§ 52-26 PUBLIC NUISANCE DEFINED AND PROHIBITED.
   (A)   A PUBLIC NUISANCE is defined as follows:
      (1)   Any unreasonable interference with a common right enjoyed by the general public. It includes conduct:
         (a)   Which significantly interferes with the safety, health, comfort, peace, convenience or repose of the public;
         (b)   Offends public decency;
         (c)   Significantly interferes with, obstructs or renders dangerous any street, highway, navigable lake or stream; or
         (d)   In any way renders the public insecure in life or property;
         (e)   Which is known, or should have been known, to be of a continuing nature that produces a permanent or long-lasting, significant effect on these common rights;
      (2)   Public nuisances shall include, but not be limited to, whatever is forbidden by any provision of this article, or where nuisance is referenced in Chapters 10, 18, 58, 68 and 82.
   (B)   No person shall commit, create or maintain any public nuisance.
(1993 Code, § 26-26) (Ord. No. 2009-04, passed 6-22-2009)
Cross-reference:
   Definitions and rules of construction generally, see § 1-2