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<br />. <br /> <br />CHAPTER 5 <br /> <br />PUBLIC NUISANCES AND ANIMALS <br /> <br />SECTION 500 - NUISANCES <br /> <br />500.00 - PUBLIC NUISANCE DEFINED <br /> <br />Whoever by act or failure to perform a legal duty intentionally <br />does any of the following is guilty of maintaining a public <br />nuisance, which is a misdemeanor: <br /> <br />1. Maintains or permits a condition which unreasonably annoys, <br />injures or endangers the safety, health, morals, comfort or <br />repose of any considerable number of members of the public. <br /> <br />2. Interferes with, obstructs, or rendors dangerous for passage <br />any public highway or right-of-way or waters used by the public. <br /> <br />3. Is guilty of any other act or omission declared by law to be <br />a public nuisance and for which no sentence is specifically <br />provided. <br /> <br />. 4. Permits real property under his control to be used to <br />maintain a public nuisance or leases the same knowing it will be <br />so used. <br /> <br />500.02 - PUBLIC NUISANCES AFFECTING HEALTH <br /> <br />The following are declared to be nuisances affecting public <br />health: <br /> <br />1. All ponds or pools of stagnant water. <br /> <br />2. All decayed or unwholesome food offered for sale to the <br />public. <br /> <br />3. Privy vaults and garbage cans which are not fly-tight and <br />trash receptacles of insufficient size so as to not eliminate the <br />storage of trash outside ~he covered receptacle. <br /> <br />4. The effluence from any cesspool, septic tank, or sewage <br />disposal system discharging upon the surface of the ground. <br /> <br />5. Accumulations of manure, rubbish, tin cans or other debris. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />6. The pollution of any public well or cistern, stream or lake, <br />canal or body of water by sewage, industrial waste or other <br />substances. <br /> <br />5.1 <br />