It shall be unlawful for any person to maintain or permit any nuisance within the City as defined, without limitation as follows:
(a) Filth, excrement, lumber rocks, dirt, cans, paper, trash, metal or any other offensive or disagreeable thing or substance thrown, left, or deposited upon any street, avenue, alley, sidewalk, park, public or private enclosure or premises whether vacant or occupied.
(b) All pools, spas, hot tubs and other bodies of water shall be properly maintained so as not to create a safety hazard, harbor insect infestation, become stagnant, polluted, deteriorated or blighted.
(c) Any place or structure or substance which emits or causes any offensive, putrescible, disagreeable or nauseous odors and stenches.
(d) Nauseous, putrescible, substances, carcasses of dead animals not removed within 24 hours after death.
(e) Attractive nuisances to children and other persons including, but not limited to:
(1) Abandoned, broken, or neglected household appliances, equipment and machinery. Abandoned or unattended iceboxes, refrigerators or other container (over 1.5 cubic feet in volume) that has an airtight door or lid not in actual use, unless the door or lid thereof is removed from.
(2) Unfenced or unmaintained pools, unused basements and excavations; any open cistern, cesspool, well, or other dangerous openings. All such places shall be filled, securely covered or fenced in such a manner as to prevent injury to any person, and any cover shall be of such a design, size and weight that the cover cannot be removed by children.
(f) Wastewater or sanitary sewage not managed or disposed of as provided in this Code
(g) Any fence, structure, thing or substance placed upon or being upon any street, sidewalk, alley or public ground so as to obstruct the same, except as permitted by the laws of the City.
(h) Any condition which provides harborage or breeding environments for insects, mice, snakes or other vermin.
(i) All slop, foul or dirty water, filth, refuse or offal discharged through drains or spouts or otherwise thrown or deposited in or upon any street, sidewalk, premises, park, public square, or public enclosure.
(j) Any condition which renders air, food or drink unwholesome, unsanitary or detrimental to health.
(k) Animals affected with disease or animal disease carriers, when the disease is one that may adversely affect the heath of humans or other animals, unless the animal is under the active treatment and care of a licensed veterinarian for such disease.
(l) Pollution or contamination of any water supply or water course by sewage, industrial waste, chemicals, oil, junk, debris, or any other waste or product.
(m) Create or maintain any condition that obstructs or renders dangerous the use or passage of any park, stream, water course, sidewalk, parkway, public property, alley, street, highway or easement.
(n) Oil, grease, paint, other petroleum products, hazardous materials, volatile chemicals, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides or waste (solid, liquid, or gaseous) which is determined by a Public Officer to constitute a fire or environmental hazard, or to be detrimental to human life, health or safety.
(o) Any other act, occupation, and use of property that in fact endangers or jeopardizes the public peace and safety.
(Code 2008; Ord. 3729; Code 2018)
It shall be unlawful for any person to allow to exist on any residential, commercial or industrial premises, conditions which are injurious to the health, safety or general welfare of the residents of the community or conditions which are detrimental to adjoining property, the neighborhood, or the City. This shall include conditions which are not readily visible from any public place or from any surrounding private property. A yard nuisance shall include, but not be limited to, the scattering over or the leaving, depositing, or accumulation on the yard of any of the following:
(a) Lumber, wire, metal, tires, concrete, masonry products, plastic products, supplies, equipment, machinery, auto parts, boxes, barrels, drums, packing crates or pallets, salvage materials, junk or refuse, garbage, trash, litter or other materials except building materials to be used within ninety (90) days for construction on the premises if properly authorized by a current building permit and except properly maintained compost piles as defined by this Article shall not constitute a nuisance.
(b) Indoor furniture, appliances, mattresses, bedding, stoves, refrigerators, televisions, sinks, lawn mowers, shopping carts, or other such items of person property or general household items.
(c) In residential districts a maximum of 4 cords of wood on one premises and only in rear yard and neatly stored.
(d) All trees, hedges, signs, fences or other obstructions that violate the sight triangle requirements in the City Zoning Ordinance.
(e) All limbs of trees which are less than eight (8) feet above the surface of any public sidewalk or fourteen (14) feet above the surface of any street.
(f) The placement of clothes, laundry or washed articles in any portion of the front yard.
(g) Storing piles of dirt, rock gravel, sand, concrete, and other similar materials for more than ninety (90) days unless the materials are part of a project for which a building permit has been issued or is part of a legitimate business allowed under and in compliance with the City’s zoning regulations.
(h) Property lacking appropriate landscaping, turf, or plant material so as to cause excessive dust.
(i) All grass or weeds or other unsightly vegetation including all grass and weeds that are growing in cracks and/or joints of sidewalks and in curbs and gutters on public streets and other rights-of-way not usually cultivated or grown for domestic use, public sale, or for ornamental purposes.
(j) All articles or things whatsoever caused, kept, maintained, or permitted by any person to the injury, annoyance or inconvenience of the public or of any neighborhood.
(Code 2008; Ord. 3729; Code 2018; Ord. 3856)
It shall be unlawful for any person to allow to exist on any residential, commercial or industrial premises, conditions which are injurious to the health, safety or general welfare of the residents of the community or conditions which are detrimental to adjoining property, the neighborhood or the City. This should not include conditions which are not readily visible from any public place or from any surrounding private property. Structure exterior nuisance conditions shall include, but not limited to, deteriorated, dilapidated, or unsightly:
(a) exteriors of any structure;
(b) exteriors of any accessory structure; or
(c) fences, walls, or retaining walls;
(d) refuse or personal property placed on rooftops;
(e) buildings, fences, signs, or other structures that are or have been abandoned, boarded up, partially destroyed, or permitted to remain in a state of partial construction for a period of ninety (90) days or more, (180 days for partial construction) and where continuation of the condition is unsightly or is hazardous to the public health, safety, or welfare.
(f) exterior nuisance conditions shall also include graffiti on the above listed exteriors.
(Code 2008; Ord. 3729; Code 2018)
It shall be unlawful for any owner, agent, lessee, tenant, or other person occupying or having charge or control of any premises to permit weeds or other vegetative growth to remain upon said premises or any area between the property lines of said premises and the centerline of any adjacent street or alley, including but not specifically limited to curbs, gutters, sidewalks, streets, alleyways, easements, rights-of-way and all other areas, public or private. All weeds and other vegetation allowed to grow in sidewalks and/or in curbs and gutters are hereby declared a nuisance and are subject to abatement as provided for in 8-207 of this Code.
(Code 2008; Ord. 3729; Code 2018; Ord. 3856)
(a) Nothing in this article shall affect or impair the rights of the City under the provisions of Chapter 2, Article 13 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, relating to the control and eradication of certain noxious weeds.
(b) For the purpose of this article, the term noxious weeds shall mean kudzu (Pueraria lobata), field bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis), Russian knapweed (Centaurea picris), hoary cress (Lepidium draba), Canada thistle (Cirsium arvense), quackgrass (Agropyron repens), leafy spurge (Euphorbia esula), burragweed (Franseria tomentosa and discolor), pignut (Hoffmannseggia densiflora), musk (nodding) thistle (Carduus nutans L.), Johnson grass (Sorghum halepense), Sericea Lespedeza (Lespedeza cuneata), or any other plant defined noxious weed as defined in Chapter 2, Article 13 or the Kansas Statutes Annotated.
(Code 2008; Ord. 3729; Code 2018)