A. 
For the purposes of this chapter the word “nuisance” is defined as any person doing an unlawful act, or omitting to perform a duty, or suffering or permitting any condition or thing to be or exist, which act, omission, condition or thing in the town either:
1. 
Injures or endangers the comfort, repose, health or safety of others; or
2. 
Offends decency; or
3. 
Is offensive to the senses; or
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; or
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.
B. 
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.
C. 
Whoever commits a public nuisance for which the act or penalty is not otherwise prescribed by law is guilty of a petty misdemeanor.
(1981 Code, secs. 13-1, 13-12)
The maintaining, using, placing, depositing, leaving or permitting to be or remain on any public or private property in the town of any of the following items, conditions or actions are defined and declared to be and found to constitute a nuisance; provided, however, this enumeration shall not be deemed or construed to be conclusive, limiting or restrictive:
A. 
Noxious weeds and other rank vegetation;
B. 
Accumulation of rubbish, trash, refuse, junk and other abandoned materials, metals, lumber or other things;
C. 
Any condition which provides harborage for rats, mice, snakes and other vermin;
D. 
Any building or other structure which is in such a dilapidated condition that it is unfit for human habitation, or kept in such an unsanitary condition that it is a menace to the health of people residing in the vicinity thereof, or presents a more than ordinarily dangerous fire hazard in the vicinity where it is located;
E. 
All unnecessary or unauthorized noises and annoying vibrations, including animal noises;
F. 
All disagreeable or obnoxious odors and stenches, as well as the conditions, substances or other causes which give rise to the emission or generation of such odors and stenches;
G. 
The carcasses of animals or fowl not disposed of within a reasonable time after death;
H. 
The pollution of any public well or cistern, stream, lake, canal or body of water by sewage, dead animals, creamery or other industrial wastes or other substances;
I. 
Any building, structure or other place or location where any activity which is in violation of local, state or federal law is conducted, performed or maintained;
J. 
Any accumulation of stagnant water permitted or maintained on any lot or piece of ground.
(1981 Code, sec. 13-3)
It is unlawful for any person to cause, permit, maintain or allow the creation or maintenance of a nuisance. Any violation of this section shall be subject to the criminal penalties set forth in section 8.28.120 of this chapter.
(1981 Code, sec. 13-4)
Each property owner within the town, whether a natural person or other legal entity, shall be responsible under the provisions of this chapter for each individual tract of property owned and his responsibility established herein will extend to abutment of other adjoining property lines. When any portion of the property abuts on a public road or alley the property owner’s responsibility shall extend to the center of the road or alley; provided, however, that this section shall not restrict in any manner the maintenance of the full alley and street by the street department.
(1981 Code, sec. 13-5)
Whenever a nuisance is found to exist within the town or within the town’s extraterritorial jurisdiction, an officer of the town shall give written notice to the owner or occupant of the property upon which such nuisance exists or upon the person causing or maintaining the nuisance.
(1981 Code, sec. 13-6)
The notice to abate a nuisance issued under the provisions of this chapter shall contain:
A. 
An order to abate the nuisance or to request a hearing within a stated time, which shall be reasonable under the circumstances;
B. 
The location of the nuisance, if the same is stationary;
C. 
A description of what constitutes the nuisance;
D. 
A statement of acts necessary to abate the nuisance;
E. 
A statement that if the nuisance is not abated as directed and no request for hearing is made within the prescribed time, the town will abate such nuisance and assess the cost thereof against such person and any applicable property.
(1981 Code, sec. 13-7)
A notice to abate a nuisance issued under the provisions of this chapter shall be served as any other legal process may be served pursuant to law.
(1981 Code, sec. 13-8)
Upon the failure of the person upon whom notice to abate a nuisance was served pursuant to the provisions of this chapter to abate the same, an officer of the town shall proceed to abate such nuisance and shall prepare a statement of costs incurred in the abatement thereof.
(1981 Code, sec. 13-9)
Any and all costs incurred by the town in the abatement of a nuisance under the provisions of this chapter shall constitute a lien against the property upon which such nuisance existed, which lien shall be filed, proven and collected as provided for by law. Such lien shall be notice to all persons from the time of its recording, and shall bear interest at the legal rate thereafter until satisfied.
(1981 Code, sec. 13-10)
A. 
Except as herein provided, an action for the abatement of a public nuisance shall be governed by the general rules of civil procedure.
B. 
A civil action to abate a public nuisance may be brought, by verified complaint in the name of the town without cost, by any public officer or private citizen, in the municipal court against any person who shall create, perform or maintain a public nuisance.
C. 
When judgment is against the defendant in an action to abate a public nuisance, he shall be adjudged to pay all court costs and a reasonable fee for the complainant’s attorney, when the suit is not prosecuted exclusively by the town attorney.
(1981 Code, sec. 13-11)
A house of prostitution is a public nuisance per se.
(1981 Code, sec. 13-14)
A. 
Whenever in this chapter an act is prohibited or is made or declared to be unlawful or an offense or a misdemeanor or a petty misdemeanor, or whenever in this chapter the doing of any act is required or the failure to do any act is declared to be unlawful, and no specific penalty is provided therefor, the violation of any such provision or the failure to perform any such act shall be punishable by a fine of not exceeding three hundred dollars ($300.00) or by imprisonment not to exceed ninety (90) days or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.
B. 
Each day any such violation or failure to perform such act shall continue shall constitute a separate offense and a separate violation of an ordinance of this town, unless otherwise specifically provided.
(1981 Code, sec. 13-2)