§ 14-47. Objectionable or unsightly matter and dumping declared public nuisances.  


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  • (a)

    It shall be unlawful and declared a nuisance for any person owning, claiming, occupying, or having supervision or control of any real property, occupied or unoccupied, within the corporate limits of the city or its extraterritorial jurisdiction to permit or allow any refuse, rubbish, trash, debris, filth, carrion, junk, garbage, impure or unwholesome matter of any kind, or other objectionable or unsightly matter of whatever kind to remain upon any such real property, or within any public easement on or across such real property, or upon any adjacent public street or alley right-of-way between the property line of such real property and where the paved surface of the street or alley begins, or that is visible from another's property.

    (b)

    It shall be unlawful and declared a nuisance for any person, entity, or an agent or employee for a person or entity to cast, throw, drop, place, sweep, deposit, accumulate, or spill refuse, rubbish, trash, debris, filth, carrion, junk, garbage, impure or unwholesome matter of any kind, or other objectionable or unsightly matter of whatever kind in or upon any street, sidewalk, park, canal, stream, drain, sewer receiving basin, or any other public or private property within the city or its extraterritorial jurisdiction, except as provided in this chapter.

(Ord. No. 2010-11-04-0955, § 1(Att. I), 11-4-10)