Scottsdale Revised Code § 18-5 Public nuisances.
Sec. 18-5. - Public nuisances.
Except as otherwise permitted by law, each of the following conditions is a public nuisance on any land or in any building in the city and is unlawful, when the condition is or may be (i) discomforting or offensive to a reasonable person of normal sensitivity, or (ii) detrimental to the life, health or safety of individuals or the public:
(1) Animal manure that is neither used for fertilizing lawns or gardens nor securely protected from insects and the elements.
(2) Putrid, unsound or unwholesome bones, meat, hides, skins, or other animal parts; dead animals, fish or fowl; butcher's trimmings and offal; waste vegetation; liquid waste; animal matter, garbage, human or animal excreta, sewage and other similar offensive substances.
(3) A dumping ground or other land or building for depositing litter or debris, or wrecking, disassembling, rebuilding, repair, storage or accumulation of three (3) or more vehicles, or of machinery, or parts of vehicles or machinery.
(4) Noxious exhalations and other airborne irritations, including, but not limited to, smoke, soot, dust, fumes or other gases, offensive odors, or other annoyances.
(5) Burning litter, debris, sawdust or other material resulting in smoke, gases, ashes, soot, cinders, sawdust or other material being transported to or deposited on land or buildings.
(6) Disposing of litter, debris, sawdust or other material in a manner that results in its unauthorized deposit on land or buildings.
(7) An unsecured or abandoned excavation, pit, well, other hole or pool.
(8) A privy, vault, cesspool, sump, pit, pool, accumulated water or similar condition that is foul, malodorous, or subject to infestation, pollution or stagnation.
(9) An unsecured building that is vacant, abandoned, dilapidated, structurally unsound, partially destroyed or left partially constructed under a lapsed building permit for more than forty-eight (48) consecutive hours.
(10) An abandoned, unattended or discarded icebox, refrigerator or other container that has an attached airtight door or lid, snaplock or other locking device that may not be released from the inside.
(11) Plant growth or any other condition, sign, structure, vehicle or watercraft that obstructs or interferes with or renders dangerous the use or passage of any public place, stream or water course.
(12) Plant growth or any other condition, sign, structure, vehicle or watercraft that obstructs or interferes with sight distance or the visibility of any traffic control device or sign.
(13) Plant growth or any other condition that constitutes a fire hazard or encourages infestation or noxious pests.
(14) Infestation.
(15) Slum property.
(16) A building or land regularly used in the commission of a crime.
(17) Blight.
(18) Attractive nuisances.
(19) Graffiti.
(Ord. No. 3448, § 1, 6-4-02; Ord. No. 4133, § 1(Res. No. 9626, Exh. A, § 1), 2-25-14)