For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning. Where terms are not defined this subchapter but are defined in the International Property Maintenance Code (IPMC) or elsewhere in the city code, the terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them as stated in those codes.
PREMISES. Include any yard, lot, parcel, sidewalk, boulevard, street, highway, alley, park, playground, restaurant, café, church, school, any car or other motor vehicle, parking lot, drive-in, building used for business, commercial, or industrial purposes, washroom or lavatory, apartment hallway, or other location whether public or private in the city.
PUBLIC NUISANCE. Whoever by act or failure to act does any of the following is guilty of maintaining a PUBLIC NUISANCE:
(1) Annoy, injure, or endanger the safety, health, comfort, or repose of the public;
(2) Offend public decency;
(3) Unlawfully interfere with, obstruct, or tend to obstruct or render dangerous for passage, a lake, navigable river, bay, stream, basin, public park, square, street, alley, or highway; and
(4) In any way render a considerable number of persons insecure in life or in use of property.
(Prior Code, § 7-1-2)