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657.1 Nuisance---what constitutes---action to abate.

Whatever is injurious to health, indecent, or unreasonably offensive to the senses, or an obstruction to the free use of property, so as essentially to unreasonably interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property, is a nuisance, and a civil action by ordinary proceedings may be brought to enjoin and abate the same and to recover damages sustained on account thereof.

Section History: Early form

[C51, § 2131--;2133; R60, § 3713--;3715; C73, § 3331; C97, § 4302; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 12395; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 657.1]

Section History: Recent form

95 Acts, ch 195, §34


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