A. General: All land, whether improved or unimproved, shall be maintained free from any accumulation of garbage or a blighting influence. All land and property shall be free from accumulation of garbage or blighting influence, which includes graffiti on walls, fences or mailboxes, accumulation of litter, rubbish, refuse, waste material, vehicles, discarded appliances, discarded furniture, broken glass, piles of mixed material, dry vegetation, rags, empty barrels, boxes, crates, packing cases, mattresses, bedding, packing straw, packing hay, or other packing material, lumber not neatly piled, lumber stored in front yards, scrap iron, tin and other metal not neatly piled, or anything whatsoever in which insects may breed or multiply or which provides harborage for rodents, snakes or other harmful pests or which may otherwise create a fire hazard.
B. Weeds, Bushes, Trees And Other Vegetation: All exterior property areas shall be kept free from dry vegetation, tumbleweeds, weeds, bushes and tall grass and trees which present a visual blight upon the area, which may harbor insect or rodent infestations, or which may likely become fire hazard or otherwise threaten the health and safety or the economic welfare of adjacent property owners or occupants. The premises shall be free from visual blight, potential fire hazards, dead trees and branches, lawn grass higher than six inches (6") and tumbleweeds or weeds higher than twelve inches (12") tall.
C. Fences, Screen Walls And Retaining Walls: All fences, screen walls and retaining walls on the premises shall be safe and structurally sound, and shall be maintained so as not to constitute a blighting influence. Blighting influences include leaning fences, missing slats or blocks, painted graffiti, deterioration and rotting.
D. Exterior Insect, Rodent And Animal Control: All premises shall be kept free from insect and rodent infestation and other noxious pests. This provision shall not require action to disturb the natural or cultivated activity of bees, rabbits or other insects and animals where such activity is not a danger or nuisance to residents of the area, and where other applicable legal requirements are met. The premises shall be free from insects, rodent infestation and other noxious pests, and the accumulation of stagnant water which may become breeding areas for insects or which may be the cause of erosion of foundation walls.
E. Drainage: All premises shall be maintained so as to prevent the accumulation of stagnant water when such water causes hazardous or unhealthy condition, breeding areas for insects or erosion of foundation walls. (Ord. 333 § 1, 1990)