El Paso City Code § 9.16.010 Designated.
9.16.010 - Designated.
The following acts and conditions, among others, are declared to constitute nuisances and are prohibited within the city limits and within five thousand feet thereof, but such enumeration shall not be deemed to be exclusive.
A. All dead, decaying or putrid carcasses, flesh, fish, fowls or vegetables; all deposits of manure or other unwholesome substances or flesh of any kind or description whatever; all filthy or offensive water or slops when thrown or conducted into or upon any street, alley, public ground or any enclosure so as to be unwholesome or offensive, or liable to become unwholesome or offensive;
B. All privies, slaughterhouses, or slaughterpens that are offensive from use; all markets, cellars, stores or other buildings or places which are not kept clean and free from filthy or unwholesome substances;
C. All deposits or substances that are offensive or liable to engender disease;
D. Every trade, business or occupation injurious to the comfort of those who reside in the vicinity;
E. Any box, barrel or receptacle containing water or slope which becomes stagnant, offensive or unwholesome from any cause;
F. Any article or substance placed upon any street, sidewalk, alley, gutter, drain or public ground, except such as are permitted by ordinance of the city;
G. Any unwholesome food, liquor or adulterated medicines;
H. All cattle, horse or hog pens, stables or enclosures in which any cattle, horses or hogs may be kept or confined, which from use have become offensive;
I. Reserved;
J. Any nauseous, foul or putrid liquors or substances likely to be nauseous, foul, offensive or putrid, discharged, placed, thrown or conducted into, or upon any street, alley or public ground;
K. The wrongful casting, throwing or depositing of any filth, substance or thing into any public or private well or cistern;
L. All gates or doors opening upon any public street or sidewalk upon which it opens, unless such gate or door be so constructed or hung as to be self-closing;
M. The keeping or leaving open of any cellar or drop-door in or upon any sidewalk, street, thoroughfare or public passway;
N. The making, keeping or permitting of any uncovered opening or hole in or across any sidewalk or public passway, street or public thoroughfare unless the same is done with proper authority and is sufficiently guarded and protected to insure the safety of all persons passing by, over or near the same;
O. The sweeping or depositing of paper, filth or rubbish of any kind from business houses or from private premises into the drains or gutters, or into or upon any sidewalk, street or alley or public thoroughfare, and failing to take off or remove the same;
P. The burning of any hair, leather, rags or substances of any kind in the city which may cause or produce an offensive smell, smoke or odor to the annoyance of persons living in the vicinity or to persons passing the same on any public thoroughfare in the city; and
Q. Defecating or urinating upon the streets, alleys or public grounds, or in any place that may be seen from a private residence or by persons passing along the streets, alleys or public thoroughfares;
R. The keeping of domestic animals or birds in such a manner as to endanger the public health or as to annoy neighbors by the accumulation of droppings and putrescible materials which causes foul and offensive odors. The keeping of domestic animals or birds which habitually deposits body wastes upon or destroys by chewing, scratching, digging or otherwise, the property of other than that of the owner of such animal or bird;
S. The keeping of any female animal in heat that is not adequately confined by the owner so as to present the attracting of male animals except for supervised and confined breeding purposes.
(Ord. 14280 § 1, 1999; Ord. 11238 § 1, 1992; prior code § 12-47)