Section 14-54-1701 - Legislative intent

It is the intent of the General Assembly to promote, protect, and improve the health, safety, and welfare of the citizens of the municipalities of this state by authorizing the creation of criminal nuisance abatement boards with authority to impose remedies, administrative fines, and other noncriminal penalties in order to provide an equitable, expeditious, effective, and inexpensive method of abating public nuisance as defined by state law.Acts 2003, No. 1190, § 1.