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ARTICLE II. -NUISANCES['] Footnotes: ---ell--- State Law reference—Nuisances,Wis.Stats.ch.823. Sec. 18-19.- Purpose and intent. (a) The purpose and intent of this article is to protect the public health, safety and general welfare and to maintain and protect the environment for the people and communities of the county, and to: (1) Prevent communicable diseases. (2) Prevent the continuance of public nuisances. (3) Ensure that insects and rodents do not create a public nuisance and/or health hazard. (4) Ensure that surface and groundwater meet county and state standards and regulations. (5) Ensure that solid waste is handled, stored and disposed of according to state standards and regulations. (6) Ensure that citizens are protected from hazardous, unhealthy, or unsafe substances. (7) Provide the administration and enforcement of Wis. Stats. chs. 145 and 146,and 1983 Wisconsin Act 410 including groundwater and county land use ordinances. (b) It is not the intent of this article to prohibit acceptable farming practices by farmers as the term "farmer" is defined by the Wisconsin Farmland Preservation Law, Wis. Stats. ch. 91. (Ord. No. 91-1, § I, 3-21-1991) Sec. 18-20. - Public nuisances affecting health. The following are hereby declared to be public nuisances affecting health: (1) Failure to keep waste, refuse or garbage in an enclosed building or properly contained in an enclosed building or properly contained in a closed container designed for such purposes. (2) Failure to maintain property so as to avoid health and safety hazards. (3) Allowing any discharge into the environment of toxic or noxious materials in such concentrations as to endanger the public health. (4) Maintaining excessive numbers of pets (too many animals for the space as determined by the health officer or designee)that result in a health hazard to either the animal or human inhabitants or public health. (5) Allowing an accumulation of debris or salvageable material such as, but not limited to, metal or glass. (6) Accumulation of unused appliances, unless a designated transfer station. (7) Holes or excavations not properly posted or barricaded which constitute a safety hazard. (8) Abandoned wells not properly sealed. (9) Accumulations of decayed animal or vegetable matter,trash, rubbish, bedding, packing material, scrap metal or any material in which flies, mosquitoes, disease-carrying insects, rats or other vermin can breed, live, nest or seek shelter, exempting private compost piles. (10) All decayed,adulterated or unwholesome food or drink sold or offered for sale to the public. (11) Any animal which molests humans in any unprovoked circumstances including, but not limited to, passersby on public rights-of-way. (Ord. No. 91-1,§ II,3-21-1991) Sec. 18-21. - Designation of unfit dwellings and structures.