New Franklin Nuisances: Specific ordinance (§ 215.020)

The following shall constitute a nuisance:

1. Any building, bridge or other structure of whatever character kept or maintained or which is permitted by any person owning or having control of the same to be kept or maintained in a condition unsafe, dangerous, unhealthy, injurious or annoying to the public.

2. Any slaughterhouse, soap factory, tannery, distillery or other factory or business place permitted by the person owning or having charge of the same to be in such condition as to become offensive, annoying or injurious to the public.

3. Any pond or pool of stagnant water upon any premises and any foul or dirty water or liquid when discharged through any drain, pipe or spout or thrown into or upon any street, thoroughfare or premises to the injury and annoyance of the public.

4. Any privy or private vault kept in such a condition as to emit offensive, noxious or disagreeable odor and any substance emitting an offensive, noxious, unhealthy or disagreeable effluvium in the neighborhood where it exists. Any carcass of a dead animal which the owner or keeper thereof permits to remain within the limits of this City exceeding twelve (12) hours after death. Any animal or vegetable matter upon any premises liable to become putrid, offensive or unhealthy.

5. Any obstruction caused or permitted on any street or sidewalk to the danger or annoyance of the public and any stones, dirt, garbage, filth, slops, vegetable matter or other articles thrown or placed by any person on or in any street, alley, sidewalk or other public place or on any premises or any stream of water within the City which in any way may cause or is liable to cause any injury or annoyance to the public.

6. Any sidewalk, gutter or curbstone permitted to remain in an unsafe condition or out of repair by any person required by this Code to keep the same in good condition and repair.

7. Any stable, cattle yard, hog, sheep or cow pen, poultry yard or coop permitted by the person owning or controlling the same to be in such condition as to become offensive, annoying or injurious to the public.

8. Any cellar, vault, private drain, pool, privy, sewer or sink upon any premises permitted to become nauseous, foul, offensive or injurious to the public health.

9. Any well or cistern on any property whenever a chemical analysis shows that the water of said well or cistern is of an impure or unwholesome nature.

10. Every tenement, boarding house, lodging house or any building used for such purposes, or any part thereof, which is leased, let or rented to be occupied by any person to dwell or lodge and which tenement house, boarding house, lodging house or building or any part thereof is not sufficiently lighted or ventilated or provided with water and kept in a clean and sanitary condition or in which or any part thereof the strength, ventilation, light or sewerage is dangerous, insufficient or prejudicial to life or health or which shall not be provided with adequate and properly constructed privies and water closets.

11. Any house or building used for the special or exclusive storage of powder, dynamite, nitro glycerin or other explosives or any house, building or store wherein small quantities of such explosives are kept, exposed or insecure or in any manner so as to endanger human life.

12. Every act or thing done or made, permitted, allowed or continued on any property, public or private, by any person or corporation, their agents or servants to the damage or injury of any of the inhabitants of this City and not hereinbefore specified.