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Lovington, NM Code of Ordinances
CITY OF LOVINGTON, NEW MEXICO CODE OF ORDINANCES
Title 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS
Title 2 ADMINISTRATION AND PERSONNEL
Title 3 REVENUE AND FINANCE
Title 4 RESERVED
Title 5 BUSINESS LICENSES AND REGULATIONS
Title 6 ANIMALS
Title 7 RESERVED
Title 8 HEALTH AND SAFETY
Title 9 PUBLIC PEACE, MORALS AND WELFARE
Title 10 VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC
Title 11 RESERVED
Title 12 STREETS, SIDEWALKS AND PUBLIC PLACES
Title 13 PUBLIC SERVICES
Title 14 RESERVED
Title 15 BUILDINGS AND CONSTRUCTION
Title 16 SUBDIVISION OF LAND
Title 17 ZONING
STATUTORY REFERENCES FOR NEW MEXICO MUNICIPALITIES
CROSS-REFERENCE TABLE
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9.20.080   Creating a public nuisance.
   It is unlawful to create, perform or maintain a public nuisance on public or private properly within the city. A public nuisance consists of knowingly creating, performing or maintaining anything affecting any number of citizens without lawful authority which is either: (1) injurious to public health, safety, morals or welfare; or (2) interferes with the exercise and enjoyment of public rights, including the right to use public property. (Prior code § 7-2-13)
9.20.090   Defacing public or private property.
   It is unlawful for any person to wilfully, maliciously or wantonly destroy, injure, remove, tamper with or deface real property or improvements thereto or personal property, either public or private or located within the confines of Chaparral Park. (Prior code § 7-2-1)
9.20.100   Misuse of library property.
   It is unlawful for any person to carry away without authority, misuse, cut, write upon, injure, deface, tear or destroy any book, periodical, map, newspaper or any other property devoted to public library use. (Prior code § 7-2-2)
9.20.110   Littering-Posting handbills.
   A.   It is unlawful for any person to throw or permit to be deposited or scattered upon any sidewalk, alley, street or public property or upon the private property of another, any rubbish, waste, trash or other disposed material of any kind.
   B.   It is unlawful for any person to distribute, place or post in or upon public property any showcard, poster, brochure, circular, handbill or other advertising device, or to distribute, place or post in or upon private property, including utility poles, any such matter without the express consent of the owner. (Prior code §§ 7-2-3, 7-2-4)
9.20.120   Public property-Removing or destroying soil or flora.
   A.   It is unlawful for any unauthorized person to move, distribute or take away any earth, stone or other material from any public street, way, alley, park or public ground.
   B.   It is unlawful for any person to injure or remove grass, flowers, shrubs, bulbs or any other property growing in or upon any of the parks or public squares of the city or to take or interfere in any way with property thereon or to destroy or injure in any manner any property upon such public squares or parks. (Prior code §§ 7-2-9, 7-2-12)
9.20.130   Outdoor lighting.
   A.   No security light, floodlight, recreational light or other lights shall be so located, installed, operated or maintained as to annoy, disturb, injure or endanger the comfort, repose, health, peace or safety of others or otherwise interfere with the enjoyment of their respective property rights by adjacent property owners or occupiers.
   B.   Light used to illuminate any back yard, alley, side yard, front yard or adjoining lot for recreational purposes, security purposes or other purposes shall be so placed and so arranged or shaded as to reflect light away from the adjoining residential properties.
   C.   This section shall not prohibit neighboring property owners from joining in the installation and/or use of such security or recreational lights or other lights installed or maintained for their mutual and joint benefit. (Ord. 298, 1979: prior code § 7-1-6.1)
9.20.140   Offensive conditions- Nauseous discharges.
   A.   If any person shall permit any ground, building, ditch or other premises within the city, owned or occupied by them, or of which they shall be the agent having charge of the same, to become or be offensive, nauseous, hurtful or dangerous to the neighborhood or travelers by reason of stagnant water, dead animals or from any cause or causes, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
   B.   If any person shall allow to flow from any house, shop, factory, stable, slaughterhouse or any place, any foul or nauseous liquid or substance of any kind whatsoever into or upon any adjacent ground or lot or into any street, alley or ditch within the city as to be offensive, dangerous, nauseous or hurtful, and any person who shall deposit in any such place any filth, litter or refuse or any carcass or thing so as to be offensive, dangerous, nauseous or hurtful to any portion of the inhabitants of the city, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, (Prior code § 7-3-7)
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