CITY OF COON RAPIDS, MINNESOTA
CHAPTER 8-100
NUISANCES

8-101 Public Nuisance. Whoever, by his act or failure to perform a legal duty, intentionally does any of the following is guilty of maintaining a public nuisance and may be ordered to abate the nuisance as provided in Chapter 8-1100, charged with a misdemeanor, or both:

(1) Maintains or permits a condition which unreasonably annoys, injures, or endangers the safety, health, morals, comfort, or repose of any considerable number of members of the public.
(2) Interferes with, obstructs, or renders dangerous for passage any public highway or right-of-way, or waters used by the public.
(3) Willfully opposes or obstructs a health officer or physician charged with the enforcement of the health laws in performing any legal duties.
(4) Is guilty of any other act or omission declared by law to be a public nuisance and for which no sentence is specifically provided.

8-102 Permitting Public Nuisance. No person shall permit real property under his control to be used to maintain a public nuisance or let the same knowing it will be so sold.

8-103 Permitting Unhealthful Waste Disposal Systems. No person shall permit, maintain, or suffer to be or remain, offensive, nauseous, hurtful, dangerous, unhealthful, or uncomfortable to or for the neighborhood, any outhouse, privy, vault, sewer, or private drain upon his premises or land, or premises or land occupied or used by or under his control.

8-104 Permitting Unhealthful Conditions. No person shall permit, suffer, or maintain or fail to remove any offensive, nauseous, hurtful, dangerous, or unhealthful condition to or for the neighborhood resulting from the failure to properly dispose of sick or unsound flesh, meat, fish, carcass, or garbage, sewage, waste, debris, or any other unwholesome or offensive substance, liquid, or thing whatsoever upon his premises or land, or premises or land occupied or used by or under his control, or drop, discharge, pass, deposit, or otherwise deliver the same upon any ground, private or public.

8-105 Fertilizer and Burial of Waste. No person shall leave, deposit, or cause to be placed on any private ground any garbage, sewage, waste, debris, carcass, or other substance or matter which is offensive or unhealthy by decomposition unless the same be buried at least three (3) feet under the surface of the ground; provided, that the use of manure in the normal course for agriculture or horticulture is permitted.

8-106 Slaughterhouses. No person shall keep or use any slaughterhouse, nor slay, kill, or butcher any animal, except for their own home use, nor melt or fry out any rough tallow, nor keep or have any stale, putrid, or stinking fat, grease or meat. No person shall keep within said City any undressed or dry hides, or offensive, nauseous substance or liquid at any place from whence the stench thereof may reach the street, avenue, alley, lane, or public land, or to any dwelling, and no owner or occupant of any grocery, cellar, tallow, packing house, meat shop, soap factory, tannery, brewery, distillery and dye house, stable, or other place of business shall suffer or permit any litter or garbage to be thereon, or swept therefrom upon any street, avenue, lane, or alley, nor suffer or permit any foul, unclean, nauseous, or offensive liquid or substance to pass therefrom, or from any premises under their control adjacent thereto, into, over, or upon any street, avenue, lane, or alley, or open drain, gutter or sewer, or over or upon any private grounds or any other person.

8-107 Septic Tanks. No person shall cause, permit, or maintain any abandoned cesspool or septic tank without it being properly filled.

8-108 Refrigerators. No person being the owner or in possession or control, shall permit an unused refrigerator or other container sufficiently large to retain any child and with doors which fasten automatically when closed, to be exposed and accessible to children, without removing the doors, lids, hinges, or latches.

8-109 Junk Cars and Building Materials. No person shall cause, permit, or maintain any junk cars, any debris, or any building materials except where such business is being pursued in accordance with the zoning code and unless such building material is being used at the time in the construction of a building, in which case such construction must be on a continuous, uninterrupted basis. “Junk car” is defined as a vehicle which is not currently licensed by the State and is not in an operable condition.

8-110 Unlawful Occupations or Hobbies. No person shall exercise, carry on, follow or engage in or work at any business, hobby, trade, or calling or occupation which shall be dangerous, hurtful, unwholesome, offensive, or unhealthy to the neighborhood.

8-111 Deposit of Materials on City Streets Prohibited. No person shall deposit or permit to be deposited on any public street in this City, leaves, grass, sand or similar materials, nor shall any person plow, shovel or blow or permit the plowing, shoveling or blowing of snow onto a public street in the City. Violation of this provision shall constitute a petty misdemeanor. This provision shall not apply to any person who is in the process of constructing or maintaining a yard or drive provided that the materials are immediately removed from the street.