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§ 7-1 TITLE 10 — POLICE REGULATIONS § 7-3 Chapter 7 PUBLIC NUISANCES Sec. 7-1: Public Nuisance Defined Sec. 7-2: Specific Public Nuisances Sec. 7-3: Penalty Sec. 7-1. Public Nuisance Defined. A public nuisance is a thing, act, occupation or use of the property which: A. Shall annoy, injure or endanger the safety, health, comfort or repose of any considerable number of persons; B. Shall offend the public decency; C. Shall in any way render any considerable number of persons insecure in life or in use of property. Ref. Idaho Code § 52-101, 52-102 Sec. 7-2. Specific Public Nuisances. The following specific acts, omissions, places, conditions and things are hereby declared to be public nuisances: A. Accumulations of manure, animal or poultry droppings, rubbish, water or other materials which are breeding places for flies, mosquitoes or vermin, or which are otherwise declared to be unhealthy by the City. B. All loud or unusual noises and annoying vibrations which offend the peace and quiet of persons of ordinary sensibilities. C. All hanging signs, awnings and other similar structures over the streets or sidewalks so situated or constructed as to endanger public safety. D. Filthy, littered or trash covered cellars, house yards, factory yards, vacant areas in rear of stores, vacant lots, houses, buildings or premises containing trash, litter, rags, accumulation of empty barrels, boxes, crates, packing cases, lumber or firewood not neatly piled, scrap iron, tin and other metal not neatly piled or anything whatsoever in which flies or rats may breed or multiply or which may be a fire danger. E. Any building, billboard or other structure or any old, abandoned or partially destroyed building or structure or any building or structure commenced and left unfinished or any abandoned well or excavation not properly protected and which may attract children and endanger them in the course of play. F. All places used or maintained as junk yards or dumping grounds or for the wrecking or disassembling of automobiles, trucks or machinery of any kind, or for the storing or leaving of worn out, wrecked or abandoned automobiles, trucks, or machinery of any kind, or of any 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. G. Allowing dead fowl or animal bodies to remain undisposed of longer than twenty-four (24) hours following their death. Sec. 7-3. Penalty. A. Any person, who shall knowingly cause or create any public nuisance, or permit any public nuisance to be created or to be placed upon or to remain upon any premises owned or occupied by such person, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished pursuant to this Code and the Idaho Code. B. The imposition of one penalty for any violation of this Chapter shall not excuse the violation, or permit it to continue and all such persons shall be required to correct or hereby remedy such violations or defects within five days; and when not otherwise specified, each five days that prohibited conditions are maintained shall constitute a separate offense. C. Each day's or part of day's continuance of anything prohibited by this Chapter shall be a separate offense.