For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions apply unless the context clearly requires a different meaning.
NUISANCE. Unlawfully doing an act or omitting to perform a duty, or any thing or condition which either:
(1) Annoys, injures or endangers the comfort, repose, health or safety of others;
(2) Offends decency;
(3) Unlawfully interferes with, obstructs, tends to obstruct or renders dangerous for passage any lake or navigable river, stream, canal or basin, or any public park, square, street or other public property; or
(4) In any way renders other persons insecure in life or in the use of property.
PRIVATE NUISANCE. Every nuisance not included in “public nuisance.”
PUBLIC NUISANCE. One which affects at the same time an entire community or neighborhood or any considerable number of persons, although the extent of the annoyance or damage inflicted upon such individuals may be unequal.
(Prior Code, § 8-301)
Statutory reference:
Nuisances defined, municipal powers to abate, see 50 O.S. §§ 1 et seq.