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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)
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
No person shall knowingly lease or rent to another any house, building, shed, booth, lot or other place or premises or any part thereof, for use or conduct of gambling activities, prostitution, unlawful sale or distribution of alcoholic beverages, or activities which annoy or injure the health or safety of others.
(1992 Code, § 9-2-4) (Ord. 31, § 13-3, passed 10-1-1975) Penalty, see § 130.99
All places used for the unlawful purposes described above are hereby declared to be common nuisances and, upon the judgement of a town police officer for violation for any of the offenses so described, a court of jurisdiction shall be directed to abate and shut up the place by taking possession of all devices and all other property used in maintaining the nuisance, and the personal property so taken shall be forthwith publicly destroyed by the officer.
(1992 Code, § 9-2-5) (Ord. 31, § 13-4, passed 10-1-1975)
No person shall abandon, leave or place in any street, alley or public place of the town, any property of any kind; and no person shall permit any property of any kind so abandoned, left or placed to be or remain for more than 24 hours in any street, alley or public place of the town, adjacent to or in the vicinity of his or her property or residence, without reporting the same; and any property so abandoned, left or placed in any street, alley or public place, and any property abandoned, left or placed by any person on any private property of which report or complaint may have reached any bureau or department of the town, is declared to be a public nuisance and an obstruction and a menace to the public welfare, comfort, safety and health.
(1992 Code, § 9-2-6) (Ord. 31, § 13-5.1, passed 10-1-1975) Penalty, see § 130.99
It is hereby made the duty of any member of the Police Department to report to the Board of Trustees any property so abandoned, left or placed, and the Board of Trustees shall provide for the removal of the obstruction and the abatement of the nuisance, as soon as possible after receiving any report.
(1992 Code, § 9-2-7) (Ord. 31, § 13-5.2, passed 10-1-1975)
It shall be the duty of the Police Department to take possession of any article of property so abandoned, left or placed on any public or private property, and if the same is believed to have any value, to keep it and make an attempt to find the owner thereof, and to retain any article heretofore so taken up by it. It shall be the duty of the Department to maintain a place for the keeping of any article until the same shall be claimed or otherwise disposed of, and the town shall have a lien thereon for the reasonable expenses incurred and value or cost of the time and effort necessary in taking, removing and storing the article, and for the value of the storage and keeping thereof, and may retain possession until any and all the liens are discharged.
(1992 Code, § 9-2-8) (Ord. 31, § 13-5.3, passed 10-1-1975)
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