It is declared to be a nuisance and to be against the health, peace and comfort of the city, for any person, firm or corporation within the limits of the city to permit the following; but the enumeration of the following nuisances shall not be deemed to be exclusive:

    1.    Filth. To cause or suffer the carcass of any animal or any offal, filth or noisome substance to be collected, deposited or to remain in any place, to the prejudice of others;

    2.    Deposit of Offensive Materials. To throw or deposit any offal or other offensive matter, or the carcass of any dead animal in any water course, lake, pond, spring, well or common sewer, street or public highway;

    3.    Corruption of Water. To corrupt or render unwholesome or impure, the water of any spring, river, stream, pond or lake to the injury or prejudice of others;

    4.    Highway Encroachment. To obstruct or encroach upon public highways, private ways, streets, alleys, commons, landing places, and ways to burying places;

    5.    Manufacturing Gunpowder. To carry on the business of manufacturing gunpowder, nitroglycerine, or other highly explosive substances, or mixing or grinding the materials therefore in any building within five hundred (500) feet of any valuable building erected at the time such business may be commenced;

    6.    Powder Magazines. To establish powder magazines near incorporated towns at a point different from that appointed according to law by the corporate authorities of the town, or within one thousand (1,000) feet of any occupied dwelling house;

    7.    Noxious Odors. To erect, continue or use any building or other place for the exercise of any trade, employment or manufacture, which, by occasioning noxious exhalations, offensive smells or otherwise, is offensive or dangerous to the health of individuals or of the public;

    8.    Unlawful Advertising. To advertise wares or occupations by painting notices of the same on, or affixing them to fences or other private property, or on rocks or other natural objects without the consent of the owner, or if in the highway, or other public place, without permission of the proper authorities;

    9.    Wells Unplugged. To permit any well drilled for oil, gas, salt water disposal or any other purpose in connection with the production of oil and gas, to remain unplugged after such well is no longer used for the purpose for which it was drilled;

    10.    Burn-Out Pits. To construct or operate any salt water pit or oil field refuse pit, commonly called a "burn-out pit," so that salt water, brine or oil field refuse or other waste liquids may escape therefrom in any manner except by the evaporation of such salt water or brine or by the burning of such oil field waste or refuse;

    11.    Discarded Materials. To permit concrete bases, discarded machinery and materials to remain around any oil or gas well, or to fail to fill any holes, cellars, slush pits and other excavations made in connection with any such well or to restore the surface of the lands surrounding any such well to its condition before the drilling of any such well, upon abandonment of any such oil or gas well;

    12.    Underground Wells. To permit any salt water, oil, gas or other wastes from any well drilled for oil, gas or exploratory purposes to escape to the surface, or into a mine or coal seam, or into any underground fresh water supply or from one underground stratum to another;

    13.    Harassment. To harass, intimidate or threaten any person who is about to sell or lease or has sold or leased a residence or other real property, or is about to buy or lease or has bought or leased a residence or other real property, when the harassment, intimidation or threat relates to a person’ s attempt to sell, buy or lease a residence, or other real property, or refers to a person’ s sale, purchase or lease of a residence or other real property;

    14.    Business. To establish, maintain and carry on any offensive or unwholesome business within the city limits or within one mile of the limits;

    15.    Filthy Premise Conditions. To keep or suffer to be kept in a foul, offensive, nauseous or filthy condition, any chicken coop, cow barn, stable, cellar, vault, drain, privy, sewer or sink upon any premises belonging to or occupied by him, or any railroad car, building, yard, grounds and premises belonging to or occupied by him;

    16.    Expectorate. To expectorate on any public sidewalk, street, or other public building or floor or walk of any public vehicle or hall;

    17.    Animals Prohibited. To own or possess any swine, goats, horses, or fowl or cattle within the city, unless permitted in a zoned district;

    18.    Litter on City Streets. It is unlawful for any person to deposit or allow trash, paper, cardboard, wire, dirt, rock, stone, glass, brick, lumber, wood or litter of material objects of any size or description to fall upon city streets from any moving vehicle, or to be thrown from a moving vehicle, or to throw from a moving vehicle and to remain thereon;

    19.    Slaughtering, Slaughterhouses, Etc. To slaughter or kill any animals within the city, or to locate or maintain at any place within the city, or within a radius of one mile without the city, any slaughterhouse, packing house, rendering establishment or bone factory, or to suffer or permit any premises at any place within the limits aforesaid used for any of the purposes aforesaid to become foul or offensive;

    20.    Accumulations of Junk, Trash. To deposit or pile up any rags, old rope, paper, iron, brass, copper, tin, aluminum, ashes, garbage, refuse, plastic, brush, litter, weeds, slush, lead, glass bottles or broken glass upon any lot, piece or parcel of land or upon any public or private alley, street or public way within the city;

    21.    Rodents. To cause or permit any condition or situation to exist that shall attract, harbor or encourage the infestation of rodents;

    22.    Bringing Nuisances into the City. To bring into the city, or keep therein for sale or otherwise, either for food or for any other purpose, any dead or live animal or any matter, substance, or thing which shall be a nuisance or which shall occasion a nuisance in the city, or which may or shall be dangerous or detrimental to health;

    23.    Offensive Liquids. To keep any nauseous, foul or putrid liquid or substance or any liquid or substance likely to become nauseous, foul, offensive or putrid, nor permit any such liquid to be discharged, placed, thrown or to flow from or out of any premise into or upon any adjacent premises or any public street or alley, nor permit the same to be done by any person connected with the premises;

    24.    General. To commit any offense which is a nuisance according to the common law of the land or made such by statute of the state;

    25.    On Premises Parking. Except on and adjoining the city streets and public ways exempt from the application of this chapter, which are described in the following paragraph of this subsection, it shall be a parking violation to park any vehicle, boat or trailer on the unpaved portion or part of any front yard of any developed or improved lot or parcel of real estate located within the corporate limits of the city or upon undeveloped and unimproved subdivision lots or real estate parcels located within the city limits of the city or upon any public sidewalk or portion thereof or upon any portion of the area between any public sidewalk and the curb of any street, commonly known as a parkway.

    This subsection pertaining to on premises parking shall not apply to the parking of vehicles on the portion of front yards located nearest to the front lot line and adjoining streets in the city which do not have curbing, on which lots it shall not be an offense to park vehicles on front yards at the location aforesaid. (Amended during 1997 codification; Ord. 1518 § 1, 1996; prior code § 25-1-1)

    26.    Dogs or Cats Running At Large.  It is unlawful for any person owning or having control of any dog or cat to knowingly or  negligently permit or allow a dog or cat to go upon any premises other than the premises of the owner or the person in control of such animal.  Such conduct on the part of the owner or person in control of any dog or cat is declared a nuisance.  A "dog" means all members of the classification canis familiaris.  "Cat" means all members of the classification felis catus.  Feral or wild dogs or cats roaming at large in the City are declared a nuisance.  Any person feeding or housing feral dogs or cats shall be deemed guilty of a nuisance violation in the City.  Any dog or cat shall be deemed to be at large when it is off of the property of its owner, possessor or keeper and not under the control of a competent person under a leash, cord, chain or otherwise.  A dog or cat is deemed under restraint within the property limits of its owner, possessor or keeper.  Every dog or cat running at large within the City shall be subject to impoundment by the County Animal Control Officer of the county where the animal is found running at large.