The following specific acts, omissions, places, conditions and things are declared to be nuisances: the erecting, maintaining, using, placing, causing, depositing, allowing, leaving or permitting to be or remain 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 any one or more of the following places, conditions, things, or acts to the prejudice, danger or annoyance of others:
A. Privies, vaults, cesspools, sumps, pits, or like places which are not securely protected from flies or rats, or which are foul or malodorous;
B. Property where solid waste has accumulated or is handled, stored, treated, processed or buried except for properly permitted solid waste handling sites or facilities that are operated and maintained in full compliance with the terms of any permit, license, statute, regulation or ordinance regulating such activity and solid waste securely stored in receptacles or containers designed to prevent threats to human health or safety or the environment until such solid waste enters a solid waste handling system;
C. Tin cans, bottles, glass, cans, ashes, small pieces of scrap iron, wire, metal articles, bric-a-brac, broken stone or cement; broken crockery, broken glass, broken plaster, and all other trash or abandoned material, unless the same is kept in covered bins or metal receptacles approved by the building inspector;
D. Trash, litter, rags, accumulations of 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, or anything whatsoever in which flies may breed or multiply or which provides harborage for rats or which may be a fire danger;
E. All places not properly fenced which are used or maintained as junkyards or dumping grounds, or for the wrecking, disassembling, repair, or rebuilding of automobiles, trucks, tractors, or machinery of any kind or of any of the trucks, tractors, or for the storing or leaving of any machinery parts thereof, or for the storing or leaving of any machinery or equipment used by contractors or builders or by other persons, which said places are kept or maintained so as to essentially interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property by others;
F. Any putrid, unsound or unwholesome bones, meat, hides, skins, or the whole or any part of any dead animals, fish or fowl, butcher's trimmings and offal, or any waste vegetable or animal matter in any quantity, garbage, human excreta or other offensive substance; provided, nothing herein contained shall prevent the temporary retention of waste in receptacles in the manner approved by the building inspector of the town;
G. The erection, continuance or use of any building, room or other place in the town for the exercise of any trade, employment or manufacture which, by occasioning noxious exhalations, offensive odors or other annoyances, is discomforting or offensive or detrimental to the health of individuals or of the public;
H. The playing or causing to be played in front of any building where any show, moving picture exhibition or theatrical performance is given, or in the open vestibule or area of any building, of any automatic or mechanical musical instrument for the attraction of customers;
I. Burning or disposal of refuse, sawdust or other material in such a manner to cause or permit ashes, sawdust, soot or cinders to be cast upon the streets or alleys of the town, or to cause or permit the smoke, ashes, soot or gases arising from such burning to become annoying to any considerable number of persons or to injure or endanger the health, comfort, or repose of said persons; provided, this section shall not apply where the party responsible for the action has properly obtained a fire permit from the fire department;
J. Any unguarded or abandoned excavation, pit, well, or hole dangerous to life;
K. To allow outside of any dwelling, building or other structures or within any unoccupied or abandoned building, dwelling or other structure, in a place accessible to children, any abandoned, unattended or discarded icebox, refrigerator or other container which has an airtight door or lid, snap lock or other automatic locking device which may not be released from the inside, without first removing said door or lid, snap lock or other locking device from said refrigerator, icebox or container;
L. The discharge of sewage, human excrement, or other wastes in any location or manner, except through approved means of sewage disposal which are constructed and maintained in accordance with the regulations of the Eatonville Municipal Code and/or Eatonville utilities department;
M. Any residence, business, or place where people congregate, reside or work that does not have an adequate and lawful source of potable water as required by state or local regulations;
N. Any residence, business or place where people congregate, reside or work that is not serviced by a sewage disposal system constructed and maintained in accordance with the regulations of Eatonville Municipal Code and/or the Eatonville utilities department.
(Ord. 99-14 § 1, 1999; Ord. 84-12 § 2, 1984; Ord. 2005-03(A) § 1, 2005; Ord. 2016-17 § 1, 2016; Ord. 2017-09 § 1, 2017)
