§ 17-2. Exterior display or storage of certain materials prohibited.

Definitions: The following words or terms are, for purposes of this section, defined as follows:

Appliances, any mechanism, device, apparatus, or equipment, designed primarily for indoor household use, including, but not limited to: stoves, refrigerators, ovens, microwave ovens, washing machines, clothes dryers, sewing machines, televisions, and similar items.

Furniture, any items of household furniture designed primarily for indoor use, including, but not limited to: sofas, couches, divans, rocking chairs, reclining chairs, ottomans, beds, mattresses, box springs, desks, tables, and similar items, but excluding those items of furniture designed primarily for outdoor use.

Indoor merchandise, any item intended for sale, or resale, excluding lawn, garden, and landscape materials; agricultural products, implements and equipment; and construction materials.

Firewood, wood products used to produce heat by burning.

It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, owning, leasing or being in possession of any real estate, to collect, display, place, store, or allow or suffer to be collected, displayed, placed or stored upon the property, any appliances, furniture, indoor merchandise, or firewood, for any period of time in excess of twenty-four (24) hours, except as follows:

(1)

Within the walls, including screened-in porches, of a house, garage, outbuilding, building or other similar type of enclosed structure allowed by the zoning code; or

(2)

Within a storage bin or other structure, provided that such storage bin or structure consists of a solid fence or wall and such items are not clearly visible through such bin or other structure and provided further that such fence, bin, or wall structure and provided further that such fence, bin, or wall structure is of a type allowed by the zoning code.

(3)

In the case of firewood, firewood that is stacked in rows or columns.

(4)

Those items placed by the curbside for disposal and collection as a part of a city approved clean-up event.

Any person found in violation of any of the provisions of this section, may be fined an amount not to exceed the sum of five hundred dollars ($500.00). Each day that a violation shall continue shall be deemed a separate offense.

(Ord. No. 11439, §§ 1—3, 3-20-2000)