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ORDINANCE NO. 175
AN ORDINANCE SPECIFICALLY DEFINING A PUBLIC NUISANCE AND PROVIDING PENALTIES
FOR THE CREATION CR MAINTENANCE OF A PUBLIC NUISANCE.
BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of College Station, Texas:
Section 1. Public Nuisance Defined.
A public nuisance is a thing, act, failure to act, occupation, or use of
the property which:
1. Shall annoy, injure, or endanger the safety, health, comfort, or
repose of any considerable number of persons;
2. Shall offend the public decency;
3. Shall in any way render any considerable number of persons
insecure in life or in use of property.
Section 2. Nuisance Specifically Defined.
The following specific acts, ommissions, places, conditions and things
are hereby declared to be nuisances:
1. Accumulations of manure or rubbish which are breeding places for
flies, mosquitoes or vermin.
2. All loud or unusual noises and annoying vibrations which offend
the peace and quiet of persons of ordinary sensibilities.
3, All hanging signs, awnings, and other similar structures over the
streets or sidewalks so situated or constructed as to endanger public
safety.
4,. Filthy, littered or trash covered cellars, houseyards, 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.
5. Any unsightly building, billboard, or other structure, or any
old, abandoned or partially destroyed building or structure, or any building
or structure commended and left unfinished, or any abandoned well or ex—
cavation not properly protected and which may attract children and endanger
them in the course of play.
6. 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 of
the 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.
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Section 3. Penalty.
Any person, firm, or corporation 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 him or theta,
shall upon conviction thereof be punished by being caused to forfeit the
sum of not less than One 01.00) Dollar and not more than Ten ($10.00) Dollars
for the first offense and by a fine not to exceed Twenty-five ($25.00) Dollars
for the second or each subsequent conviction within one year thereafter to-
gether with cost of prosecution.
Section 4. Each day's or part of a day's continuance of anything pro-
hibited by this ordinance shall be a separate offense hereunder.
Section 5. If any section or provision of this ordinance shall be held
void or unconstitutional, all other sections, and all other provisions of
the ordinance which are not so held to be void or unconstitutional shall
continue in full force and effect.
Section 6. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and
after its passage, approval and publication as provided by law.
Passed and approved this llth day of August, 1952.
Approved:
Mayor
Attest:
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City Secretary
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