§ 26-93. Certain nuisances enumerated.

(a)

The following acts when committed or conditions when existing within the town are hereby defined and declared to be nuisances:

(1)

An act done or committed or aided or assisted to be done or committed by any person or any substance, being or thing kept, maintained, placed or found in or upon any public or private place, which is injurious or dangerous to the public health or safety.

(2)

All buildings, bridges or other structures of whatever character kept or maintained or which are permitted by any person owning or having control thereof to be kept or maintained in a condition unsafe, dangerous, unhealthy, injurious or annoying to the public.

(3)

All trees and other appendages of or to realty kept or maintained or which are permitted by any person owning or having control thereof to be kept or maintained in a condition unsafe, dangerous, unhealthy, injurious or annoying to the public.

(4)

All ponds or pools of stagnant water and all foul or dirty water or liquid when discharged through any drain, pipe or spout or thrown into or upon any street, public place or lot to the injury or annoyance of the public.

(5)

All obstructions caused or permitted on any street or sidewalk to the danger or annoyance of the public and all stones, rubbish, dirt, filth, slops, vegetable matter or other article thrown or placed by any person on or in any street, sidewalk or other public place, which in any way may cause any injury or annoyance to the public.

(6)

All stables; cattleyards; hog, sheep or cow pens or yards; or structures for poultry permitted by the owner thereof or the person responsible therefor to be harboring or breeding places for rodents or otherwise to be in such a condition as to become offensive, annoying or injurious to the public or to persons in the neighborhood thereof.

(7)

All houses or buildings used for special storage of powder, dynamite or other explosive substances, except those maintained pursuant to a permit issued by competent authority.

(8)

All septic tanks, privies, cesspools and privy vaults, except septic tanks under sections 74-142 through 74-144.

(b)

The nuisances described in this section shall not be construed as exclusive, and any act of commission or omission and any condition which constitutes a nuisance by statute or common law of the state, when committed, omitted or existing within the town limits, is hereby declared to constitute a nuisance.

(Code 1992, § 14-3)

State Law reference— Sewage disposal, Code of Virginia, § 32.1-163 et seq.

(Code 1992, § 14-3)

State law reference

Sewage disposal, Code of Virginia, § 32.1-163 et seq.