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600.00 <br /> CHAPTER VI <br /> NUISANCES, ANIMALS AND REFUSE <br /> Section 600 - Nuisances <br /> J <br /> 600.00. Public Nuisance Defined. Whoever by his act or failure to perform a legal duty <br /> intentionally does any of the following is guilty of maintaining a public nuisance, which is a <br /> misdemeanor: <br /> 1. Maintains or permits a condition which unreasonably annoys, injures or endangers the <br /> safety, health, morals, comfort or repose of any considerable number of members of the public; <br /> or <br /> 2. Interferes with, obstructs or renders dangerous for passage, any public highway or <br /> right-of-way, or waters used by the public; or <br /> 3. Is guilty of any other act or omission declared by law to be a public nuisance and for <br /> which no sentence is specifically provided; or <br /> 4. Permits real property under his control tobe used to maintain a public nuisance or lets <br /> the same knowing it will be so used; or <br /> 5. Anything left or displayed for sale on public or private property without written <br /> permission of the owner or person in control of the property conspicuously displayed on the item <br /> left for sale may be tagged and/or towed at the owner's expense or its owner tagged. (adopted <br /> 8/1/83) <br /> 600.05. Public Nuisances Affecting Health. The following are declared to be nuisances <br /> affecting public health: <br /> 1. All ponds or pools of stagnant water. <br /> 2. All decayed or unwholesome food offered for sale to the public. <br /> 3. Privy vaults and garbage cans which are not fly-tight. <br /> 4. The effluence from any cesspool, septic tank, drain field or sewage disposal system <br /> discharging upon the surface of the ground. <br /> 5. Accumulations of manure, rubbish, tin cans or other debris. <br /> - 129 - <br />