§ 6.01.200. Offensive trade or business.

Whenever the pursuit of any trade, business or manufacture or maintenance of any substance or condition of things results in a condition detrimental to the health, safety or general welfare of the inhabitants of the Town, such pursuit shall be deemed a nuisance and shall be abated. By way of illustration, but not limitation, the pursuit of the following trades or businesses within the Town shall constitute unlawful nuisances:

(1)

Junkyards and dumping grounds. All places used, maintained or permitted to be used or maintained as junkyards or dumping grounds, or for the wrecking or disassembling of automobiles, trucks, tractors or machinery of any kind, or for the storing or leaving of worn out, wrecked or abandoned automobiles, machinery of any kind or for 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, when such places are kept in such manner as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property by others. Nothing in this Section shall be deemed or construed to prevent the Town from acquiring, operating or maintaining a facility for the storage of motor vehicles, vehicles, boats, machinery or equipment.

(2)

Slaughterhouses and rendering plants. All places used, maintained or permitted to be used or maintained for slaughtering animals, for bone crushing, bone boiling, bone rendering, bone burning, fat boiling, fat rendering, fat drying, gut cleaning or the making of glue, or the manufacture of fertilizing materials of any kind or description from any dead animal or part thereof, or any boiling of offal, swill, fat or grease of any description when such places are operated in an unclean or offensive manner, or when such places are operated so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property by others.

(3)

Construction sites. All places at which construction or excavation operations occur and from which trucks or other vehicles emerge from the site and carry onto or deposit in any street or other public place any mud, dirt, sticky substance or other litter which causes a hazard to automobile traffic or which otherwise causes a detriment to the health, safety or welfare of the inhabitants of the Town.

(4)

Storage operations. All places at which the owner or occupant keeps, stores or permits to be kept or stored any building materials, construction materials, paper, trash, waste material or litter upon any property in such a manner as to cause a fire hazard or other detriment to the health, safety or general welfare of the inhabitants of the Town, or in such a manner that the stored materials may be blown or deposited upon any other public or private property.

(Ord. 5.68 §1, 2008)