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)