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601-3 (p) Storage of firewood. It shall be unlawful to accumulate and store building material, lumber, firewood, boxes, cartons, or other containers, machinery, scrap metal, junk, raw material, fabricated goods and other items in such a manner as to become infested with rodents. Stored items must be stored on an impervious surface, such as a poured concrete slab, or must be elevated at least 8 inches above the ground. Firewood piles and other materials may only be located in the rear yards and side yards. Such wood piles and other materials may not encroach on any required rear or side yard set backs and must be a minimum of one foot from buildings used for habitation. 601.040. PUBLIC NUISANCES AFFECTING MORALS AND DECENCY. The following are hereby declared to be public nuisances affecting public morals and decency: (a) All gambling devices, slot machines and punch boards except otherwise authorized and permitted by federal, state, or local law; (b) Betting, bookmaking, and all apparatuses used in such occupations; (c) All houses kept for the purpose of prostitution or promiscuous sexual intercourse, gambling houses, houses of ill fame, and bawdy houses; (d) Any place where intoxicating liquors are manufactured, sold, bartered or given away in violation of law, or where persons are permitted to resort for the purpose of drinking intoxicating liquors as a beverage contrary to law, or where intoxicating liquors are kept for sale, barter or distribution in violation of law, and all liquors, bottles, kegs, pumps, bars and other property kept at and used for maintaining such a place; (e) Any vehicle used for the illegal transportation of intoxicating liquor or any immoral purpose; (f) All indecent or obscene pictures, books, pamphlets, magazines and newspapers and billboards; (g) The public use of profane or obscene language; (h) The looking into or peeping through doors, windows, or openings of private homes by methods of stealth and without property authority and by surreptitious methods, or what is commonly known as "window peeping"; (i) All other things, acts, omissions or occupations that may be considered detrimental to the moral well being of the inhabitants of the City or a considerable number thereof.;