12.03.020 Nuisances, Specifically Defined.
The following specific acts, omissions, places and conditions are hereby declared to be nuisances:
(1) The placing, depositing, keeping, having or leaving in or upon any private lot, building, structure or premises, or in or upon any street, avenue, alley, park, parkway or other public or private place in the Town of Garfield of any one or more of the following unsanitary, fly-producing, rat-harboring, disease-causing conditions, places or things, that is to say:
(a) Any putrid, unsound or unwholesome bones, meat, hides, skins, or the whole or any part of any dead animal, fish or fowl.
(b) Privies, vaults, cesspools, dumps, pits or like places which are not securely protected from flies or rats, or which are foul or malodorous.
(c) Filthy, littered or trash-covered cellars, house-yards, barnyards, stable-yards, factory-yards, vacant areas in rear of stores, vacant lots, houses, buildings or premises.
(d) Animal manure in any quantity which is odoriferous and is not securely protected from flies and the elements, or which is kept or handled in violation of any Chapter of the Town of Garfield.
(e) Liquid household waste, human excreta, garbage, butcher’s trimmings and offal, parts of fish or any waste vegetable or animal matter in any quantity that is capable of decomposition; provided, nothing herein contained shall prevent the temporary retention of same in pest proof, fly-tight container nor the dumping of nonputrefying waste substances in place and manner approved by said Town Council.
(2) The placing, depositing, keeping, or leaving in or upon any private lot or premises, or upon any street, avenue, alley, park, parkway, drive or any private driveway used by the public or any public or private place in the Town of Garfield of any one or more of the following unsanitary, fly-producing, rat-harboring, disease-causing conditions, places or things, that is to stay;
(a) Tin cans, bottles, glass cans, small pieces of scrap iron, wire metal articles, bric-a-brac, broken stone or cement, broken crockery, broken glass, broken plaster, and all such trash or abandoned material, unless the same be kept in covered, pest-proof, fly-tight bins.
(b) Trash, litter, rags, accumulations or empty barrels, boxes, crates, packing cases , mattresses, bedding, excelsior, packing hay, straw or other packing material, lumber not neatly piled, scrap iron, tin and other metal not neatly piled, dilapidated automobiles or automobile parts, or any other whatsoever in which flies or rats may breed or multiply or which may be a fire danger.
(c) The dropping or placing on any street, alley, park or thoroughfare of any tree trimmings, leaves, grass, garden debris, dirt, rock, crushed rock, sand, gravel, bricks, ashes or any foreign substance of any kind whatsoever.
(d) All places used or maintained as a dumping grounds for the disassembling of automobiles, trucks, tractors, or machinery of any kind, or for the storing or leaving of worn out, wrecked or abandoned unlicensed automobiles, trucks, tractors, or machinery of any kind, or any parts thereof.
(e) Facilities or sites for the storage, processing and/or sale of scrap or waste materials, such as scrap materials, hides, appliance parts, and wrecked vehicles shall comply with §12.03.030 and 12.03.040, below. (Ord. 327-N, §1, 2006)