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Code
Enforcement-Violations Bureau
In order to
keep our city clean and protect property values, the Mayor and City
Council enacted a Violations Bureau to enforce the municipal code
regarding junk accumulation and nuisances. The Violations
Bureau responds to all citizen complaints regarding any issues that
may affect their property values or the community.
To report a potential
violation please contact City Hall at (402) 426-4191.
Below are
several sections of the Municipal Code that define these potential
violations for your reference:
Sec. 6‑333 MISDEMEANORS; JUNK ACCUMULATIONS.
It shall be unlawful for any property owner or lessee to
allow an accumulation of junk on property that is located within the
corporate limits to the extent that such accumulation is a potential
hazard to the health and safety of the residents of the
Municipality.
Junk
shall mean old scrap, copper, brass, iron, steel, rope, rags,
batteries, paper, trash, rubber debris, waste, motor vehicles or
recreational equipment of any kind including, but not limited to,
motorcycles, all terrain vehicles, automobiles, trucks, boats and
trailers which are dismantled, unlicensed or unregistered in
violation of Chapter 60, Article 3 R.R.S. Nebraska (as amended from
time to time), abandoned, inoperable, or wrecked automobiles, or
parts thereof, wood, limbs, vegetation, and other old or scrap
ferrous or nonferrous material.
The City
Administrator or the Chief of Police shall have the power to
investigate all complaints of violations of this Section and if they
find that such property owner or lessee has allowed such
accumulation, they shall cause the property owner or lessee to be
served with written notice directing them to remove the accumulation
of junk within five (5) days of the receipt of said notice.
Any
person failing to remove said accumulation within five (5) days
after receiving notice to do so, shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor and a conviction for violation of this section shall
result in a fine for the first offense in any one calendar year in
the sum of one hundred dollars ($100.00), for the second offense in
any one calendar year in the sum of one hundred fifty dollars
($150.00), and for the third and subsequent offenses in any one
calendar year in the sum of two hundred dollars ($200.00), and the
Court, as part of the judgment, shall order the owner to remove the
accumulation of junk. Each day an accumulation of junk is permitted
to exist shall be deemed a separate violation hereunder. In
addition, an authorized agent of the Municipality may cause said
junk or motor vehicles to be removed at the expense of the owner or
lessee, from the land whereon said junk or motor vehicles exist and
the cost of such removal shall be levied, equalized, and assessed as
are other special assessments. (Ord. No. 1280, 5/14/80)
Sec. 4‑502 NUISANCES; SPECIFICALLY DEFINED.
The maintaining, using, placing, depositing, leaving, or
permitting of any of the following specific acts, omissions, places,
conditions, and things are hereby declared to be nuisances:
1.
Any
odorous, putrid, unsound or unwholesome grain, meat, hides, skins,
feathers, vegetable matter, or the whole or any part of any dead
animal, fish, or fowl.
2. Privies, vaults, cesspools, dumps, pits or like places
which are not securely protected from flies or rats, or which are
foul or malodorous.
3.
Filthy,
littered or trash‑covered cellars, houseyards, barnyards,
stable‑yards, factory‑yards, mill yards, vacant areas in rear of
stores, granaries, vacant lots, houses, buildings, or premises.
4. Animal manure.
5.
Liquid
household waste, human excreta, garbage, butcher's trimmings and
offal, parts of fish or any waste vegetable or animal matter in any
quantity. Provided, nothing herein contained shall prevent the
temporary retention of waste in receptacles in a manner provided by
the Municipality.
6. Tin cans, bottles, glass, cans, ashes, small pieces of
scrap iron, wire metal articles, bric‑a‑ brac, broken stone or
cement, broken crockery, broken glass, broken plaster, and all trash
or abandoned material, unless the same be kept in covered bins or
galvanized iron receptacles.
7.
Trash,
litter, rags, accumulations of barrels, boxes, crates, packing
crates, mattresses, bedding, excelsior, packing hay, straw or other
packing material, lumber and or fire wood not neatly piled, scrap
iron, tin or other metal not neatly piled, old automobiles or parts
thereof, or any other waste materials when any of said articles or
materials create a condition in which flies or rats may breed or
multiply, or which may be a fire danger or which are so unsightly as
to depreciate property values in the vicinity thereof.
8. Any unsightly building, billboard, or other structure, or
any old, abandoned or partially destroyed building or structure or
any building or structure commenced and left unfinished, which said
buildings, billboards or other structures are either a fire hazard,
a menace to the public health or safety, or are so unsightly as to
depreciate the value of property in the vicinity thereof.
9.
All
places used or maintained as junk yards, or dumping grounds, or for
the wrecking and dissembling of automobiles, trucks, tractors, or
machinery of any kind, or for the storing or leaving of worn‑out,
wrecked or abandoned automobiles, trucks, tractors, or machinery of
any kind, or of any of the parts thereof, or for the storing or
leaving of any machinery or equipment used by contractors or
builders or by other persons, which said places are kept or
maintained so as to essentially interfere with the comfortable
enjoyment of life or property by others, or which are so unsightly
as to tend to depreciate property values in the vicinity thereof.
10.
Stagnant water permitted or maintained on any lot or piece of
ground.
11.
Stockyards, granaries, mills, pig pens, cattle pens, chicken pens or
any other place, building or enclosure, in which animals or fowls of
any kind are confined or on which are stored tankage or any other
animal or vegetable matter, or on which any animal or vegetable
matter including grain is being processed, when said places in which
said animals are confined, or said premises on which vegetable or
animal matter is located, are maintained and kept in such a manner
that foul and noxious odors are permitted to emanate therefrom, to
the annoyance of inhabitants of the Municipality, or are maintained
and kept in such a manner as to be injurious to the public health.
12.
Rock, gravel, stone, pebbles or other loose rock like material that
moves or travels from a private driveway and/or real estate and
comes to rest or is deposited on any public street or public right
of way within the City Limits.
13.
All other things specifically designated as nuisances elsewhere in
this Code. (Ref. 16-240, 18-1720 RS Neb) (Ord. No 1369, 2/24/76).
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