(A) Definition. For the purpose of this section, the following definition shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
PUBLIC NUISANCE. A thing, act, failure to act, occupation or use of property which:
(a) Shall annoy, injure or endanger the safety, health, comfort or repose of any considerable number of persons;
(b) Shall unlawfully interfere with, obstruct or tend to obstruct or render dangerous for passage any public park, public playground, street, alley or highway;
(c) Shall in any way render any considerable number of persons insecure in life or in the use and enjoyment of their property; or
(d) Shall pollute or contaminate the water of the town or any of its tributaries lying within the corporation limits as provided by the ordinances of the town respecting the same.
(Prior Code, § 9-129)
(B) Prohibitions. The following are hereby declared to be public nuisances affecting the public morals and decency:
(1) All gambling devices, unlawful slot machines and punch boards;
(2) All houses, apartments, tenements or any part or parts thereof kept for the purpose of prostitution or promiscuous sexual intercourse; gambling houses and houses of ill fame and bawdy houses;
(3) Any vehicle used for immoral or illegal purposes;
(4) All indecent or obscene pictures, books, pamphlets, magazines and newspapers;
(5) The public use of profane or obscene language; and
(6) All pool rooms where minors under the age of 18 years are permitted to enter and are permitted to loaf and loiter therein where punch boards, slot machines or other schemes, devices or apparatus are kept and promoted which constitute games of chance, gambling devices or any other schemes, by whatever name known, which are classed as and are defined by state statute as games of chance.
(Prior Code, § 9-131)
Penalty, see § 131.99