§ 2.8. Nuisances; sanitary conditions, etc.

The city may compel the abatement and removal of all nuisances within the city; require all lands, lots, and other premises within the city to be kept clean; regulate the keeping of animals, poultry, and other fowl therein; regulate the exercise of any dangerous or unwholesome business, trade, or employment therein; regulate the transportation of all articles through the streets of the city; compel the abatement of smoke, dust, and unnecessary noise; compel the removal of grass and weeds from private and public property, and snow from sidewalks; require the covering or removal of offensive, unwholesome, unsanitary, or unhealthy substances allowed to accumulate in or on any place or premises; require the filling in to the street level of the portion of any lot adjacent to a street where the difference in level between the lot and the street constitutes a danger to life and limb; and require the raising or draining of the grounds subject to be covered by stagnant water and the razing or repair of all unsafe, dangerous, or unsanitary public or private buildings, walls or structures. The city may likewise compel the removal of inoperative or unlicensed motor vehicles or parts thereof from private or public property and make and enforce all ordinances, rules and regulations necessary or expedient for the purpose of carrying into effect the powers conferred by this Charter or by any general law. The city may provide and impose suitable penalties for the violation of such ordinances, rules, and regulations, or any of them, and the city may maintain a suit to restrain by injunction the violation of any ordinance.