Whoever shall erect, establish, conduct, maintain, use, own or lease any building, structure or place for the purpose of lewdness, assignation, prostitution, gambling, illegal sale of whiskey, or indecent exposure of the person on such premises, or whoever permits profane, vulgar or obscene language upon any such premises, whereby such language may be heard by adjoining neighbors or persons upon the street, shall be guilty of a nuisance, and the building, structure or place, or the ground upon which such lewdness, assignation, prostitution, gambling, illegal sale of whiskey, profane, vulgar and obscene language, or indecent exposure of the person on such premises is conducted, permitted, carried on, continued or exists, and the furniture, musical instruments and contents of such structure are hereby declared to be a nuisance, and may be abated as herein provided.
(1991 Code, § 12-2) Penalty, see § 91.999