§ 657.2

657.2 What deemed nuisances. The following are nuisances:1. The erecting, continuing, or using any building or other place for the exercise of any trade, employment, or manufacture, which, by occasioning noxious exhalations,unreasonably offensive smells, or other annoyances, becomes injurious and dangerous tothe health, comfort, or property of individuals or the public. 2. The causing or suffering any offal, filth, or noisome substance to be collected or to remain in any place to the prejudice of others. 3. The obstructing or impeding without legal authority the passage of any navigable river, harbor, or collection of water. 4. The corrupting or rendering unwholesome or impure the water of any river, stream, or pond, or unlawfully diverting the same from its natural course or state, to the injury orprejudice of others. 5. The obstructing or encumbering by fences, buildings, or otherwise the public roads, private ways, streets, alleys, commons, landing places, or burying grounds. 6. Houses of ill fame, kept for the purpose of prostitution and lewdness, gambling houses, places resorted to by persons participating in criminal gang activity prohibited by chapter723A, or places

. 6. Houses of ill fame, kept for the purpose of prostitution and lewdness, gambling houses, places resorted to by persons participating in criminal gang activity prohibited by chapter723A, or places resorted to by persons using controlled substances, as defined in section124.101, subsection 5, in violation of law, or houses where drunkenness, quarreling, fighting,or breaches of the peace are carried on or permitted to the disturbance of others. 7. Billboards, signboards, and advertising signs, whether erected and constructed on public or private property, which so obstruct and impair the view of any portion or part of apublic street, avenue, highway, boulevard, or alley or of a railroad or street railway track asto render dangerous the use thereof. 8. Any object or structure erected within one thousand feet of the limits of any municipal or regularly established airport or landing place, which may endanger or obstruct aerialnavigation, including take-off and landing, unless such object or structure constitutes aproper use or enjoyment of the land on which the same is located. 9. The depositing or storing of flammable junk, such as old rags, rope, cordage, rubber, bones, and

object or structure constitutes aproper use or enjoyment of the land on which the same is located. 9. The depositing or storing of flammable junk, such as old rags, rope, cordage, rubber, bones, and paper, by dealers in such articles within the fire limits of a city, unless in a buildingof fireproof construction, is a public nuisance. 10. The emission of dense smoke, noxious fumes, or fly ash in cities is a nuisance and cities may provide the necessary rules for inspection, regulation and control. 11. Dense growth of all weeds, vines, brush, or other vegetation in any city so as to constitute a health, safety, or fire hazard is a public nuisance. 12. Trees infected with Dutch elm disease in cities.[C51, §2759, 2761; R60, §4409, 4411; C73, §4089, 4091; C97, §5078, 5080; S13, §713-a, -b, 1056-a19; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §5740, 5741, 6567, 6743, 12396; C46, 50, §368.3, 368.4, 416.92,420.54, 657.2; C54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §657.2] 92 Acts, ch 1163, §116; 92 Acts, ch 1231, §56; 95 Acts, ch 195, §35; 98 Acts, ch 1072, §1; 2021 Acts, ch 80, §371 Referred to in §654B.1 Sat Dec 23 12:22:41 2023 Iowa Code 2024, Section 657.2 (18, 0)