§ 14-46. Definitions.

For the purposes of this article, the term "nuisance" is hereby 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 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 1991, § 10-1)