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CITY OF ARDEN HILLS COUNTY OF RAMSEY STATE OF MINNESOTA ORDINANCE NO. 2009-004 AN ORDINANCE DEFINING AND REGULATING NUISANCES The Arden Hills City Council hereby repeals Section 600 and its subdivisions and ordains that Section 602 and its subdivisions are added to the Arden Hills City Code to read as follows: 602.01 Public Nuisance Defined. Whoever by his or her act or failure to perform a legal duty intentionally does any of the following is guilty of maintaining a public nuisance, which is a misdemeanor: 1. Maintains or permits a condition which unreasonably annoys, injures, or endangers the safety, health, comfort, or repose of any considerable number of members of the public; or 2. Interferes with, obstructs, or renders dangerous for passage any public highway or right-of-way, or waters used by the public, or 3. Is guilty of any other act or omission declared by law or this ordinance to be a public nuisance and for which no sentence is specifically provided. 602.02 Public Nuisances Affectinl! Health. The following are hereby declared to be nuisances affecting health: 1. Exposed accumulation of decayed or unwholesome food or vegetable matter, except vegetable matter in an approved and maintained compost bin by a residential property owner; 2. All ponds or pools of stagnant water; 3. Accumulations of manure, refuse, or other debris; 4. Privy vaults and garbage cans which are not rodent-free or fly-tight or which are so maintained as to constitute a health hazard or to emit foul and disagreeable odors; 5. The pollution of any public well or cistern, stream or lake, canal or body of water by sewage, industrial waste, or other substances; 6. All noxious weeds and other growths of vegetation upon public or private property in excess of eight (8) inches. The requirements of this section do