Agenda - Council Work Session - 05/03/2011

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(Code 1978, § 5.08.04; Ord. No. 04 -34, 9 -27 -2004; Ord. No. 07 -14, §§ 2, 3, 9 -11 -2007; Ord. No. 07 -21, § 2, 10- 23- 2007) Sec. 30 -4. - Nuisances affecting public safety. The following are declared to be nuisances affecting public safety: (1) All snow and ice not removed from public sidewalks 12 hours after snow or other precipitation causing the condition has ceased to fall; (2) All trees, hedges, billboards or other obstructions that prevent persons from having a clear view of all traffic approaching an intersection; (3) All wires and limbs of trees which are so close to the surface of a sidewalk or street as to constitute a danger to pedestrians or vehicles; (4) Obstructions and excavations affecting the ordinary use by the public of streets, alleys, sidewalks, or public grounds except under such conditions as are permitted by this Code or other applicable law; (5) Radio aerials or television antennas erected or maintained in a dangerous manner; (6) 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 uses of the streets or sidewalks; (7) All hanging signs, awnings, and other similar structures over streets and sidewalks, or so situated so as to endanger public safety, or not constructed and maintained as provided by code; (8) 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; (9) Any barbed -wire fence less than six feet above the ground and within three feet of a public sidewalk or way unless a permit is granted by the city; (10) All dangerous, unguarded machinery in any public place, or so situated or operated on private property as to attract the public; (11) Wastewater cast or permitted to flow, upon streets or other public property; (12) Any well, hole or similar excavation which is left uncovered or in such other condition as to constitute a hazard to any child coming on the premises where it is located; (13) Obstruction to the free flow of water in a natural waterway or a public street drain, gutter, or ditch with trash or other materials; (14) 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; (15) The depositing of garbage or refuse on a public right -of -way or adjacent private property. (Code 1978, § 5.08.06; Ord. No. 04 -34, § 9 -27 -2004)