City Council Ordinance 109ORDINANCE AMENDMENT 4� 1 ()C(
The City Council
hereby ordains that Ordinance Section 7-1-1 pertaining to
Public Nuisances
be amended as follows:
ADD: 7-1-1 (D) -
In any area, within 100 feet of the nearest building, the
existence of weeds or grass in excess of six (6) inches in
height or any accumulation of dead weeds, grass or brush.
7-1-1 (E) -
In any area, on an occupied lot, the existence of weeds or
grass in excess of six (6) inches in height or any accumu-
lation of dead weeds, grass, or brush.
Amend: 7-1-1 (H) -
The owners and occupants of lands shall remove such substances
described in subsection (A) , (C) , (D) and (E) from such land,
or eliminate the nuisance existing on such land or in default
of removal therefrom within thirty (30) days of a written
notice from the Zoning Administration or other authorized
representative of the Council. The Zoning Administrator may
order the removal at the expense of the owner or occupant,
which expense shall become a lien upon the property to be
collected as a special assessment. In lieu of such elimina-
tion, the Council may require the removal by appropriate court
order or by criminal prosecution or by both.
Previous section numbers 7-1-1 (D), 7-1-1 (E), and 7-1-1 (F) have been changed
to 7-1-1 (F) , 7-1-1 (G) , and 7-1-1 (H) , respectively.
ATTEST:
G y [�Tieb , City Administrator
Passed by the City Council this 23rd
day of November, 1981.
Arve A. Grimsmo, Mayor
Ordinance Amendment 11/23/81 #109
The City Council of Monticello hereby ordains that the following ordinance on
Public Nuisances be amended as follows:
7-1-1 7-1-1
CHAPTER 1
PUBLIC NUISANCES 1
SECTION:
7-1-1: Activities, Business Prohibited
7-1-2: Exceptions
7-1-1: ACTIVITIES, BUSINESSES PROHIBITED: Subsequent to the enactment
hereof, the following acts, conditions, activities, business or
businesses are hereby prohibited except as hereinafter permitted:
(A) No unwholesome substance, garbage, refuse, offal, or similar substances
shall be brought, deposited, left, dumped or allowed to accumulate within
the City. For purposes of this Section of the City Ordinances entitled
"Public Nuisances", refuse shall include but not be limited to the following
or similar items stored or parked outside: Passenger automobiles, station
wagons, trucks and other vehicles not currently licensed (if applicable) by
the State which are because of mechanical deficiency incapable of movement
under their own power; household appliances such as but not limited to wash-
ing machines, dryers, refrigerators, stoves, freezers, television and radio
sets, phonographs, and similar items, vehicle parts, old machinery, machinery
parts, tires, tin cans, bottles, building materials (unless current building
permit for their use is in force) , wood (unless used for fire wood and neatly
stacked), metal or any other material or cast off material, and similar items.
(1-12-76 #5)
(B) A public nuisance is a crime against the order and economy of the State
and consists in unlawfully doing an act or ommiting to perform a duty which
an act or omission shall:
1. Annoy, injure or endanger the safety, health, comfort, or repose of any
considerable number of persons.
2. Offend public decency.
3. Unlawfully interfere with, obstruct or tend to obstruct or render danger-
ous for passage, a lake, navigable river, bay, stream canal or basin or a
public park, square, street, alley or highway or
4. In any way render a considerable number of persons insecure in life or
the use of property, and as such nuisances are hereby prohibited.
(C) In any area the existence of any noxious or poisonous vegetation such
as poison ragweed, or other poisonous plants, or any weed, grass, brush or
plants which are a fire hazard or otherwise detrimental to the health or
appearance of the neighborhood.
(D) In any area, within 100 feet of the nearest building, the existence of
weeds or grass in excess of six (6) inches in height or any accumulation of
dead weeds, grass or brush.
7-1-1 7-1-2
(E) In any area, on an occupied lot, the existence of weeds or grass in
excess of six (6) inches in height or any accumulation of dead weeds,
grass, or brush.
(F) No person shall hereafter engage within the City in any trade or em-
ployment which is hurtful to the inhabitants or dangerous to the public
health, or injurious to neighboring property, or from which obnoxious odors
arise, or undue noise eminates, and specifically no person shall operate a
dump or garbage dumping area or rendering plant or trailer court except
such specific activity be authorized by the issuance of a permit as herein-
after provided.
(G) It is unlawful for any person to cause or permit garbage, tin cans or
refuse to be thrown or scattered upon any street, alley, highway, parkway
or boulevard or real estate.
(H) The owners and occupants of lands shall remove such substances des-
cribed in subsection (A) , (C) , (D) and (E) from such land, or eliminate
the nuisance existing on such land or in default of removal therefrom with-
in thirty (30) days of a written notice from the Zoning Administrator or
other authorized representative of the Council. The Zoning Administrator
may order the removal at the expense of the owner or occupant, which expense
shall become a lien upon the property to be collected as a special assess-
ment. In lieu of such elimination, the Council may require the removal by
appropriate court order or by criminal prosecution or by both.
7-1-2: EXCEPTIONS: The provisions of this Chapter do not apply to the
hauling or accumulation or spreading of manure for the purposes
of agriculture, nor to the natural and usual accumulation of rubbish from
one residence on the owner's own premises, provided the public health is
not adversely affected thereby.
Passed by the,City Council this 23rd day
of Nov , 1981.
Arve A. Grimsmo, Mayor
ATTE
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4Wieer,,, City Administrator