§ 95.55 NUISANCE DEFINED; PUBLIC NUISANCES AND PRIVATE NUISANCES.

   (A)   A nuisance is unlawfully doing an act, omitting to perform a duty, or is any thing or condition which either:

      (1)   Annoys, injures, or endangers the comfort, repose, health, or safety of others;

      (2)   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

      (3)   In any way renders other persons insecure in life or in the use of property.

   (B)   A public nuisance is 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 the individuals may be unequal.

   (C)   Every nuisance not included in division (B) above is a private nuisance.

(Prior Code, § 95.55)

Statutory reference:

   Nuisances; city powers to define and abate, see 50 O.S. §§ 1 et seq.