Maintaining a Public Nuisance Ordinance

"Public nuisances; maintaining a nuisance" (Ordinance 2002-33):

whoever erects, constructs, continues, causes, suffers, permits, keep, or maintains, within the corporate limits of the town, anything or any condition whatever, which may generate or promote disease, or is a breeding ground for insects or vermin, is an attractive nuisance, or is any way injurious to the health; or whoever causes or suffers any firewood, scrap wood, limbs, branches, trash or noxious substance to be collected or remain in any place within the corporate limits of the town, to the damage, prejudice, or discomfort of others or the public or creates a breeding ground for insects or vermin shall be deemed guilty of maintaining a nuisance. In a residential district no materials including, but not limited to firewood, scrap wood, limbs, branches, compost, composters, papers, bottles, tires or similar substances, shall be stacked, piled or stored beyond the nearest portion of the building's foundation/footing to a street. In a residential district no materials including, but not limited to firewood, scrap wood, limbs, branches, compost, composters, papers, bottles, tires or similar substances, shall be stacked, piled or stored to a height greater than six (6) feet from ground level or the height of the fence along the property, whichever is lower, and all such materials must be stacked, piled or stored at least six (6) inches off the ground.