§ 26-31. Definition.

For the purposes of this chapter, the word "nuisance" is defined as the doing of an unlawful act, or the omitting to perform a duty, or the suffering or permitting of any condition or thing to be or exist, which act, omission, condition or thing either:

(1)

Injures or endangers the comfort, repose, health or safety of others;

(2)

Offends decency;

(3)

Is offensive to the senses;

(4)

Unlawfully interferes with, obstructs or tends to obstruct or renders dangerous for passage any public or private street, highway, sidewalk, stream, ditch or drainage;

(5)

In any way renders other persons insecure in life or the use of property;

(6)

Essentially interferes with the comfortable enjoyment of life and property, or tends to depreciate the value of the property of others; or

(7)

Is declared by ordinance to be a nuisance.

(Code 1990, § 14-1)

Cross reference

Definitions generally, § 1-2.