Agenda - Council Work Session - 05/03/2011

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reference pressure. The reference pressure shall be 20 micronewtons per square meter. Track or trail means a course built or created by a repetitive or continued use of a motor vehicle. (Code 1978, § 5.08.02; Ord. No. 07 -14, § 3, 9 -11 -2007; Ord. No. 08 -20, § 2, 7 -22 -2008) Sec. 30 -2. - Purpose. The purpose of this chapter is to take all reasonable measures within the city's jurisdiction to prevent the establishment of activities that maintain or permit a condition which unreasonably annoys, injures or endangers the health, morals, decency, safety, or public peace so that such activities do not affect the comfortable enjoyment of life or property. (Code 1978, § 5.08.01; Ord. No. 07 -14, § 3, 9 -11 -2007) Sec. 30 -3. - Property conditions constituting a public nuisance. The following are declared to be nuisances affecting public peace, health, welfare, and/or safety of the community: (1) Exposed accumulation of decayed or unwholesome food or vegetable matter. (2) All diseased animals running at large. (3) Carcasses of animals not buried at least three feet deep or destroyed within 24 hours after death. (4) Accumulations of manure, refuse or other debris, except that any manure maintained in conformance with chapter 10 shall not be declared a public nuisance. (5) Privy vaults and garbage cans which are not rodent -free or flytight or which are so maintained as to constitute a health hazard or to emit foul and disagreeable odors. (6) The storage or accumulation of waste, refuse, or garbage that is not contained in a closed container designed or reasonably adapted for such purpose, except for 30 days preceding pick -up by a hauler. This includes any accumulation of appliances, plumbing fixtures, furniture, equipment, remnants of wood (decayed or weathered) unused construction materials, stockpiles of rocks or dirt, or any items that could not be put to use in the manner that they are intended. (7) The depositing of garbage or refuse on a public right -of -way or adjacent private property. (8) The placing or throwing on any street, sidewalk or other public property of any glass, tacks, nails, bottles or other substance which may injure any person or animal or damage any pneumatic tire when passing over such surface. (9) The pollution of any public well or cistern, stream or lake, canal or body of water by sewage, industrial waste, or other substances. (10) All grass, weeds, or noxious growths of vegetation upon public or private property exceeding one foot in height, or whatever height specified in the appropriate zoning district, excluding acceptable prairie restoration plant materials. (11) Dense smoke, noxious fumes, gas and soot, or cinders in unreasonable quantities. (12) Snow, ice, or other precipitation not removed from sidewalks or the allowing of rain water, ice, or snow to fall from any building or structure upon any street or sidewalk or to flow across any sidewalk.