§ 609.74 — Public Nuisance
Plain-Language Summary
A public nuisance is any activity or condition that endangers public safety, health, or comfort, or is offensive to the senses. Maintaining a public nuisance is a misdemeanor.
609.74 PUBLIC NUISANCE.
Whoever by an act or failure to perform a legal duty intentionally does any of the following is guilty of maintaining a public nuisance, which is a misdemeanor:
(1) maintains or permits a condition which unreasonably annoys, injures or endangers the safety, health, morals, comfort, or repose of any considerable number of members of the public; or
(2) interferes with, obstructs, or renders dangerous for passage, any public highway or right-of-way, or waters used by the public; or
(3) is guilty of any other act or omission declared by law to be a public nuisance and for which no sentence is specifically provided.
History:
1963 c 753 art 1 s 609.74; 1971 c 23 s 74; 1986 c 444
History: History: 1963 c 753 art 1 s 609.74; 1971 c 23 s 74; 1986 c 444