La Quinta Municipal Code Ch. 6.08 Nuisances

It is a nuisance, and it is unlawful, for any person or agent to allow any vacant or unoccupied building to remain open and of easy access to trespassers or to allow the same to become infested with vermin or rodents, or to become a menace to health.

(Ord. 10 § 1, 1982)

It is a nuisance, and it is unlawful, for any person to establish, conduct, maintain or operate or cause or permit to be established, conducted or operated any business, factory, yard, establishment or other place which will generate into or pollute the atmosphere with any unwholesome, offensive, or deleterious gas, fumes, dust, smoke, or odors, or to allow offensive odors to be emitted from offal, garbage or any animal or vegetable matter.

(Ord. 10 § 1, 1982)

It is a nuisance, and it is unlawful, for any person to maintain any premises upon which there is stagnant or still water or a marshy condition which harbors and breeds mosquitos or other poisonous or objectionable insects.

(Ord. 10 § 1, 1982)

It is a nuisance, and it is unlawful for any person to make, cause or suffer, or permit to be made or caused upon any premises any unnecessary noises or sounds which are physically annoying to persons of ordinary sensitiveness or which are so harsh or so prolonged or unnatural or unusual in their use, time, or place as to occasion physical discomfort.

(Ord. 10 § 1, 1982)

A. It is a nuisance and it is unlawful, for any person to be engaged or employed, or for any person to cause any other person to be engaged or employed, in any work of construction, erection, alteration, repair, addition to, or improvement to realty, except between the hours set forth as follows:

B. No person doing or causing work prohibited by subsection A of this section, after being informed orally or in writing that the work is in violation of subsection A, shall fail, refuse or neglect to cease said work.

Exceptions:

1. Emergency repair of existing installations or equipment or appliances;

2. Construction work complying with the terms of a written early work permit which may be issued by the city manager or designee, upon a showing of sufficient need due to hot or inclement weather, or the use of an unusually long process material, or other circumstances of unusual and compelling nature.

(Ord. 393 § 1, 2003; Ord. 18 § 1, 1982)

It is a nuisance and it is unlawful for any person to keep any animal, fowl, or bird, wild or domestic, except customary domestic pets, within twenty (20) feet of any building, school, church, hospital, or any residence or dwelling house or other buildings used for the habitation of human beings.

(Ord. 10 § 1, 1982)

It is a nuisance, and it is unlawful, for any person to keep or permit to be kept on any premises any wild or domestic animal, fowl, or bird, when the premises or the animal, fowl or bird is offensive, obnoxious, filthy or in any unsanitary condition.

(Ord. 10 § 1, 1982)

It is a nuisance, and it is unlawful, for the owner, possessor, or the person responsible for the death thereof, on whatever premises it may be, to fail to cause any dead animal or part thereof, within six (6) hours after the death of the animal, to be buried so that there is at least three (3) feet of soil above the carcass, or to be disposed of in some other sanitary manner; provided, however, that this section shall not apply to animals slaughtered for and fit for human food.

(Ord. 10 § 1, 1982)

It is a nuisance, and it is unlawful, for any person to permit any part of the contents of any private vault, cesspool, septic tank, water closet, urinal, pipe, sewer line, or any sewage, effluent, night soil, slop water, or any other filthy water, matter, or substance, to flow or discharge upon the ground or upon the surface of any lot or premises or in any public street or other public place.

(Ord. 10 § 1, 1982)

It is a nuisance, and it is unlawful, for any person to use, stockpile, have in possession, deliver or convey any form of animal manure at or to a point within the city unless the manure has been processed or treated so as to render it substantially free of unpleasant odor. This section shall not apply to domesticated pets' excrement nor to equestrian facilities regulated under the equestrian overlay district except where manure is spread over any area within such a facility.

(Ord. 284 § 1 (Exh. B), 1996; Ord. 10 § 1, 1982)

It is a nuisance, and it is unlawful, for any person to deposit or allow to remain on any premises, vacant lot, street, alley, or in any excavation, any offal, garbage, dead animals or any putrid, decaying or offensive animal or vegetable matter.

(Ord. 10 § 1, 1982)

It is a nuisance, and it is unlawful, for any person to permit any vehicle hauling or carrying or used for hauling or carrying any dead animal, offal, market refuse, garbage, swill, night soil, butchers' scraps, hog manure or other nauseous or offensive substances to stand or remain in or upon any public street or other public place longer than is necessary for loading and hauling such substance to its destination or to permit any such vehicle to be in a filthy or offensive condition.

(Ord. 10 § 1, 1982)

It is a nuisance, and it is unlawful, for any person to use any vehicle, tub or other receptacle for hauling any offal, hog manure, or the contents of a privy vault, cesspool or sink, or any nauseous or offensive substances, unless the vehicle, tub, or other receptacle is sufficiently strong and tight to prevent any of the contents from leaking or spilling therefrom and unless it is so tightly covered as to not attract flies, and as to prevent any nauseous odors from escaping therefrom.

(Ord. 10 § 1, 1982)