Ordinances-1980-90

ORDINANCE NO. 1980-90 AN ORDINANCE PROHIBITING THE CREATION OR MAINTENANCE OF A NUISANCE AND PROVIDING A METHOD OF ENFORCEMENT AND PENALTY BE IT ENACTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF TIFFIN, IOWA: SECTION 1. Definitions. For use in this ordinance the following terms are defined: 1. The term "nuisance" shall mean whatever is injurious to health, indecent or offensive to the senses or an obstacle to the free use of property so as essentially to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property. The following are declared to be nuisances: (a) The erecting, continuing or using any building or other place for the exercise of any trade, employment or manufacturer, which by occasioning noxious exhalations, offensive smells, or other annoyances, becomes injurious and dangerous to the health, comfort or property of individuals or the public. (b) The causing or suffering any offal, filth or noisome substance to be collected or to remain in any place to the prejudice of others. (c) The corrupting or rendering unwholesome or impure the water of any river, stream or pond, or unlawfully diverting the same from its natural course or state, to the injury or prejudice of others. (d) The obstructing or encumbering by fences, buildings or otherwise the public road, private ways, streets, alleys, commons, landing places or burying grounds. (e) House of ill fame, kept for the purposes of prostitution and lewdness, gambling houses, or houses resorted to for the use of opium or hashish or houses where drunkenness, quarreling, fighting or breaches of the peace are carried on or permitted to the disturbance of others. (f) Billboards, signposts, and advertising signs, whether erected and constructed on public or private property, which so obstruct or impair the view of any portion or part of a public street, avenue, highway, boulevard or alley or of a railroad or street railway track as to render dangerous the use thereof. (g) Cotton-bearing cottonwood trees and all other cotton-bearing poplar trees in cities. (h) The depositing or storing of inflammable junk, such as old rags, rope, cordage, rubber, bones and paper, by dealers in such articles within the fire limits of any city, unless it be in a building of fireproof construction.