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CITY OF GEM LAKE, RAMSEY COUNTY, MINNESOTA ORDINANCE NO. 86 AN ORDINANCE DEFINING NUISANCES, PROHIBITING THEIR CREATION OR MAINTENANCE AND PROVIDING FOR ABATEMENT AND PENALTIES FOR VIOLATION THEREOF. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GEM LAKE ORDAINS: Section 1. Public Nuisance Defined. A public nuisance is a thing, act, or use of property which shall: 1.1 Annoy, injure, or endanger the health, safety,comfort, or repose of the public; 1.2 Offend public decency; 1.3 Unlawfully interfere with the use of or obstruct, or tend to obstruct or render dangerous for passage, a public water, park, square, street, alley, or highway; 1.4 Depreciate the value of the property of the, inhabitants of the City of Gem Lake or of a considerable number thereof; or 1.5 In any way render the inhabitants of the City of Gem Lake, or a considerable number thereof, insecure in life or in use of property. (Ordinance 16, §1, 6/17/1969) Section 2. Definitions. 2.1. The term "City" as used herein means the City of Gem Lake. 2.2. The term "person" as used herein includes any person, firm, or corporation, and the singular shall include the plural. 2.3. Where references are made herein to particular officers, councils, boards, or agencies, such officers, councils, boards, or agencies are those of the City of Gem Lake. 2.4. The term "Council" as used herein means the City Council of the City of Gene Lake. (Ordinance 16, §2, 6/17/1969) Section 3. Public Nuisances Affecting Health, Safety, Comfort, or Repose. The following are hereby declared to be public nuisances, affecting health, safety, comfort, or repose: 3.1 All decayed or unwholesome food offered for sale to the public; 3.2 All diseased animals running at large; 3.3 Milk which is produced by cows which have not been tested and found free of tuberculosis within the year previous to the offering of such milk for sale to the public; 3.4 Carcasses of animals not buried or destroyed within 24 hours after death.;. 3.5 Accumulations of manure or rubbish; 3.6 Privy vaults and garbage cans which are not fly -tight; 3.7 Dumping the contents of any cesspool, privy vault, or garbage can except at places authorized by law; 3.8 All noxious weeds and other rank growth;