07/26/2005 Ordinances 8991
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ORDINANCE NO. 8991
An ordinance to amend Chapter 20 of the Grand Island City Code; to amend
Section 20-13.1 pertaining to the definition of nuisances; to repeal Section 20-13.1 as now
existing, and any ordinance or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith; and to provide for
publication and the effective date of this ordinance.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
GRAND ISLAND, NEBRASKA:
SECTION 1. Section 20-13.1 of the Grand Island City Code is hereby amended
to read as follows:
~20-13.1. Nuisances; Specifically Defined
The maintaining, using, placing, depositing, leaving or permitting of any of the following specific acts, omissions,
places, conditions, and things are hereby declared to be nuisances:
(A) Any odorous, putrid, unsound or unwholesome grain, meat, feathers, vegetable matter, or the whole or
any part of any dead animal, fish, or fowl.
(B) Privies, vaults, cesspools, dumps, pits or like places which are not securely protected from flies or rats,
or which are foul or malodorous.
(C) Filthy, littered or trash-covered cellars, houseyards, barnyards, stable-yards, factory-yards, mill yards,
vacant areas in rear of stores, granaries, vacant lots, houses, buildings, or premises.
(D) Stockpiling animal manure in a manner that causes an abundance of flies, malodorous conditions or
creates other health concerns, or which is kept or handled in violation of any ordinance of the City.
(E) Liquid household waste, human excreta, garbage, butcher's trimmings and offal, parts of fish or any
waste vegetable or animal matter in any quantity; provided, nothing herein contained shall prevent the
temporary retention of waste in receptacles in a manner approved by the health officer of the Central District
Health Department, nor the dumping of non-putrefying waste in a place and manner approved by the health
officer.
(F) Tin cans, bottles, glass, cans, ashes, small pieces of scrap iron, wire metal articles, bric-a-brac, broken
stone or cement, broken crockery, broken glass, broken plaster, and all trash or abandoned material, unless the
same be kept in covered bins or galvanized iron receptacles.
(G) Trash, litter, rags, accumulations of barrels, boxes, crates, packing crates, mattresses, bedding, used
furniture, used appliances, excelsior, packing hay, straw or other packing material, lumber not neatly piled,
scrap iron, tin or other metal not neatly piled, old automobiles or parts thereof, or any other waste materials
when any of said articles or materials create a condition in which flies or rats may breed or multiply, or which
may be a fire danger.
(H) Any unsightly building, billboard, or other structure, or any old, abandoned or partially destroyed
building or structure or any building or structure commenced and left unfinished, which said buildings,
billboards or other structures are either a fire hazard or a menace to the public health or safety.
(I) All places used or maintained as junk yards, or dumping grounds, or for the wrecking and dissembling
of automobiles, trucks, tractors, or machinery of any kind, or for the storing or leaving of worn-out, wrecked or
abandoned automobiles, trucks, tractors, or machinery of any kind, or of any of the parts thereof, or for the
storing or leaving of any machinery or equipment used by contractors or buildings or by other persons.
(1) Stagnant water permitted or maintained on any lot or piece of ground.
(K) All other things specifically designated as nuisances elsewhere in this Code.
Approved as to Form a
July 27, 2005 IX
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ORDINANCE NO. 8991 (Cont.)
SECTION 2. Section 20-13.1 as now existing, and any ordinances or parts of
ordinances in conflict herewith be, and hereby are, repealed.
SECTION 3. The validity of any section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase
of this ordinance shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other section, subsection,
sentence, clause, or phrase thereof.
SECTION 4. That this ordinance shall be in force and take effect from and after
its passage and publication, within fifteen days in one issue of the Grand Island Independent as
provided by law.
Enacted: July 26,2005.
Attest:
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RaNae Edwards, City Clerk
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