Placerville Municipal Code Ch. 8 Nuisances 1

A "nuisance" is a thing, act, occupation or use of property which:

(A) Shall annoy, injure or endanger the safety, health, comfort or repose of the public.

(B) Shall unlawfully interfere with, obstruct or tend to obstruct or render dangerous for passage a public park, square, street, alley or highway.

(C) Shall offend public decency.

(D) Shall in any way render the public insecure in life or in use of property. (1962 Code)

The following are hereby declared to be nuisances affecting health:

(A) Unwholesome Food: All decayed or unwholesome food offered for sale to the public.

(B) Diseased Animals: All diseased animals running at large.

(C) Stagnant Water: All ponds or pools of stagnant water.

(D) Dead Animals: Carcasses of animals not buried or destroyed within twenty four (24) hours after death.

(E) Accumulations: Accumulations of manure or rubbish.

(F) Flytight Cans And Vaults: Privy vaults and garbage cans which are not flytight.

(G) Pollution: The pollution of any public or private well or cistern, stream, lake, canal or body of water by sewage, creamery or industrial wastes or other substances.

(H) Weeds: All noxious weeds and other rank growths upon public or private property.

(I) Contagious Diseases: All public exposure of persons having a contagious disease.

(J) Public Drinking Cup: The use of a common public drinking cup or roller towel.

(K) Medicine Samples: The distribution of samples of medicine or drugs unless such samples are placed in the hands of an adult person.

(L) Other Nuisances: All other acts, omissions of acts, occupations and uses of property which are deemed by the board of health to be a nuisance to the health of the inhabitants of this city or any considerable number thereof.

(M) Smoke And Fumes: Dense smoke, noxious fumes, gas and soot or cinders in unreasonable quantities. (1962 Code)

(N) Domestic Pet Waste: It shall be unlawful for any person owning or having control or custody of any domestic pet:

1. To permit or allow the pet to defecate upon the public property of the city or upon the private property of another person without the consent of the occupant or owner of that property unless the owner or the person having control or custody of the pet immediately removes the feces and properly disposes of it;

2. To walk a pet on public property of the city or upon the private property of a person without carrying at all times a suitable container or other suitable instrument for the removal and disposal of feces; or

3. To fail to dispose of the container of the feces in a sanitary manner.

4. Enforcement to take effect July 1995. (Ord. 1508, 5-10-1994)

The following are hereby declared to be nuisances affecting public morals and decency:

(A) All houses kept for the purpose of prostitution or promiscuous intercourse, gambling houses, houses of ill fame and bawdy houses.

(B) All domestic animals in the act of copulation exposed to public view.

(C) All places where intoxicating liquor is manufactured, sold, bartered or given away in violation of law.

(D) All indecent or obscene pictures, books, pamphlets, magazines and newspapers.

(E) Betting, bookmaking, prizefighting and all apparatus used in such occupations in violation of law. (1962 Code)

The following are declared to be nuisances affecting public peace and safety:

(A) All trees, hedges, billboards or other obstructions which prevent persons from having a clear view of traffic approaching an intersection from cross streets in sufficient time to bring a motor vehicle driven at a reasonable speed to a full stop before the intersection is reached.

(B) All limbs of trees which are less than eight feet (8') above the surface of any street or sidewalk.

(C) All wires which are strung less than fifteen feet (15') above the surface of the ground, except clotheslines.

(D) All explosives, inflammable liquids and other dangerous substances stored in any manner or in any amount in violation of any law.

(E) All use or display of fireworks in violation of law.

(F) All unnecessary noise and annoying vibrations.

(G) All buildings and alterations to buildings made or erected within the fire limits as established in this code in violation of the regulations concerning manner and materials of construction.

(H) Obstructions and excavations affecting the ordinary use by the public of streets, alleys, sidewalks or public grounds except under such conditions as are provided by law.

(I) Radio aerials strung in any manner in violation of any law.

(J) Any use of property abutting upon a public street or sidewalk or any use of a public street or sidewalk which causes large crowds of people to gather, obstructing traffic and the free use of the streets and sidewalks.

(K) All hanging signs, awnings and other similar structures over the streets or sidewalks, or situated as to endanger public safety, or constructed and maintained in violation of the provisions of this code pertaining thereto.

(L) The allowing of rainwater, ice or snow to fall from any building or structure upon any street or sidewalk or to flow across any sidewalk.

(M) All dangerous unguarded machinery in any public place or so situated or operated on private property as to attract the public.

(N) All use of stationary loudspeakers in any part of the city in such manner as to annoy any of the inhabitants of the city.

(O) All irrigation water permitted to run in the streets or alleys of the city except such as is confined in irrigation ditches or flumes.

(P) All other conditions or things which are liable to cause injury to the person or property of anyone. (1962 Code)

Any person who shall knowingly cause or create a nuisance or permit any nuisance to be created or placed upon or to remain upon any premises owned or occupied by him or them is subject to penalty section 1-4-5 of this code. (Ord. 1355, 5-8-1984)