Sec. 6.101 Enumeration
The following businesses, activities, and uses of property are hereby declared to be public nuisances:
(1) Automobile wrecking yards.
(2) Automobile junkyards.
(3) The use of property for the storage or sale of junked or wrecked automobiles.
(4) The use of property for the storage or sale of furniture, appliances, or other household articles, wearing apparel, used or secondhand lumber, other building materials, or metal or wire of any kind; provided, however, that, if such items be stored in, or offered for sale from within, a building conforming to the Building Code of the City of Oak Leaf, Texas, as it now is or may hereafter be amended, the property for purposes enumerated in this subsection (4) shall not constitute a public nuisance.
(5) Any other use of property which the city council of the City of Oak Leaf, Texas, has heretofore or may hereafter declare a public nuisance.
(Ordinance 849 of 3/12/85)
(6) Vehicles parked on street. (Ordinance 849, Addendum 3, of 5/19/92)
(7) Vehicles parked in yards, back acreage unless they are parked on an approved surface; this means concrete, asphalt or 6 inches of gravel with a border. It is a violation to park a vehicle on the lawn. Vehicles should be parked on a driveway. (Ordinance adopted 8/13/02)
(8) Any vehicle parked which causes unsightly view from road or neighboring homes. (Ordinance 849, Addendum 3, of 5/19/92)
(9) Any number of vehicles over four that are not parked in a covered facility or behind a privacy fence.
(10) Unclean Premises. All yards, lots, acreage, alleys, stables, pens, cellars, vaults, drains, pools, wells, cisterns, grounds, premises or buildings of any character, which are not kept free of dead carcasses, decaying flesh, fish, fowl, vegetables, stagnant water or other stagnant liquids, slops, trash, rubbish, or other deposits or substances of any and every character, which are likely to or do become unwholesome, filthy, offensive, unhealthy, or likely to create or engender disease.
(Ordinance adopted 8/13/02)
Sec. 6.102 Abatement by City
(a) Whenever any nuisance as herein defined is found in any place in this city for the removal, abatement, or destruction of which no man can be held liable under the provisions hereof, it shall be the duty of the city to remove, abate, or destroy the same at the expense of the city.
(b) The council is authorized to require any person violating the terms of this article to cease and desist from such violating, and upon failure of the person or persons responsible for such violation to voluntarily cease and desist therefrom, the council may, through appropriate proceedings, enjoin such violation. Such authority on the part of the city council to abate such nuisance by court action shall not, in any way, affect the penalty provisions of this article.
(Ordinance 849, Amendment 1, of 5/19/92)
