Alturas Municipal Code Art. I In General

Every act or thing done or being within the city, which is injurious to health or is indecent or offensive to the senses and any obstruction to the free use of property so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life and property or the unlawful obstruction of any public park, square, street, highway or sidewalk within the city is hereby declared to be a nuisance, and all remedies given by law for the prevention and abatement of nuisances shall apply thereto.

(Ord. No. 10, § 1.)

All unnecessary or offensive accumulations of rubbish or offensive refuse of any kind or character are hereby declared nuisances.

(Ord. No. 10, § 2.)

The placing, keeping or maintaining of woodpiles, or rubbish incident thereto, manure piles, ash piles, piles of lumber, stone, sand, brick, merchandise or hardware, wagons, buggies or other vehicles, wheelbarrows, hand trucks, machinery or other thing whatsoever, in or upon any public park, square, street or sidewalk within the corporate limits of the city, so as to obstruct the free passage or use thereof in the customary manner, or the maintenance or display upon Main Street, or upon the sidewalk of Main Street, of any wares or merchandise of any kind whatever, is hereby specially declared to be a nuisance, and all persons, whether owner, agent or lessee, keeping or conducting any store, stable, restaurant or other place of business within the city, and all persons, whether owner, agent or lessee, occupying any residence within the city, are hereby prohibited from placing, keeping or maintaining any woodpile or the rubbish incident thereto, or any pile of manure, ashes, lumber, stone, sand, brick, merchandise, hardware, vehicles, wheelbarrows, hand trucks, machinery or other obstruction whatever, upon any public park, square, street or sidewalk adjacent to such store, stable, restaurant or other place of business or residence, so as to obstruct the free use and passage thereof, in the customary manner, or to maintain or display upon Main Street or upon the sidewalk of Main Street any wares or merchandise of any kind or character, and all persons, whether owner, agent or lessee, keeping or conducting any store, restaurant or other place of business within the city, are hereby required to keep the public streets, alleys and sidewalks adjacent to such store, stable, restaurant, or other place of business in a neat and clean manner, free from all litter, trash, leaves, rubbish or other refuse; provided, that nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit any person from making reasonable use of any street or sidewalk adjacent to his premises, during the construction, alteration or repair of any building thereon.

(Ord. No. 125, § 1.)

The placing or dumping of any manure, dirt, trash or rubbish of any kind or character, or putting the carcass of any dead animal or the offal from any slaughterhouse, corral or butcher shop in or upon the borders of the Pit River within the city, is hereby declared to be a nuisance, and all persons, whether owner, agent or lessee, occupying any premises bordering upon the Pit River are hereby prohibited from putting or dumping any manure, dirt, trash or rubbish of any kind or character, the carcass of any dead animal or the offal from any slaughterhouse, corral or butcher shop in or upon the borders of the Pit River.

(Ord. No. 10, § 2.)