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Timestamp: 2019-04-23 00:14:45+00:00

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§ 223-1 Rules and regulations.
§ 223-2 Abatement of health nuisances.
§ 223-3 Deposit of deleterious substances.
§ 223-4 Public nuisances prohibited.
§ 223-5 Public nuisance defined.
§ 223-6 Public nuisances affecting health.
§ 223-7 Public nuisances offending morals and decency.
§ 223-8 Public nuisances affecting peace and safety.
§ 223-9 Abatement of public nuisances.
§ 223-10 Recovery of costs.
Property maintenance — See Ch. 246.
The Town Board, acting as Board of Health, may make reasonable and general rules for the enforcement of the provisions of this chapter and for the prevention of the creation of health nuisances and the protection of the public health and welfare and may, where appropriate, require the issuance of licenses and permits. All such regulations shall have the same effect as ordinances, and any person violating any of such regulations and any lawful order of the Board shall be subject to the general penalty provided for in Chapter 1, § 1-3 of this Code.
A health nuisance is any source of filth or cause of sickness. The Town Board shall abate health nuisances pursuant to § 254.59, Wis. Stats., which is adopted by reference and made a part of this section.
No person shall deposit or cause to be deposited in any public street or on any public ground or on any private property not his own any refuse, garbage, litter, waste material or liquid or any other objectionable material or liquid. When any such material is placed on the person's own private property, it shall be properly enclosed and covered so as to prevent the same from becoming a public nuisance.
No person shall erect, contrive, cause, continue, maintain or permit to exist any public nuisance within the Town of Cedarburg.
Breeding places for vermin. Accumulations of decayed animal or vegetable matter, trash, rubbish, rotting lumber, bedding, packing material, scrap metal or any material whatsoever in which flies, mosquitoes, disease-carrying insects, rats or other vermin may breed.
Noxious odors. Any use of property, substances or things within the Town or within four miles thereof causing any foul, offensive, noisome, nauseous, noxious or disagreeable odors, gases, effluvia or stenches extremely repulsive to the physical senses of ordinary persons which annoy, discomfort, injure or inconvenience the health of any appreciable number of persons within the Town.
Street pollution. Any use of property which shall cause any nauseous or unwholesome liquid or substance to flow into or upon any street, highway, ditch, sidewalk or public place within the Town.
The enticing, baiting or feeding of any migratory birds or fowl so as to cause them to abandon their migration habit and become semi-domestic in any area zoned residential within said Town.
The keeping or raising of doves or pigeons, except in a dove cote maintained in a clean, sanitary condition, devoid of all rodents and vermin and free from all odors. The interior walls, ceilings, floors, partitions and appurtenances of all such structures shall be whitewashed or painted annually.
Accumulations of refuse. Accumulations of old cans, lumber, elm firewood, concrete, brick and asphalt construction and paving materials, and other refuse.
Air pollution. The escape of smoke, soot, cinders, noxious acids, fumes, gases, fly ash or industrial dust within the limits or within one mile therefrom in such quantities as to endanger the health of persons of ordinary sensibilities or to threaten or cause substantial injury to property.
Editor's Note: Original § 9-3-7(m), Excess number of dogs, which immediately followed this subsection, was deleted at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II). See now Ch. 95, Animals, § 95-22, Limitation on number of dogs.
Signs, billboards and awnings. All signs and billboards, awnings and other similar structures over or near streets, sidewalks, public grounds or places frequented by the public, so situated or constructed as to endanger the public safety.
Unauthorized traffic signs. All unauthorized signs, signals, markings or devices placed or maintained upon or in view of any public highway or railway crossing which purport to be or may be mistaken as an official traffic control device, railroad sign or signal or which, because of their color, location, brilliance or manner of operation, interfere with the effectiveness of any such device, sign or signal.
Obstructions of streets; excavations. All obstructions of streets, alleys, sidewalks or crosswalks and all excavations in or under the same, except as permitted by the ordinances of the Town, or which, although made in accordance with such ordinances, are kept or maintained for an unreasonable or illegal length of time after the purpose thereof has been accomplished, or which do not conform to the permit.
Enforcement. The Town Administrator, Town Constable and the Building Inspector shall enforce those provisions of this chapter that come within the jurisdiction of their offices, and they shall make periodic inspections and inspections upon complaint to ensure that such provisions are not violated. No action shall be taken under this section to abate a public nuisance unless the officer shall have inspected or caused to be inspected the premises where the nuisance is alleged to exist and shall have satisfied himself that a nuisance does in fact exist.
Summary abatement. If the inspecting officer shall determine that a public nuisance exists within the Town and that there is great and immediate danger to the public health, safety, peace, morals or decency, the Town Chairperson, upon the recommendation of the appropriate department head, may direct the proper officer to cause the same to be abated and charge the cost thereof to the owner, occupant or person causing, permitting or maintaining the nuisance, as the case may be.
Abatement after notice. If the inspecting officer shall determine that a public nuisance exists on private premises but that the nature of such nuisance is not such as to threaten great and immediate danger to the public health, safety, peace, morals or decency, he shall serve notice on the person causing or maintaining the nuisance to remove the same within 10 days. If such nuisance is not removed within such 10 days, the proper officer shall cause the nuisance to be removed as provided in Subsection B.
In addition to any other penalty imposed by this chapter for the erection, contrivance, creation, continuance or maintenance of a public nuisance, the cost of abating a public nuisance by the Town shall be collected as a debt from the owner, occupant or person causing, permitting or maintaining the nuisance, such cost to be assessed against the real estate as a special charge.

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