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900 Nuisances 4 —$ 901. General Nuisances 901.01 Public Nuisance Defined. Whoever by his act or failure to perform a legal duty does any of the following is guilty of maintaining a public nuisance, which is a misdemeanor: (1) (2) Maintains or permits a condition which unreasonably annoys, injures, or endangers the safety, health, morals, comfort, or repose of any considerable number of members of the public; or Interferes with, obstructs, or renders dangerous for passage, any public highway or right-of-way, or waters used by the public; or (3) Is guilty of any other act or omission declared by law or this code to be a public nuisance and for which no sentence is specifically provided. 901.02 Public Nuisance Affecting Health. The following are hereby declared to be nuisances affecting health: (1) Exposed accumulation of decayed or unwholesome food or vegetable matter; (2) A11 diseased animals running at large; (3) Pools of stagnant water; (4) Carcasses of animals not buried or destroyed within 24 hours after death; (5) Accumulation of manure, tin cans, bottles, trash, ashes, refuse or debris of any nature or description; (6) Privy vaults and garbage cans which are not rodent -free or fly -tight or which are so maintained as to constitute a health hazard or to emit foul and disagreeable odors; (7) (8) The pollution of any public well or cistern, stream or lake, canal or body of water by sewage, industrial waste, or other substances. All noxious weeds including all weeds defined by the State Commissioner of Agriculture to be injurious to public health, roads, crops, livestock and other property; (9) Dense smoke, noxious fumes or odors, gas and soot, or cinders, in unreasonable quantities;