas, roaches, lice, ticks, rats, mice, fly maggots, mosquito larvae and hookworm larvae.
[CC 1985 §74.020]
It is unlawful for any owner, lessee or occupant or any agent, servant, representative or employee of any such owner, lessee or occupant having control of any occupied lot or land or any part thereof in the City or within one-half (½) mile of the corporate limits of the City to permit or maintain a nuisance as defined in Section 220.010 on any such lot or land.
[CC 1985 §74.030]
In cases where it reasonably appears that there is an immediate danger to the health, safety or welfare of the public due to the existence of a nuisance, the Mayor and Board of Aldermen shall have the authority to order the Chief of Police or Health Officer or other City Officer to immediately abate the nuisance in an appropriate manner.
[CC 1985 §74.040]
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Whenever the Board of Aldermen receives notification that a nuisance may exist, it shall proceed as follows:
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It shall investigate the same. The Board may order any person who has caused or is maintaining the nuisance to appear before the Board at such time and place as the Board may direct to show cause, if a cause exists why that person should not abate the nuisance. Every person required to appear before the Board shall have at least ten (10) days' notice thereof.
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Such notice shall be signed by the Health Officer, Chief of Police or Mayor and shall be served upon that person by delivering a copy thereof to the person, or by leaving a copy at his/her residence with some member of the family or household over fifteen (15) years of age, or upon any corporation by delivering the copy thereof to the President or to any other officer at any business office of the corporation within the City. If the notice cannot be given for the reason that the person named in the notice or his/her agent cannot be found in the City, of which fact the return upon such notice of the officer serving same shall be conclusive evidence, such notice shall be published in a daily newspaper for three (3) consecutive days, if a daily, or for one (1) if a weekly paper, giving at least ten (10) days' notice from the final publication date of the time fixed for the parties to appear before the Board.
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If after hearing all the evidence the Board of Aldermen determines that a nuisance exists, it may direct the Health Officer or Chief of Police or other City Official to order the person to abate the nuisance within twenty (20) days or within such other time as the Board may deem reasonable. Such order shall be served in the manner provided in this Section for service of the order to show cause. The order may further provide that the appropriate City Official be directed to abate the nuisance if the order is not obeyed within the time period set by the Board, and that a special tax bill be issued for the costs of abating the nuisance.
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If the order has not been obeyed within the time period set by the Board, the appropriate City Official shall proceed to abate the nuisance in the manner provided by the order of the Board, and the cost of same, if ordered by the Board, may be assessed as a special tax against the property so improved or upon which such work was done; and, if so ordered, the City Clerk shall cause a special tax bill therefor against the owner thereof when known, and if not known then against the unknown persons, and the certified bills of such assessment shall describe therein the property upon which the work was done.
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The bills for the above work shall be recorded and shall be collected by the City Collector and shall be a tax lien on the property.
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The cost of abating nuisances on private property shall be levied and assessed on each lot in proportion to the amount of work done and material used in abating the nuisance located on each such lot.