§ 92.24. PUBLIC NUISANCES AFFECTING PEACE AND SAFETY.  


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  • The following are declared to be nuisances affecting public peace and safety:
    (A) All snow and ice that is not removed from public sidewalks 12 hours after the snow or other precipitation causing the condition has ceased to fall;
    (B) All trees, hedges, billboards, or other obstructions which prevent people from having a clear view of all traffic approaching an intersection;
    (C) All wires and limbs of trees that are so close to the surface of a sidewalk or street as to constitute a danger to pedestrians or vehicles;
    (D) Any person participating in any party or other gathering that causes the unreasonable disturbing of the peace, quiet, or repose of another person;
    (E) All unnecessary and annoying vibrations;
    (F) Obstructions and excavations affecting the ordinary public use of streets, alleys, sidewalks, or public grounds, except under conditions as are permitted by this chapter or other applicable law;
    (G) Radio aerials or television antennae erected or maintained in a dangerous manner;
    (H) Any use of property abutting on a public street or sidewalk or any use of a public street or sidewalk that causes large crowds or people to gather, obstructing traffic and the free use of the street or sidewalk;
    (I) All hanging signs, awnings, and other similar structures over streets and sidewalks, so situated as to endanger public safety, or not constructed and maintained as provided by ordinance;
    (J) The allowing of rainwater, ice, or snow to fall from any building or structure upon any street or sidewalk or to follow across any sidewalk;
    (K) Any barbed wire fence located less than six feet above the ground and within three feet of a public sidewalk or way;
    (L) All dangerous, unguarded machinery in any public place, or so situated or operated on private property as to attract the public;
    (M) Wastewater cast upon or permitted to flow upon streets or other public properties;
    (N) Accumulations in the open of discarded or disused machinery, household appliances, automobile bodies or other materials in a manner conducive to the harboring of rats, mice, snakes, or vermin, or the rank growth of vegetation among the items so accumulated, or in a manner creating fire, health, or other safety hazards from such accumulation;
    (O) Any well, hole, or similar excavation that is left uncovered or in such other condition as to constitute a hazard to any child or other person coming on the premises where it is located;
    (P) Obstruction to the free flow of water in a natural waterway or a public street drain, gutter, or ditch with trash or other materials;
    (Q) The placing or throwing on any street, sidewalk, or other public property of any glass, tacks, nails, bottles, or other substances that may injure any person or animal or damage any pneumatic tire when passing over such substance;
    (R) The depositing of garbage, refuse, grass clippings, or leaves on a public right-of-way or on adjacent private property;
    (S) Reflected glare or light from private exterior lighting exceeding 0.5 footcandles as measured on the property line of the property where the lighting is located when abutting any residential parcel, and one footcandle when abutting any commercial or industrial parcel;
    (T) All graffiti on buildings or property for more than 24 hours;
    (U) All buildings, walls and other structures which have been damaged by fire, decay or otherwise to an extent exceeding one-half their original value, and which are so situated as to endanger the safety of the public;
    (V) The emission of odor, smoke, or particulate matter to a degree that is detrimental to or shall endanger the health, safety, comfort, or general welfare of the public;
    (W) All explosives, inflammable liquids and other dangerous substances stored in any manner or in any amount other than that by provided by sections of this chapter;
    (X) All abandoned, derelict, and deteriorated buildings or structures with broken and unboarded windows; that are in danger of collapsing; permit entry to children, vagrants, or animals; or are in such poor state of repair that they cause a devaluation of neighboring properties;
    (Y) Any discharge across the boundaries of any lot or through percolation into the atmosphere or subsoil beyond the boundaries of a lot of any toxic or noxious matter in such concentration as to be detrimental to or endanger the public health, safety, comfort, or welfare or cause injury or damage to property or business;
    (Z) Waste material resulting from use in industrial or commercial manufacturing, fabricating, servicing, processing or trimming which is washed into the public storm sewer system or into the sanitary sewer system or disposed of in a manner which is not consistent with the policies and standards of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency;
    (AA) Any activities that emit radioactivity that do not comply with the minimum requirements of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency;
    (BB) Any electric emissions which do not comply with the minimum requirements of the Federal Communications Commission;
    (CC) The effluence from any cesspool, septic tank, drain field or human sewage disposal system discharging upon the surface of the ground, or dumping the contents thereof at any place except as authorized;
    (DD) The pollution of any public well or cistern, stream or lake, canal or body of water by sewage, industrial waste or other substances; and
    (EE) All other conditions or things that are likely to cause injury to the person or property of another.
    Penalty, see § 92.99