CHAPTER 130: GENERAL PROVISIONS
Section
   130.01   Definition
   130.02   Nuisances prohibited generally
   130.03   Leasing premises for unlawful purposes
   130.04   Premises used for unlawful purposes declared nuisances; abatement
   130.05   Abandoned property
   130.06   Abandoned property reported to Board of Trustees
   130.07   Police Department to acquire abandoned property
   130.08   Disposing of abandoned property
 
   130.99   Penalty
Cross-reference:
   Weapons in alcohol establishments, see §§ 111.30 et seq.
§ 130.01 DEFINITION.
   For the purpose of this chapter, the following definition shall apply unless the context indicates or requires a different meaning.
   PUBLIC NUISANCES. Unlawfully doing any act, or omitting to perform a duty, within the corporate limits of the town, or in any public grounds or parks belonging to the town, or within 1 mile of the corporate limits of the town not within another municipality, which act or omission 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, bay, stream, canal or basin, or any public park, square, street or highway; and
      (4)   In any way renders other persons insecure in life, or in the use of property and 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.
(1992 Code, § 9-2-1) (Ord. 31, § 13-1.2, passed 10-1-1975)
§ 130.02 NUISANCES PROHIBITED GENERALLY.
   No person shall, in the town, create, maintain, commit or permit to be created, maintained or committed, any public nuisance.
(1992 Code, § 9-2-2) (Ord. 31, § 13-1.1, passed 10-1-1975) Penalty, see § 130.99
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