§ 18-163. Definitions.
The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
Nuisance means any unlawful act, or omitting to perform a duty, or the suffering or permitting 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; or
(6)
Essentially interferes with the comfortable enjoyment of life and property, or tends to depreciate the value of the property of others.
(Code 1978, § 15-1; Code 1993, § 30-156)