§ 657.2 — What deemed nuisances

Iowa § 657.2

• Jurisdiction: Iowa
• Title XV: JUDICIAL BRANCH AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURES
• Ch. 657: NUISANCES

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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 to
the 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 or
prejudice 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 chapter
723A, or places resorted to by persons using controlled substances, as defined in section
124.101, 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 a

public street, avenue, highway, boulevard, or alley or of a railroad or street railway track as
to 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 aerial
navigation, including take-off and landing, unless such object or structure constitutes a
proper 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 building
of 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.

Legislative History

[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]